Gagliano CV
Education
2018 MFA, Magna Cum Laude, American University, Washington D.C.
1990 BFA, Summa Cum Laude, Plymouth State College, Plymouth, NH
2021 Upcoming & Past
Solo Exhibitions
Surroundings, Angela King Gallery, (June 2021)
The Arriere Pays, Rawls Art Museum, (March 2021)
Contemporary Sustainable Exhibition, Galleria La Nica, Arezzo & Rome, Italy (June 2021) Once More to See the Stars, Galleria La Nica, Rome, Italy (Oct/Nov 2021)
Group Exhibitions
Rome Art Week, Galleria La Nica, (Oct 2021)
Creative Contemporary West, Whistler Contemporary Art Gallery, Whistler, CA (Current) Persephone Ascending, Chroma Projects, (April 2021)
2020
Solo Exhibitions
Alchemy of Light, William King Museum, Abington, Virginia
Art for Arts Sake, Angela King Gallery, New Orleans
Group Exhibitions
Women Inspired, 6 Women, 6 Views, Angela King Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Celebrate, Made in America, Laura Rathe Fine Art, Houston, TX
Seeing 2020 Anniversary Show, Laura Rathe Fine Art, Dallas, TX
Light In Darkness, Les Yeux du Monde, Charlottesville, VA
Cool and Calm, Elisa Contemporary, Bronx, NY
2019
Solo Exhibitions
Radici/Roots, Galleria La Nica, Rome, Italy
Murmurations, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville , VA
Uprooted, American Embassy, Rome, Italy
Calligraphy of Trees, Chroma Projects, Charlottesville, VA
Murmurations Traveling Exhibition, Capital One, Richmond, VA
2019
Group Exhibitions
Landscape Re Imagined, Les Yeux Du Monde, Charlottesville, VA
Celebrating Creativity: Works By Local Female Artists, UVA Darden School of Business, Charlottesville VA Ship of Fellows, Rawls Museum Arts, Courtland, VA
Richard Bland Student/Teacher Show, Capital One, Richmond VA
The Women Have it, Artists From Charlottesville and Beyond, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA Tiny Tiny Trifecta, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
2018
Solo Exhibitions
Landscape Lexicons, Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond VA
Language of Place, Darden School of Business, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va Contrastando, “Contrast Creates Action”, Galerie Grefti, Umbertide, Italy
Transitions, Second Street Gallery, Dove Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
2018
Group Exhibitions
A Path to Tranquility, Elisa Contemporary, New York, New York
Signs of Change, Participating Artist, Fralin Museum, University of Virginia
Flow, Site work with Linda Wachtmeister, Represented by Chroma Art Gallery, Charlottesville, VA Teeny Tiny Trifecta, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
Eight, Katzen Art Center, Washington, D.C.
Flight School, Baltimore International Airport, curated by Jack Rasmussen, Baltimore, MD New Abstractions, Angela King Gallery, New Orleans, LA
New Work, Laura Rathe Fine Art, Dallas, Houston, TX
Exhalation of Larks, Chroma Arts Projects, Charlottesville VA
Solo Exhibitions
2017
Stilled Transitions, Ruffin Gallery at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
Language of Place, Chroma Projects Art Laboratory, Charlottesville, VA
Dante’s Inferno, the Back Room at Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
Landscape Lexicons, Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond VA
2016
The Deconstructed Landscape, Focus Contemporary Art, Scottsville, VA
Dante’s Inferno: When Poetry and Art Collide, SCAN Art, Scottsville, VA
2014
Suspended in Paradise, Charlottesville, VA
2013
New Works, Angela King Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2012
Primo Pensieri, Angela King Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Foresta Vergine, Chroma Projects Art Laboratory, Charlottesville, VA
2010
Luminous Notes, Angela King Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2009
Alchemy of Light, Laura Rathe Fine Art, Houston, TX
2008
Art for Art’s Sake, Angela King Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2003
Shadowed Leaves, Buchanan Gallery, Galveston, TX
Shadowed Leaves, Martha Keats Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Group Exhibitions
2017
Group Show, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
10 Year Celebration, Angela King Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Vanguard Anniversary Exhibition, Laura Rathe Fine Art, Dallas, TX
2017 Annual Silent Auction, Angela King Gallery, New Orleans, LA
First Years’ Show, Katzen Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
Amazing Women Art Auction with Girls’ Night Out, Les Yuex du Monde, Charlottesville, VA Rooted Down and Rising Up, Elisa Contemporary Art, New York City, NY
Meet the Artist, Elisa Contemporary Art at Affordable Art Fair, New York City, NY
Gallery Artist Show, Angela King Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Group Show, Laura Rathe Fine Art, Dallas, TX
Group Show, Laura Rathe Fine Art, Houston, TX
2016
Houston Art Fair, Laura Rathe Fine Art, Houston, TX
Conversation with Color: Contemporary Abstract Artists by Erickson, Gagliano, Patterson, Barnes, and Tamanian, Angela King Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Florescence: Jennifer Cox, Michelle Gagliano, and Rachel Rotenburg, Chroma Projects Art Laboratory, Charlottesville, VA
Dallas Art Fair, Dallas, TX
Reimagined Kaleidoscopes, SCAN Art Center, Scottsville, VA
Interior Set Design for Hunter Gathers, Live Arts, Charlottesville, VA
Momentum, Laura Rathe Fine Art, Dallas, TX
2015
