Isabella Saraceni CV. saraceni.bella@gmail.com
Education
2025 MFA Candidate in Visual Arts, Painting & Drawing, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH (expected)
2024 End of Life DoulaTraining, International End of Life Doula Association
2019 BFA Painting and Drawing, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
2017 International Studies Institute, Studio Art in Florence, Italy
Solo and Two Person Exhibitions
2022 The Space Between, VAIS Gallery, Storrs, CT
2022 Untitled, Open Studios at Moss Creek Farm, Newtown CT | with Nico Saraceni
2021 Furrowed, Open Studios at Moss Creek Farm, Newtown CT | with Veronica Schorr
2019 Unshrouding, Nancy Marine Studio Gallery, Torrington, CT
2019 Vestiges, VAIS Gallery, Storrs, CT
Group Exhibitions
2024 Unbound, Fine Arts Library, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
2023 Tethers, Biological Sciences Greenhouse, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
2023 MFA First Year Exhibition, Hopkins Hall Gallery, Urban Arts Space, Columbus, OH
2022 Tangible Traces, Brookfield Craft Center, Brookfield, CT
2021 It's Complicated, City Lights Gallery, Bridgeport, CT
2021 Color Field: Green, dōdōmu gallery, online exhibition
2021 in celebration of getting stuck, Five Points Annex Gallery, Torrington, CT
2020 Rituals of Resistance, The Urban Collective, New Haven, CT
2020 Witchy, Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT
2019 Bachelor of Fine Arts Exhibition, Art Space Gallery, Willimantic, CT
2018 Facts and Figures: A Personal Collective, Norman D. Stevens Gallery, Storrs, CT
2018 University of Connecticut Studio Arts in Florence, Palazzo Bargali, Florence, Italy
2018 University of Connecticut Studio Arts in Florence, Arena Gallery, Storrs, CT
2017 Pink, Kinfolk 90, Brooklyn, NY
2017 University of Connecticut Scholarship Show, School of Fine Arts, Storrs, CT
2016 Studio Foundation Scholarship Show, Boston, MA
2016 MassArt All School Show, Brant Gallery, Boston, MA
2016 Haystack Mountain Show, Student Life Gallery, Boston, MA
2016 Nature Show, Student Life Gallery, Boston, MA
Awards, Grants, and Fellowships
2024 Livable Futures Fellow
2024 Individual Artist Grant, Greater Columbus Arts Council, Columbus OH
2024 Arts and Humanities Travel Grant, The Ohio State University
2024 Fergus Residency Scholarship Award, The Ohio State University
2023 Fergus Materials Scholarship Award, Ohio State University
2019 BFA Special Faculty Award, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
2019 Gloriana Gill Award, Long River Review, Storrs, CT
2018 Fall 2018 Idea Grant Recipient, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
This grant funded travel to Florence, Italy to research artwork by women artists of the Renaissance and Baroque eras including a private tour of the Uffizi museum deposits.
2018 Doudera Art Scholarship, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
2018 New England Scholar, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
2017 University of Connecticut Victor Borge Scholarship, Storrs, CT
2016 Studio Foundation Scholarship, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
2013 Anthony Quinn Foundation Scholarship, Providence, RI
Residencies
2016 Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME
Teaching Experience
2023-24 Instructor of Record, Painting 1, Department of Art, Ohio State University (Fall 2023, Spring 2024)
2022-23 Instructor of Record, Foundations: Beginning Drawing, Department of Art, Ohio State University (Fall 2022, Spring 2023)
Lectures and Presentations
2023 Visiting Artist: Expanded Drawing, Department of Art, Ohio State University, Columbus OH
2023 Visiting Artist Drawing Workshop: Art Scholars Program, Ohio State University, Columbus OH
2022 Artist Panel Discussion, Tangible Traces, Brookfield Craft Center, Brookfield, CT
2022 Artist Talk and Visiting Critic: The Space Between, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
Professional Development
2021 NYC Crit Club,Material Abstraction 7 Week Course with Yevgeniya Baras
2021 The Longings Project,Professional Career Coaching with Lyedie Geer
Publications
2019 Long River Review, Literary & Art Magazine, University of Connecticut
2019 UConn Today, Meet the Researcher:Isabella Saraceni ’19, Fine Arts
2019 Daily Campus, ‘Anonymous Is A Woman:’ Excavatingthe lost identities of female artists, University ofConnecticut
Professional Experience
2021- 22 Studio Production and Administration Assistantfor Janice Mauro, Redding, CT
2020- 21 Project Manager for PrivateArchive, Fairfield, CT
2019 Studio Production Assistant for Lesley Dill, Brooklyn, NY
2016-20 Museum Educator, Docent, and Workshop Facilitator, Aldrich ContemporaryArt Museum, Ridgefield, CT
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