"Kathleen Goncharov, a longtime curator who served as the United States Commissioner for the 50th Venice Biennale, has died at the age of 73. The news of her passing was announced by a group of friends and her partner, poet and artist Charles Doria. She died of natural causes in her Boca Raton home on New Year's Eve. Goncharov is remembered as a doting friend, a champion of artists, and a gifted and intuitive curator."
""Kathy was an artist at heart, and this sensibility shaped everything she did," artist and friend Robert Ransick wrote in an email to Hyperallergic. "It enabled her to recognize talent early and to intuit exactly how to support artists at pivotal moments in their careers." Born in Monroe, Michigan, in 1952, Goncharov remained in the state for her college education, graduating summa cum laude from Central Michigan University with a Bachelor's in studio art."
Kathleen Goncharov had a 40-year curatorial career marked by advocacy for artists and institutional leadership. She began in 1980 at Just Above Midtown, supporting Black artists, and later served 13 years as curator of the New School Art Collection, commissioning Martin Puryear's Vera List Courtyard. Under her direction the New School received a $45,000 NEA grant for the Greenwich Village courtyard redesign in 1990, with the NEA imposing anti-obscenity conditions as part of the award. She served as United States Commissioner for the 50th Venice Biennale. She died of natural causes at age 73 in Boca Raton; her partner was Charles Doria.
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