statement.
giacinta frisillo is a multidisciplinary artist who works with print, bookmaking, performance, video and installation. the core of her research is often printmaking but a substantial part of her work is a reconsideration of the medium in time-based formats. her practice focuses on women – more specifically: gendered societal expectations, the female body, the resulting loneliness and where she falls within these. many of her pieces address the tension between what is considered contemporary art and what is often seen as traditional domestic craft, especially those that are most notably produced by women.
by recontextualizing durational processes, such as both traditional and more innovative and less-considered styles of printmaking, she attempts to experience and help make visible the transformational qualities of repetitive action. in her more recent return to performance as art, this same mechanized repetitive action is carried out, but here, with her body, rather than through the use of printmaking machinery. by focusing on durational silent performance, her work explores, researches and exposes hidden or unrecognized labor. her work aims to give voice to and make visible all those who call the female body, home.
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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
2019-Present 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
(Upcoming) Life Masks/Death Masks* / Plein air Painting Performance Series / Glasgow
(Upcoming) 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