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Lives and works in Manhattan and Upstate NY
Solo Museum Exhibits
2004 TRANSFORMING TEXTURES, Hammond Museum & Japanese Stroll Garden, North Salem, NY
2003 ARRESTED LIGHT & TEXTURE, Ellarslie Mansion, Cadwalader Park, The Trenton City Museum, Trenton, NJ
2002 NOTES FROM THE GARDEN, 2 person, Sullivan County Museum, Hurleyville, NY
2001 SKIN: STRUCTURE AND FORM, Staten Island Museum, NY
2001 DANCERS, Sullivan County Museum, Hurleyville, NY
1998 JOAN GIORDANO, The American Museum of Papermaking, Atlanta, GA
1995-96 STEEL ANGELS, Lamar Dodd Art Center and Museum, Lagrange, GA; Longview Art Museum, TX; and Danville Museum of Fine Arts and History, VA, (catalogue)
Group Museum Exhibits
2018 PAPER MOON (HARTINO TO FEGGARAKI), curated by Thalia Vrachopoulos, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Crete, Greece
2015-17 WHISPERS, curated by the Director Dr. Maria Marangou, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cyprus, Greece, traveling to Thessaloniki Gallery, Greece
2010 THE GREAT HUDSON RIVER EXHIBITION, Juror Bartholomew Bland, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
2007 PAPER CUTS: THE ART OF CONTEMPORARY PAPER, Exhibits USA. Toured eight national museums.
2003 THE WORLD OF PAPER, curated by Cindy Bowen and organized by the American Museum of Paper making, Atlanta, GA and Museo National Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile
1999 WAXING POETIC: ENCAUSTIC ART IN AMERICA, organized and curated by Dr. Gail Stavitsky, The Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey, traveling exhibition, (catalogue)
Selected Solo Gallery Exhibits
2022 Painting the Printed Word, June Kelly Gallery, New York, NY
2020 ADAA: Art Dealers Association of America, Art Show, Park Avenue Armory, June Kelly Gallery, New York, NY
2018 JOAN GIORDANO: OVERVIEW 1993-2018, Catskill Arts Center, Livingston Manor, NY
2016 WOVEN IN TIME: CONSTRUCTIONS & MIXED MEDIA, June Kelly Gallery, New York, NY
2016 OUT OF BOUNDS, The White Room Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
2015 MAGICAL THINKING, Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, Narrowsburg, NY
2013 TEXT, H. Pelham Curtis Gallery, New Canaan, CT
2012 SPIN OUT: CONSTRUCTIONS, essay by Cynthia Nadelman, June Kelly Gallery, New York, NY
2009 TIME TRAVELERS, Serrano Contemporary/Sonnet Gallery, New York, NY
2008 COLLECTIVE IDENTITIES: WORKS ON/OFF PAPER, Lawrence Gallery, Rosemont College, Rosemont, PA
2007 PRESENCES, Tenri Cultural Institute, New York, NY
2006 A MANO, The Gallery at Chelsea, New York, NY
2005 BRAMBLES & PODS, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, NY
2003 JOAN GIORDANO, curated by Patrick Christiano, Blue Heron Gallery, New York, NY
2003 THREE FROM ARTISTS EQUITY, Blue Hill Cultural Center, Pearl River, NY
2002 UNCOMMON CONNECTIONS, Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, Narrowsburg, NY
2000 JOAN GIORDANO, The Arts Center, St. Petersburg, FL
2000 WORK FROM JAPAN, The Robert Furst Center for the Arts, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA
1998 BRANCHING OUT: RECENT WALL SCULPTURES, Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York, NY, (catalogue)
1997 STEEL ANGELS, Gallery East, College of Eastern Utah, Price, UT
1995-96 STEEL ANGELS, Parkersburg Art Center, Parkersburg, West Virginia; Art Institute for the Permian Basin, Odessa, TX
1994 JOAN GIORDANO, The Broome Street Gallery, New York, NY
1994 PAINTINGS & PAPER SCULPTURE, Benjamin Rosenthal Gallery, Queens College Art Center, New York, NY
1994 STEEL ANGELS, Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York, NY (catalogue)
Selected Group Exhibits
