Sharon Hecker
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Sharon Hecker (born 1966)[1] is an American-Italian art historian, critic, curator, and art consultant.
In 1988, Hecker received her BA in Renaissance Studies and then a Masters of Arts in the History of Art (1994) at Yale University. Later in 1999, she completed her Ph.D. in the History of Art at University of California at Berkeley.[2]
Career
Hecker started out in the early 1990s at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice and the US Pavilion for the Venice Biennale.[citation needed] Over the course of that decade, she held positions at the Gallery Christian Stein in Milan and University of California, Berkeley (as a lecturer).[citation needed] In 2006, she began working for the IES Abroad program with the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan, Italy. Then, in 2018 she began teaching in the Masters program at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Arts Management, at the Università degli Studi di Milano, and at the Harvard University, Summer Institute for Technical Studies in Art (SITSA).[3]
Hecker is the series editor for the Visual Cultures and Italian Contexts series for Bloomsbury Visual Arts.[4]
Hecker runs workshops and offers private consulting on evidence-based art historical research for which she has copyrighted The Hecker Standard.[5] Some of the organizations she has worked with are: the ADR Camera Arbitrale di Milano, Associazione Italiana Family Office (AIFO) Università Cattolica Master's in Arts Management, 24Ore Business School Master Economia e Management dell’Arte e dei Beni Culturali, the Master's in Art Law at the University of Milan, the University of Pavia Master's in Gestione Innovativa dell’arte and the Luiss Guido Carli Art Law Master's Program and at the SDA Università Bocconi Master's Concentration in Art Markets and Finance. She was interviewed about her method for Art Law in 2021,[6] by ArteConcas in 2020,[7] and spoke about this method at the Catalogue Raisonné Scholars Association in 2018 as part of a two-day conference titled The Afterlife of Sculptures: Posthumous Casts in Scholarship, the Market, and the Law.[8]
Academic research
Much of Hecker's academic research has been on the Italian sculptor Medardo Rosso. She began publishing on her research on Rosso in the 1990s.[9]
Hecker published her 2017 book on Rosso. From the University of California Press, A Moment’s Monument. Medardo Rosso and the International Origins of Modern Sculpture was translated into Italian for an edition from Johan & Levi Editore.[10] This book had a number of positive reviews: Caroline Levitt in CAA Reviews,[11] Rosalind McKever in The Burlington Magazine,[12] and Jennifer Griffiths in Italian Art Society Newsletter.[13]
Her scholarly work also looks to later in the twentieth century to artists Lucio Fontana, Luciano Fabro, Francesco Lo Savio, Giuseppe Penone, and Marisa Merz. This also includes translating Italian primary sources into English.[14]
Hecker has also published on The Hecker Standard and related topics, including a chapter in the book Conversazioni in arte e diritto (Giappichelli 2021),[15] a chapter in the volue Le opere d'arte e le collezioni Acquisto, gestione, trasferimento (in Italian, 2020),[16] in the magazine WeWealth (in Italian),[17] and in the Art & Cultural Haritage Law Newsletter published by the Art & Cultural Heritage Law Committee (Summer 2021).[18] Her most recent addition to this related research is her co-edited volume Posthumous Art, Law and the Art Market: The Afterlife of Art (Routledge, 2022).[19]
