Dimitri Hadzi (American, –2006)

Timeline

1921
Born: in Greenwich, New York
1940
Graduated from Brookyln High School with major in Chemistry and worked in the research labs at Interchemical Corporation
1942–1946
Volunteered in the U.S Army Air Forces during World War II
1946–1950
Studied sculpture at Cooper Union and graduated with honors
1950
Was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship for study in Greece and continued studying stone carving at the Polytechnion in Athens, Greece
1954
Won third prize in the Deruta International Ceramics Competition at Perugia, Italy
1957
Received a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and was invited to participated in the international Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition in Middleheim Park, Antwerp, Belgium
1983
Was elected a fellow of the American Acadamy of Arts and letters, New York
1989
Received a tenured position at Harvard University and participated in various academic activities, lectures, concerts, film showings, and student productions
2006
Died: in Boston, Massachusetts

Exhibitions

2010
Dimitri Hadzi: The Roman Years 1951-75, Danese Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2008
Victoria Munroe Fine Art, Boston, MA (solo)
2008
Danese Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2007
Berta Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA (solo)
2006
Kouros Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2005
Gremillion Gallery, Houston, TX (solo)
2003
Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD (solo)
2003
American Masters, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
2002
Drawings by Sculptors for Sculpture,” College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA
2002
Kouros Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2001
Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD (solo)
2001
The Modern Woodcut, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2001
Art of the 50's, Davis Museum, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
2000
Gremillion Gallery, Houston, TX (solo)
2000
Athens Gallery, Athens, Greece (solo)
2000
Virginia Lynch: A Curatorial Retrospective, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
2000
Crosscurrents in Modern Art: A Tribute to Peter Selz, Achim Moeller Fine Art, New York, NY
1999
Modern Odysseys, Greek American Artists of the 20th Century, Queens Museum of Art, New York, NY; Contemporary Art Museum, Thessaloniki, Greece
1999
Art for the Public, Empire State Plaza Art Collection, on loan to Lincoln Center, New York, NY
1998
American Academy of Arts & Letters Centennial Portfolio, Pace Prints, New York, NY
1998
Begegnungen, Zeitgenoessische Porzellanplastik Deutsches Porzellanmuseum, Hohenberg an der Eger, Germany
1998
Sculpture Invitational, Provincetown Art Association, MA
1998
Tribute to Long Point Gallery, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA
1998
Kouros Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1998
Hellenic Cultural Foundation, New York, NY (solo)
1997
Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)
1997
Virginia Lynch Gallery, Tiverton, RI (solo)
1997
Smith Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto, CA (solo)
1997
American Artists in Rome, Attleboro Museum, Attleboro, MA
1996
Long Point Gallery, Provincetown, MA (solo)
1995
Kouros Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1995
Gallery Artists, Galerie Van de Loo, Munich, Germany
1995
20th Century Sculpture & Sculptors' Works on Paper, Lane Collection Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
1991
The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. (solo)
1991
Levinson-Kane Gallery, Boston, MA (solo)
1990
Smith Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto, CA (solo)
1990
The Unique Print, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1989
New England Impressions, The Art of Printmaking, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA; Galerie Kunst im Turm, Germany
1989
Rikugien Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
1989
Kouros Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1987
Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)
1987
Hakone Sculpture Museum, Hakone, Japan
1984
Bronze at Washington Square, Public Art Trust, Washington, D.C.
1984
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, MA (solo)
1984
Gruenebaum Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1983
Works in Bronze, a Modern Survey, University of Sonoma State Gallery, Sonoma, CA
1983
Seven Sculptors at Harvard, Sert Gallery, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
1982
Mekler Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
1981
Gruenebaum Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1980
Mekler Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
1977
Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA (solo)
1974
Galleria dell'Obelisco, Rome, Italy (solo)
1972
Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)
1971
Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA (solo)
1969
Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH (solo)
1963
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (solo)
1962
Stephen Radich Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1961
Galerie Van De Loo, Munich, Germany (solo)
1961
Stephen Radich Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1960
Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
1958
Galeria Schneider, Rome, Italy (solo)

Public Collections

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
The Philips Collection, Washington D.C
Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
MMCA Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece
The Wormsley Library, Buckinghamshire, U.K
National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
Lowell Public Art Collection, The City of Lowell, MA
Johnson Wax Company, Racine, WI
The Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Chase Manhattan Bank of North America, New York, NY
The Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH
The Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Arts-on-the-line, M.B.T.A., Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA

Literature

2004
Cavafy, C.P. The Canon. Translated by Stratis Haviaras. Frontispiece by Dimitri Hadzi. Athens: Hermes Press
2000
Heaney, Seamus. Alphabeta: Poems by Seamus Heaney. Translated into Greek. Etchings by Dimitri Hadzi
2000
Arfara, Katia. "O Dimitris Hatzis.” To Vima [Athens, Greece], May 4, 2000
1996
Balken, Debra Bricker. The Continuity and Contradiction in Sculpture, Dimitri Hadzi. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1996
1996
Elsen, Albert. Dimitri Hadzi. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1996
1989
Nordland, Gerald. Dimitri Hadzi. Cambridge: Harvard University, 1989(Catalogue)
1989
Ashton, Dore. "Dimitri Hadzi.” New York: Kouros Gallery, May 1989(Cataogue)
1984
Hecht, Anthony. Venetian Vespers. Etchings by Dimitri Hadzi. Boston: David Godine, 1984
1984
Nordland, Gerald. Dimitri Hadzi. New York: Gruenebaum Gallery, 1984(Catalogue)
1983
Wexler, Merin G. “Bronze and Granite: Dimitri Hadzi.” Harvard Crimson, June 9, 1983
English (US)

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