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Katherine Gili is a British sculptor. Born in Oxford in 1948, she graduated from Bath Academy of Art in 1970 and then studied for two years at St Martin's School of Art. Gili subsequently taught at a number of art schools; most notably St Martin's and Norwich between 1972 and 1985.

Her sculpture was exhibited for the first time in 1973 and well over a hundred times since. Gili's career is marked by solo shows in London and New York and by contributions to seminal survey exhibitions at major venues such as the Hayward Gallery. In recent years she has regularly shown in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibitions and notably in 2013 her sculpture "Ripoll" won the Sculpture Prize.

Katherine Gili's work is represented in the Arts Council Collection and other public and corporate collections in the UK, Switzerland and the USA. Lord Foster selected one of her pieces to stand alongside the Cranfield University Institute of Technology Library which was designed by Foster Associates in 1992.

Solo exhibitions

Summer Exhibition 2, Selected by Tim Hilton. Serpentine Gallery, Kensington Gardens, London, 1977
Salander O’Reilly Gallery, New York 1981
Katherine Gili – A Career Survey; Poussin Gallery 2011
Artist of the Day, chosen by Jennifer Durrant, Flowers Central, London 2014
Looking for the Physical, Sculpture and Drawings by Katherine Gili, Felix & Spear, London 2016

Selected mixed exhibitions

The Condition of Sculpture; Hayward Gallery, an international exhibition selected by William Tucker, 1975
Silver Jubilee Exhibition of Contemporary British Sculpture; Battersea Park 1977
Annual Stockwell Depot Exhibitions of Painting and Sculpture; 1974–79
Hayward Annual; 1979
Have You Seen Sculpture from the Body? Tate Gallery 1984
Escultura Nueva Reino Unido; Centro Cultural del Conde Duque, Madrid 1988
Moving Into View: a major display of the Arts Council Collection; South Bank Centre selected by William Packer,1993
British Abstract Art, Part 2, Sculpture; Flowers East Gallery, London 1995
British Figurative Art, Part 2, Sculpture; Flowers East Gallery, London. 1998
Steel; Canary Wharf, London. 2006
The Royal Academy Summer Shows 1996, 1997, 2009, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016

Awards

Elephant Trust 1994
Elected Fellow of the Royal British Society of Sculptors 1999
Jack Goldhill Award for Sculpture, Royal Academy 2013

Selected Public Collections

Arts Council Collection
University of Leicester
City of Lugano Switzerland
Cartwright Hall, Bradford
General Electric Corporation, USA
Henry Moore Institute

Private collections

The Leo and Eileen Herzel Collection USA.

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