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EDUCATION
Mason Gross School of the Arts, New Brunswick, NJ
MFA Visual Arts, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 1996-1998
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Full Fellowship, Summer 1997
BS Art Education, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011
My First Love, Sleeth Gallery, West Virginia Wesleyan College, Buckhannon, WV (upcoming)
Once-Blooming and Button-Eyed, Mixed Greens, New York, NY
2009
Special Exhibition: Alessandra Expósito, 21c Museum (International Contemporary Art Foundation), Louisville, KY
2008
My First Love, Mixed Greens, New York, NY
2006
Greener Pastures, Mixed Greens, New York, NY
2005
Big Game, Small Game, Mixed Greens, New York, NY
1998
Disentangled, Mason Gross School of the Arts Galleries, New Brunswick, NJ
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2015
Plus One Plus One, LABspace, Hillsdale, NY
2014
Cuban America: An Empire State of Mind, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY
2013
NYFA IAP at Governors Island, The Sixth Annual Governors Island Art Fair, New York, NY
For Which It Stands, The Lodge Gallery, New York, NY
Cash, Cans and Candy, Hilgerbrotkunsthalle Wien 10 and Galerie Hilger Next 10, Vienna, Austria
Voces y Visiones, Highlights from the Collection of El Museo del Barrio, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, Nevada
2011
TreeMendous, Islip Museum Carraige House, Islip, NY
2010
Skull, Parlor Gallery, Asbury Park, NJ
Resurrectine, curated by Sean Elwood of Creative Capital Foundation, Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York, NY
SALPICA, El Museo Nacional de Etnografía y Folklore (MUSEF), La Paz, Bolivia
Biblioteca Publica Virgilio Barco, Bogota, Colombia; Centro Municipal de Arte y Cultura, Guatemala City, Guatemala; Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador
2009
Making It, Selections from the 2008 NYFA Mentoring Program for Immigrant Artists, Deutsche Bank, New York, NY
Salpica, Nacul Center Gallery, Amherst, MA
2008
Espada de Dos Filos, Latina Voices: California-New York, Arte Americas, Fresno, CA
Glamour Bomb, Parlor Gallery, Asbury Park, NJ
2007
Keeping Up With the Joneses, Schroeder Romero, New York, NY
No New Tale to Tell, 31 Grand, New York, NY
Menagerie, curated by Lawrence Capiello, Arts Guild of Rahway, Rahway, NJ
Noah's Ark, curated by Brendan Carroll, The Shore Institute of the Contemporary Arts, Long Branch, NJ
Keep the Change, curated by Meridith McNeal, Nathan Cummings Foundation, New York, NY
Tuttavia Povero!, The Shore Institute of the Contemporary Arts, Long Branch, NJ
SWAB art fair, Mixed Greens booth, Barcelona, Spain
2005
Gods and Monsters, Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, FL
New American Painters, Juried Exhibition in Print, Number 56
Pulse Art Fair, with Mixed Greens, New York, NY
Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
2004
Open House, Working in Brooklyn, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
Minitures, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ
Conceptual Realism, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Cinco, Sac Gallery, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY
International Underground, Whitney Young Center Mansion, San Francisco, CA
Recognize: New Wave of Contemporary Realism, ADA Gallery, Richmond, VA
Sweet and Sour, Salvatore Ferragamo Gallery, New York, NY
Only Human, The Contemporary Portrait, Van Brunt Gallery, New York, NY
Open Studio Exhibition, The Marie Walsh Sharpe Space Program, New York, NY
2003
Director’s Choice, 31 Grand, Brooklyn, NY
2002
The S-Files 2002, El Museo's Bienal, El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY
To Scale, The Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
The Visual Imaginary of Latinos(as) in New Jersey, Kenkeleba Gallery, New York, NY
Watching You Watching Me, MMC Gallery, Marymount Manhattan College, New York, NY
2001
The Visual Imaginary of Latinos(as) in New Jersey, Mason Gross School of the Arts Galleries, New Brunswick, NJ
Skowhegan Alumni Exhibition, Knoedler Gallery, New York, NY
Autumn Group Show, Rome Arts, Brooklyn, NY
The Life You Save May be Your Own, 31 Grand, Brooklyn, NY
The Aljira Fine Art Auction 2001, Aljira, A Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ
2000
Private Worlds, Art in General, New York, NY
Emerge 2000, Aljira, A Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2014
Cuello, Erik. “Beyond Castro.” The Bronx Free Press, April 9, 2014.
Matos, Dennys. “Nuevas poéticas del discurso artístico cubano.” El Nuevo Herald, April 5, 2014.
“Cuban Identity: Beyond the Island, Past the Revolution.” The Bronx Art Exchange NYC, March 26, 2014.
2013
Yaniv, Etty. “‘For Which It Stands’ Shows Range of International Talent in New York,” Arts in Bushwick, July 9, 2013.
2010
“Alessandra Exposito | P.S.1 Studio Visit,” MoMA PS1, January 28, 2010.
2008
Torzini, Gaia. "Mostre/L'Italo-Cubana Alessandra Exposito," Oggi7, November 2008.
