RESUME

JEANNE CIRAVOLO: jciravolo97@gmail.com/ (203) 988-6044/  97 Spring Garden St., Hamden, CT

Selected Awards and Honors

2024    Jentel Foundation Artist Residency Fellowship, Banner, WY

2022    Finalist, published in Manifest International Drawing Annual 15

            2nd Prize, Lore Degenstein Figurative Drawing & Painting Exhibition, Susquehanna University P

            Award of Excellence, Juror: Sharon Butler, A-ONE, Silvermine Galllery

            Residency Fellowship, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Nebraska City, NE

            Residency award (accepted, not able to attend) Soaring Gardens, Ora Lerman Trust, PA

2021     Residency Fellowship, Hambidge Art Center, Raebun Gap, GA

2021     2nd Prize, Juror: Leslie Garrett, Director Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY

               Mixmaster, Mattatuck, Museum, Waterbury, CT

2021     First Prize, Prisma Art Prize, Seventh Edition; Rome, Italy

2020     Nominee, Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant  

2020     Walter Feldman Fellowship, Juror: Ellen Tani, Curator, Institute of Contemporary Art Boston;

               Boston Arts and Business Council

2019     Joan and George Cole MFA Award, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT

2019     Residency Fellowship, Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, Redwing, MN

2019     Juror Award, 2019 Emerging Artist Exhibition, Cambridge Art Association, MA

2018     Artist in Residence, Byrdcliffe Art Guild, Woodstock, NY

2016     Graduate Assistantship, Department of Art and Art History, University of Connecticut 

2016     Finalist, Williams Prize for Drawing, The Artist for Artists Project 

2013     Best in Show, Juror: Douglas Hyland, Director, New Britain Museum of  American Art, CT Women Artists Exhibition 

2013     Finalist, Artists Magazine Annual Competition, Artists Magazine

2012     Honorable Mention, International Association of Pastel Societies Juried Exhibition, Brea, CA      

2012     Wallis Award, Pastel Society of America Exhibition, National Arts Club, New York, NY

2010     Honorable Mention, Pastel 100 Competition, The Pastel Journal 

2008     First Place Award, Juror: Daniel Greene, The Portrait, John Slade Ely House, New Haven, CT

2006     Finalist and Honor Award, International Portrait Competition, Houston, TX,                                       

Solo Exhibitions and Invitationals

2023.    Fondamenta Gallery, Prisma Prize Exhibition, Rome Italy

2022     Buckham Gallery, Tokens and Traces, Flint, MI

2020     Capital Community College, Body Politic, Hartford, CT

2019      Ely Center of Contemporary Art, No Rose Without a Thorn, New Haven, CT

2014      Gallery Cardinale, Floral and Still Life Paintings, Miami, FL 

Selected Juried Group Exhibitions

2024    Hudson Valley MOCA, War, Peekskill, NY

            Woman Made Gallery, Girlfriends, Chicago, IL

2023    Site Brooklyn Gallery, New Painting, Juror: Rachel Gugelberger

            The Lincoln Center, 2023 Contmeporary Art Survey, Ft. Collins, CO

            Athens Institute for Contemporary Art, Trio (three-person exhibition) Athens, GA

            Westbeth Gallery, Paroxysm, Curator: Alison Pirie, New York, NY

2022    Piano Craft Gallery, Speak Up 2022, Boston, MA

            The Umbrella Arts Center, Lost and Found, Juror: Jessica Straus, Concord, MA

            Lore Degenstein Gallery, Figurative Drawing & Painting Exhibition, Susquehanna University, PA

            Silvermine Gallery, 72nd A-ONE, Juror: Sharon Butler, New Canaan, CT

            Galatea Fine Art, New England Collective XII, Boston, MA

            Hilliard Gallery, The Figure in Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO

            Shockboxx Gallery, No Man’s Land, Hermosa Beach, CA

            Department of Classics, Cornell University, Sculpture Shoppe, Ithaca NY

            Cultural Center of Cape Cod, Empowerment vs. Exploitation, South Yarmouth, MA

            ARC Gallery, What is Love? Chicago, IL

            Oconee Arts Foundation, Southworks 2022, Juror: Marcia Woods, Marcia Woods Gallery

            ARC Gallery, Body Politic, Chicago, IL

2021    Deanna Evans Projects, Flatfile 2021, New York, NY

            Coral Springs Museum, Diaspora, Coral Springs, FL

            Indianapolis Art Center, Women’s Work, Indianapolis, IN

            Hera Gallery, Turmoil, Juror: Francine Weiss, Curator Newport Museum; Wakefield, RI

            Mattatuck Museum, Mixmaster, Waterbury, CT

            Sulfur Studios Gallery, Revival, Savannah, GA

2020     Ethan Cohen Gallery, KuBe, Darkest Before Dawn, New York, NY

            White Columns Gallery, Curated Artist Registry, New York, NY

            Barrett Art Center, New Directions 2020, Poughkeepsie, NY

            K Space Contemporary, Third Coast Biennial, Juror: Rigoberto Luna, Corpus Christi, TX

