http://www.simonettamoro.com
send@morolab.com
Born in Portogruaro (Venice), Italy.
Currently living and working in New York City, USA.
- EDUCATION
- 2003 PhD in Visual Art (studio/theory), University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK
- 1996 M.A. European Fine Art, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, UK
- 1994 Diploma in Pittura, 110/110 cum laude, Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna, Italy
- ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
- Fall 2003+ Full-time Faculty, Arts concentration, Eugene Lang College / The New School for Liberal Arts, New York City
- Fall 2002-Spring 2003 Introduction to Drawing, Cornell University-in-Rome Program, Roma, Italy
- 1999 – 2002 Visiting Lecturer in Fine Art, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK
- ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE
- 2006 Swing Space - Lmcc, New York City
- 2003 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
- 2003 Yaddo Art Colony, Saratoga Springs, NY
- WORKSHOPS
- 1998 – 2004 Internationale Sommerakademie für Bildende Kunst Salzburg, Austria (classes Jacobo Borges; Jim Dine; Ilya and Emilia Kabakov; Marjetica Potrč)
- SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
- 2009 "Art in Odd Places", New York City (in collaboration with Eve Mosher and Tattfoo Tan)
- 2008 Conflux Festival – Center for Architecture, New York
- 2008 “The Other Drawings” – two-person show with Marius Lehene, Directions Gallery, Colorado State University , Fort Collins, CO
- 2008 “An Abbecedarium For Our Times” – Apex Art, New York
- 2008 “Emotional Geographies”, SACI Gallery, Florence, Italy (solo)
- 2008 “L(A)ttitudes”, The Ann Loeb Bronfman Gallery, DCJCC, Washington, DC
- 2007-08 “Mapping the Self”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
- 2007 “New York New York New York”, Flux Factory, LIC, New York (class project)
- 2006 Galleria Altri Lavori in Corso, Roma, Italy
- 2005 “Psy-geo Provflux,” Cube 2 Gallery, Providence, RI (class exhibition)
- 2005 “Unrecorded Unreckoned Between Thick Walls,” The Gallery at The Marmara Hotel Manhattan, New York (solo)
- 2004 "psy.geo.Conflux Festival", The Participant Inc, New York (class exhibition)
- 2003-04 "Outside/in", Wooster Arts Space, New York (curated by Joyce Kozloff)
- 2002 “Reconstructing Babel”, Harris Museum, Preston, UK. Ph.D. Final Show: a series of interventions in the Museum’s collection. Other venues: Centre for Contemporary Art; Victoria Building Gallery, Preston, UK (solo)
- 2000 American Academy in Rome, Fellow's exhibition (catalogue)
- SELECTED PRIZES / GRANTS / FELLOWSHIPS
- 2002 “Movin’ Up” Prize for the “Reconstructing Babel” Project, Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, UK, given by the GAI (Giovani Artisti Italiani – Young Italian Artists) in collaboration with the Italian Ministery of Foreign Affairs
- 1999 – 2002 Ph.D. Research Bursary, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK
- 1999-2000 Fulbright Fellowship in Visual Arts, American Academy in Rome, Italy
- 1996-1997 Painting Fellowship, Cheltenham & Gloucester College of Higher Education, UK
- CURATORIAL PRACTICE
- Since 2006 Simonetta Moro has been the founder and the curator of Eugene Lang College “The Skybridge Art & Sound Space”. Past shows have featured visiting artists Alyce Santoro, John Jesurun, and Martha Rosler; the archive of Performing Art Journal; sound installations and class projects; and student/faculty work.