MARY TERESA GIANCOLI
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009 The Zocalo of Atlixco, Museum of Arts and Culture, New Rochelle, NY
2006 The Dance, Greenport Public Library
2004 Con los pies en Nueva York, y el corazon en Puebla, Universidad Iberoamericana
Puebla, Mexico
2003 Pan Tortillas y la Familia, Queens Theatre in the Park, NYC
2002 Vidas Mexicanas, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Azcapotzalco, Mexico City
La Guadalupana, Richard F. Brush Gallery, St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY
Viva Mexico, Viva New York, El Museo Francisco Oller y Diego Rivera, Buffalo, NY
2001 Mexican Lives, Mexican Rituals, Southern Light Gallery, Amarillo, TX
1998 The Waves, 4th Street Photo Gallery, NYC, Artist Talk
1990 Hands-on, Terme 29, Florence, Italy
1989 Light Wind, En Foco, Bronx Whitney Museum of Art, members tour
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009 Nosotras: Portraits of Latinas: Mary Elizabeth Dee Shaw Gallery,
February 3-March 10; Great Overland Station Museum, March 25August 16
2008 Nosotras Portraits of Latinas: The Alameda National Center for Latino
Arts and Culture, San Antonio, Texas February 3-April 30; Branigan
Cultural Center, The Grace Museum, Abilene Texas, July 5-August 16,
2008; Shelton Art Galleries, St. Louis, MO, Sept 21-Oct 5,Roland Park
Country School, Baltimore, MD, Oct 21-Nov 30, 2008;
2007 Promises and Hopes of the 21st Century, Mayor’s Office of Immigrant
Affairs Annual Immigrant History Week The International Center, NYC
Benefit Auction for Sunnyside Community Services
2006 Propia Vision, International Center; and the Queens Museum,
organized by Mano a Mano
2005 Long Island City: The Creative Path, Flushing Town Hall, Queens, NY
Small Works, Big Ideas, Women’s Studio Center, Long Island City, NY
Hispanic Heritage Exhibition, Elmhurst Hospital, Queens Council on the
Arts, NY
2004 Picante, Athens Institute of Contemporary Art, Athens, GA
Generations ’04, A.I.R. Gallery, NYC
X Bienal Guadalupana International Graphics Exhibition, Museo Nacional
de Las Culturas Populares; Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana
Azcapotzalco; Casa de la Primera Imprenta de America, Mexico City; and
Universidad Iberoamericana, Puebla, Mexico
2003 Dia de los Muertos, Reflections of the Soul, Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum,
Chicago
2002 Nosotras: Portraits of Latinas, Carlsbad Museum and Artesia Historical Art
Museum and Center, NM, Curator: Virginia Dodier
IX Bienal Guadalupana, International Graphics Exhibition: Casa de la Primera
Imprenta de America, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana Azcapotzalco,
Mexico City
Pan Am II: Exorcising the Exotic, Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY
Question of Faith, University Northern Iowa, Juror: Eleanor Heartney
Generations 2, AIR Gallery, NYC
1999 The S-Files, El Museo del Barrio, NYC, Catalog
Vistas Latinas, Taller Boricua, Julia de Burgos Cultural Center, NYC
Il Corpo e l’anima, Fabbrica Europa, La Rassegna, Florence, Italy
What She Sees, Marymount Manhattan College Gallery
1998 Waves and Hands, Hands and Waves (2- person), John Jay College Gallery, NYC
Culture, Siegred Gallery Ohio University, Athens, OH,
Hunter College Film Department, Thomas Hunter Hall, NYC
1997 The Camera Club of New York, NYC
Scambio Group, Casa de las Americas, NYC
Nature Morte, 7th and 2nd Photo Gallery, NYC
1996 Sicily: A Silent Violence, Hunter College Art Gallery/Times Square, NYC
