I am a visual artist based in Oakland, CA. In my work I often confront the pleasures and pitfalls of nostalgia and decide whether to embrace or circumvent them. The home we long for may be the physical house or geographical place where we grew up, or a specific time period—such as youth or childhood—and the associated relationships and experiences. However, “nostalgia,” the term we use today to describe this looking to the past, can carry with it a great deal of social and cultural baggage.

EDUCATION
2009 MFA Painting with Honors, Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
2002 BA Studio Art and Italian Studies, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, with studies in Bologna and Cortona

GRANTS AND AWARDS
2014 Alice C. Cole ‘42 Grant, Wellesley College
2013-Present Oxtail Studio, Berkeley, CA, residency
2009 Juror’s Choice Award, Essex Exposed 6, Juror Patterson Sims
2002 Dean's Scholarship for Studio Art Thesis Research, Wellesley College
2000, 2001 Stecher Scholarship for Study of Art in Italy, twice recipient

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015 How Many Rooms Make a Home? Oxtail Studio & Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2014 In and Out of Nature, Oxtail Studio & Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2007 Figuratively Speaking, Il Graffio Galleria d'Arte, Bologna, Italy
2001 Refuse, Installation at Cortona International Print Symposium, Cortona, Italy

SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016 What Is Left, Laconia Gallery, Boston, MA
2013, 2014 Winter Group Show, Oxtail Studio & Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2009 Essex Exposed 6, Juried exhibition at Pierro Gallery of South Orange, NJ
2009 MFA Thesis Exhibition, Accademia di Belle Arti, Bologna, Italy
2009 Otto al Verde: Images from the Orto Botanico, CasaGallery, Bologna, Italy
2008 Ars Amatoria, Bongiovanni Gallery, Bologna, Italy
2008 Permanent installation, Casa dei Risvegli Luca De Nigris, Bologna, Italy
2007 Fotografare l’Accademia, Accademia di Belle Arti, Bologna, Italy
2003 Annual Winter Exhibition, Sotheby’s, New York, NY
2002 In-Between Series, Antagonist Gallery, New York, NY
2002 Honors Thesis Show, Jewett Art Center, Wellesley, MA
2001 Mostra, Chiostro di S. Agostino, Cortona, Italy
2000 Ruhlman Conference, Selected paintings, Jewett Art Center, Wellesley, MA

COLLECTIONS
Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley, MA
Various private collections, USA and Italy

Accepted to be an artist in residence at Oxtail Studio in Berkeley in November 2013.

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Art.Es (Madrid)
Newark Next: Interview with Newark Mayor Cory Booker and Gallerist Rupert Ravens
Issue N. 36-37

see the credits here.

d'Art International Magazine (Toronto)
Picking Cherries in Miami in December
"The choice top ten exhibits at the Miami Art Fairs in 2009 are selected and served up by Laura M. Cincotta, Erin Kennedy, and Douglas F. Maxwell."
Spring 2010 Issue

www.dartmagazine.com

Moving my studio from Bologna to NJ!

8 al Verde: Immagini dall'Orto Botanico group exhibition
Casa Gallery
vicolo Cattani, 4/B - Bologna

Opening March 25, h 20,00

Press release - Exhibition site

MFA Thesis Exhibition and Dissertation
Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna
Via Belle Arti, 54
Aula Caccioni
ore 9,30

Group exhibition
Galleria Bongiovanni
Galleria Acquaderni - Bologna

Opening reception November 29, h. 18,00

Opening ceremony for a group-designed permanent installation at Casa dei Risvegli Luca de Nigris, a coma rehabilitation center in Bologna.

via Altura 3 - Bologna
October 7, h. 17,00

Curator: Luciano Leonotti
Participating artists: Flavia Cane, Laura M. Cincotta, Stefania Gagliano, Simona Gavioli, Cecilia Sergi, Daniele Simoncini, Olimpio Tullio