Katherine Gili is a British sculptor. Born in Oxford in 1948, is the daughter of Catalan publisher and translator Joan Gili and sister of the film-maker Jonathan Gili. She graduated from Bath Academy of Art in 1970 and then studied for two years at St Martin's School of Art. Gili subsequently taught at a number of art schools; most notably St Martin's and Norwich between 1972 and 1985.
Her sculpture was exhibited for the first time in 1973 and well over a hundred times since. Gili's career is marked by solo shows in London and New York and by contributions to seminal survey exhibitions at major venues such as the Hayward Gallery. In recent years she has regularly shown in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibitions and notably in 2013 her sculpture "Ripoll" won the Sculpture Prize.
Katherine Gili's work is represented in the Arts Council Collection, Tate and other public and corporate collections in the UK, Switzerland and the USA. Lord Foster selected one of her pieces to stand alongside the Cranfield University Institute of Technology Library which was designed by Foster Associates in 1992.
Solo exhibitions
Summer Exhibition 2, Selected by Tim Hilton. Serpentine Gallery, Kensington Gardens, London, 1977 Salander O’Reilly Gallery, New York 1981 Katherine Gili – A Career Survey; Poussin Gallery 2011 Artist of the Day, chosen by Jennifer Durrant, Flowers Gallery, London 2014 Looking for the Physical, Sculpture and Drawings by Katherine Gili, Felix & Spear, London, 2016 Discovered in the Making, Katherine Gili Sculpture, Felix & Spear, London, 2018 Sparks Fly, Katherine Gili Sculpture 1974 to 2018, One Canada Square, Canary Wharf, London, 2019
Selected mixed exhibitions
The Condition of Sculpture; Hayward Gallery, an international exhibition selected by William Tucker, 1975 Silver Jubilee Exhibition of Contemporary British Sculpture; Battersea Park 1977 Annual Stockwell Depot Exhibitions of Painting and Sculpture; 1974–79 Hayward Annual; 1979 Have You Seen Sculpture from the Body? Tate Gallery 1984 Escultura Nueva Reino Unido; Centro Cultural del Conde Duque, Madrid 1988 Moving Into View: a major display of the Arts Council Collection; South Bank Centre selected by William Packer, 1993 British Abstract Art, Part 2, Sculpture; Flowers East Gallery, London 1995 British Figurative Art, Part 2, Sculpture; Flowers East Gallery, London. 1998 Steel; Canary Wharf, London. 2006 The Royal Academy Summer Shows 1996, 1997, 2009, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016
Awards
Elephant Trust 1994
Elected Fellow of the Royal British Society of Sculptors 1999
Jack Goldhill Award for Sculpture, Royal Academy 2013
Selected Public Collections
Arts Council Collection
University of Leicester
City of Lugano Switzerland
Cartwright Hall, Bradford
General Electric Corporation, USA
Henry Moore Institute
Tate
Private collections
The Leo and Eileen Herzel Collection USA
Lord Peter Palumbo collection at Kentuck Knob USA, a house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright