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Museum Exhibitions:
2021 Forever Young, Islip Museum, virtual exhibition presented by AARP, Islip, NY, Holly Gordon, curator, Waldo Cabrera, video editor
2021-2022 January and October Virtual Exhibition, Hammond Museum & Japanese Stroll Garden, North Salem, NY, Bibiana Huang Mattheis, curator
2020-2021 August and October Virtual Exhibition, Hammond Museum & Japanese Stroll Garden, North Salem, NY, Bibiana Huang Matheis, curator
2019 Art & Healing: expressions of trauma and gratitude, Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ, Karen Starrett, curator
Solo Exhibitions:
2024 A Picture Book Deconstructed – Mama Loon and Mister Dale by Theresa DeSalvio, Cornwall Public Library, Cornwall, NY in conjunction with a lively reading of Mama Loon and Mister Dale at Good Books, Cornwall, NY
2022 Life Patterns, Croton Free Library Ottinger Room, Croton-on-Hudson, NY, Mary McFerran, curator
2020 Home – An Exhibition of Paintings, Croton Free Library Ottinger Room, NY online
2019 The Life and Times of the Blue Fairy, C.J. Gallery at Paul Robeson Galleries, Express Newark, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ. Exhibition and artist talk.
2017 Other Stories, Alexander Heath Contemporary, Roanoke, VA
Inside China, Essex County College, presented by the Honors Program, Newark, NJ
2015 Looking Inward/Looking Out, Johnson & Johnson World Headquarters, New Brunswick,NJ, Heather Cammarata-Seale, curator
2014 Inside China, Edward Williams Gallery, Fairleigh Dickinson University, NJ
2012 Inside China, The Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts, NY
2011 Inside China, Passaic County Community College Broadway and LRC Galleries, NJ, Jane Haw, curator
East Meets West: The Influence of China, Clifton Arts Center, NJ with Beijing artist, Liu Guo Ping (Two person exhibition), Roxanne Cammilleri, curator
2009 Family & Friends, Through the Purple Door, NJ
Wild Things-Twenty-Five Years of Animal Art, The Chatham Day School, Chatham, NJ, catalog
2007 The Swimmers, Lake Placid Center for the Arts, North Gallery,Lake Placid, NY
2003 Metamorphosis, a four-window, installation of up-cycled materials that were used to create an environment that included butterfly masks. The Count Basie Theater, Red Bank, NJ
2003 Breaking Through, pastels, The Gallery at Glen Ridge Community Center
2002 Cadence Paintings” & “Garden of Butterflies, The McGraw Gallery, Newark Academy
1998 Mushroom and Fungi Paintings” & “Butterfly Masks, James A. McFaul
Environmental Center, Mahwah, NJ
1997 A Decade of Paintings, Belleville Public Library and Information Center, NJ
1996 Eight Owls That Live In New Jersey, paintings - Hackensack Meadowlands Development Commission’s Environmental Center
Masks and Body Wear, created of reused material - The Trash Museum, HMDC Environmental Center. Interviewed by “Jersey’s Talking” host Lee Leonard, channel 12
1984 Folding Screen, Broome Street Workshop window, NYC
1982 Thesis Exhibition, Hunter Gallery, Hunter College, NYC
Group Exhibitions:
2023 The Big Small Show, Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ, curator Anne Trauben
Food, Wallkill RIver Center for the Arts, Montgomery NY, Honorable Mention, Jen Dragon, juror
Art in Bloom, Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, Narrowsburg, NY, curator Jane Luchsinger
2022 NYAE Members Invitational, New York Artists Equity Gallery, NY, NY
2021 America the Beautiful: The Real and the Imagined, Williamsburg Art & Historical Center,
Brooklyn, NY, in conjunction with Smithsonian Magazine's Museum Day: "Experience America!"
