Gina Ruggeri is a visual artist whose mixed media work combines drawing, painting, printmaking, collage, and installation strategies. Her exhibitions include solo shows at galleries in New York and Los Angeles, and solo projects at museums including the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in CT. Her awards include a grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, a NYFA artist grant, and a Marie Walsh Sharpe studio space fellowship, among others. She is a faculty member in art at Vassar College, and SUNY Purchase, and lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
At MacDowell, she generated a series of large improvisational fabric collages, using cut fragments of hand-drawn, printed, and painted cloth.