            AREA CODE Art Fair, Juror: Octavio Zaya, Boston, MA

            Culture Lab LIC at the Plaxall Gallery, Someone Will Remember Us, Long Island City, NY

            Manifest Gallery, Master Pieces International MFA Exhibition, Cincinnati, OH

            Yellowstone Art Museum, North x Northwest, Billings, MT. Juror: Jill A. Yohe, Curator, Minneapolis Institute of Art

            Salve Regina University, Suffrage and Struggle, Newport, RI. Juror: Jan Howard, Curator RISD

            Indianapolis Art Center, Body Building, Indianapolis, IN

            Buckham Gallery, Eros and Thanatos, Flint, MI

            MERZ Gallery, Schwitter’s Army, Sanquhar, Scotland, UK

2019     ARC Gallery, Emerging, Chicago, IL

            Woman Made Gallery, Truth as a Contested Concept, Chicago, IL

            Albright College, Social Justice in the Misinformation Age, Reading, PA

            LMAK Gallery, Muscle Memory, New York, NY

            William Benton Museum, 2019 MFA Exhibition, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT

            Hera Gallery, Shame, Wakefield, RI

            Site: Brooklyn Gallery, Birthday Suit, Curator: Benjamin Sutton, Brooklyn, NY

            ARC Gallery, Hysteria, Chicago, IL

             Ann Arbor Art Center, ART NOW: Painting, Ann Arbor, MI

             ODETTA Gallery, Body Hobbies, Brooklyn, NY 

             Mattatuck Museum, Mixmaster, Waterbury, CT. Juror: Ashley Dillman, Freight & Volume         

2018     Delaware State University, Peace and Justice, Dover, DE

             Ely Center of Contemporary Art, Shared Humanity, New Haven, CT                                                      

              Phillips Exeter Academy, Representing Feminism(s), Exeter, NH

2017      Montclair State University, Connections 13, Montclair, NJ 

             University of North Dakota, When Things are Strange, Grand Forks, ND

             Gallery 263, Iteration, Cambridge, MA

2016     University of Hartford, Williams Prize for Drawing: Finalists’ Exhibition, Hartford, CT 

2015      Plymouth State University, Force of Nature: Exploring the Feminine, Plymouth, NH

2013      The Butler Institute of American Art, The Pastel Society at 40, Juror: Louis A. Zona, Director,Youngstown, OH

2012      National Arts Club, Allied Artists Annual Juried Exhibition, New York, NY 

2011      New Britain Museum of American Art, Annual Juried Exhibition, New Britain, CT

              Expo New Mexico, International Association of Pastels, Albuquerque, NM

2009      New Britain Museum of American Art, Annual Juried Exhibition, New Britain, CT

2007      New Britain Museum of American Art, Annual Juried Exhibition, New Britain, CT

2006      Portrait Society of America Convention, Finalist Exhibition, Dallas, TX

Public Collections

            William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut  

            Connecticut Appellate Court, Hartford Connecticut

            Superior Court of New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut,

            Easter Seals/Goodwill Industries

            The Connecticut Hospice, Branford, Connecticut 

Publications

2024    Art Spiel, Jeanne Ciravolo- the resistance in making do, May 6

            Create Magazine, Issue #45, Juror: Sergio Gomez, 2024

2022    International Drawing Annual 15, Manifest Gallery, 2022 (forthcoming)

           The Hyacinth Girl, Lyndall Gordon, Penguin Random House, portrait of Beatrix Farrand, p 166

           Wild Roof Journal, Issue 14, May 2022

2021   International Painting Annual 10, Manifest Gallery 

            Barzakh: A Literary Magazine, Invisibility; State University of New York Albany, Spring 2021

            Manifest Exhibition Annual, Season 17, 2021; Manifest Gallery 

2020    Rejoinder, Institute for Research on Women, Rutgers University “Storytelling for Social Change” 

            Manifest Exhibition Annual, Season 16, 2020; Manifest Gallery 

2019    Grace’s Trust Online, Ely Center of Contemporary Art, “Jeanne Ciravolo: New Work”

            The Hunger Journal, “Featured Artist” Winter Issue, No. 4,

2017    Public Garden, “The Life and Gardens of Beatrix Farrand” Vol. 32, Issue 2

2016    The Life and Gardens of Beatrix Farrand, documentary film by Karyl Evans, 2016

2016    Connecticut Law Tribune, “Justice David Borden Views New Portrait” June 20, 2016?

2013    The Artists Magazine, “Winners of the 2013 Annual Artist’s Competition” December 2013, pg. 43 

2011    The Pastel Journal, “Pastel 100 Competition” April 2011, pg. 70 

2006    International Artist Magazine, “Portrait Competition Finalists” Oct/ Nov 2006, pg. 25

Education

2019   Master of Fine Arts, University of Connecticut

Academic Appointments

2021-present   Assistant Professor in Residence, and Director of Alexey von Schlippe Gallery, University of Connecticut

2019- 2021      University of Connecticut, Adjunct Instructor, Avery Point and Stamford campuses

2020-2021       Gateway Community College, Adjunct Instructor