juried by Joel Simpson and Larry Szycher
5th Patterns Exhibition, Light Space and Time, special recognition, virtual exhibition
Group Show, Gallery 5, Shrine Gallery Digital Exhibition, New York, NY
Drawing Challenges XXI, XXII, and XVII, online exhibition, Jason McCoy Gallery, New York, NY,
Featured Artist, Artsy
2020 Works Created During the Lockdown Period, WAH Center, Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY, Curator, Yuko Nii, Juror, Paulina Pobocha, curator Museum of Modern Art, catalogue. Awarded “Honorable Mention”
Shelter in Place III, Studio Place Arts, Barre, VT, online https://www.studioplacearts.com/history.html
21st WAH Salon Show, Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY, Yuko Nii, curator, catalogue
2019 Small Works Online Gallery, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
WAH 20th Salon Show, Williamsburg Art & Historic Center, Brooklyn, NY
2018 By Chance, Studio Montclair, The Montclair Public Library, NJ
Girlhood” Howland Cultural Center,Beacon, NY, Bibiana Huang Matheis, curator
State of the Art 2018, Studio Montclair, SMI Gallery at Academy Square, Montclair, NJ
WAH 19th Salon Show, Brooklyn, NY
2017 Self Portraits, a digital exhibition, www.janechafinofframp.com
The Comforts of Winter, Zufall Health Center, Dover, NJ, Amanda Barron, curator
WAH Celebrates Volunteers, Williamsburg Art & Historic Center, Brooklyn, NY
WAH 18th Salon Show, Williamsburg Art & Historic Center, Brooklyn, NY
2016 Celebrating Sports in Art, Theresa Maloney Gallery, College of Saint Elizabeth, NJ, Dr Virginia Butera, curator
Summertime, Zufall Health Center, Dover, NJ, Amanda Barron, curator
WAH 17th Salon Show, Brooklyn, NY
2015 Big Small Show, The Drawing Rooms, Victory Hall, NJ
Celebrity Portraits, Holy Family University, Philadelphia, PA, Pamela Flynn, curator
People and Places That Inspire, Zufall Health Center, Dover, NJ
Heroes & Villains- exploring archetypes through art, Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center, MD
Bodies & Soul”, Studio Montclair, Montclair Public Library, NJ
Childhood Memories, Zufall Health Center, Dover, NJ
Folktales & Legends: An Exhibition Without Borders, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, WI
Travel with Art, Metuchen Inn, Edison Arts Society, NJ,Patricia Rubin, juror
Endangered, Hamilton Gallery, NJ
Figuratively Speaking, Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, NY, Rocky Pinciotti, curator
2014 The Big Small Painting Show, Victory Hall The Drawing Rooms, NJ
Dealing with Trauma through Art Making, Holy Family University, Philadelphia, PA, Pamela Flynn, curator
Stone Canoe/Vein 8, ArtRage Gallery, Syracuse, NY publication/exhibition,
2013 The Big Small Painting Show, Victory Hall The Drawing Rooms, NJ
Adorn, Hamilton Gallery, NJ
Contemporary Art Fair, Red Wall Gallery, Jacob Javits Center, NYC
Renacimiento!”, St. Paul’s Lutheran Church“, Brooklyn,
Friendly Gestures (Namaste), Queens College Art Center Rosenthal Library, NY
Art in Bloom, Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, NY
Qualms Wake Up Oddities, presented by Montclair Art Museum’s Young Curators, Pierrro Gallery, NJ
2011 Joy, Grace Institute, NYC
2010 Passport to the Arts, Clifton Art Gallery, NJ, Roxanne Cammilleri, curator
2007 Homegrown, The Women’s Club of Glen Ridge, NJ
2006 NJ/NY Double Exposure, Atrium Gallery, The Courthouse, Morristown, NJ
Art at First, First Presbyterian Church, NYC
2006 Color” Inaugural exhibition of Art at First, First Presbyterian Church, NY, NY, Barbara Sherman, curator
2005 Summer Salon Show, Griffin Gallery, NJ
2004 The Matzo Files, Streits Matzo, NYC
2004 At the Court House, The Atrium Art Gallery, The Court House, Morristown, NJ
2013,2008,2007,2005,2004,2003 Summer Group Show, The Gallery at Glen Ridge
Community Center, NJ
2003 Creative Perspectives - Celebrating Italian American Women in Art, Literature & Society, Sponsored by The Center for Italian & Italian American Culture and The NJ Italian American Heritage Commission, Dept. of Education, Oakside Cultural Center, Bloomfield, NJ
