Claudia Demonte
demonte@umd.edu - www.claudiademonte.com
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Claudia DeMonte has had more than 60 one person and 300 group exhibitions nationally and internationally including exhibitions at the Corcoran Museum Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Mississippi Museum, Tucson Museum, Flint Institute of Art, and Museum of the Southwest. Her work is in numerous museum permanent collections including the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Stamford Museum, Boca Raton Museum, and in major corporate collections such as those of Hyatt Regency Hotels, Exxon, Citibank and Siemens. Her public commissions have come from the N.Y.C. Department of Cultural Affairs, Brooklyn Library System, Queens Supreme Court, Prudential Life Insurance, and the State of New Mexico and N.Y.C. School Construction Authority.
DeMonte is the curator of “Women of the World: A Global Collection of Art.” This traveling exhibition, with accompanying book, includes work of women from 177 countries dealing with the image of women. DeMonte’s work is influenced by her travels to over 80 countries and her interest in and collection of Outsider Art. She has exhibited or lectured in over 15 countries. For the last 31 years, DeMonte has served on the faculty of the University of Maryland where she has been named Distinguished Scholar Teacher. She is married to the sculptor Ed McGowin and lives in New York City and Kent, Connecticut.
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