Discipline: Visual Art – painting

Alessandra Exposito

Discipline: Visual Art – painting
Region: Jackson Heights, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2001
More: www.alessandraexposito.com
Alessandra Expósito received her M.F.A. from the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers in 1998 and has shown in numerous group exhibitions in New York City and beyond. Venues include Ambrosino Gallery (Miami, FL), the Academy of Arts and Letters (New York), Schroeder Romero Gallery (New York), the Nathan Cummings Foundation (New York), The Shore Institute of Contemporary Arts (Long Branch, NJ), and Art in General (New York). Museum exhibitions include “Open House, Working in Brooklyn,” at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, “Miniatures” at the Jersey City Museum, and “El Museo’s Biennial” at El Museo del Barrio, New York. Alessandra was the recipient of a Marie Walsh Sharpe Studio and a MacDowell residence. In 2005, she won the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award and the Purchase Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2007, she won a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship in sculpture. Her work has been reviewed in The New York Times, Time Out, and The Village Voice.

Studios

Alexander

Alessandra Exposito worked in the Alexander studio.

Originally designed to be a visual art gallery, this facility was built in memory of the late John White Alexander (1856-1915) and funded by Elizabeth Alexander and their son James. John White Alexander was highly regarded as a portrait painter and, in the early part of the 20th century, served…

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