Dr. Antje Gamble

Education

• PhD, University of Michigan
• MA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
• BA, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Expertise

• Modern Italian art and culture 
• Modern and contemporary sculpture
• Contemporary art
• Public sculpture
• Trans-Atlantic movements of art and politics
• Exhibition histories
• Curatorial practice

Biography

Antje Gamble is an art historian specializing in Italian modernist sculpture and trans-Atlantic exhibition practices in the mid-century. She is currently an associate professor of Art History in the Department of Art & Design at Murray State University in Kentucky and President of the Italian Art Society. From Fascism to the Cold War, her work examines the exhibition, sale, and critical reception of Italian art and how it shaped and was shaped by national and international socio-political shifts. Dr. Gamble’s book, titled Cold War American Exhibitions of Italian Art and Design: “Italy at Work: Her Renaissance in Design Today” (Routledge Press, 2023), looks at the 1950-53 exhibition Italy at Work, which traveled to twelve American museums, using an interdisciplinary approach. Her scholarship has also been included in the recent volumes: Modern in the Making: MoMA and the Modern Experiment, 1929–1949 (Bloomsbury Press, 2020), where her chapter explores the role of politics in the 1949 “Twentieth Century Italian Art” exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, and Postwar Italian Art History Today: Untying ‘the Knot’ (Bloomsbury Press, 2018), where her chapter looks at politicized collection practices of Marino Marini’s sculpture during the early Cold War. Most recently, her work on the intersection of race, politics, and culture in American exhibitions of Italian art after WWII was included in the Italian journal Palinsesti (2025). For a full list of publications and scholarly activities, check out Dr. Gamble’s website.