2002 The Gallery at Glen Ridge Community Center – Inaugural Exhibition
2001 Against the Current, four-person exhibition, Belleville Public Library and Information Center, NJ
- Masks: Magic or Menace-, City without Walls, Newark, NJ, catalogue
Reviewed in The Star Ledger, Friday July 28, 2000, Dan Bischoff
1999 200 x200 Confronting the Millennium, SASH Gallery, Glen Ridge, NJ
- Multi-Dimensional Women, SASH Gallery, Glen Ridge, NJ
1996 Beyond Boundaries, SASH Gallery, Glen Ridge, NJ
1997 Beyond Boundaries, The Women’s Club of Glen Ridge, NJ
1996 The Montclair Artist Studio Tour, Montclair Arts and Cultural Alliance, NJ
- The Montclair Artist Studio Tour, Montclair Arts and Cultural Alliance, NJ
- The Decade Exhibition, Hunter College Galleries, NYC, catalogue
- Opening Exhibition, Trading Places Gallery, Ware, Herts, England
- The Christmas Show, Sue Williams Gallery, Portobello Road, London
1987 Out on Their Ears – Past and Present Species of New York City, Henry Street Settlement, NYC
Winging It, Artists for All Species, Minor Injury Gallery, NYC
Art Store, 36 Store Street, London, England
- Animals and…, Artists for All Species - The Arsenal Gallery, Central Park, NYC
- Artists for All Species, Ten Windows on Eighth Avenue (10 on 8) – NYC
- Project America,S. Customs Building, Federal Plaza, NYC
- Artists at Northside, Arts Industries, Brooklyn, NY
- New York Loft Tenants, Office of the Governor – World Trade Center, NYC
- Artists for All Species, Bronx River Art Center and Gallery, Bronx, NY
- Art Against Apartheid, Harlem School of the Arts Gallery, NYC
1984 All Species in Support of A Nuclear Free Harbor, Ten Windows on Eighth Avenue – 10 on 8,NYC
- The Natural Site/Landscapes Now, Park Avenue Atrium, NYC
1983,1982 Mimes and Miniatures, Brooklyn Downtown Cultural Center, Brooklyn, NY
- Art Biz, Just Above Midtown/Downtown Gallery, NYC
- Art and Ecological Issues,Hunter College Galleries, NY, NY, Robert Huot, curator
1981 The Print Show, Hunter College Galleries, NYC
- Drawings/Fall Invitational, 22 Wooster Street Gallery, NYC
Featured Artist:
2015 “Heroin Addiction Art Exhibition” Project Gateway, Newark, Drug Enforcement Agency
2015 “Paint your Pain” Overlook Medical Center, Pain Management Center, Summit NJ
Permanent Collections:
2018 Expressions of Clinician Well-Being Digital Art Gallery, National Academy of Medicine permanent online gallery, http://nam.edu/expressclinicianwellbeing/#/artwork/125
2016 True North, permanent collection of the Fortune Society, LIC, NY, Mary Pinto, curator
2009 A Very Remarkable Book, the Kentler International Drawing Space Collection – A collaborative book initiated and conceived of by artist Robin Ross, with forty-eight participating artists
Set Design:
2015 Verdi’s Nabucco, The Opera Theater of Montclair, in collaboration with Joyce Korotkin
Films:
2020 Visit to Thailand – Land of Smiles (running time 19:35) Selection of the Tagore International Film Festival, West Bengal, India, Winner Best Travel Film, Critics Choice Award Documentary Educational and Debut Filmmaker
2016 Tales: A Cautionary Story about Heroin Addiction (running time 17:17)
Selection of The Brightside Tavern Shorts Festival, the Hudson Valley International Film Festival, the Great Lakes International Shorts Festival, Erie International Film Festival, Impact Docs Awards, Hang Onto Your Shorts Film Festival, Royal Starr Film Festival
Article “A dark story of Heroin addiction” The Star-Ledger, Mark Di Ionno, 3/11/18
Article “Theresa DeSalvio: Local Artist with a Message” The Montclair Dispatch, Rosemarie Salvatore, 12/8/2016
Guest on The Bill Russo Show, City World Radio 11/28/16
2015 In Treatment (Working Toward the Cure) (running time 4:54)
Hang Onto Your Shorts Film Festival
Book Publication:
2015 Tales: A Cautionary Story about Heroin Addiction
Funded through Kickstarter.