2021 WEAVING JUSTICE, Shiva Gallery at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, NY
2018 GREEN HABITAT, curated by Thalia Vrachopoulos, President’s Gallery, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York, (catalogue)
2017 OUT OF BOUNDS/SCULPTURE BEYOND MATERIAL, C FINE ART, The White Room Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
2017 THE RIGHT TO BE HUMAN, Contemporary Art Center of Thessaloniki, Greece
2017 THE LANGUAGE OF HANDS, Westwood Gallery, New York City, NY
2017 CELEBRATING 30 YEARS, GALLERY ARTISTS: DRAWING AND PHOTOGRAPHY, June Kelly Gallery, New York
2016-17 MURDER SHE WROTE, curated by Thalia Vrachopoulos & Bill Pangburn, The Shiva Gallery at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, NY
2015 THE EMPTY SPACES PROJECT, curated by Sandra Tyler, Woven Tail Gallery, Putnam, CT
2014 RECONTEXTUALIZING THE FOUND, curated by Bill Pangburn, The Shiva Gallery at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, New York
2013 THE RULE OF LAW AND THE RIGHT TO BE HUMAN, curated by Thalia Vrachopoulos, Nikos Kessanlis Hall, Athens School Of Fine Arts, Greece (catalogue)
2011 SOFIA INTL BIENNIAL: 22nd INTL JURIED EXHIBITION, curated by Thalia Vrachopoulos, Sofia, Bulgaria
2011 ART ON THE EDGE, curated by Rocky Pinciotti, The Hawley Silk Mill, PA
2010 WAXED IN TIME: 4 TAKES ON ENCAUSTIC, Nancy Azara, Joan Giordano, Renee Magnati and Kathy Stark, Tenri Cultural Institute, New York, NY
2009 FLAGS OF THE SPIRIT, 1st Intl Women Artists Biennale, Incheon, Korea (installation)
2009 HIGH FIBER, Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson, AZ (catalogue)
2009 WAXED IN TIME, Art Link Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2009 FABRICATIONS, Cynthia Reeves Gallery, Newport Mills, NH
2008 PULP FUNCTION: AN EXTRAORDINARY EXHIBITION OF ARTWORK MADE FROM PAPER, curated by Lloyd E. Herman, organized by the Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA, Worcester Center for Crafts, MA (exhibition and catalogue)
2007 ENCAUSTIC INVITATIONAL, Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson, AZ
2006 A MANO, 3 person, The Gallery at Chelsea Eye, New York, NY
2006 FIRST ANNUAL ENCAUSTIC INVITATIONAL, Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson, AZ
2006 NEW WORKS, Westbranch Gallery and Sculpture Gardens, Stowe, VT
2005 KOZO NEXUS, Joan Giordano, Lori Goodman, Hisako Kobayashi, Sumi Gallery, New York, NY
2005 INVITATIONAL, SOHO20 Gallery, New York, NY
2002-03 ART IN EMBASSIES PROGRAM, American Embassy, Vienna, Austria, (catalogue)
2001-02 ART IN EMBASSIES PROGRAM, American Embassy, Ankara, Turkey, (catalogue)
2001 WAXING POETIC: ENCAUSTIC ART IN AMERICA, organized and curated by Dr. Gail Stravinsky, Montclair Museum of Art, NJ and the Knoxville Museum of Art, TN
2001-03 FROM ARTIST EQUITY, Blue Hill Cultural Center, Pearl River, NY
2000 PAPER ROAD: INTL ASSOCIATION OF HAND PAPER MAKERS & ARTISTS, Museo Del Corso, Florence, Italy, Santa Maria Della Scala, Siena, Italy and Abbazia Di Spineto, Sarteano, Italy (catalogue)
1999 FIBERARTS INTL, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, PA (catalogue)
1998 ART IN EMBASSIES PROGRAM, American Embassy, Nicosia, Cyprus (catalogue)
1995 NEW TALENT, Alan Stone Gallery, New York, NY
1995 LIGHT, COLOR, FORM, Gallery Brocken, Tokyo, Japan
Public and Corporate Collections
Hammond Museum & Japanese Stroll Garden, North Salem, NY
Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, CT
Longview Art Museum, TX
Savannah College of Art and Design, GA
College of the Desert, Palm Springs, CA
Trenton City Museum, Ellarslie Mansion, Cadwalader Park, Trenton, NJ
Ellen Noel Art Museum of the Permian Basin, Odessa, TX
Awagami Museum Hall of AWA, Tokushima, Japan
New York Public Library Print Collection, New York, NY