New Work by Paul Tamanian, Michelle Gagliano and Richard Currier, Angela King Gallery, New Orleans, LA Seeing Double, Laura Rathe Fine Art, Dallas, TX
Gallery Artist Show, Laura Rathe Fine Art, Houston, TX
Meet the Artist, Elisa Contemporary Art at Affordable Art Fair, New York City, NY
New Work, Elisa Contemporary, Riverdale, NY
Gallery Artist Exhibition, Focus Contemporary Art, Scottsville, VA
2014
Moult, Chroma Projects Art Laboratory, Charlottesville VA
One, Laura Rathe Fine Art, Dallas, TX
Changing Appalachia, Custom to Cutting Edge, Portsmouth Cultural Art Center, Portsmouth, VA New Work, Angela King Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Summer Group Show, Laura Rathe Fine Art, Houston, TX
2013
Gratitude, Laura Rathe Fine Art, Houston, TX
Enlighten, Featuring, Michelle Gagliano, Steven Deluz, and Pauline Ziegen, Laura Rathe Fine Art, Dallas, TX High Art, Chroma Projects Art Laboratory, Charlottesville, VA
See, Laura Rathe Fine Art, Dallas, TX
The Love Show, Chroma Projects Art Laboratory, Charlottesville, VA
Houston Fine Art Fair, Laura Rathe Fine Arts, Houston, TX
New Works, Martha Keats Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2012
Painting The Piedmont, Traveling Exhibition of 10 Acclaimed Virginian Artists, Traveling Exhibition. Chroma Projects
Art Laboratory, Charlottesville, VA, James Madison's Montpelier, Montpelier, VA, The National Sporting Museum, Middleburg, VA. Sponsored by The Piedmont Environmental Council.
Artists Among Us II, Burchfield Penny Art Center, Buffalo N.Y.
Ginkgo Dreams, Martha Keats Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
New Work, Laura Rathe Fine Art, Houston, TX
13th Anniversary 5x7 Exhibition, Jones Center For the Arts, Austin Museum of Fine Art, Austin, TX 2011
Group Show, Laura Rathe Fine Art, Houston TX
12th Annual 5 x 7 Exhibition, Jones Center for Contemporary Art, Austin, TX, and Talley Dunn Gallery, Dallas TX (Traveling Exhibition)
New Works, Angela King Gallery, New Orleans, LA
New Works, Martha Keats Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2010
Artist Members Show, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
Artists for Haiti, Laura Rathe Fine Art, Houston, TX
11th Annual 5x7 Exhibition, Jones Center for Contemporary Art, Whitely Gallery, Austin, TX
Fresh Paint: New Works by Gallery Artists, Donna Seager Gallery, San Francisco, CA
New Works, Ode to Art Contemporary, Singapore
New Works, Martha Keats Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2009
Strictly Painting 7, a juried exhibition, McLean Project for the Arts, McLean VA
10th Annual 5x7 Exhibition, Jones Center for Contemporary Art, Austin, TX
New Works, McGuffey Art Center, Charlottesville, VA
New Works, Angela King Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2008
Laura Rathe Fine Art, Houston, TX
Summer Exhibition, Artizen Fine Art Gallery, Dallas, TX
2007
Metaphors of Nature, Artizen Fine Art Gallery, Dallas, TX
Grand Re-Opening, Angela King Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Martha Keats Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Lines, Vines and Surfaces, Angela King Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Art Expo New York, Laura Rathe Fine Art, Houston, TX
8th Annual 5x7 Exhibition, Jones Center for Contemporary Art, Austin, TX and Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX (traveling exhibition)
2006
Lines, Vines and Surfaces, McGuffey Art Center, Charlottesville, VA
The Painted Violin, Santa Fe Symphony Fundraiser, Martha Keats Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Summer Showcase Artist, Hanson Gallery, Carmel, CA
7th Annual 5x7 Exhibition, Jones Center for Contemporary Art, Austin, TX
Martha Keats Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Hanson/King Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2005
Martha Keats Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Showcased Gallery Artist, Hanson King Gallery, New Orleans, LA
6th Annual 5x7 Exhibition, Jones Center for Contemporary Art, Austin, TX and Dunn & Brown Contemporary Art, Dallas, TX (traveling exhibition)
2004
Hanson Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Martha Keats Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Hanson Gallery, New Orleans, LA
5th Annual 5x7 Exhibition, Jones Center for Contemporary Art, Austin, TX
Summer Heat Show, Buchanan Gallery, Galveston, TX
2003
Holiday Group Exhibition, Buchanan Gallery, Galveston, TX
4th Annual 5x7 Exhibition, Jones Center for Contemporary Art, Austin, TX
2002
Summer Heat, Betz Gallery, Houston, TX
2000
PDA 2000, a juried exhibition, I-5 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1999
7th Annual Juried Exhibit, Ava Gallery, Lebanon, NH
Small Works, a juried exhibition, Mill Pond Center for the Arts, Durham, NH
Karl Dreup Fine Arts Gallery, Plymouth, NH
Publications/Press:
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https://www.wallstreetitalia.com/arte-sostenibile-ad-arezzo-il-primo-concorso-ecologic art/
“To Hell and Back” C-ville Weekly. Tami Keaveny, 25 November 2020. https://www.c-ville.com/to-hell-and-back
“‘Rooted Down and Rising Up’ at Elisa Contemporary Art, New York.” Blouin Artinfo, 15 June 2017. http://www.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/2272240/rooted-down-and-rising-up-at-elisa-contemporary-art-new-yor k
“Rooted Down and Rising Up.” Wall Street International, 13 June 2017.
