Alessandra Exposito

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Education
Mason Gross School of the Arts
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
M.F.A. Visual Arts 1996-1998
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
Full Fellowship Summer 1997
University of Maryland, College Park
B.S. Art Education

Solo Exhibitions
2006 Mixed Greens, New York, NY “Greener Pastures”
2005 Mixed Greens, New York, NY “Big Game, Small Game”
1998 Mason Gross School of the Arts Galleries, NJ, “Disentangled”

Group Exhibitions
2005 Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, FL “Gods and Monsters”
New American Painters, Juried Exhibition in Print, Number 56
Pulse Art fair w/Mixed Greens
American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
“Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture”
2004 The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY “Open House, Working in Brooklyn”
Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ “Miniatures”
Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY “Conceptual Realism”
Scope Art Fair w/ Mixed Greens
Sac Gallery, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY “Cinco”
Whitney Young Center Mansion, San Francisco, CA “International Underground”
ADA Gallery, Richmond, VA “Recognize: New Wave of Contemporary Realism”
Salvatore Ferragamo Gallery, New York, NY “Sweet and Sour”
Van Brunt Gallery, New York, NY “Only Human, The Contemporary Portrait”
The Marie Walsh Sharpe Space Program, New York, NY “Open Studio Exhibition”
2003 31 Grand, Brooklyn, New York “Director’s Choice”
2002 El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY “El Museo’s Bienal, The S-Files 2002”
The Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY “To Scale”
Kenkeleba Gallery, New York, NY “The Visual Imagination of Latinos in New Jersey”
MMC Gallery Marymount Manhattan College, New York, NY “Watching You, Watching Me”
2001 Mason Gross School of the Arts Galleries, New Brunswick, NJ
“The Visual Imaginary of Latinos(as) in New Jersey”
Knoedler Gallery, New York, NY Skowhegan Alumni Exhibition
Rome Arts, Brooklyn, NY Autumn Group Show
31 Grand, Brooklyn, NY “The Life You Save May be Your Own”
Aljira, A Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ “The Aljira Fine Art Auction 2001”
2000 Art in General, New York, NY “Private Worlds”
Aljira, A Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ “ Emerge 2000”

Bibliography
Brodsky, Judith K. and Nazario, Isabel. The Latina Artist,
The Response of the Creative Mind to Gender, Race, Class,
and Identity. Exh. cat. 1998.
Cotter, Holland. " Brooklyn-ness, a State of Mind and Artistic
Identity in the Un-Chelsea" New York Times, April 16, 2004.
Cotter, Holland. "The S-Files" New York Times, January 17, 2003, B48.
“Art of Living" Esquire Magazine Japan (Nov 2001) Vol. 15 No. 11.
Cullen, Deborah. "Aequilibrium", The S-files Exh. cat. 2002.
Kline, Richard. Aljira Emerge 2000. Exh. cat. 2000.
Noorthoorn, Victoria. "On Translation and the Power of the Gap."
The S-files Exh. cat. 2002.
Robinson, Walter. "Weekend Update" ArtNet Magazine (Jan 2003

Grants/Awards
2005 Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award
American Academy of Arts and Letters
American Academy of Arts and Letters Purchase Award
2003-04 Marie Walsh Sharpe Studio Space Program
2001 Ray Gottlieb Fellowship
MacDowell Colony Artist in Residence
1998 Graduate Achievement Award
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
1997 Skowhegan School of Painting and Drawing
Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, New Jersey
Leon Golub Scholarship, Mason Gross School of the Arts