Giorgia Gastaldon is a researcher in tenure track Contemporary Art History at the University of Rome Tor Vergata. She previously held a research position at the University of Insubria (Como) and served as scientific coordinator of the Italian Council–funded project Now We Have Seen. Women and Art in 1970s Italy at the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History in Rome.
In 2014 she received a PhD in Art History from the University of Udine with a dissertation on the early years of Mario Schifano painting, later published in 2021. She has been awarded postdoctoral research fellowships from the Getty Research Institute, the Bibliotheca Hertziana, the Fondazione Centro Studi sull’Arte Licia e Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti (Lucca), and the University of Udine.
Alongside her academic career, she also works as a curator and has notably co-curated the exhibition Accardi. Contesti at the Museo del Novecento in Milan and Unica. Sei storie di artiste italiane at Spazio Ilisso in Nuoro.
Her scholarly publications focus on the reception of American art in Italy, the role of art magazines in updating artistic practices, Italian art criticism, women’s art, and gender issues in the representation of women artists and in abstract art.
She has delivered seminars and lectures at numerous Italian and international institutions, including Magazzino Italian Art (Cold Spring), School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University (Boston), Palazzo delle Esposizioni (Rome), Center for Italian Modern Art (New York), Christie's Education (New York), the Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa), the Josef Albers Museum Quadrat (Bottrop), the Museo del Novecento (Milan), the Stanford Humanities Center, and the University of Geneva.