Cianne Fragione
Born: Hartford, Connecticut

EDUCATION
1987 MFA, Painting and Mixed Media, John F. Kennedy University/ Fiberworks Center of the Arts, Berkeley, CA; graduate
advisor, Jay DeFeo, Mills College, Oakland, CA; guest graduate study, UC-Berkeley, with Professors Brian Wall and Anna
Valentina-Murch; tutorials Frank Lobdell Stanford University, and Manuel Neri, UC-Davis.
1981 BA, Fine Art, Painting/Mixed Media, Goddard College, Plainfield, VT
1957 – 1996 Studied and performed in several professional dance companies, CA, VT, CT

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 St. Mary’s College Museum of Art, Moraga, CA, Sep 18-Dec.15
2019 Gallery Neptune & Brown, Gate to the Sea, Washington, DC
2017 Gallery Neptune & Brown, Dancing the Tarantella, Washington, DC
2016 Anne Wright Wilson Gallery, Pocket Full of Promises, Georgetown College, Georgetown, KY 2013
Gateway Arts Center, My Haiku, Brentwood, MD
2012 Saginaw Valley State University Art Gallery, Atmospheric Conditions, University Center, MI
2007 Harmony Hall Regional Center, Salute Antonio: A Retrospective, Ft. Washington, MD (catalog)
2005 Swanson Reed Contemporary Gallery, Love and Barley, Louisville, KY
2000 Cathedral Heritage Gallery, Stations of the Cross from a Woman’s Perspective, Louisville, KY
1996 Bradford Gallery, Paintings, San Anselmo, CA
1995 Instituti Italiano di Cultura, Paintings, San Francisco
1994 Merced County Regional Arts Council Gallery, By Any Other Name, Merced, CA
1992 Gallery Arcade, Recent Paintings, Oakland, CA
1999 Wingspread Gallery, The Lady and the Stone, Northeast Harbor, ME
1988 Fiberworks Gallery, Paintings, Berkeley, CA
1985 Site-specific installation, Dance in Metal, Walnut Creek, CA
1982 Tasha Art Gallery, Paintings, Sonoma, CA
1981 Artisan Gallery, Paintings, Burlington, VT

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Arts In-Embassy Conference on Disarmament, Geneva, Switzerland, Curator Imtiaz Hafiz Here We Show Again 52 O Street studio Artists, Strathmore Mansion, North Bethesda, MD
Pulse 2023, IA&A at Hillyer. Washington DC

2021 St. Mary College Museum of Art, Aesthetic Forces: Nature in the Modern California
Landscape, Moraga, CA
Siva Gallery, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of NY, Weaving Justice,
New York, NY
McLean Projects for the Arts, Not Strictly Painting, McLean, VA
Via San Rocco 1 Bagnare le rose / Cambiae le cose, Trieste, Italia

2017 McLean Project for the Arts, Strictly Painting II, McLean, VA, curator: Anne Reeve
Dadian Gallery, Wesley Theological Seminary, Making of Things, Washington, DC
American University Museum, Radix; The Eternal Feminine, Washington, DC Three Person
2016 Montpelier Art Center, Cianne Fragione and Seth Adelsberger, Laurel, MD
American University Museum, Art Cart: Honoring the Legacy, Washington, DC (catalog)
Gallery Neptune and Brown, Ladies First, Washington, DC
University of Mary Washington Galleries, Fredericksburg, VA, Mid Atlantic New Painting 2016,
2015 Palazzo Amaduri, International Art, Gioiosa Ionian Reggio Calabria, Italy
2013 John D. Calandra Italian American Institute of Queens College, CUNY, Four Artists Manhattan, NY, NY (catalog)
Associazione di Museo D’Arte Contemporano Italiano, Catanzaro, Italy,
2012 US Dept. of State, Art in Embassies, Sofia, Bulgaria, curator: Robert T. Soppelsa (catalog)
Hope Horn Gallery, University Art Museum, Soaring Gardens, Scranton, PA (catalog)
Parco Nazonale della Sila, Monastero di Villaggio Mancuso-Taverna, Arte Visiva, Calabria, Italy
Museo dell’Arte Contadina, Lo Studio dei Nipoti, Monasterace, Calabria, Italy
2011 The Textile Museum, Green: The Color and the Cause, Washington, DC
2010 Esvelt Gallery, Columbia Basin College, Media Mixed: Four Artists, Pasco, WA
2009 Hodson Gallery, Hood College, Cianne Fragione and Yumi Hogan, Frederick, MD (catalog)
Ridderhoff Martin Gallery, University of Mary Washington, The Object: Found, Multiplied, Manipulated,
Fredericksburg, VA
2003 US Department of State, Art in Embassies Exhibition, Vilnius, Lithuania, curators: Virginia Shore, Imtiaz Hafiz
Indianapolis Art Center, Religion, Spirituality, and the Object, Indianapolis, IN (publication)
2001 Stacks Gallery, Carnegie Arts Center, Paintings, Leavenworth, KS
Bernheim Arboretum & Research Forest Gallery, Tree of Life, Clermont, KY
Elizabeth Foundation and the National Association of Women Artists, small things considered: A Large Show
of Small Works NY, NY (catalog)

SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Art- In-Embassy Guadalajara Collection
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore MD
Cecil H. Green Library, Department of Special Collections, Stanford University, CA
DC District Art Bank Collection, Washington, DC
Art Omi Permanent Collection and Print Collection
Artweek, San Jose, CA
Comune di Monasterace, Calabria, IT,
G. Boston Architect, Louisville, KY
Georgetown College Permanent Collection, Georgetown, KY
Huffington Post, Howard Fineman, Washington, DC
Italian American Museum, Washington DC
Garden Jungle Press, Fairfax, CA
Robert C. Kettle, developer, Washington, DC
George Kfoury Construction, McLean, VA
Anne Kohs & Associates, Portola Valley, CA
Artweek, San Jose, CA
Rippeteau Architect, Washington, DC
Clay Morton, Morton Salt, Louisville, KY
Saint Mary’s College Museum of Art, Moraga, CA,
Windham International, Fred J Kleisner CEO, Dallas, TX
+ Private Collections: national and international

SELECTED RESIDENCIES AND AWARDS
2023 Commission of the Art and Humanities, Art Bank Program grant, Washington DC
2020 Award, Premio Internazionale di arti visive Baia di Caminia, Catanzaro, Italia
2019 Art Omi Residency, awarded the Milton and Sally Avery Fellowship, Ghent, NY
2017 Curator Award, Strictly Painting II, McLean VA, curator: Anne Reeve, Glenstone Museum
2012 Artist-in-Residence, Lo Studio dei Nipoti, Monasterace, Italy
2010 Artist-in-Residence, Soaring Gardens, Laceyville, PA, through Ora Lerman Trust

PUBLICATIONS
2016 Circle of Friends, Jack Rasmussen, American University Museum, Washington, DC
2011 Cianne Fragione: Heaven and Earth Are Dressed..., Burton Marinkovich Fine Art, Washington, DC
2009 Cianne Fragione: Works on Paper, Hodson Gallery, Hood College, Frederick, MD
2007 Cianne Fragione: Painting, Assemblage, Drawing, Harmony Hall, Fort Washington, MD
2004 In Search of the Spirit, Indianapolis Art Center

SELECTED REVIEWS
2019 Claudia Rousseau, Cianne Fragione Gate to the Sea, East City Art, Oct. 30, 2109,
Mark Jenkins, Modernist Art That Looks to the Past, Washington Post, Nov. 8, 2019
Graphite: Transit, Publication 10, Haley Penn, UCLA, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
2017 Mark Jenkins, Radix: The Eternal Feminine, Washington Post, Dec. 7
Mark Jenkins, Cianne Fragione: Dancing the Tarantella, Washington Post, Sept. 24
2016 Mark Jenkins, “Ladies First,” In the Galleries, Washington Post, July 15
2013 Joseph Sciorra, “Il Bollettino,” In Piazza, Vol. 6, Issue 1
2012 Parco Nazionale della Sila, “Arte Visiva Per L’Europa,” il Ciriaco, July 29, Michelle Telle
2009 Jessica Dawson, “Group Show at Hillyer,” Washington Post, August 14
Ilene Dube, “Hats, Heels & Lingerie, Artist and Poets Pay Homage...” The Princeton Packet, April 2
2003 Julianna Thibodeaux, “Radical religious art,” NUVO (Indianapolis), November 19
S.L. Berry, “Today’s Art, Religion Have Much To Say...” Indianapolis Star, November 14
2001 Jerry Stein, “Stations of the Cross given a new vision,” Cincinnati Post, November 19
2000 Paul Kopasz, “Cianne Fragione at the Spiritual Art Gallery,” LEO (Louisville), March 29
1994 Debra Salonen, “Artist Blends Images of Two Cultures,” Merced Sun Star, Merced, CA
1993 Brian Hamlin, “Public Art,” Sacramento Bee, March 9
Fran Clader, “Painted Mural Enhances City Walls,” Sacramento Bee, October 10
1991 Sheila Beson, “Book Art Turns Over a New Leaf,” Los Angeles Times, November 12
Philip Bergen, “California Artists’ Books,” Artweek, November 28

SELECTED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2019 Guest visiting artist and critiques, Fine Art Dept. American University, Washington, DC
2001 – 2018 Professor, Flint Hill School, Oakton, VA, including team teaching with Oliver Lee Jackson
1990- 1993 Artist/Director of Arts In Corrections, a cultural Arts program at California State Prison, Solano, Vacaville, CA
1987 – 1993 Taught in California State Prison system Arts In Correction, created 6-by-12-foot painting, chapbooks,
video of poetry performances by inmates.