BIO
The work of award-winning artist Joan Giordano has been featured in solo and group exhibitions in museums and galleries throughout the United States, Europe, South America, Asia and Africa, including the Montclair Art Museum, NJ; Waxing Poetic; Encaustic Art in America; The Trenton City Museum at Ellarslie, NJ; Knoxville Museum of Art,TN; the Staten Island Museum, NY; the American Museum of Papermaking in Atlanta, Georgia; the Danville Museum of Art in Virginia; the Longview Art Museum in Texas; the Ellen Noel Art Museum of the Permian Basin in Odessa, Texas; the Fu Xin Gallery in Shanghai, China; Gallery Brocken in Tokyo, Japan; the Museo National Bellas Artes in Santiago, Chile; the Museo Del Corso in Florence, Italy; Santa Maria Della Scala in Siena, Italy; Feminine Dialogue UNESCO in Paris, France; Shanghai Contemporary 2010 in China; Art Link Gallery in Seoul, Korea; the First International Women Artists Biennale in Incheon, Korea; and the Sofia Paper Biennial in Bulgaria. In New York she has participated in exhibitions at the Alan Stone Gallery, Sutton Gallery, Sumi NY, the Tenri Cultural Institute, NYU Contemporary Art Gallery, Serrano Contemporary, College of Staten Island, LaGuardia College, and Union Gallery of the State University of New York at Stonybrook.
Giordano's artwork is in numerous corporate, public collections, and private collections, including those of the Hammond Museum and Japanese Stroll Gardens in North Salem, New York; the Housatonic Museum of Art in Bridgeport, Connecticut; the New York Public Library Print Collection; the Awagami Museum Hall of Awa in Tokushima, Japan; The College of the Desert in Palm Springs, California; Savannah College of Art and Design, Georgia; Howard Rubenstein Associates of New York; Pepsico, in Purchase, New York; DIRAY-TV, in Wilton,Connecticut; Health South; American Telecast International; Best Products Company; CBS; Coopers and Lybrand; North Carolina National Bank; Diversified Pharmaceuticals; Merrill Lynch; Price Waterhouse; The American Embassy in Zambia, Austria, Cyprus and the Henry Buhl Collection.
She is the recipient of awards and honors including a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts, and residencies at YADDO in Saratoga Springs, New York; the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in Sweet Briar, VA; Women's Studio Workshop in Rosendale, New York; and Awagami Paper International in Tokushima, Japan.