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Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe

Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe (4 August 1945 – 14 August 2024) was a British-born American painter, art critic, art theorist, and educator, born in Royal Tunbridge Wells, England. In 1968, he moved to the United States, where he remained.

Gilbert-Rolfe held several degrees, including a National Diploma in Painting from Tunbridge Wells School of Art (1965), an ATC from the London University Institute of Education (1967), and an MFA from Florida State University (1970). His work is in the permanent collections of the Albright-Knox Gallery of Art, Buffalo, NY; The Getty Study Center, Los Angeles; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami; the Frederick R. Weisman Foundation in Los Angeles and Minneapolis; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and other public, corporate and private collections.

Starting out in Artforum, in 1973, he wrote something at least once for most of the art magazines over the years, and more often for Critical Inquiry and Bomb Magazine. A founding editor of October (journal), with Rosalind Krauss, Annette Michelson and Lucio Pozzi (who withdrew before the first issue was published,) Gilbert-Rolfe resigned from the journal after the third issue.

Gilbert-Rolfe died in Gainesville, Florida, on 14 August 2024, at the age of 79. He has two sons, Cyrus Gilbert-Rolfe and Cedric Gilbert-Rolfe. Provided by Wikipedia