Sharon Hecker, New Thinking About Lucio Fontana’s Ceramics. 

Sharon Hecker (B.A., Yale University, cum laude; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley) is an art historian and curator specialized in Italian modern and contemporary art. A leading authority on Medardo Rosso, she has published extensively on Italian artists including Lucio Fontana, Luciano Fabro, Marisa Merz, Francesco Lo Savio, and Remo Bianco. Her books include A Moment’s Monument: Medardo Rosso and the International Origins of Modern Sculpture (University of California Press), awarded the College Art Association’s Millard Meiss Prize (Italian translation Johan & Levi), and Postwar Italian Art History Today (Bloomsbury). Her exhibitions include Medardo Rosso: Second Impressions (Harvard Art Museums); Medardo Rosso: Experiments in Light and Form (Pulitzer Arts Foundation); Manu-facture: The Ceramics of Lucio Fontana (Peggy Guggenheim Collection). Hecker serves on the Board of Directors of the College Art Association and chairs the International Catalogue Raisonné Association. She teaches widely in Europe and the United States and received Italy’s National Scientific Qualification as Full Professor of Art History. She has held Fulbright, Getty, and Mellon fellowships, and received the Premio Internazionale Cherasco Storia per la Cultura e l’Arte.