Biographical Summary
Dimitri Hadzi is among the most distinguished modernist sculptors, creator of works in bronze and stone that are powerfully abstract and expressionist in character. Yet his belief in the past as both a literary and an aesthetic source, as well as his use of such traditional materials as bronze, shape a career that stands out from those of mainstream modernists. Hadzi thinks of art in clear, formalist terms, but with nuances of mythic meaning drawn from his Greek heritage. After a nearly-twenty-five-year sojourn in Rome, he spent fourteen years teaching at Harvard University, at the same time that he was executing large-scale architectural commissions for sites in North America, public works of exceptional physical beauty, structural bravura, and durability.
EDUCATION
1952‐3 Belle Arte, Rome, Italy
1950‐1 Polytechnion, Athens, Greece
1950 Graduated with Honors from The Cooper Union, New York City
1950‐1 Polytechnion, Athens, Greece
1950 Graduated with Honors from The Cooper Union, New York City
SELECTED HONORS AND AWARDS
1997 Member, National Academy of Design
1987 St. Gaudens Award, The Cooper Union
1983 Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Letters
1974 Resident, American Academy in Rome
1957 John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship
1954 Louis Comfort Tiffany Award
1950‐1 Fullbright Fellow, Athens, Greece
1987 St. Gaudens Award, The Cooper Union
1983 Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Letters
1974 Resident, American Academy in Rome
1957 John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship
1954 Louis Comfort Tiffany Award
1950‐1 Fullbright Fellow, Athens, Greece
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
1989-2006 Professor Emeritus, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
1975-1989 Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
1975-1989 Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts
Albright‐Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y
Albright‐Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y
Chase Manhattan Bank of North America, New York
City of Tilburg, Holland
The Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
Davis Museum, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts
The Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden at UCLA, Los Angeles, California
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
The Hakone Museum of Sculpture, Tokyo, Japan
City of Tilburg, Holland
The Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
Davis Museum, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts
The Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden at UCLA, Los Angeles, California
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
The Hakone Museum of Sculpture, Tokyo, Japan
The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York
Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark
Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, California
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Mineralogical Museum at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Montreal Museum of Art, Montreal, Canada
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York
Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark
Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, California
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Mineralogical Museum at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Montreal Museum of Art, Montreal, Canada
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, Florida
The Philadelphia Museum of Art
The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
Phoenix Museum of Art, Arizona
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California
Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts
Stanford University Art Museum, Palo Alto, California
The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio
Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
Phoenix Museum of Art, Arizona
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California
Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts
Stanford University Art Museum, Palo Alto, California
The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio
Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013 Danese, New York, New York
2010 Victoria Munroe Fine Art, Boston, Massachusetts
2010 “The Roman Years”, Danese, New York, New York
2008 Victoria Munroe Fine Art, Boston, Massachusetts
2008 Danese, New York, New York
2007 Berta Walker Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts
2006 Kouros Gallery, New York, New York
2005 Gremillion Gallery, Houston, Texas
2003 Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland
2002 Kouros Gallery, New York, New York
2001 Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland
2000 Gremillion Gallery, Houston, Texas
2000 Athens Gallery, Athens, Greece
1998 Kouros Gallery, New York, New York
1998 Hellenic Cultural Foundation, New York, New York
1997 Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1997 Virginia Lynch Gallery, Tiverton, Rhode Island
1997 Smith Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto, California
1996 Long Point Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts
1995 Kouros Gallery, New York, New York
1991 The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
1991 Levinson‐Kane Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
1990 Smith Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto, California
1989 Rikugien Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1989 Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
1989 Kouros Gallery, New York, New York
1987 Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1984 Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts
1984 Gruenebaum Gallery, New York, New York
1982 Mekler Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1981 Gruenebaum Gallery, New York, New York
1980 Mekler Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1977 Alpha Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
