Bente Kiilerich was born in
Copenhagen, Denmark on 31 January 1954. She did her graduate studies at the
University of Copenhagen, where she earned a MA in classical archeology in 1985 and a PhD in art history in 1993. Her book ("Greek Sculpture: From Daedalic to Hellenistic") went through 8 editions between 1989 and 2007. She was appointed a professor of art history at the
University of Bergen in
Bergen, Norway in 1995. She was elected to the
Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters in 1998. She also served as president of the Norwegian branch of the
International Association of Byzantine Studies. Since 2021, she has been the Editor-in-Chief of CLARA: Classical Art and Archaeology, an
open-access journal published by the
University of Oslo. In 1 February 2024, she took emeritus status with the University of Bergen. ==References==