Artist Registry
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Bio.
Nancy Agati is a Philadelphia artist whose multidisciplinary work includes painting and works on paper, sculpture, site-specific installation, and public art. Agati holds a BFA from Alfred University, School of Art & Design, NY, and an MFA from The University of the Arts, Philadelphia. She has exhibited her work widely throughout Philadelphia and nationally, with exhibitions at Stockton University, Galloway, NJ; Philadelphia Art Alliance; Fairmount Water Works, Philadelphia, PA; Hillyer Art Space, Washington, DC; Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Staten Island, NY; and The Calandra Italian American Institute, NY. Installation projects about nature and the environment were created for the New Jersey Coastal Climate Resilience Project in Atlantic City, FLOW at The Independence Seaport Museum, Philadelphia, and We All Fall Down at The Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education, Philadelphia.
Agati’s work is in several public and private collections including the Pennsylvania Convention Center and Temple University, Fox School of Business. Her recent installation, Aqua Terrace 2024, at the DaVinci Art Alliance, was awarded funding from the Puffin Foundation and Hemera Foundation. In 2022, she received the Ecotopian Toolmaker Award from the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities and an Illuminate the Arts Grant from the City of Philadelphia. Water Table 2021 was inpartnership with NOAA, the NJ DEP, the NJ Arts Council, and the Atlantic City Arts Foundation. Agati has been a recipient of two Windows of Opportunity Awards From the Leeway Foundation and has been awarded artist residencies at the Santa Fe Art Institute, New Mexico; Lo Studio dei Nipoti, Calabria, Italy; Main & Station, Nova Scotia; and the Pennsylvania Horticultural Center at Meadowbrook Farm. In September 2024 Agati completed a series of prints at Officina Stamperia Del Notaio, an artist resicendy in Tusa, Sicily.
Agati curated the exhibition "CONTEMPORARY RUIN future visions" April-May 2025 at The Leaonard Pearlstein Gallery, Drexel University in Philadelphia. Her upcoming curatoral project, TIMELINE at the hisoric Laurel Hill Mansion, Philadelphia, opens July18 -Oct 17, 2025.