1974 Galleria dell’Obelisco, Rome, Italy
1972 Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1971 Alpha Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
1969 Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
1963 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
1962 Stephen Radich Gallery, New York, New York
1961 Galerie Van De Loo, Munich, Germany
1961 Stephen Radich Gallery, New York, New York
1960 Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1958 Galeria Schneider, Rome, Italy
2010 Victoria Munroe Fine Art, Boston, Massachusetts
2010 “The Roman Years”, Danese, New York, New York
2008 Victoria Munroe Fine Art, Boston, Massachusetts
2008 Danese, New York, New York
2007 Berta Walker Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts
2006 Kouros Gallery, New York, New York
2005 Gremillion Gallery, Houston, Texas
2003 Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland
2002 Kouros Gallery, New York, New York
2001 Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland
2000 Gremillion Gallery, Houston, Texas
2000 Athens Gallery, Athens, Greece
1998 Kouros Gallery, New York, New York
1998 Hellenic Cultural Foundation, New York, New York
1997 Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1997 Virginia Lynch Gallery, Tiverton, Rhode Island
1997 Smith Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto, California
1996 Long Point Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts
1995 Kouros Gallery, New York, New York
1991 The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
1991 Levinson‐Kane Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
1990 Smith Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto, California
1989 Rikugien Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1989 Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
1989 Kouros Gallery, New York, New York
1987 Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1984 Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts
1984 Gruenebaum Gallery, New York, New York
1982 Mekler Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1981 Gruenebaum Gallery, New York, New York
1980 Mekler Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1977 Alpha Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
1974 Galleria dell’Obelisco, Rome, Italy
1972 Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1971 Alpha Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
1969 Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
1963 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
1962 Stephen Radich Gallery, New York, New York
1961 Galerie Van De Loo, Munich, Germany
1961 Stephen Radich Gallery, New York, New York
1960 Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1958 Galeria Schneider, Rome, Italy
COMMISSIONS
1991 Hugo Black Courthouse, Birmingham, Alabama ‐ 20 foot long mixed granites
1990 Public Art Collection, Lowell, Massachusetts ‐ 13 foot high bronze
1989 Embarcadero Center, San Francisco, California ‐ 12 foot high bronze
1987 Pine Manor College, Boston, Massachusetts ‐ 12 foot high mixed granites
1986 Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota ‐ 13 foot high mixed granites
1986 City of Appleton, Appleton, Wisconsin ‐ 15 foot high, 32 foot long dolomite
1985 Harvard Square, MBTA, Cambridge, Massachusetts ‐ 24 foot high mixed granites
1984 Sculpture/Fountain, Copley Place, Boston, Massachusetts ‐ 30 foot high mixed granites and travertines
1982 Stanford University, Palo Alto, California ‐ 12 foot high bronze
1982 Owens‐Illinois, Inc., Toledo, Ohio ‐ 40 foot high granite fountain
1980 Dallas Center, Dallas, Texas ‐ 24 foot high granite
1979 Johnson Wax Co., Racine, Wisconsin ‐ 15 foot high basalt, granite intarsia
1976 Federal Office Building, Portland, Oregon ‐ 13 foot high basalt
1974 International Sculptors Symposium, Eugene, Oregon ‐ basalt group
1973 Federal Reserve Bank, Minneapolis, Minnesota ‐ 24 foot high bronze
1968 JFK Federal Office Building, Boston, Massachusetts ‐ 16 foot high bronze
1966 Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, New York ‐ 16 foot high bronze
1966‐1976 Bronze Doors, St. Paul’s Church, Rome, Italy ‐ 12 foot high bronze
1965 Sun Life Insurance Co., Baltimore, Maryland ‐ suspended bronze
1963 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts ‐ 5 foot high bronze
1990 Public Art Collection, Lowell, Massachusetts ‐ 13 foot high bronze
1989 Embarcadero Center, San Francisco, California ‐ 12 foot high bronze
1987 Pine Manor College, Boston, Massachusetts ‐ 12 foot high mixed granites
1986 Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota ‐ 13 foot high mixed granites
1986 City of Appleton, Appleton, Wisconsin ‐ 15 foot high, 32 foot long dolomite
1985 Harvard Square, MBTA, Cambridge, Massachusetts ‐ 24 foot high mixed granites
1984 Sculpture/Fountain, Copley Place, Boston, Massachusetts ‐ 30 foot high mixed granites and travertines
1982 Stanford University, Palo Alto, California ‐ 12 foot high bronze
1982 Owens‐Illinois, Inc., Toledo, Ohio ‐ 40 foot high granite fountain
1980 Dallas Center, Dallas, Texas ‐ 24 foot high granite
1979 Johnson Wax Co., Racine, Wisconsin ‐ 15 foot high basalt, granite intarsia
1976 Federal Office Building, Portland, Oregon ‐ 13 foot high basalt
1974 International Sculptors Symposium, Eugene, Oregon ‐ basalt group
1973 Federal Reserve Bank, Minneapolis, Minnesota ‐ 24 foot high bronze
1968 JFK Federal Office Building, Boston, Massachusetts ‐ 16 foot high bronze
1966 Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, New York ‐ 16 foot high bronze
1966‐1976 Bronze Doors, St. Paul’s Church, Rome, Italy ‐ 12 foot high bronze
1965 Sun Life Insurance Co., Baltimore, Maryland ‐ suspended bronze
1963 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts ‐ 5 foot high bronze
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
| 2018 |
