A journey dedicated to art
Throughout her career, Véronique Chagnon-Burke has taught a wide range of subjects related to art market studies and art history at Queens College, Parsons School of Design and Hunter College, among other institutions. His museum and research positions have included work at the Museum of Modern Art and the College Art Association. She has also worked at Hôtel Drouot in Paris. From 2002 to 2021, she was Director of Christie’s Education in New York, where she taught art market history and art history, with a particular focus on French art and women artists.
A specialist in the history of 19th-century French landscape painting, her areas of expertise also include 19th-century art criticism, the art market and the role of women in the art world. She received her doctorate from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, her master’s degree from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University, and her bachelor’s degree from the Université Paris-Sorbonne. She also holds a degree in museum studies from the Ecole du Louvre.
Her current collaborative project is the Women Art Dealers Digital Archive (WADDA), a digital platform that maps the role of women art dealers in the institutionalization of modern and contemporary art. With Dr. Caterina Toschi, she recently co-edited “Women Art Dealers: Creating Markets for Modern Art, 1940-1990” (Bloomsbury Press, 2024).
Spotlighting women artists
Since leaving Christie’s Education, Véronique Chagnon has returned to academic research and writing, as well as curating contemporary art exhibitions[In the Flesh, 2023]. In January 2024, she organized“She.Her.Hers“, an exhibition of ten women artists for the Cultural Council for Palm Beach County.
In September 2022, she was elected co-president of the International Art Market Studies Association [TIAMSA]. She is section editor for the Art Market Dictionary [BAM, Bloomsbury Art Markets], an online tool published by Bloomsbury Press in London in 2023.
Selection of publications
- Women Art Dealers: Creating Markets for Modern Art, 1940-1990, Bloomsbury Press, 2024
- “Book Review of Florence, Berlin and Beyond: Late Nineteenth-Century Markets and Their Networks,” edited by Lynn Catterson, in Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, vol.21, issue 3, Fall 2022
- “Women Art Dealers Digital Archives [WADDA]: From the Gallery to the Museum, Mapping How Women Art Gallerists Supported Contemporary Art in New York,” Journal de l’Université d’été de la Bibliothèque Kandinsky, n°6-7, 2021, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
- Conclusion in Pioneers of the Global Art Market: Paris Based Dealers Networks, 1850-1950, Christel Hollevoet-Force, ed. Bloomsbury Press Contextualizing Art Markets Series (2020)
- “The Market for Contemporary Art,” Grove Art Dictionary (2018)
- Women Art Critics in the Nineteenth Century: Vanishing Acts, a collaborative anthology with Heather Jensen and Wendelin (2013
- “Rue Laffitte: Looking at and Buying Contemporary Art in Mid-Nineteenth Century Paris,” in Nineteenth Century Art Worldwide (2012)
- “Les Femmes et la Critique d’art au 19ème siècle”; “Marie de Flaviny, La Baronne Bonne Decazes, et Judith Gautier,” in Le Dictionnaire universel des créatrices (2010)
- The Politicization of Nature: The Critical Reception of Barbizon Painting During the July Monarchy (2009)