Melania Gazzotti is an Italian art curator and art historian. Since the beginning of her career she has specialized in studying the way language was used in nineteenth-century art and has curated several exhibitions and catalogues on this subject. She has a special interest in artists’ books and magazines, as well as in Futurism, Visual and Concrete poetry. Between 2004 and 2010 she collaborated with the Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto (MART), where she worked in the Specialist Art Library and in the Collections and Exhibitions Departments. In 2013, she was awarded the Hilla Rebay International Fellowship offered by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, which afforded her the opportunity to work at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice. In 2016 she was awarded the Beinecke Visiting Postdoctoral Scholar Fellowship by Yale University. She is currently collaborating with the Italian Cultural Institute in New York.