2007
Jenks, Debra. "Pulp Friction: Artists Explore the Underside of American Culture," ChelseaNow, December 7-13, 2007.
West, Paige. The Art of Buying Art: Demystifying the Process of Finding, Appreciating, and Buying Contemporary Art on Any Budget, Harper Collins, New York, 2007.
"El Punto de la Artes, Swab, Del 10 al 13 de Mayo," lad Reales Atarazanas de Barcelona, March 2007.
“Keeping Up with the Joneses,” The New Yorker, December 24 & 31, 2007.
McKeough, Tim. “Salad Days,” City Magazine, December 2006/January 2007. Issue 45, pp. 40-41.
2006
Yung, Susan. “Dead Pet Trophy Art,” Gay City, September 14, 2006.
2005
Kim, Jingyung. “Two Artists in a group show at Mixed Greens Gallery, NYC,” Blender, Spring 2005.
“American Academy of Arts & Letters,” New York Times, May 19, 2005.
2004
Cotter, Holland. "Brooklyn-ness, a State of Mind and Artistic Identity in the Un- Chelsea," New York Times, April 16, 2004.
2003
Cotter, Holland. "The S-Files," New York Times, January 17, 2003, B48.
Robinson, Walter. "Weekend Update," ArtNet Magazine, January 2003.
2002
Cullen, Deborah. "Aequilibrium," The S-files, exhibition catalog, 2002.
Noorthoorn, Victoria. "On Translation and the Power of the Gap," The S-files, exhibition catalog, 2002.
2001
“Art of Living," Esquire Magazine, Japan, Vol. 15 No. 11, November, 2001.
2000
Kline, Richard. Aljira Emerge 2000, exhibition catalog, 2000.
1998
Brodsky, Judith K. and Nazario, Isabel. “The Latina Artist:The Response of the Creative Mind to Gender, Race, Class, and Identity,” exhibition catalog, 1998.
AWARDS AND HONORS
2007
Fellow in Sculpture for the New York Foundation for the Arts
2005
Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters
American Academy of Arts and Letters Purchase Award
2003-4
Marie Walsh Sharpe Studio Space Program
2001
Ray Gottlieb Fellowship
MacDowell Colony Artist in Residence
1998
Graduate Achievement Award, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
1997
Skowhegan School of Painting and Drawing, Geraldine R. Dogde Foundation, NJ
Leon Golub Scholarship, Mason Gross School of the Arts
COLLECTIONS
American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters
El Museo del Barrio
The O’Grady Foundation
The West Collection at SEI
Lives and works in Queens, NY
EDUCATION
Mason Gross School of the Arts, New Brunswick, NJ
MFA Visual Arts, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 1996-1998
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Full Fellowship, Summer 1997
BS Art Education, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011
My First Love, Sleeth Gallery, West Virginia Wesleyan College, Buckhannon, WV (upcoming)
Once-Blooming and Button-Eyed, Mixed Greens, New York, NY
2009
Special Exhibition: Alessandra Expósito, 21c Museum (International Contemporary Art Foundation), Louisville, KY
2008
My First Love, Mixed Greens, New York, NY
2006
Greener Pastures, Mixed Greens, New York, NY
2005
Big Game, Small Game, Mixed Greens, New York, NY
1998
Disentangled, Mason Gross School of the Arts Galleries, New Brunswick, NJ
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2015
Plus One Plus One, LABspace, Hillsdale, NY
2014
Cuban America: An Empire State of Mind, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY
2013
NYFA IAP at Governors Island, The Sixth Annual Governors Island Art Fair, New York, NY
For Which It Stands, The Lodge Gallery, New York, NY
Cash, Cans and Candy, Hilgerbrotkunsthalle Wien 10 and Galerie Hilger Next 10, Vienna, Austria
Voces y Visiones, Highlights from the Collection of El Museo del Barrio, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, Nevada
2011
TreeMendous, Islip Museum Carraige House, Islip, NY
2010
Skull, Parlor Gallery, Asbury Park, NJ
Resurrectine, curated by Sean Elwood of Creative Capital Foundation, Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York, NY
SALPICA, El Museo Nacional de Etnografía y Folklore (MUSEF), La Paz, Bolivia
Biblioteca Publica Virgilio Barco, Bogota, Colombia; Centro Municipal de Arte y Cultura, Guatemala City, Guatemala; Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador
2009
Making It, Selections from the 2008 NYFA Mentoring Program for Immigrant Artists, Deutsche Bank, New York, NY
Salpica, Nacul Center Gallery, Amherst, MA
2008
Espada de Dos Filos, Latina Voices: California-New York, Arte Americas, Fresno, CA
Glamour Bomb, Parlor Gallery, Asbury Park, NJ
2007
Keeping Up With the Joneses, Schroeder Romero, New York, NY
No New Tale to Tell, 31 Grand, New York, NY
Menagerie, curated by Lawrence Capiello, Arts Guild of Rahway, Rahway, NJ
Noah's Ark, curated by Brendan Carroll, The Shore Institute of the Contemporary Arts, Long Branch, NJ
Keep the Change, curated by Meridith McNeal, Nathan Cummings Foundation, New York, NY
