|  Biography
Born in Siena, Italy, 1962
EDUCATION |
| 1989-90 |
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco
independent study in painting |
| 1988 |
Fort Mason Art Center, San Francisco
painting class |
| 1987 |
Center of Art Il Verrocchio,
Casole d’Elsa (Siena)
drawing and sculpture class |
The CityLit, London
painting class |
| 1982-86 |
Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze,
Florence
Master of Arts in painting, graduated summa cum laude |
| 1977-82 |
Istituto Statale d’Arte Duccio di Buoninsegna, Siena
degree in painting, graduated with highest honours |
SELECTED ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS |
| 2009 |
Universal Language, Queens College Art Center, New York
The Poetics of Transculture, Tara Mathison, curator, catalogue |
franca marini urban lines, Palazzo San Galgano, Siena
SanGalganoSquare, contemporary art exhibition series curated by Massimo Bignardi
Università degli Studi di Siena, Chair of Contemporary Art History
sponsored by Siena Local Council Department of Culture
exhibition coordination and presentation text by Esther Biancotti |
| 2008 |
Urban Lines, StudioArteFuoriCentro, Rome
Ivana D’Agostino, curator, catalogue |
| 2007 |
From painting to images, 234 Gallery, Upton Building
Buffalo State College, State University of New York, Buffalo |
| 2005 |
Reconstrucción en rojo Nuevas Obras, Galería Nacional, San José, Costa Rica
Rolando Castellón, curator, catalogue |
| 2001 |
Sogno di un nuovo mondo – opere recenti, Museo dell’Antica Grancia, Centro Civico per l’Arte Contemporanea La Grancia, Serre di Rapolano (Siena), catalogue |
| 1999 |
Galleria Tornabuoni, Florence |
| 1996 |
The Interior Landscapes, Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, catalogue |
| 1995 |
Kafka Gallery, New York |
| 1989 |
Diciannove giovani artisti, Museo Civico, Colle di Val d’Elsa (Siena)
Enrico Crispolti, curator, catalogue |
| Lick - Wilmerding Gallery, San Francisco |
| 1988 |
Galleria Bastione di Sapia, Colle di Val d’Elsa (Siena)
Giovanni Pala, curator |
TWO AND THREE PERSON EXHIBITIONS |
| 1998 |
San
Francisco Museum of Modern Art Artists Gallery, San Francisco
|
| 1995 |
479
Gallery (two person show), New York |
| 1994 |
Elizabeth
Harris Gallery, New York |
| 1992 |
San Francisco Museum of
Modern Art Artists Gallery, San Francisco |
| Seraphine Gallery, Englewood, NJ |
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS |
| 2010 |
TEXT-o-&-figure, Galería Nacional, San José, Costa Rica
Rolando Castellón, curator |
| 2009 |
Terracotta in public and private collections
Museo della Terracotta, Petroio (Siena) |
| 2008 |
Segni/Disegni, StudioArteFuoriCentro, Rome |
| 2004 |
Ad occhi aperti, Studio Hyunnart, Rome |
| 2003 |
Charles Chamot Gallery, New Jersey, NJ |
Grabar – Grabando, Galería Nacional, San José, Costa Rica
Rolando Castellón, curator |
| 2000 |
Galleria Didee Arte Contemporanea, Siena |
| 1999 |
Galleria Didee Arte Contemporanea, Siena |
| 1998 |
Stephen
Gang Gallery, New York |
| 1995 |
All
the world in a painting, Trans Hudson Gallery, Jersey City,
NJ |
| 1994 |
Blondies Contemporary Art, New York |
| 1993 |
Painting
Center, New York |
| Seraphine Gallery, Englewood, NJ |
| 1992 |
The
Columbus Boat Show, Elsa Mott Ives Gallery, New York
Paul Bridgewater and Laura Kruger, curators |
| Rachael Freedman Contemporary Fine
Arts, New York |
| 1991 |
Yerba
Buena Gardens Cultural Center, San Francisco
Rolando Castellon, curator, brochure |
| 1990 |
The Soul, Minus
Zero Gallery, Los Angeles |
| Freedom: a personal statement,
Grounds For The Arts Gallery, San Geronimo, CA |
| 1989 |
Dream Reality,
Doma Gallery, New York |
| 1985 |
Una nuovissima generazione dell’arte italiana, Fortezza Medicea, Siena
Enrico Crispolti, curator, brochure |
