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Deborah Jenner

Deborah Jenner is an American-born Greek (dual national) art historian; member of College Arts Association. Her Doctorate thesis, The Spiritual in the Art of Georgia O'Keeffe, proved influences of Eastern mysticism. Residing in Paris since 1990, Deborah has taught at the Ecole du Louvre, the Sorbonne, the Catholic Institute and the British Council.

Her publications include catalogue essays for Musée d’Orsay exhibition Stieglitz and his Circle and Centre Pompidou's exhibition Traces of the Sacred in Modern Art, many scholarly papers with the multi-disciplinary research laboratory S.A.R.I. (Society of Activities and Research on the India), biographical entries on O'Keeffe and others for Le dictionnaire des femmes mystiques, gallery critiques in ArtAsiaPacific, and PerformArts: Artvisuel-Artvivant as well as several on-line articles on Georgia O'Keeffe.

She has given papers at various international conferences including  European Association for American Studies biennale in Nicosia 2006 on Paul Strand,  College Arts Association in Chicago 2010 on Georgia O’Keeffe and Coomaraswamy’s The Door in the Skyand The Catholic Institute of Paris 2014 on Great Artists' views of the Great War.

She was the coordinator of the S.A.R.I's 2012 International Conference on Space and Globalization and its publication Espace Mondialisation, published by l'Harmattan, Paris.

She was an advisor for the 2021 Georgia O'Keeffe retrospective at Centre Pompidou.

Recently retired, she continues giving Art History talks as an accredited lecturer with the Arts Society of London and with their Australian partner, ArtsNational, (Cook Circuit in October-November 2024).

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Georgia O'Keeffe: The Faraway Nearby - Sky-gazing artist paints the Beyond by telescoping vistas, making the Infinite intimate

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