http://wsimag.com/art/26797-rooted-down-and-rising-up
Washington County News. Carolyn Wilson, “When Canvas and Fabric Collide.” 4 January 2017.
Ambassador Magazine for the National Italian American Institute. December 2016.
HuffPost Arts & Culture. Stuart Gunter, “Reimagined Kaleidoscopes: The Art and Fashion of Michelle Gagliano and Kari Bare.” 15 May 2016.
HuffPost Arts & Culture. Stuart Gunter, “Artist Michelle Gagliano Paints Dante’s Inferno.” 15 March 2016. Heather Harris. “New Gallery Seen a Cultural Hub.” Rural Virginian, 2015.
“New Work by Paul Tamanian, Michelle Gagliano and Richard Currier.” The Best of New Orleans, 2015. “The Art and Alchemy of Michelle Gagliano.” Dear Velvet. November 24, 2013. www.dearvelvet.com Bonnie Gangelhoff. “Where Are They Now.” Southwest Art Magazine, October 2013.
“Volume Twenty-Four Participants.” Studio Visit Magazine, 2013.
Zainab Al-Sayegh. “The Gender Gap in the Art World.” The Daily Progress, August 4, 2013.
Kathy Christie. “Painters of the Piedmont.” The Piedmont Virginian. Autumn, 2012.
Steven Biller. “Where the Art Is.” Guest Life Houston, 2009.
Renée Peck. “Art is Icing on the Space.” The Times-Picayune, October 25, 2008.
Malcolm Genet. “Michelle Gagliano: Art for Arts’ Sake.” New Orleans: Angela King Gallery, October 2008 (brochure). Linda Barth. “The Art’s the Star.” Houston House and Home (January 2008): 36-43.
Ruth Latter. “Art World Review.” The Daily Progress, November 2006.
Under the Ash Tree. Cover Image. Explore the Journal of Science and Healing, March 2006.
Julie Osterman. “Artist to Watch.” Southwest Art Magazine 34, no. 5 (October 2004): 34.
“Neo-Naturalist of Texas.” Glasstire: Texas Visual Art Online, September 2003.
“Timeless Italian.” Houstonian House and Home 2, no 2 (June 2002).
Cow Parade Houston. New York: Workman Publishing, 2001 (78-79, back cover).
Residencies
2014 Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Amherst, VA
1987 Chautauqua School of Fine Arts, Chautauqua, NY
Awards and Honors
2021 Appointed “Godmother” of Ecological Art Competition, Arrezzo & Rome, Italy
2017 VMFA Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Visual Arts Fellowship
2007 The Painted Violin. Original Musical Composition inspired by the “Painted Violin” artwork by Michelle Gagliano. Composition performed by the Sante Fe Symphony Orchestra, Santa Fe, NM
2002 Best of Show, Artfest Juried Show, The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion, The Woodlands, TX 2001 Cow Parade Houston, Sponsor Houstonian Hotel, Houston, TX
Selected private and corporate collections internationally.
Available upon request.
Gallery Representation
Artelier, London, UK
Angela King Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Galleria La Nica, Rome Italy
Laura Rathe Fine Art, Houston and Dallas, TX
Creative Contemporary West, Whistler Contemporary Art, Whistler, BC
Chroma Projects Art Laboratory, Charlottesville, VA
Les Yeux Du Monde, Charlottesville, VA
Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
Elisa Contemporary Art, Riverdale, NY
Teaching Experience
Present Adjunct Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University
2019 Adjunct Art Instructor, Drawing I, II, III, Painting I, II, III, Art Appreciation, Richard Bland Community College, Richmond, VA
2016-2019 Statewide Educator, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond VA
2017 Advanced Drawing Teaching Assistant, American University, Washington, D.C.
2017 Drawing Fundamentals Workshop Series, Chroma Projects Art Laboratory, Charlottesville, VA 2017 Painting Workshop Series, Chroma Projects Art Laboratory, Charlottesville, VA
2017 Printmaking Workshop, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
1990-present Private drawing & painting lessons for children and adults, Gagliano Fine Arts
1997-99 Lecturer, Art Instructor, drawing I, II, III, painting I,II, 2-d design, Lakes Region Community College, Laconia, New Hampshire
Professional Affiliations
2009-Present Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
2009-Present Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC