Ms. Carol Celentano, AAA Certified

USPAP compliant through:

03/14/2025

Specialization(s)

Postwar, Contemporary, and Emerging Art

Member Type

Certified Member

Service(s)

Charitable Donation; Estate Tax Liability; Equitable Distribution; Insurance

Appraiser's Statement

As a veteran of the fine arts industry for more than forty years, Carol Celentano brings an in-depth understanding and comprehensive scope of familiarity and expertise to the appraisal field.  She holds a degree in Art History from New York University’s College of Arts and Science and a Graduate Certificate in Appraisal Studies and Connoisseurship from NYU’s School of Professional Studies.  Ms. Celentano has served as a gallery director, a private art dealer and curator, and has been appraising art for the past twenty years. She is a Certified specialist in Post War, Contemporary and Emerging Art, and is also experienced in appraising works of art in a range of media from late nineteenth century Impressionism and Post Impressionism through the vanguard currents and counter currents of the first half of the twentieth century.  In addition, she is an authority on Outsider and Self-Taught Art.

As the director of the Phyllis Kind Gallery in New York, the first institution to champion the field of Outsider and Self-Taught Art in the United States, Ms. Celentano shaped the promotional agenda for a larger appreciation and understanding of its artists and spearheaded the earliest efforts to promote the genre as a viable area worthy of study and scholarship in the fine arts.  In 1988 she curated the exhibition Self-Taught and Not for the alternative space, Real Art Ways in Hartford, Connecticut, which was the first attempt to consider self-taught and mainstream artists on equal footing.