Permanent Collection of the Embassy of the United States, Lusaka, Zambia
American Telecast Intl, Philadelphia, PA
Columbia Broadcasting System, New York, NY
Coopers and Lybrand, New York, NY
Crossland Savings Bank, New York, NY
David Garth Associates, New York, NY
Diray-TV, Wilton, CT
Diversified Pharmaceutical, Philadelphia, PA
Ensslin & Hall Advertising, Tampa, FL
Goodyear Tire Corporation, Washington, DC
Gunn, Fish, Meade Associates, New York, NY
Health South, White Plains, NY
Howard Rubenstein Associates of New York, NY
Iowa Methodist Medical Center, Des Moines, IO
John Anthony Design, New York, NY
Lasser Marshall, Inc. New York, NY
Liberty Property Trust, Minneapolis, MN
Media Syndication Global, Bohemia, NY
Merrill Lynch, New York, NY
Metropolitan Savings Bank, New York, NY
North Carolina National Bank, Tampa, FL
PepsiCo, Inc. Purchase, NY
Price Waterhouse, Hackensack, NJ
Property Resources Corporation, New York, NY
Grants and Awards
NYSCA GRANT, New York State Council On The Arts, NY
Fellowship, Hunter College, New York, NY
Award, Fiberarts Intl, Jurors Choice, Pittsburgh, PA
YADDO, Artists Residency Fellowship, Saratoga Springs, NY
VCCA,Artists Residency Fellowship, Sweet Briar, VA
Womens Studio Workshop, Residency Fellowship, Rosendale, NY
Awagami Paper Intl. Fellowship, Tokushima, Japan
Residency, Conversations In Contemporaneity, Otranto, Italy
Visiting Artist, Ringling College Of Art;, Sarasota, FL
Visiting Artist, USF Tampa, FL
Curatorial Positions
ALICE NEEL paintings, 1981, The Sarah Institute, NYC
JUDY CHICAGO dinner plates, 1981, The Sarah Institute, NYC
NANCY SPERO solo exhibit, 1980, The Sarah Institute, NYC
Art of the NorthWest, 1995, Whatcom Museum of Art, Bellingham, WA
National Exhibitions at the Staten Island Museum, 1975 & 1997, Staten Island, NY
Exhibition Season with Catalogues, Rockland Center For the Arts, 1985-1988, West Nyack, NY
"Images of Power: Visual Statements by Ten Major Women Artists", Catalogue: Faith Ringold, May Stevens, Nancy Spero, Dotty Attie, Cristina Biaggi, Catti, Linda Cunningham, Betsy Damon, Nancy Grossman, and Christy Rupp
Juror
New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, NY
The Whatcom Museum of Art, Bellingham, WA
Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, Narrowsburg, NY
National Association of Women Artists, Inc. 123rd Annual Exhibition, New York, NY
The Staten Island Museum, Staten Island, NY
Education
MFA, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
BA, Wagner College, Staten Island, NY
Fellowship, Hunter College, New York, NY
Printmaking Workshop/Bob Blackburn, NY
PRESS AND PUBLICATIONS
2019 Interview: Spotlight on the Arts, Patrick Christiano, TheatreLife.com, watch here
2019 “Color, Form, and Texture,” with photographs by Deborah Feingold, Wagner Magazine, read here
2018 Catalogue: “Paper Moon (Hartino to Feggaraki),” Dr Thalia Vrachopoulos
2017 Exhibition Review: Woven In Time/ Sculpture, “Joan Giordano’s Grand Gestures,” Dr. Thalia Vrachopoulos, Sculpture Magazine, Jersey City, NJ
2016 Feature: “Encaustic Art of the Twenty First Century,” B. Ashley Rooney, Schiffer Publishing
2016 Review: Publishers Weekly
2015 Review: Woven Tale Press: August Edition, Sandra Tyler
2012 Interview: Woman Around Town: Joan Giordano— A Painter Finds Her Passion for Paper, Charlene Giannetti read here
2012 The Lookout: Art In America, Editors Choice
2012 "Pleasant Unease in the Fresh Aesthetic Air,” Peter Plagens, The Wall Street Journal
2012 Catalogue: Pilimpsest Encaustic, Essay by Thalia Vrachopoulos, Art Link Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2011 Conference: "Affinities Fiber and Wax,” Joanne Mattera, Surface Design Journal
