RESUME

Documentary-Style Artist. NY based, traveling worldwide  

www.angelacappetta.com angela@angelacappetta.com

Curriculum Vitae 

Solo & Two Person Exhibitions

2024 ICP BookFest, September 2024

2024 L’Artiere at Paris Photo

Picturehouse, NYC 

2011 Medusa Projects, A Love Letter to the Mountains

2009 Artistic Tile Gallery, New York, NY Landscapes

2008 Raad Gallery, Oak Hill, NY 

Paris Press, New York, NY Silent Auction

2007 The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH Open Studio

2006 Korean-American Center, New York, NY 

2002 The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH Open Studio

University of Nevada Exit Gallery, Reno, NV Self Portraits

2000 The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH Open Studio

1999 Columbia University, ¡Nosotros! Portraits of Latinas

1994 Center for Photography at Woodstock

1993 Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY Italy Seen

Company Gallery New York, NY Family Pictures

Group Exhibitions

2025 White Columns #33

PhotoVogue Shortlist Women by Women Prize Curated by Alessia Glaviano Digital Exhibition

Der Greif, Curated by Joshua Chuang Director of Photography Gagosian

Here, Now, Always: Everybody’s Neighborhood, Art on the Ave. Curated by Shenna Vaughn

Wish You Were Here, AIR Gallery Brooklyn, NY

Hidden Beauty Lucie Foundation Ostuni, Italy

AIPAD Exhibiting Artist

Avere Vent-Anni Fondazione Palazzo Magnani Fotografia Europea Festival Reggio Emilia, Italy

curated by Tim Clark, Luce Lebart, and Walter Guadagnini

2024 White Columns #30 Bricks of Memory, Fragments of Home curated by Sanna Almajedi

Paris Photo, Exhibiting Artist

2023 Pen and Brush Gallery, New York, NY Bodies, Bodies, Bodies: Raffish Vulnerability and Profane Ambivalence

2018 Hudson Guild Gallery, Chelsea, New York, NY Cultural Kaleidoscope

2017 Open Studios, Medusa, NY

Design On a Dime, Housing Works, New York, NY Annual Benefit for Housing Works

2016 Woody Gaddis Gallery, University of Central Oklahoma 

2015 The Medusa Project Silent Auction New York, NY

2014 Design on a Dime, New York, NY Annual Benefit for Housing Works

X Art Exhibit Curated by David Sandum Moss, Norway

2013 American Museum of Folk Art, New York, NY 

Design on a Dime, New York, NY Annual Benefit for Housing Works

Festival of Writers & Photography Rensselaerville, NY

2012 Group Show, BK Projects, Brooklyn, NY

Design on a Dime, New York, NY Annual Benefit for Housing Works

In Motion, Justice by Art, NYC

Design on a Dime, New York, NY Annual Benefit Fundraiser for Housing Works Summer

2010 Nosotras! Portraits of Latinas, Curated by Virginia Dodier, Carlsbad Museum of Art

American Craft Museum New York, NY

In Motion, The Hilton New York, NY Justice by Art

2009 Design on a Dime, New York, NY Annual Benefit for Housing Works

New Work Vanderbilt Fund Foundation, New York, NY

2008 Gallery 385 Contemporary Edge, New York, NY

Way Out Gallery, Rensselaerville, NY Self Portraits

Hudson Guild Gallery New York, NY The Four Seasons

Heist Gallery, New York, NY I'll Be Your Mirror

2007 The MacDowell Colony Peterborough, NH Open Studio

Humane Society of New York Baryshnikov Arts Center, New York, NY

The Wild Project New York, NY Green Interpretation

2006 Heavy Project Space New York, NY Shoot Heavy

2005 Milo Gallery, Los Angeles, CA The Art of Elysium

Berkshire Humane Society Berkshire, MA Hurricane Katrina Benefit

The Swedish American Museum Chicago, IL Art for Sara

The Photo Coop, New York, NY New Work

2003 The Smithsonian Museum of Art, Washington, DC shown with Robert Frank London/Wales

The Other Side of The Street

2002 Decatur Blue, Washington, D.C. New York Work

Eleven Bulls Gallery, Brooklyn New York & Washington D.C. New New York

Carlsbad Museum of Art, Carlsbad New Mexico ¡Nosotros! Portraits of Latinas

Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL Inside Out

Barrett Art Center, Cape Cod, MA Trains, Planes and Automobiles

SUNY New Paltz New Directions, New Artists,  Curated by Charlotta Koltic, Curator of Photographs 

