Gwen Chanzit

Regarded as the world expert on internationally renowned Bauhaus artist Herbert Bayer (1900-1985), Dr. Chanzit has published the books, The Herbert Bayer Collection and Archive at the Denver Art Museum (1988), Herbert Bayer and Modernist Design in America (1987), and a revised edition of the latter, From Bauhaus to Aspen: Herbert Bayer and Modernist Design in America (2005).

Dr. Chanzit was awarded Curator Emerita of Modern Art and the Herbert Bayer Collection and Archive at the Denver Art Museum. Over her 36-plus years at the Denver Art Museum, Dr. Chanzit organized more than 30 exhibitions, including Figure to Field, Mark Rothko in the 1940s, Herbert Bayer: Berlin Graphics 1928-1938, Fracture: Cubism and After, Joan Miró: Instinct and Imagination, Starring Linda: A Trio of John DeAndrea Sculptures, Overthrown: Clay Without Limits, Herbert Bayer: New York and Aspen Paintings 1938-1974, Gunther Gerzso: A Mexican Master, and Abstract Expressionism from the Denver Art Museum.

Chanzit's major curatorial project, Women of Abstract Expressionism, opened at the Denver Art Museum in June 2016 and was on tour for a year. This traveling exhibition received much positive attention in the national and international press. Its comprehensive catalogue published by Yale University Press is into its fifth printing