Participant in the public program Thick Atmospheres. Organized in collaboration with Palazzo Grassi Pinault Collection Venezia. October 17–18, 2024
Presentazione del libro “Female Cultural Production in Modern Italy”. Palazzo Ducale. February 8, 2024
LA PORTINAIA (CONCIERGE) di Medardo Rosso. Giornata di studio. Il Divisionismo, Pinacoteca della Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Tortona. June 9, 2023
Mutually Impressed and Distanced: Luciano Fabro’s Creative Collaborations with Women. Magazzino Da Casa. April 3, 2021
Il valore del lavoro intellettuale femminile in Italia – di Sharon Hecker e Catherine Ramsey. March 7, 2021
A recording of “The Production of the Self: Conversations about Marisa Merz” featuring a presentation by Sharon Hecker and Silvia Bottinelli. Philadelphia Museum of Art.
October 14, 2020.
WHAT’S NEXT | Episode 2: On Curating.
May 23, 2020
WHAT’S NEXT? A Conversation between Generations: the Art World and its Future Challenges. April 27, 2020
Interview with Andrea Concas.
February 26, 2020
LECTURES
“Monuments without Heroes.” Lecture at NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli-Merimò. November 5, 2019
Medardo Rosso: Sight Unseen and Rosso’s Encounters with London. The Courtauld Institute, London. February 2, 2018
Talk by Sharon Hecker
at New York Studio School. April 17, 2018
The Afterlife of Sculptures: Posthumous Casts in Scholarship, the Market, and the Law. Catalogue Raisonné Scholars Association, New York. May 1, 2018
Lecture at NYU Villa La Pietra, Florence. March 22, 2016
Podcasts
Selected Lectures
2025
Presentation of “Manu-Facture: The Ceramics of Lucio Fontana” with Sharon Hecker and Karole Vail. Palazzo Maffei Casa Museo, Verona. October 22, 2025
“The meritocracy fallacy: Why investing in women (and their art) matters”. Webinar on gender disparity in the arts with Brunella Bruno and Renee Adams, Art@Saïd series for Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, June 16, 2025
“Medardo Rosso (1858-1928): Opening the Door to Modern and Contemporary Sculpture by Sharon Hecker”. Online lecture, Public Statues and Sculpture Association, UK, June 5, 2025
Workshop with Sharon Hecker and Teresa Kittler on artistic practice through a relational lens, inspired by Art and Intimacy in Modern Italy, Libreria delle donne di Milano, June 7, 2025
Lecture by Sharon Hecker on the provenance of Umberto Boccioni’s “Maestra di scena: Ritratto della Signora Adalgisa Maffi” (1909), Working group Italy of the Arbeitskreis Provenienzforschung e.V., May 28, 2025
Sharon Hecker was keynote speaker for symposium on curatorial practices and Fascist-era art: “MÜNCHEN – BOZEN. Faschismus, Architektur!”, Architekturmuseum der TUM, May 13-14, 2025
Sharon Hecker presented the book L’Allieva di danza di Venanzo Crocetti. L’armonia della materia. Studio, tecnica e restauro, April 10, 2025
International Catalogue Raisonné Association Conference.
“Art, Law and Artistic Collaborations”. Presented at “Law in Art and Art in Law” session, College Art Association Annual Conference. February 14, 2025
“Il possibile: Istruzioni per l’uso. Studi sull’opera di Gianfranco Baruchello”. Conference “Oltre le tendenze. Terre di nessuno”. January 24, 2025
2024
Lecture on Connections between art history and due diligence for Sothebys Institue of Art. June 16, 2024. Read more
The Italian Studies Program at the American University of Rome presents an open discussion with some of the authors of the volume Female Cultural Production in Modern Italy: Literature, Art and Intellectual History, edited by Sharon Hecker and Catherine Ramsey-Portolano. November 29, 2023. Read more
Talk at “Intellettuali nell’ombra? La moglie del professore” at Università per Stranieri di Siena (UNISTRASI). November 28-29, 2024
“Il Fascismo e la propaganda attraverso arte e cultura”. Sharon Hecker and Raffaele Bedarida (Sapienza University of Rome) on their volume “Curating Fascism: Exhibitions and Memory from the Fall of Mussolini to Today”. Part of the cycle “I Lunedì della Storia”. October 28, 2024
International conference “Il Bello e il Vero” ten years of the exhibition Il Bello o il Vero. Program. October 23-25, 2024
“Nuove ricerche intorno alla ‘Portinaia’ di Medardo Rosso”. Fondazione Luigi Rovati. June 19, 2024
“The Afterlife of Art”, Center for Art Law. June 11, 2024. Review
“La dittatura della fantasia | Collage autobiografico di Remo Bianco”. Fondazione Rovati. March 27, 2024