Brooklyn Museum

2001 Gallery T6 of the Rockaway Artists’ Alliance, Artsplash, Rockaway, New York 

The Swedish-American Museum, Art for Sara, Chicago IL 

NYFA New York Foundation for the Arts Summer Slam

2000 Neuberger Berman New York City National Visual Arts Search New York 

The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH Open Studio 

United States Traveling Exhibition for Gordon Parks Photography Prize 

Fort Scott College Gordon Parks Photography Prize Exhibition Fort Scott, Texas

1999 Columbia University New York, NY

Galerie Mistral Vie des Chiens Montréal, Quebec 

Center for Photography at Woodstock Common Boundary, Curated by Sandra Philips, Curator, SF MoMA

Long Island Arts Council Juried Show New York 

1997 March of Dimes Foundation Artist’s Exhibit Washington D.C. 

NARAL Artist Exhibition New York City 

1995 Expanded Arts Gallery Family Pictures 

The Center for Photography at Woodstock Benefit Woodstock, NY

Awards and Fellowships

2025 American Academy in Rome

PhotoVogue Shortlist Women by Women Prize

Shortlisted Arles Prix du Livre

Lucie Foundation Hidden Beauty

Global Leader, International Foto App Walk Representing NYC

2022 Rauchenberg Fellow

2013 NYFA New York Foundation for the Arts Recovery Grant

2012 Meyer Foundation Grant New York

2011 Max's Kansas City Fellow 

New York State Lower Manhattan Redevelopment Fellow

2005 Finalist, MCAF Grant Competition, New York City

2003 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Sweet Briar, VA

2002 Winner, Juried show at Barrett Art Center MA Trains, Planes and Automobiles

Winner, Juried show curated by Charlotta Koltic Curator of Photographs at the Brooklyn Museum of Art

NYFA New York Foundation for the Arts Recovery Grant

The MacDowell Colony Recovery Grant

Rauschenberg Fellow

Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL

University of NV, Reno, Juried Show Winner, Exit Gallery Spring

MacDowell Colony Fellowship, Peterborough, NH

2001 MacDowell Travel Grant, Peterborough, NH

The Photo Review, Juried Show Winner Selected from over 4,500 Entrants, 

Judged by Kathy Ryan Photo Editor of the New York Times

Rockaway Artists’ Alliance, Art Splash 2001 Juried Show Winner,

Gen Art Juried Visual Arts Search 2000, One of 10 Winners from Over 2,500 entrants

2000 NYFA Fellowship, Photography New York Foundation for the Arts

MacDowell Colony Fellowship, Peterborough, NH

The Photo Review, Juried Show Winner from Over 3,000 Entrants Judged by M. Darcy Alexander, 

Curator of Photographs MoMA

1999 Center for Photography at Woodstock Juried Show,Winner and Exhibitor. Curated by

Sandra Philips, Curator of Photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

1998 City of New York Department of Cultural Affairs Artist Certification

1998 Print Art & Design Annual 6, Winner

Public and Private Collections

MoMA Library book acquisition

Victoria & Albert Museum, London

National Art Library, London

NYPL Art Library and Permanent Collection Curated by Maggie Mustard, , NYC

Agnes Gund, New York, NY 

United States Library of Congress, Washington DC (pending)

Thomas O'Brien, New York, NY

Sally Mann, Lexington, VA

Jessie Mann, Lexington, VA

Elizabeth Reede, New York, NY

Fritsch Brant, Fraenkel Gallery San Francisco, CA

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

Southeast Museum of Photography

Carlsbad Museum of Art, Carlsbad, NM

Graciela Iturbide, Mexico City, Mexico

Neuberger Berman, New York City

The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH

The New York Public Library, New York, NY

The Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington DC

The Center for Photography at Woodstock, Kingston, NY

Atlantic Center for the Arts ,New Smyrna Beach, FL

Rachel Ticotin and Peter Strauss, Los Angeles, CA

Michael DeLorenzo, Los Angeles, CA

Taleah Mona-Lusky

Lola Kirke New York, NY

Patrick Adams and Troian Bellisario, Los Angeles, CA

Select Media & Bibliography

Vogue Magazine Feature for Photo Vogue Women for Women, Front Page 

Glamour Brazil “Fotógrafo captura jovens do Lower East Side há 10 anos e mostra gentrificação por meio do estilo“ by Ana Carolina Pinheiro

L’Oeil de la Photographie “The Questionnaire: Angela Cappetta” by Carole Schmitz

W Magazine “The 10 Best Coffee Table Books of the Year” by Claire Valentine

W Magazine “Angela Cappetta’s New Book Reveals the Hidden Heart of NYC’s Lower East Side” by Che Baez