1995 Family Values, Prince Street Gallery, NYC
1996 Deviants, Vistas Latinas, Ceres Gallery, NYC
1997 Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Phoenix Gallery, NYC
1994-1995 Traveling Medicine Show, Art in General, NYC, Annual Report
One Voice, Insights Gallery, Seattle, WA
Projections, Metropolis, NYC
Exchanges, Brom 110, NYC
Fate of the Earth, Ceres Gallery, NYC
Coast to Coast Traveling Exhibition, Boxworks: Ancestors Known and
Unknown, Catalog:
Roswell Museum, NM; Wooster College Museum, IA; Islip Art
Museum, NY; Firehouse Gallery, TX Women and their Work, Austin,
TX; Barnes Blackman Community Artists Collective, Houston, TX;
Kean College, NJ and others
1989 El Taller Boricua, NYC
1990 Studio Pati, Arnesano, Lecce, Italy
1989 Sex Salon, Epoche, Brooklyn
Classworks, Project Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
Portraits, Ridge Street Gallery, NYC
AWARDS
2009
2005
2003
2002
2001
1999, 1998
1989
Swing Space Artist, Artist in Residence, Lower Manhattan
Cultural Council
Queens Council on the Arts Community Arts Fund
Ilford Grant
Daniele Agostino Foundation Grant
New York Foundation for the Arts Fiscal Sponsorship
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Fund for Creative
Communities
Artists Space Artist Grant
PUBLICATIONS CATALOGS REVIEWS
New York Times, The Guide, Long Island City, February 13, 2005
Times Ledger Town Hall pays tribute to LIC artists, review, February 24, 2005
Eco Latino, Review of Picante, Spring 2004
New York Newsday, January 11, 2003, review photo, Queens Theatre in the Park
exhibition
El Museo Francisco Oller y Diego Rivera Exhibition Catalog, Buffalo, NY, 2003
Question of Faith Catalog, University of Northern Iowa, critical essays by Darrell
Taylor, Eleanor Heartney, Michael D. Waggoner, 2002
Chicago Art Journal, Ritual, photographs published; critical essay by Rebecca Reynolds:
Rites in the Making: A Selection of Contemporary Art, Spring 2001
IX Bienal Guadalupana Catalog; Casa de la Primera Imprenta de America,
Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana Azcapotzalco, Mexico City, 2001
DiverseCity, Center for Humanist Cultures community newspaper: Artist profile p. 4,
April 2005, Community Calendar, February 2005, p. 6; A Zocalo in Sunnyside photo
essay, December 2004; “Couple in the zocalo, Atlixco”, April 2001; reproductions, back
cover, February 2001; “Father and Son”, reproductions, back cover, December 2000;
“Posadas, the Virgin icon”, reproductions and text, back cover; October 2000;
“Community Baptism”, p. 5, “Day of the Dead, p. 3, reproductions, August 2000;
reproductions 5, p. 9; April 2000; “Tre Generazioni/Through Three Generations”,
reproductions and essay p. 2. , February 2000; “Viva Mexico!” reproductions, and
essay, The Mexican Presence, p. 8. March 2000.
Buffalo News, Natalie Green Tessier, “Culture Exposed”, Gusto, May 22, 2002;
Richard Huntington, “Review of Pan Am II: Exorcising the Exotic”, May 11, 2001.
El Sol de Mexico, Mexico City, La Guadalupana, December 6, 2001, photographs and
review.
AHA! Association of Hispanic Arts News, NYC reproductions, Winter 2001-2,
Cover, page 6; Spring 2002, page 16; cover and inside feature, April - June 1998,
reproductions, February 1996.
America Oggi, NJ, Italian language newspaper
“Il Messico a New York con Mary Teresa Giancoli , (Mexico in New York), review and
photo essay, May 6, 2001.
“Mediteranneo che scoperta (Mediterranean Discovery), review and photo essay, May
5, 1996, p.27.
“Faith and Folklore: The Giglio Festival”, photo essay, August 3, 1997.
