Cianne Fragione b. 1952 (Hartford, CT)
Over four decades, Cianne Fragione has developed process-oriented work that crosses boundaries between abstract painting and sculpture, object, and image. She has exhibited extensively in solo and group exhibitions in national and international venues, including St. Mary’s College Museum of Art, Moraga, CA, September 2004 - June 2025; Gallery Neptune & Brown, Washington, D.C.,(2022, 2019, 2017); a ten-year retrospective at Harmony Hall Regional Center, Washington, MD, (2007); Anne Wright Wilson Gallery Georgetown College, KY, (2016); Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery, New York, NY (2021); American University Museum, Washington, D.C.,(2017, 2016); John D. Calandra Italian American Institute of Queens College, CUNY, New York, NY,(2013); Associazione di Museo D’Arte Contemporaneo Italiano, Catanzaro, Italy, (2012); University of Scranton Art Museum, Scranton, PA, (2012); The Textile Museum, Washington, D.C.(2011); Art in Embassies, Sofia, Bulgaria, and Vilnius, Lithuania, ( 2012-15; 2003; Indianapolis Art Center, IN, ( 2003); Elizabeth Foundation, New York, NY, (2001); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Gallery, CA 1991; among many others since 1981. Most of these exhibitions have produced publications.
Her works are held in public collections, a recent 2023 acquisition; the Baltimore Museum of Art MD; and DC Commission Art Bank Collection (also, 2017), Art-In-Embassies Permanent Collection, Guadalajara, Mexico, US State Department; as well as St. Mary’s College Museum of Art, CA; Italian American Museum, D.C; Department of Special Collections, Cecil H. Green Library, Stanford University, CA; and Comune di Monasterace, Calabria, IT; among others and private collections.
Fragione has been the recipient of awards, fellowships, and residencies, Art Omi Residence receiving the Milton and Sally Avery Arts Fellowship, (2019); The Legacy Project (Saving the Legacy) sponsored by Joan Mitchell Foundation(2015-16), with her oral history for research at Columbia University NY; Studio dei Nipoti artist residency, Monasterace, IT, (2012); Soaring Gardens, Laceyville, PA (2010); Spoleto Study Aboard in Spoleto, IT (2005); and an Artist-in-Institution grants, a project of the California Arts Council. Sacramento CA, (1985-1990). She was nominated for the Joan Mitchell Painting and Sculpture Award (2018) and; the Anonymous Was a Women Award for artistic achievement, (2016).
She received her MFA (1987), in Painting/Mixed Media at John F. Kennedy University Fiberworks Center for the Arts, Berkeley, CA. During this time, she was a guest graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, receiving a fellowship that enabled her to work with a number of artists associated with the beat and funk movements in the San Francisco Bay Area. She received her BFA from Goddard College, in 1981, in Plainfield, VT.
Fragione is an American-born Italian (dual citizenship)
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