LINDA KARSHAN
PRESIDENT
Karshan was educated at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY (1965-67); the Sorbonne, Paris (1967-68); and the Slade School of Art, University College London (1969). In 1983, she earned a Masters in Humanistic Psychology from Antioch Centre for British Studies, London. Her MA thesis, titled Play, Creativity and the Birth of the Self, focused on D.W. Winnicott’s theories of transitional space and creativity, which are central to Karshan’s artistic practice.
Karshan’s solo museum exhibitions include those at Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, Germany (2013); Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, UK (2003); Sir John Soane’s Museum, London, UK (2002); and Institut Valencia d’Art Modern, Valencia, Spain (2002). Her works were featured in group exhibitions at the Courtauld Gallery, London, UK (2014, 2012), Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, UK (2013, 2010), Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin, Germany (2013), British Museum, London, UK (2010), Graphische Sammlung, Munich, Germany (2009), and Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany (2008) among others. She regularly exhibits with several galleries in Europe and the USA, and took part in the BAD+ art and design fair in Bordeaux (2022).
Karshan’s drawings, prints and artists’ books are held in public and private collections, including in the UK: The British Library, The British Museum, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Sir John Soane’s Museum, Tate Modern, The Arts Council Collection – all in London, The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, Middlesbrough Museum of Modern Art (MIMA), Middlesbrough, England; in the US: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; The Morgan Library, New York, NY; and a suite of thirteen prints were acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
In July 2022, Karshan was awarded an Honorary Fellowship by The Courtauld Institute of Art in London.
The show The Universe on Paper. The Art of Linda Karshan was the first exhibition ever hosted by the Institutio Santoriana – Fondazione Comel in the Domus Comeliana.
GIULIA MARTINA WESTON
DIRECTOR
Dr. Giulia Martina Weston lectures Renaissance and Early Modern Art at Sotheby’s Institute of Art in London and is an Associate Lecturer of the Courtauld Institute of Art.
She teaches regularly for the London Art History Society, and has presented her research at the Lincoln College, University of Oxford, and the Paul Mellon Centre.
She authored the monograph Niccolò Tornioli (1606-1651). Art and patronage in Baroque Rome (Artemide, 2016), and coedited the volumes I Pittori del Dissenso (Artemide, 2014) and ‘A tale of two cities’: Rome and Siena in the Early Modern period (Pacini, 2020). Her articles and reviews appeared in the journals Art History, The Burlington Magazine, Valori Tattili, Annales Oratorii, and Kermes. Her most recent essays were published in the volumes Mostrare il Sapere (Edizioni Musei Vaticani, 2020). Libraries, Books, and Collectors of Texts, 1600-1900 (Routledge, 2018), Almost Eternal. Painting on Stone and Material Innovation in Early Modern Europe (Brill, 2018), and Originali Repliche Copie/ Originals Replicas Copies (Ugo Bozzi, 2018). In 2022, she published the volume Siena circa 1630, presented at the XXXII edition of the Biennale Internazionale dell’Antiquariato in Florence.
At the Institutio Santoriana – Fondazione Comel, she curated the exhibition The Universe on Paper. The Art of Linda Karshan and is currently curating the show Legacies and Visions. From Comel to Karshan.
TOMASO MARIA PEDROTTI DELL’ACQUA
Institutio Santoriana – Fondazione Comel
VICE PRESIDENT
Pedrotti studied Economics and Business Law at the Università Bocconi in Milan, and has been the Vice President of the Institutio Santoriana – Fondazione Comel over the past twelve years.
During his mandate, Tomaso supervised the major refurbishment of the Domus Comeliana, turning Marcello Comel’s Pavillion into a versatile event venue and exhibition centre.
Tomaso sits in the Governing Board of the Centre for the Study of Medicine and the Body in the Renaissance.
It is upon his initiative that the Athenaeum Comelianum de Litteris et Artibus was established in 2023.