2009 Catalogue: Women Artists’ Biennale, Incheon, South Korea
2008 “Artist draws inspiration from Japan, Greece,” Marie Fowler, Mainline Times, Philadelphia, PA
2007 “New York Joan Giordano; Tenri Cultural Institute,” Jonathan Goodman, Sculpture, Jersey City, NJ
2007 “Dip Into ‘Triptychs,” Germain Lussier, Times Herald, Sarasota, FL
2006-2009 Catalogue: Paper Cuts: The Art Of Contemporary Paper, Media Gallery, Exhibition Tour by Exhibits USA, Garnett, Kansas
2004 “East Meets West At the Hammond Museum,” L.P. Streitfeld, The Advocate & Greenwich Times, Hammond, CT
2002 Catalogue: Spirit of the Planet, Art in Embassies United States Mission to International Organizations, Vienna, Austria
2001 The Art of Encaustic Painting, Joanne Mattera, Watson-Guptill Publications, New York, NY
2000 Catalogue: Paper Road, Museo Santa Maria Della Scala, Siena, Italy; Instituzione del Comune di Siena, in collaboration with International Association of Hand Paper Makers and Paper Artists IAPMA, Intnl Assoc Papermaking Artists
2000 “Imagery of Three Artists Is Contrasted in Pearl River Exhibit,” Dominick Lombardi, The New York Times, New York, NY
1999 Catalogue: The Savannah College of Art and Design Presents New York Artists Equity Assoc., Inc., Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
1999 Catalogue: Pulp Function, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA
1999 Catalogue: Waxing Poetic/Encaustic Art In America, Gail Stavitsky, The Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
1999 Interview: “Joan Giordano’s Elemental Forms,” Sandra Sider, Fiberarts
1999 “Wax as Medium and a Message,” William Zimmer, The New York Times, New York, NY
1999 “Joan Giordano at Staten Island Institute of Art,” Robert Curcio, Cover-Arts
1999 “Sculptor Seeks ideas In Paper And Metal; Joan Giordano Meditates on ‘Skin: Structure and Form,” Michael Fressola, Staten Island Sunday Advance, Staten Island, NY
1999 “PLAYING IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD; A Woman, a Plan, a Canal: Gowanus Documentary,” Maureen C. Muenster, The New York Times, New York, NY
1998 Interview: “Sarasota Sculptor Talks With Textures,” Joan Altabe, Sarasota Herald Tribune, Sarasota, FL
1997 Art In Embassies, Embassy Of The United States Of America, Friends of Art & Preservation in Embassies. Catalogues: Nicosia, Cyprus: U.S. State Department
1997 Catalogue: Fiberart International ’97. Fiberarts Guild of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
1997 “Donald Judd, Joan Giordano ‘Splashing’,” Vincent Katz, The New York Times, New York, NY
1997 “Museum Exhibits Showcase Work of Two Renowned Artists,” Paper Tidings, Museum of Papermaking, Atlanta, GA
1997 “Story Of paper Unfolds at Museum,” HM Cauley, The Atlanta Journal/The Atlanta Constitution, Atlanta, GA
1997 “On and Off the Wall,” Rob Walton, Creative Loafing, Atlanta, GA
1997 “Visual Art Recommended,” The Atlanta Journal/The Atlanta Constitution, Atlanta, GA
1996 “Metal, Thread the Media in Museum Exhibit,” Stacie Mackenzie, Danville Register and Bee, Danville, TX
1994 Catalogue, Joan Giordano. Foreword by Nancy Princenthal, Steel Angels Museum Tour
1995 Catalogue, Life: Color: Form, An Exchange Group Exhibition Between Japan & USA - Provincetown- Koganei, Tokyo
1995 “New Art Center Exhibits Color for Fall,” Bonnie Donnelly, The Parkersburg News, Parkersburg, WV
1995 “Art: Making New History,” Joan Altabe, Sarasota Herald Tribune, Sarasota, FL
1994 “Giordano’s ‘Ancient’ Objects Are Items of Inwardness,” Joan Altabe, Sarasota Herald Tribune, Sarasota, FL
1992 “Manhattan Profile/Joan Giordano,” Tony Riveti, Newsday, New York, NY
1982 "Doing Art Together,” Muriel Silberstein-Storfer, New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.