| Piero della Francesca, il lavoro interpretato, Sala Comunale d’Arte Moderna, Sansepolcro (Arezzo), Teatro Comunale, Monterchi (Arezzo), Logge del Vasari (Arezzo), Mariano Apa, curator, catalogue |
| 1984 |
L’arte del vedere, Palazzo Corsini, Albano Laziale (Rome)
Mariano Apa, curator, catalogue |
| La visitazione rivisitata, Biblioteca Comunale “Aldo Palazzeschi”, Carmignano (Florence), Mariano Apa, curator, catalogue |
VIDEO SCREENINGS/INSTALLATIONS |
September 10/16
2009 |
Universal Language, Queens College Art Center, New York
The Poetics of Transculture, Tara Mathison, curator, catalogue |
|
Urban Lines video screening |
| February 20 2009 |
FuturismoistarteaSiena – Mattinatafuturista
Istituto Statale d’Arte Duccio di Buoninsegna, Siena
curated by Fabio Mazzieri |
Urban Lines video screening
presentation by Esther Biancotti |
| January 21 2009 |
franca marini urban lines, Palazzo San Galgano, Siena
SanGalganoSquare, series of contemporary art exhibitions
curated by Massimo Bignardi |
Università degli Studi di Siena, chair of Contemporary Art History
Urban Lines video screening
presentation by Esther Biancotti |
| October 22 2008 |
ENS, Siena
Space and Communication conference
Siena School of Liberal Arts Annual Conference |
| Urban Lines video installation with sculptural works by artist Joe Smith |
CRITICISM |
| 2009 |
Mathison, Tara. The Trifecta of Franca Marini in “Franca Marini Universal Language”, catalogue exhibition, New York, Queens College Art Center, Carlo Cambi Editore, Siena, 2009, p.6 |
| Morgan, C. Robert. The Transformation of Desire: A New Installation by Franca Marini in “Franca Marini Universal Language”, catalogue exhibition, New York, Queens College Art Center, Carlo Cambi Editore, Siena, 2009, p. 36-39 |
| Biancotti, Esther. franca marini urban lines, exhibition presentation text, Siena, Palazzo San Galgano |
| 2008 |
Maestrini, Giulia. Franca Marini, da Siena a New York sulle tracce delle “Urban Lines” in “La Nazione”, Florence, June 22 |
| D. Perrone. New York, Siena e Roma a confronto nell’opera di Franca Marini in La Voce, June 18 |
| D’Agostino, Ivana. Urban Lines in “Urban Lines”, catalogue exhibition, Rome, StudioArteFuoriCentro |
| 2007 |
Maestrini, Giulia. Il sogno americano di Franca. Da Siena alla University of New
York
in "La Nazione", Florence, November 11 |
| 2005 |
Maestrini, Giulia. Torna a splendere il teatro della Grancia. Con un’opera d’arte in “La Nazione”, Florence, October 28 |
Coccoli, Donatella. Personale di Franca Marini in Costa Rica in “Corriere di Siena”, Siena,
September 22 |
| Herrera, Sofia. Qué tienen en común un coreano y una italiana? in “La Repubblica”, San José, Costa Rica, September 18 |
| Molina, Dunia. Nuevas Obras de Franca Marini in ”Reconstrucción en rojo Nuevas Obras”, catalogue exhibition, San José, Costa Rica, Galería Nacional, p. 8-9 |
| Bandini, Silvia / Biancotti, Esther. Palabras Aladas in ”Reconstrucción en rojo Nuevas Obras”, catalogue exhibition, San José, Costa Rica, Galería Nacional, p. 30-39 |
| 2001 |
Iannello, Riccardo. Racconto pittorico di un mondo da sogno in “La Nazione”, Florence, August 21 |
| Tonelli, Massimiliano. Franca Marini – Sogno di un nuovo mondo in Exibart, July 26 |
| Savelli, Anna. Quel mondo nuovo sognato sulle tele, in “Corriere di Siena”, Siena,
July 21 |
| Coccoli, Donatella. Sogno di un nuovo mondo - opere di Franca Marini in “De - sign”, Modena, July – September, p. 40-41 ill. |
Fargnoli, Domenico. Sogno di un nuovo mondo in “Sogno di un nuovo mondo - opere recenti”, catalogue exhibition, Serre di Rapolano (Siena), Museo dell’Antica Grancia,
p. 5-9 |
| Panzera, Annamaria. The sense of things. Some notes on Franca Marini’s paintings in “Sogno di un nuovo mondo – opere recenti”, catalogue exhibition, Serre di Rapolano (Siena), Museo dell’Antica Grancia, p. 33-37 |