“Connie Fox, Dimitri Hadzi, Andy Harper, Elmar Vestner”, Danese, New York, NY Hadzi’s sculpture reconciles the competing claims of figuration and abstraction; expressionism and emotional restraint; intimate scale and monumentality; delicacy and mass. His comprehensive knowledge of ancient cultures and Greco-Roman art led to the development of a personal lexicon of forms that reflect the past and simultaneously contribute to the evolution of 20th century sculpture. |
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| 2016 | “A Passionate Eye – the Weiner Family Collection”, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, Florida | |
| 2012 | Fields Sculpture Park Annual Summer Exhibition, The Fields Sculpture Park at Omi International Arts Center, Ghent, NY | |
| Circa 1963, Sert Gallery, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts | ||
| 2010 | Works on Paper, Danese, New York, NY | |
| 2009 | Sculpture and Drawings, Danese, New York, NY | |
| 2008 | Small Sculpture from the Permanent Collection, The Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, Massachusetts | |
| 2007 | Good Form: The Goldschmidt Collection of (small scale) Sculpture, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, Arizona | |
| 2005 | Ceramic Sculpture by Anthony Caro, Paul Chaleff and Dimitri Hadzi, C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland | |
| 2004 | Berta Walker Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts | |
| 2003 | American Masters, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts | |
| 2002 | Drawings by Sculptors for Sculpture, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia | |
| 2001 | The Modern Woodcut, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts | |
| Art of the 50’s, Davis Museum, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts | ||
| 2000 | Virginia Lynch: A Curatorial Retrospective, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island | |
| Crosscurrents in Modern Art: A Tribute to Peter Selz, Achim Moeller Fine Art, New York | ||
| Modern Odysseys, Greek American Artists of the 20th Century, Queens Museum of Art, New York; Contemporary Art Museum, Thessaloniki, Greece | ||
| Art for the Public, Empire State Plaza Art Collection, on loan to Lincoln Center, New York | ||
| 1998 | American Academy of Arts & Letters Centennial Portfolio, Pace Prints, New York | |
| Begegnungen, Zeitgenoessische Porzellanplastik, Deutsches Porzellanmuseum, Hohenberg an der Eger, Germany | ||
| Sculpture Invitational, Provincetown Art Association, Provincetown, Massachusetts | ||
| Tribute to Long Point Gallery, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, Massachusetts | ||
| DNA Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts | ||
| 1997 | American Artists in Rome, Attleboro Museum, Attleboro, Massachusetts | |
| 1995 | Gallery Artists, Galerie Van de Loo, Munich, Germany | |
| 20th Century Sculpture & Sculptors’ Works on Paper, Lane Collection Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin | ||
| 1990 | The Unique Print, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts | |
| 1989 | New England Impressions, The Art of Printmaking, Fitchburg Art Museum, Massachusetts; Galerie Kunst im Turm, Germany | |
| 1987 | Hakone Sculpture Museum, Hakone, Japan | |
| 1984 | Bronze at Washington Square, Public Art Trust, Washington, D.C. | |
| 1983 | Works in Bronze, a Modern Survey, University of Sonoma State Gallery, Sonoma, California | |
| Seven Sculptors at Harvard, Sert Gallery, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts | ||
| 1982 | Europalia 1982, Brussels, Belgium | |
| Sculpture: Red Grooms, Dimitri Hadzi, Reuben Nakian, Tony B. Rosenthal, H.C. Westermann, Library of the Boston Athenaeum, Boston, Massachusetts | ||
| 1980 | Across the Nation, Fine Art for Federal Buildings, The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 1979 Art in America after World War II, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York | |
| 1971 | International Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Middleheim Park, Antwerp, Holland | |
| 1970 | 12 Former American Academy Artists, American Academy, Rome, Italy | |
| 1966 | Thirty Artists From Italy, Renaissance Society, The University of Chicago, organized by Galleria Schneider, Rome | |
| 1965 | American Sculpture, Musee Rodin, Paris, France Arts Festival, The White House, Washington, D.C. 126 Fruhjahrsausstellung, Kunst Verein, Hanover, Germany | |
| 1964 | World’s Fair Sculpture Exhibition, U.S. Pavilion, New York Paintings and Sculptures from the Collection of Mr. And Mrs. Ted Weiner, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, Texas | |
| 1963 | Outdoor International Sculpture, Battersea Park, London, England | |
| 1962 | Joseph Hirshhorn Collection, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Survey of American Sculpture, Newark Museum of Art, Newark, New Jersey | |
| Two Sculptors, Two Painters, U.S. Pavilion, Biennale XXXI, Venice, Italy | ||
| 1961 | Annual Exhibition, The Whitney Museum, New York Pittsburgh International, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | |
| 1960 | Aspects de la Sculpture Americaine, Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris, France | |
| 1959 | Recent Sculpture USA, The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Denver Art Museum, Colorado; Los Angeles County Museum, California; City Art Museum of Saint Louis, Minnesota; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts | |
| 1958 | Projects for Concentration Camp Monument, Museum of Auschwitz, Poland Outdoor International Sculpture, Sonabeek Park, Holland Biennale XXIX, Venice, Italy | |
| 1956 | Biennale XXVIII, Venice, Italy New Talent IX, The Museum of Modern Art, New York |
Dimitri Hadzi was born on March 21, 1921 in New York, New York. Until his death in 2006, Hadzi continued to work out of his Cambridge studio with the enthusiasm, curiosity and perseverance that marked his entire artistic life of more than 50 years. The recognition he received meant a great deal to him, but nothing was ever as rewarding to this consummate artist as a lively and productive day in the studio.