Education
M.F.A., Painting/Mixed Media, Fiberworks, John F. Kennedy University Orinda, CA
Graduate advisor, Jay DeFeo, Mills College, Oakland, CA; guest graduate student, University of California, Berkeley, with professors Brian Wall and Anna Valentina-Murch
Selected Solo Exhibitions
Harmony Hall Regional Center, Fort Washington, MD
Salute Antonio: A Retrospective (publication)
Love and Barley
No Greater Love
Swanson Cralle East Market, Louisville, KY
Mezzogiorno
No Greater Love
Recent Paintings
Paintings
10th Annual San Francisco Open Studios, San Francisco, CA
Paintings
Paintings
Merced County Regional Arts Council Gallery, Merced, CA
By Any Other Name
Recent Paintings
The Lady and the Stone
Paintings
MFA Thesis, Time and Rhythm, John F. Kennedy University and Fiberworks Gallery, Berkeley, CA
Site-specific installation, downtown Walnut Creek, CA
Dance in Metal
Paintings
Paintings
Selected Group Exhibitions
Green: the Color and the Cause
Media Mixed: Four Artists
Hodson Gallery, Hood College, Frederick, MD
Cianne Fragione and Yumi Hogan (publication)
Hillyer Art Space, Washington, DC
Six in the Mix, Renee Stout, curator
Ridderhof Martin Gallery, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA
The Object: Found, Multiplied, Manipulated (juried group exhibition)
Gallery 125, Trenton, NJ
Threads (juried group exhibition)
Harmony Hall Regional Center, Fort Washington, MD
20 Years: A Retrospective (group invitational)
Evolving Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Group Exhibition
Art League of Reston, Reston, VA
ARTreston, Jack Rasmussen, juror, honorable mention award
Arts in Embassies, Mezzogiorno placed in the United States Embassy, Vilnius,
Lithuania (a program of the United States Department of State)
Indianapolis Art Center, Indianapolis, IN
Religion, Spirituality and the Object (three-artist exhibition, publication)
Attleboro Museum, Attleboro, MA
Inspired by the Land (group invitational)
Banana Factory, Bethlehem, PA
National Association of Women Artist Annual (group invitational)
Carnegie Arts Center, Stacks Gallery, Leavenworth, KS
Paintings (two-artist exhibition)
Bernheim Arboretum & Research Forest Gallery, Clermont, KY
Tree of Life (group invitational)
Elizabeth Foundation and the National Association of Women Artists, NY
small things considered: A Large Show of Small Works, publication
SwansonCralle East Market, Louisville KY
Review/Preview
Zahorec/Hughes Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
Visions VI (juried group exhibition)
Hite Art Institute, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY
Artist/Teacher Invitational
Carnegie Center for Art, New Albany, IN
Ohio Valley Annual (juried group exhibition)
Swanson Cralle East Market, Louisville, KY
Group Exhibition
Bellarmine College, Louisville, KY
Imagination 2000 (group exhibition)
Spiritual Art Gallery, Louisville, KY
Beads of Faith (juried group exhibition)
Spiritual Art Gallery, Louisville, KY
Renewing the Spirit (juried group exhibition, best of the show award)
Arts Benicia Gallery, Benicia, CA
EBMUD Landscapes (invitational group exhibition)
Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
Book Experiments: Experiments in Book Art (invitational exhibition)
Crucible Steel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Bradford Gallery, San Anselmo, CA
Landscape Under a Foot
Pacific Center for the Book, San Francisco, CA
Book Works: 7th Biennial Exhibition
The Art Club, Oakland, CA
Oakland Riviera (invitational group exhibition)
Exception to the Rule (publication)
Traveling exhibition, at Richard Reynold Gallery, University of Pacific, Stockton; Humboldt Cultural Center, Eureka; San Jose City College Art Gallery, San Jose;
Napa County Arts Council, Napa; Redding Museum & Art Center, Redding; Columbia Junior College, Columbia; Lassen County Art Council, Susanville; University Art Gallery, California State University, Hayward; Hartnell College, Salinas; Madera County Art Council, Madera;
Louden Nelson Center, Santa Cruz, all in CA.
Edges and Spaces (invitational group exhibition)
The Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
California Artists’ Books (juried group exhibition)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Rental Gallery, San Francisco, CA
INTERART Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Group Exhibition
Vulcan Studio Gallery, Oakland, CA
5th Avenue Group Show
Reese Pullen Gallery, Humboldt State University, Arcata, C.
West Coast Works On/Off Paper, Jay DeFeo, juror, publication
Residencies & Awards
Artist-in-Residence, Soaring Gardens, Laceyville, PA, a project of the Ora Lerman Trust, New York, NY
Artist-in-Residence, Spoleto Study Aboard, Spoleto, Italy
Historic Call Box Project, sponsored by DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Washington, DC
Artist-in-Residence, DVI State Prison, Tracy, CA, a project co-funded by the California Arts Council, Sacramento, and Williams James Association, Santa Cruz, CA
Selected Publications
Ilene Dube, “Hats, Heels & Lingerie, Artist and Poets pay homage to the garments we define ourselves in,” The Princeton Packet, April 2
Trish Donnally, “... An Extraordinary Estate,” Washington Spaces, Winter, 2006
Julianna Thibodeaux, “Radical religious art,” NUVO, the Indianapolis alternative weekly, Nov. 19
S.L. Berry, “Today’s art, religion have much to say to each other,” Indianapolis Star, Nov. 14Jerry Stein, “Stations of the Cross given a new vision,” Cincinnati Post, Nov. 19
Paul Kopasz, “Cianne Fragione at the Spiritual Art Gallery,” LEO, the Louisville alternative weekly, March 29
Channel 11 (Louisville ABC affiliate), 6:30 news; and Channel 19 (Louisville PAX affiliate), March 12
Brian Hamlin, “Public Art,” Sacramento Bee, March 9
Fran Clader, “Painted Mural Enhances City Walls,” Sacramento Bee, Oct. 10
College Art Association, 81st Annual Conference, Seattle, WA, guest speaker, “Artists Working in the Community”
Fran Clader, “Unveiling a Mosaic,” Sacramento Bee, Dec. 2
Philip Bergen, “California Artists’ Books,” Artweek, Nov. 28
Presentations
Artists Working in the Community, as a member of the panel at the annual convention of the College Art Association, Seattle, WA
Exception to the Rule, a symposium accompanying an exhibition of work by adult artists from the California state prison system, at the College of Notre Dame, Belmont, CA (publication)
“Artist/Teacher: Her Place in History and the Community,” a segment of a summer lecture series at San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
Catalogs
Cianne Fragione: Works on Paper, to accompany the exhibition at Hodson Gallery, Hood College, Frederick, MD, 2009 (essay by Bruce Nixon)
Cianne Fragione: Painting, Assemblage, Drawing, to accompany the exhibition Salute Antonio: Ten Years of Mixed Media at Harmony Hall Regional Center, Fort Washington, MD, 2007(essay by Bruce Nixon)
In Search of the Spirit: Religious Imagery in the Work of Three Contemporary Artists, to accompany the exhibition at Indianapolis Art Center, 2004
Professional Affiliations
Collage Art Association, New York, NY, since 1987
WPA, Washington, DC, since 2001
College Book Art Association, Tempe, AZ, since 2010
Represention
Soho Myriad, 1250B Menio Drive, Atlanta, GA.
Artist in Embassies Program, United States Department of State, Washington, DC, aiep.state.gov/