“Donne. Protagoniste del panorama artistico e culturale italiano.” Sharon Hecker and Catherine Ramsey-Portolano presented Female Cultural Production in Modern Italy, Museo Poldi Pezzoli. Program. March 8, 2024
2023
Curator, Law & Insurance. Il ruolo del curatore nell’istituzione museale: prospettive, criticità e comparazione. Triennale Milano. October 12, 2023. Read more
Luciano Fabro Panel Discussion with Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Sharon Hecker, and Gedi Sibony. Paula Cooper Gallery. May 11, 2023. Read more
Talk at “Intellettuali nell’ombra? La moglie del professore” at Università per Stranieri di Siena (UNISTRASI). November 28-29, 2024
“Il Fascismo e la propaganda attraverso arte e cultura”. Sharon Hecker and Raffaele Bedarida (Sapienza University of Rome) on their volume “Curating Fascism: Exhibitions and Memory from the Fall of Mussolini to Today”. Part of the cycle “I Lunedì della Storia”. October 28, 2024
International conference “Il Bello e il Vero” ten years of the exhibition Il Bello o il Vero. Program. October 23-25, 2024
“Nuove ricerche intorno alla ‘Portinaia’ di Medardo Rosso”. Fondazione Luigi Rovati. June 19, 2024
“The Afterlife of Art”, Center for Art Law. June 11, 2024
Center for Art Law also wrote a review
“Reshaping the Lost Wax Casting Technique: The Methods of Medardo Rosso. (Brill). April 7, 2021” is already up but please update.
“La dittatura della fantasia | Collage autobiografico di Remo Bianco”. Fondazione Rovati. March 27, 2024
“Donne. Protagoniste del panorama artistico e culturale italiano.” Sharon Hecker and Catherine Ramsey-Portolano presented Female Cultural Production in Modern Italy, Museo Poldi Pezzoli. Program. March 8, 2024
Workshop by Sharon Hecker and Teresa Kittler on Couples and Artistic Collaboration in Modern Italy. American Academy in Rome. November 30, 2023
2023
Poteri e nuove esposizioni: tra scelte e responsabilità. Università degli Studi di Milano. May 5, 2023.
2022
Sharon Hecker will be speaking with Raffaele Bedarida (Cooper Union) on “Curating Fascism” at the American Academy in Rome, moderated by Marla Stone. The seminar is part of Università di Roma La Sapienza’s Summer School “The Cultural Heritage and Memory of Totalitarianism” directed by Franca Sinopoli and Franco Baldasso. June 17, 2022. Read more
Art and Law talk at the Università degli Studi di Milano. June 17, 2022. Read more
Harvard Art Museums Summer Institute for Technical Studies in Art (SITSA) graduate program. Sharon Hecker will be speaking together with SITSA director and historian of bronze sculpture practices Francesca Bewer, sculptor and archeometallurgist Andrew Lacey and Adam Lowe, mastermind of digital art FACTUM ARTE and Factum Foundation. June 13, 2022. Read more
European Postwar Contemporary Art Forum Book Talk: Sharon Hecker and Silvia Bottinelli, eds., Lead in Modern and Contemporary Art (Bloomsbury). June 2, 2022.
senzamargine. Passaggi nell’arte italiana a cavallo del millennio. June 10, 2022. Read more
Workshop on due diligence for art at the Master’s in Gestione Innovativa dell’Arte, Università di Pavia. May 27, 2022 Read more
Cultural Memory of Past Dictatorships: Narratives of Implication in a Global Perspective – Seminar Series and Symposium. Sharon Hecker and Raffaele Bedarida (The Cooper Union) Curating Fascism: Exhibitions and Memory from the Fall of Mussolini to Today. May 20, 2022.
CIMA international conference “Staging Injustice Study Days”. Sharon Hecker and Catherine Ramsey-Portolano “Milano Capitale Im-morale: the Prostitute as Literary and Artistic Symbol of Social Deviance”. April 30, 2022. Read more
“Building Gender Studies Networks in Rome” at the British School at Rome. Sharon Hecker and Catherine Ramsey-Portolano, “Female Cultural Production in Modern Italy: Literature, Art and Intellectual History. A new edited volume in progress”. March 24, 2022.
2021
“Reshaping the Lost Wax Casting Technique: The Methods of Medardo Rosso”. Brill. April 17, 2021
2020
A recording of “The Production of the Self: Conversations about Marisa Merz” featuring a presentation by Sharon Hecker and Silvia Bottinelli. October 14, 2020. watch
L’importanza del materiale, delle tecniche e della provenienza di un’opera d’arte per una corretta due diligence. Quid Magazine. April 1, 2020
Dr. Hecker is available for curatorial projects, research, lectures, workshops and consulting.