Picturehouse Books, L’Artiere and Friends. Panel discussion with contemporary authors

L’Artiere Edizione, Publisher of  Glendalis Monograph

Service95 “Angela Cappetta On Her New Book Capturing Puerto Rican Girlhood in NYC “ by Gary Grimes

Freulein Magazine Angela Cappetta Documents with Honesty & Depth“ Franka Klaproth & Vivien Schleich

Marie Claire Italia “The Life and World of a Youngest Daughter” by Giulia Grimaldi

DAZED “What it’s Like to Grow Up on the Lower East Side” by Habi Diallo

HUCK “In Photos: A Decade Growing Up in Pre_Gentrification Lower East Side.” by Isaac Muk

Collater.al "Esploratore Familia, Memoria e Identity nel Lower East Side” by Georgia Massari

10Magazine "Cappetta’s Photobook Explores Girlhood Community and Universal Experience” by Bella Koopman

CR “A Puerto Rican Coming-of-Age Story in 1990’s NY” by Daniel Milroy Maher 

The New Yorker  Photo Booth “Watching a Girl’s Life Change on the Lower East Side” by Ana Karina Zatarain 2023

Docu Book Vol. 35 p. 45

i-d Vice  “Coming of Age on the Lower East Side”by Zoe Whitfield November 2022 

“This Family Which is Not Mine” Blind Magazine by Sara Rosen October 2022

“Rural Life In L’Ulivello” Edge of Humanity May 2022

“Seven Photographers Bring New Life to Self Portraiture” Jonathan Feinstein VICE, Jan 2019

ICP Faculty Course Feature 2018

New Ch 4 UK, 2014, On-camera Expert

Interrupt Magazine, The Big Bad Lab, 2013

“Media Saturate/SAFE” Interrupt Magazine, Spring 2013

“Artist Studios Series” Gwarlingo, Spring 2012

Common Creative February 2011

Lenscratch Fine Art Photography Daily, Feb 2011

“Master of Ceremonies” Feature, Photo District News, January 2006

The Other Side, Cover by Tova Mirvis, Vintage Press, May 2005

Crossing To Safety Fiction Cover Photo by Wallace Stegner, Modern Classics, 2004

“Top Knots” The World’s Greatest Documentary-Style Wedding Shooters, Photo District News, July 2003

“Nilda” Junot Diaz, The New Yorker Summer Fiction Issue 2000

“Cappetta Gets Real” PDN Feature March 1999

Podcasts

2025 Interviewed on Foto Podcast

2023 Interviewed on Emulsions Podcast

2023 Guest Artist on Tom Ray’s Art Podcast

2023 Interview on The Frontier Psychiatrists Podcast “Addicted to Photography.”

Academia

        2025 Critique Master Class Instructor, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA

        2025 Lecture Fellow Meet the Artist Center for Photography at Woodstock curated by Sarrah Danziger

2024 Lecture Fellow i3 Masters of Photography Series, School of Visual Arts Curated by Julie Grahame

2018- International Center for Photography Adjunct Faculty

         2017 The New School, Portfolio Reviewer

2012-2013 School of Visual Arts 

2000-2010 Lower School Photography Instructor, Nightingale Bamford School New York City

         2004 Lecture Fellow, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

         2003 Internship Photography Instructor via City College, New York City

1991-1993 Guest Professor, Parsons School of Design, New York City

Language Skills 

English, full native proficiency. 

French, Spanish, Italian, spoken proficiency. Learning Arabic.

Volunteer Roles

Kitchen Food Server The Bowery Mission

Nov 2016 - Present · 6 yrs 3 mos

Civil Rights and Social Action

Holiday kitchen volunteer, preparing and serving meals for the homeless population on the Bowery.

Executive Director The Medusa Project

May 2016 - September 2023

Arts and Culture

Non Profit Board Member and Executive Director of The Medusa Project, an arts and culture 501(c)3 bringing programming to rural New York.

Committee Member New York Alliance Against Sexual Assault

September 2016 - January 2017

Civil Rights and Social Action

Committee Member/Creative Consultant

Consultant on intellectual property, awareness campaigns and rollout for a temporary city initiative.

Fearless MS Campaign Multiple Sclerosis Foundation

Aug 2011 - 2015 · 3 yrs 6 mos

Conceptualized new branding and awareness for Multiple Sclerosis through one of the country’s brightest and most cutting edge Foundations offering care to patients and those who offer care. Lead a team of 30 creatives, non profit members and doctors on all initiatives, production and international rollout.