The Glen Ridge Paper “Local artist publishing book about heroin addiction,” Daniel Jackovino, November 12, 2015
Glen Ridge Voice, “Glen Ridge artist illustrates effects of addiction,” Erin Roll, November 19, 2015
Commissions, Collaborations, Publications, Projects:
2018 Writing Maps The A3 Review Issue 9, The Circles Issue, Oct, 2018, Painting Bike Riding, 2nd Prize Winner”
2017 The Stone Canoe # 11, YMCA of Greater Syracuse, painting Pinocchio in a Heap
2014 Stone Canoe/ Vein 8, Syracuse University publication of painting The Wait . Exhibition at ArtRage Gallery, Syracuse, NY
2010 And Then, Volume 15, 2010, page 42, Hold On (for G&G), oil paint on Arches paper, 2009, 40x25 3/4
2009 A Very Remarkable Book, the Kentler International Drawing Space Collection – A collaborative book initiated and conceived of by artist, Robin Ross, with forty-eight participating artists
2003 “Visual Arts Journal”, School of Visual Arts Alumni magazine/Summer 2003, b&w
Reproduction of painting “La Violine”
2002 “Visual Arts Journal”, School of Visual Arts Alumni magazine/Summer 2002, b&w reproduction of butterfly mask.
- “Outreach” magazine, Newark Academy/Fall 2001, Color reproductions of painting and butterfly mask.
1996 The New York Times, September 15, 1996, New Jersey section, article “6 Ways of Saving a Blackbird (or a Hawk, a Robin or an Owl),” b&w reproduction of painting “Snowy Owl/Beautiful Predator”
1988 Through the Break, Sheba Press London, England. Painting “Birth of Phoenix” reproduced as cover. Book was short-listed as one of the year’s “10 Best” non-fiction and the cover was reproduced as postcard.
1986,1987 Assembling 12 and Assembling 13 artwork included in this Independent press published at Rutgers University
1980 Commissioned by film maker Bill Brand to paint all of the images for Masstransiscope, a 300 foot painting consisting of 228 panels which give the illusion of an animated movie to passengers on the Q and B trains going from Brooklyn into NYC. Received an award from the Municipal Arts Society, NYC; Documented in the New York Times, Village Voice, SoHo News, Smithsonian Magazine and on National Network News. Masstransiscope can be viewed in online at www.BBOptics.com. Masstransiscope was restored in 2009 and can be viewed from the Manhattan bound B and Q trains
Professional Affiliations:
New York Artists Circle, WAH Salon Artist, Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Hammond Museum and Japanese Stroll Garden
Public Collections:
Yuko Nii Foundation, Brooklyn, NY
The Fortune Society, Queens, NY
Hon. Mr. Havel, President of Czech Republic
Hackensack Meadowlands Development Commission’s Environmental Center, NJ
College of Mount St. Vincent, Riverdale, NY
Teaching:
2005-2011 Monmouth Academy, Howell, NJ Primary Art, Middle and Upper School Art
2008 School of Visual Arts, New York, NY – International Student Summer program, drawing and painting
1991-2007 Art For Kids Workshops. This program developed by the artist as small group classes for children ages 6-teens. Techniques include drawing, painting, collage, and air-dry clay and puppetry.
2001-2003 Monmouth County Arts Council, Redbank, NJ - Visual Thinking, Arts Education Program
1980-1985 Taught art workshops for organizations throughout New York City including: Hospital Audiences Inc. (HAI), Center for Inter-American Relations, The Elder Craftsman, and Presbyterian Senior Services
Education:
1978-1982 CUNY Hunter College, NY, NY, M.F.A. (painting, printmaking)
1972-1976 School of Visual Arts, NY, NY, B.F.A.