Curriculum Vitae
Born in London to Italian parents and spent part of her childhood in Italy
1956-1959
Goldsmiths School of Art London; taught by Kenneth Martin, Sam Rabin, and Ivor Roberts-Jones
1960-1963
MA and additional postgraduate year at Slade School, University College, London (UCL) taught by William Coldstream, Stanley Jones, and Ernst Gombrich
Attends courses under Kenneth Martin at the Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL)
Takes part in the Slade Film School programme and seminars under Thorold Dickinson
Visits to France to see the Gothic cathedrals and to Spain to see the Zurbaran murals in the Monastery of Guadalupe. Light as a creative force in architecture and painting
1964
Rome & Abbey scholarship takes her to Greece and the Aegean Islands
1964-1967
Works as member of the cartographic design team in the Architects and Town Planners Department of the Greater London Council
1965 -2000
Teaches at art schools, Goldsmiths, Reading, Kingston, Wimbledon, Royal College of Art
1974
Stay at Danilo Dolci’s “Centro per studii e iniziative” at Trappeto, Sicily
1976-1979
Visits to Maya sites in Mexico and Guatemala. References to the many-layered Mayan temples in the white paper reliefs and stacked pieces
1978
Austrian Government Fellowship
Since 1973
Regular visits to New York and contacts with NY artists
1988
Lectures on Kenneth Martin and his teaching, Department of Fine Art, Reading University
2002
Publication of Jeanne Masoero: A Survey, Lund Humphries, London
by Sacha Craddock
Featuring the essays The Book in your Hands, Guy Brett; Jeanne Masoero: Background to an Artist’s Life, Edward Rutherfurd; A Survey, Sacha Craddock; Extracts from a Conversation between the Artist and Jasia Reichardt; Figures and Light, Sarah Kent
2008
From Idea into Image, lecture at the Cambridge Festival of Ideas in Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, 22 October – 2 November. New Hall, Murray Edwards college.
Solo exhibitions
1971
Angela Flowers Gallery, London
1972
Angela Flowers Gallery, London
1974
Angela Flowers Gallery, London
1979
Basis for Light – Works with Paper 1976-1979, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
Basis for Light – Works with Paper 1976-1979, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
1981
Roads, Sky – Jeanne Masoero Paintings, Gardner Centre for the Arts, University of Sussex
1982
Angela Flowers Gallery, London
1985
Angela Flowers Gallery, London
1993
Figures and Light, The Mall Galleries, London
1994
The Economist Building Gallery, London
2002
Models of Infinity, Retrospective 1971 – 2002, Towner Museum and Art Gallery, Eastbourne, Sussex
2005
Works with Paper, Austin Desmond Fine Art, London
2007
Reading the Space with calligrapher Ewan Clayton, Ditchling Museum, Sussex
2009
Roads, Sky, New Hall Art Collection, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge
2013
Magnetic Fields, Sandra Higgins Fine Art, London
2015
Invisible Cities: a Mayan Journey, Sandra Higgins Fine Art, London
Group exhibitions (a selection)
1970
Colour Extensions, Camden Arts Centre, London
1971
Silence – Eight Painters, Camden Arts Centre, London
1972
British Drawings 1952-1972, Angela Flowers Gallery, London
Camden Festival exhibition
1973
Gallery Artists, Angela Flowers Gallery, London
1974
British Painting ’74, Hayward Gallery, London
College Art Collection, UCL
1975
Small is Beautiful, Angela Flowers Gallery, London
1976
Collage, Angela Flowers Gallery, London
1977
Collegiate Theatre Gallery, UCL
1978
Sculpture and Reliefs of Contemporary Artists, Warehouse Gallery, London
Portraits & Paintings, Warehouse Gallery, London
Die XIII Internationalen Malerwochen in der Steiermark, Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria
1980
Black & White, drawings exhibition, Angela Flowers Gallery, London
Poppy Johnson Gallery, New York, USA
1982
Work by gallery artists 1980 to 1982, Angela Flowers Gallery, London
1984
International Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland
1985
Small is Beautiful, Angela Flowers Gallery, London
Gallery artists summer exhibition, Angela Flowers Gallery, London
1986
Small is Beautiful, Angela Flowers Gallery, London
1988
Contemporary Portraits, inaugural exhibition at Flowers East, London
1990
Small is Beautiful, Angela Flowers Gallery, London
1993
Critics’ Choice – New British Art, Christie’s, London
1994
Small is Beautiful, Angela Flowers Gallery, London
1995
Andrew Lamont Gallery, London
2005
Fosterart, London
2007
Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London
2009
Annual Exhibition 2009, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland
2010
Small is Beautiful, Flowers Gallery, London
2011
Wandering Lines; From Automatic Drawing to Absraction, England & Co. London
2012
Wandering Lines II: From Automatic Drawing to Abstraction, England & Co. London
New Possibilities: Abstract Paintings from the Seventies, The Piper Gallery, London
The Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London
2013
Small is Beautiful, Flowers Gallery, London
2015
Gallery Artists Summer Show, Sandra Higgins Fine Art, London
Small is Beautiful, Flowers Gallery, London
2016
The Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London
2017
Celestial Mechanics, Tess Jaray, Linda Karshan, Jeanne Masoero, Megan Piper Gallery, London
Collections
Works in public and private collections in the UK, Europe, America, Australia and Japan
Selected Bibliography
Wright, Barbara, Camden Artists, Arts Review, 23 May 1970
Overy, Paul, Silence – Eight painters at the Camden Art Centre, The Financial Times, 2 February 1971
Brett, Guy, Silence, The Times, 3 February 1971
Brett, Guy, Intuitive Pursuit of Colour. Jeanne Masoero at Angela Flowers Gallery, The Times, 25 August 1971
Heard, James, Jeanne Masoero at Angela Flowers Gallery, Arts Review, August 1971
Packer, William, Jeanne Masoero’s Paintings, Art and Artists, August 1971
Brett, Guy, Exhibition of Jeanne Masoero’s Paintings at Angela Flowers Gallery, The Times, 20 September 1972
Walker, Richard, Jeanne Masoero. Angela Flowers Gallery, Arts Review, September 1972
Braden, Sue, Works with Paper: Profile on the Artist, Time Out, 14 November 1974
Titz, Walter, XIII Internationalen Malerwochen, Neue Zeit, 6 September 1978
Biedermann, Wolfgang, XIII Internationalen Malerwochen, Kronlen Zeit, 5 September 1978
Elis, Ingeborg, XIII Internationalen Malerwochen, Kleine Zeitung, 6 September 1978
Skreiner, Wilfried, XIII Internationalen Malerwochen in der Steiermark, catalogue, 1978
Overy, Paul, Basis for Light – Works in Paper 1976-1979, catalogue, Institute of Contemporary Arts 1979
Lane, Hilary, Roads, Sky – Jeanne Masoero Paintings, catalogue, Gardner Centre for the Arts, University of Sussex 1981
Kent, Sarah, Abstract Paintings and Drawings by Jeanne Masoero at Angela Flowers Gallery, Time Out, 11 March 1982
Barras-Hill, Ian, Colour Horizons. Paintings by Jeanne Masoero at Angela Flowers Gallery, Studio International, November 1985
Kent, Sarah, Abstract Paintings by Jeanne Masoero, Angela Flowers Gallery, Time Out, 4 October 1985
Garlake, Margaret, Jeanne Masoero’s Paintings at Angela Flowers Gallery, Art Monthly, November 1985
Kent, Sarah, Figures and Light, catalogue, Mall Galleries, 1993
Kent, Sarah, Critics’ Choice – New British Art, catalogue, Christies, 1993
Norman, Geraldine, Exhibition at the Economist Building Gallery, The Independent, 30 January 1995
Brett, Guy, The Book in your Hands, Jeanne Masoero: A Survey, Lund Humphries, London 2002
Rutherfurd, Edward, Jeanne Masoero: Background to an Artist’s Life, Jeanne Masoero: A Survey, Lund Humphries, London 2002
Craddock, Sacha A Survey, Jeanne Masoero: A Survey, Lund Humphries, London 2002
Reichardt, Jasia, Extracts from a Conversation between the Artist and Jasia Reichardt, Jeanne Masoero: A Survey, Lund Humphries, London 2002
Bustin, Mary, interview with Jeanne Masoero, Towner Museum and Art Gallery, Eastbourne, Sussex, 2002
Kent, Sarah, Figures and Light, Jeanne Masoero: A Survey, Lund Humphries, London 2002
Sonier, Laura, The Towner’s New Exhibition, Eastbourne Gazette, March 6th 2002
Antiques Magazine, To Infinity and Beyond, The Towner Gallery, April 19th 2002
Coombs, David, Jeanne Masoero: A Survey, book review, Art Newsletter, May 2002
Interview with Mary Bustin, Senior Paintings Conservator, Tate, Tate Archives, May 5th 2002
Sumpter, Helen, Jeanne Masoero; Austin Desmond Fine Art, Time Out, April 2005
Graedel Matthäi, Carlotta, Jeanne Masoero: Works with paper, catalogue, Austin Desmond Fine Art, London, April 2005
Brett, Guy, Reading the Space, Ditchling Museum, Sussex, March 2007
Dunne, Aidan, New forms, solid values, The Irish Times, May 30th, 2009
Brett, Guy, Sequences, catalogue introduction, 2011
Cornish, Samuel, New Possibilities: Abstract Paintings of the 70s, catalogue introduction, 2012
Sacha Craddock, Magnetic Fields, catalogue essay, 2013
Blair A Brooks, Celestial Mechanics, catalogue essay, Megan Piper Gallery, London, 2017