Tuttavia Povero!, The Shore Institute of the Contemporary Arts, Long Branch, NJ
SWAB art fair, Mixed Greens booth, Barcelona, Spain
2005
Gods and Monsters, Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, FL
New American Painters, Juried Exhibition in Print, Number 56
Pulse Art Fair, with Mixed Greens, New York, NY
Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
2004
Open House, Working in Brooklyn, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
Minitures, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ
Conceptual Realism, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Cinco, Sac Gallery, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY
International Underground, Whitney Young Center Mansion, San Francisco, CA
Recognize: New Wave of Contemporary Realism, ADA Gallery, Richmond, VA
Sweet and Sour, Salvatore Ferragamo Gallery, New York, NY
Only Human, The Contemporary Portrait, Van Brunt Gallery, New York, NY
Open Studio Exhibition, The Marie Walsh Sharpe Space Program, New York, NY
2003
Director’s Choice, 31 Grand, Brooklyn, NY
2002
The S-Files 2002, El Museo's Bienal, El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY
To Scale, The Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
The Visual Imaginary of Latinos(as) in New Jersey, Kenkeleba Gallery, New York, NY
Watching You Watching Me, MMC Gallery, Marymount Manhattan College, New York, NY
2001
The Visual Imaginary of Latinos(as) in New Jersey, Mason Gross School of the Arts Galleries, New Brunswick, NJ
Skowhegan Alumni Exhibition, Knoedler Gallery, New York, NY
Autumn Group Show, Rome Arts, Brooklyn, NY
The Life You Save May be Your Own, 31 Grand, Brooklyn, NY
The Aljira Fine Art Auction 2001, Aljira, A Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ
2000
Private Worlds, Art in General, New York, NY
Emerge 2000, Aljira, A Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2014
Cuello, Erik. “Beyond Castro.” The Bronx Free Press, April 9, 2014.
Matos, Dennys. “Nuevas poéticas del discurso artístico cubano.” El Nuevo Herald, April 5, 2014.
“Cuban Identity: Beyond the Island, Past the Revolution.” The Bronx Art Exchange NYC, March 26, 2014.
2013
Yaniv, Etty. “‘For Which It Stands’ Shows Range of International Talent in New York,” Arts in Bushwick, July 9, 2013.
2010
“Alessandra Exposito | P.S.1 Studio Visit,” MoMA PS1, January 28, 2010.
2008
Torzini, Gaia. "Mostre/L'Italo-Cubana Alessandra Exposito," Oggi7, November 2008.
2007
Jenks, Debra. "Pulp Friction: Artists Explore the Underside of American Culture," ChelseaNow, December 7-13, 2007.
West, Paige. The Art of Buying Art: Demystifying the Process of Finding, Appreciating, and Buying Contemporary Art on Any Budget, Harper Collins, New York, 2007.
"El Punto de la Artes, Swab, Del 10 al 13 de Mayo," lad Reales Atarazanas de Barcelona, March 2007.
“Keeping Up with the Joneses,” The New Yorker, December 24 & 31, 2007.
McKeough, Tim. “Salad Days,” City Magazine, December 2006/January 2007. Issue 45, pp. 40-41.
2006
Yung, Susan. “Dead Pet Trophy Art,” Gay City, September 14, 2006.
2005
Kim, Jingyung. “Two Artists in a group show at Mixed Greens Gallery, NYC,” Blender, Spring 2005.
“American Academy of Arts & Letters,” New York Times, May 19, 2005.
2004
Cotter, Holland. "Brooklyn-ness, a State of Mind and Artistic Identity in the Un- Chelsea," New York Times, April 16, 2004.
2003
Cotter, Holland. "The S-Files," New York Times, January 17, 2003, B48.
Robinson, Walter. "Weekend Update," ArtNet Magazine, January 2003.
2002
Cullen, Deborah. "Aequilibrium," The S-files, exhibition catalog, 2002.
Noorthoorn, Victoria. "On Translation and the Power of the Gap," The S-files, exhibition catalog, 2002.
2001
“Art of Living," Esquire Magazine, Japan, Vol. 15 No. 11, November, 2001.
2000
Kline, Richard. Aljira Emerge 2000, exhibition catalog, 2000.
1998
Brodsky, Judith K. and Nazario, Isabel. “The Latina Artist:The Response of the Creative Mind to Gender, Race, Class, and Identity,” exhibition catalog, 1998.
AWARDS AND HONORS
2007
Fellow in Sculpture for the New York Foundation for the Arts
2005
Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters
American Academy of Arts and Letters Purchase Award
2003-4
Marie Walsh Sharpe Studio Space Program
2001
Ray Gottlieb Fellowship
MacDowell Colony Artist in Residence
1998
Graduate Achievement Award, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
1997
Skowhegan School of Painting and Drawing, Geraldine R. Dogde Foundation, NJ
Leon Golub Scholarship, Mason Gross School of the Arts
COLLECTIONS
American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters
El Museo del Barrio
The O’Grady Foundation
The West Collection at SEI
Lives and works in Queens, NY