| Piersimoni, Cristina. The voice of silence in “Sogno di un nuovo mondo - opere recenti”, catalogue exhibition, Serre di Rapolano (Siena), Museo dell’Antica Grancia, p. 43-46 |
| 1996 |
Morgan, C. Robert. The Interior Landscapes, catalogue exhibition, New York, Elizabeth Harris Gallery |
| 1991 |
Castellón, Rolando. New Paintings by Franca Marini, brochure exhibition, San Francisco, Yerba Buena Gardens Cultural Center |
| 1989 |
Piersimoni, Cristina. Le materie vive di Pala e Marini, in “N.C. Nuovo Corriere”, Siena, August 23 |
| Coletti, Antonella. L’Arte di due giovani pittori: un rapporto diverso con la natura, in “Il Campo di Siena”, Siena, April 8 |
| Magni, Grazia. “Diciannove giovani artisti”, catalogue exhibition, Colle di Val d’Elsa (Siena), Museo Civico, p. 36 ill. |
| 1985 |
Apa, Mariano. “Piero della Francesca. L’opera interpretata”, catalogue exhibition, Sansepolcro (Arezzo), Sala Comunale d’Arte Moderna, Monterchi (Arezzo), Teatro Comunale, Arezzo, Logge del Vasari, p. 34 ill. |
| 1984 |
Apa, Mariano. “La Visitazione rivisitata ”, catalogue exhibition, Carmignano (Florence), Biblioteca Comunale “Aldo Palazzeschi”, p. 8 |
| Apa, Mariano. “L’arte del vedere”, catalogue exhibition, Albano Laziale (Rome), Palazzo Corsini, p. 11 |
LECTURES |
| 2007 |
Buffalo State College, State University of New York
visiting artist lecturer on her work |
| 2005 |
Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica
guest lecturer on her work |
| 2003 |
Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milan
guest lecturer on her work
|
| 2000 |
American University, Corciano (Perugia)
guest lecturer on her work
|
| 1993 |
The City College (CUNY), New York
guest lecturer on “The influences of 14th and 15th century Sienese painting on the art of a contemporary Italian painter”
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VISITING ARTIST PROJECTS
|
2007 |
Buffalo State College, State University of New York |
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE PROJECTS |
1998 |
Metropolitan Montessori
School, New York
Artist of the Month - for the
month of May |
GRANTS AND AWARDS |
| 1998 |
New York Foundation
for the Arts (NYFA)
fellowship recipient for painting |
PUBLIC COMMISSIONS
|
| 2009-2010 |
panel for the Pediatrics Department of Siena University Hospital Le Scotte, Siena |
| 2006-2009 |
sculpture for the G. Amendola Square in Siena |
| 2004-2005 |
panel for the foyer of the Grancia di Montisi Theatre (Siena) |
MUSEUM AND PUBLIC COLLECTIONS |
| Istituto Statale d’Arte Duccio di Buoninsegna, Siena |
| Buffalo State College, State University of New York |
| Scuola di Specializzazione in Storia dell'Arte, Università degli Studi di Siena |
Museo di Arte Contemporanea Italiana in America, San Josè, Costa Rica |
| Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporaneo (MADC), San José, Costa Rica |
| Galería Nacional, San José, Costa Rica |
| Centro Civico per l’Arte Contemporanea La Grancia, Serre di Rapolano (Siena) |
| The Museum of Art and Origins, New York |
| The Appleton Museum of Art, Ocala, Florida |
| Provveditorato agli Studi di Siena (Istituto Statale d’Arte Duccio di Buoninsegna di Siena collection) |
TEACHING |
| 2009-2010 |
Siena School for Liberal Arts
painting instructor |
| 1999-2010 |
Buffalo State College, State University of New York, Siena Program
painting instructor |
| 2006-07 |
Studio Art Centers International (SACI), Florence
painting instructor |
| 2003-05 |
Istituto Statale d’Arte Duccio di Buoninsegna, Siena |
| 1991-92 |
The League School, Brooklyn, NY
volunteer painting instructor for emotionally challenged elementary
and high school students |
| 1990 |
Youth Guidance Center,
San Francisco
art project coordinator with juvenile delinquents |
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