El Diario La Prensa, New York City Spanish language newspaper:
“Mexicanos Celebraron la Fiesta de la Guadalupana”(Mexicans Celebrate the Virgin of
Gualalupe), December 14, 1998, p. 6. photos; Calendario, Exhibition announcement
with photograph, May 18, 1999, p.36Pablo Helguera, “Abriendo los Archivos Artisticos
de Jovenes Puertoriquenos” (Artist Archives of Young Puerto Ricans), photograph and
review of S-files exhibit at El Museo del Barrio, June 13 1999.
The Other Side Magazine, Philadelphia, photographs: March/April 2002 p. 5; Sept/Oct
1999, p. 5, Nov/Dec, p. 5, 1999.
New York Times, Holland Cotter, “Art Review Vistas Latinas 2000”, June 4, 1999.
Wellesley Artists New York Catalog, Essay by Bunny Harvey, 1998
America Oggi, NJ, Italian language newspaper
“Il Messico a New York con Mary Teresa Giancoli , (Mexico in New York), photo essay,
May 6, 2001; “Mediteranneo che scoperta (Mediterranean Discovery), review and
photo essay, May 5, 1996, p.27.; “Faith and Folklore: The Giglio Festival”, photo
essay, August 3, 1997.
El Popocateptl, Tepeyac Association, NYC. Informative bulletin for the Mexican
community, NY, reproductions: October 1997, November 1997, February 1998, April
1998, “Dos Mundos/Two Worlds”, essay, December 1997.
Village Voice, Vince Aletti “Choices”: Scambio group”, February 12, 1996.
Hunter College Art Gallery/Times Square XIV Catalog, 1996
Art in General Annual Report, NYC, 1993-1994
Ancestors Known and Unknown: Boxworks Catalog, Coast to Coast: National Women
Artists of Color, 1991, Essays by Lucy Lippard, Clarissa Sligh, Yong Soon Min
VISITING ARTIST and LECTURES
Richard F. Brush Gallery, St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY, 2003; Visiting
Artist: Lecture on The Virgin of Guadalupe: A Question of Faith for Annual Arts
Festival
Arts in Education Institute in conjunction with El Museo Francisco Oller y
Diego Rivera, Buffalo, New York; Artist in Residence at Grover Cleveland High
School, 2003
Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian/Center for Latino Initiatives at
Henry Street Settlement, NYC, 2001, Projections, Native Arts Symposium, Who is the
Virgin of Guadalupe? Talk by Nadema Agard
Queens Museum of Art, NYC, 1998, Slide lecture, Mexican Lives, Mexican
Rituals
The Camera Club of New York, NYC, 1998, Guest Lecture, Mexican Rituals
Grosvenor Neighborhood Houses, NYC, 1998, Mexican Rituals
Women’s Caucus for Art Annual Conference, Seattle, WA, 1993, panelist:
Collective Strategies with Big Rewards: The Scambio Model Works by
d’Apolito, Davis, Giancoli, Thompson, Uenishi
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2008- present Director of Crisma Imaging, Picture Research and Photography.
Clients include KIDS Discover Magazine, Pearson Education
and Sunnyside Business Improvement District.
1995-2002 Adjunct Photography Professor: Hostos Community College;
Digital and Alternative Processes Photography Instructor: La
Guardia Community College, International Center of
Photography; Photography Teacher, Community Programs:
Camera Club of New York, Allen Stevenson School, Poder
America Bilingual Program, Ossining, NY, Cooper Square
Community Development Corporation, NYC; Teaching
Assistant, Hunter College.
1994-2008 Photo Editor for commercial agencies, archives and libraries. Picture
Editor for Carousel Research. Clients include magazine and book
publishers: KIDS Discover Magazine, Ca m’Intéresse Magazine,
Readers Digest Books, Prentice Hall/Pearson Education. Photo
Editing for New York Daily News Archives, Magnum Photos.
1991-1996 Director of SCAMBIO Artist Cooperative. Curated. presented
exhibitions and designed catalogs of photographers based in New
York City and Florence, Italy.
WEBSITES
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EDUCATION
1996
Master of Fine Arts Degree in Photography
Hunter College, CUNY NY
1985
Bachelor of Arts Degree in Italian Culture
Wellesley College, MA
Born: Berkeley, California