statement.
Through various media, including performance, printmaking, video, and installation, I use my practice to interrogate gendered societal expectations on womxn and womxn’s bodies and, through that lens, I explore the intersection of isolation and intimacy. By incorporating traditional skills such as sewing, knitting, hand dyeing, weaving, and storytelling, much of my work addresses the tension between what is valued as art and what is often dismissed as women’s domestic craft.
The durational performativity of much of my work allows me to experience and help make visible the transformational qualities of repetitive action. In keeping with the feminal custom of carrying out domestic labor together and perpetuating rituals such as women’s circles, much of my work involves collaboration with other artists and/or community groups.
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education
2018-2019 Glasgow School of Art Master of Letters in Fine Arts: Printmaking, with Merit
2007-2009 Fordham Univ. Graduate School of Ed: Master of Science in Secondary Education
2001-2004 Fordham Univ. Lincoln Center: Bachelor of Arts, Comparative Lit. & Cinema Studies
residencies
2020
Cel Del Nord Supernatural Women Virtual Residency
2019
Dumfries House Royal Drawing Academy
2018
Dumfries House Royal Drawing Academy
Frans Masereel Zentrum Printmaking
teaching and educational appointments
2021 - Present Impact Arts; Creative Lead on Make it Your Own; In person/Online
2020-2021 Glasgow Zine Library; Bookbinding Workshop Series; Online/In Person, Glasgow
2020 Outspoken Arts; Film Workshop Series; Online/Glasgow
2019-2021 Freedom From Torture; Community Art & Well-Being Engagement Worker, Glasgow
2017-2018 University Council for Art Education; Chair of Programming, NY
2012-2018 NYC DOE and Museum of Arts and Design Collaboration, NY
2012 Arts Achieve I9 National Grant High School Visual Arts Exam Developer, US National
2010-2018 NYC Dept. of Ed.; High School Vis. Arts Curriculum Writing & Teaching, NY
2009-2010 Education National Français; Collège Assistant Art Educator, Paris
grants/awards
Visual Arts and Craft Makers Award / Glasgow Life / 2021
Hope Scott Trust Grant / HST Foundation / 2020
Governor's International Post-Graduate Scholarship / Glasgow School of Art / 2018-19
publications
March 2021 Greater Govanhill Magazine; Featured Contributor; Illustrations & Feature Writer
November 2020 New Scots Cooking: Food for Freedom; Portrait Illustrations & Text Editor
March 2020 Decorating Dissidence: Crafting the Body; "The Feminine Mistake"
June 2019 REMAINDER; Self-published zine funded by Friends of GSA
February 2019 Circle, Glasgow Subway Broadsheet; "Like Clockwork on a Neighboring Shore"
solo exhibitions* and group shows
2021
(October 2021) HaptiX / Wanderlost Digital Video / Macy Gallery, New York
LIFE MASK//DEATH MASK* / Plein air Painting Performance Series / Glasgow
Unspoken Desires* / Intimate Sigil Performance Series / Virtual Event, Glasgow
Digital Group Show / Lifts / SHRINE Gallery, NY
2020
Unspoken Desires / Künstler Postkarten / Strahlholz Rail Station / Appenzell, Switzerland
World Refugee Day / Event Host / Green Mixed Media Collage / Instagram Live (IGTV)
Kaltnadel (Kollectiv Sterunender Hund) / Various Screen Prints and Etching / Appenzell, Switzerland
Alas, Almas, Mujeres / Swipe Left Lithographic Artist Book / Clemente Soto Velez / NY
2019
Mythopoeia / Collaborative video performance & Screenprint / The Old Hairdressers / Glasgow
Walk, Hands, Eyes (Edinburgh) / Myriam Lefkowitz Performance / Talbot-Rice Gallery
Drawing the Line / Installation & Workshop / Tchai-Ovna Cafe / Glasgow
The Conformative Morass / Künstler Postkarten / Strahlholz Rail Station / Appenzell, Switzerland
MLitt Degree Show GSA / a common thread Installation / Tontine / Glasgow
Hu(man) Nature / Shadows performance and installation / Glasgow Autonomous Space / Glasgow
The Oasis / Manipulated Video Stills & Scent Installation / Donated Gallery, Skypark / Glasgow
REMAINDER* / Performance, Video & Installation / GSA / Glasgow
The Department / video and sound installation / The Donated Gallery, Skypark / Glasgow
Magari!*/ Print Show / Project Space 2, GSA / Glasgow
and leave my soul shivering? / Performance / Undercover Artistry’s Women’s Day / Glasgow
2018
Studio Works / swipe left Lithographic Artist Book / Macy Gallery, Columbia University / NY
31st Annual Women’s Works / The Male Gaze is Blinding / Old Court House Arts Center / Woodstock, Ill.
2017
440 Gallery: Small Works Show / Untitled Photograph / 440 Gallery / NY
AbrazARTE: A Benefit for Puerto Rico / Talk to the Tune Screenprint / Clemente Soto Vélez / NY
City Views / Group Show / Office of the Manhattan Borough President / NY
Tiny&Bright*/ Photography and Print Series / Naïve Art / Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Artists for Truth / Talk to the Tune, i & ii Screenprints / Baltimore, MD
contact.
@giacinta_frisillo