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Instagram   @gianlucagiarrizzo.art

Email   gianluca.giarrizzo@gmail.com

Gianluca Giarrizzo is a figurative stone sculptor and draughtsman living and working in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  Giarrizzo's primary mediums consist of marble, bronze, and ink and graphite drawings. He grew up in Wyoming and went on to receive his BA from Lewis and Clark College where he studied Sculpture and Philosophy, and an MFA in 2019 from the New York Academy of Art in Sculpture and Anatomy. Giarrizzo was selected by the New York Academy of Art to participate in the ABC Stone-sponsored Stone Carving Residency in Carrara, Italy in 2018 and again in 2019 through the Bill and Sharon Jacob Award for Outstanding Ability in Sculpture. In 2018 and 2019, he was awarded the Sculpture Scholar Award by the New York Academy of Art. Giarrizzo is an elected member of the National Sculpture Society and an Adjunct Professor at The Fashion Institute of Technology (New York) for drawing and sculpture, Bucks Couty Community College in Pennsylvania for 3D arts, and the New York Academy of Art for stone carving. He has work in private collections across the U.S. and has been exhibited in shows and auctions nationally.

 

EDUCATION

2019                        MFANew York Academy of Art

                                Major: Sculpture           

                                Minor: Anatomy

                                Commencement Speaker

2013                        BA, Lewis and Clark College                    

                                Major: Studio Art, Sculpture            

                                Concentrations: Philosophy, Creative Writing

                                    

EXHIBITIONS - RESIDENCIES - AWARDS

2024   Mainline Art Center - "Little Luxuries"

Drawings for group show, Haverford, PA

2024   ABC Stone Gallery and Showroom - "Wander"

Sculpture for group show, New York, NY

2023   Touchstone Gallery - "Figure"

Sculpture for online group show, Washington D.C.

2019, 21-23   Sotheby’s Auction - Take Home A Nude

Sculpture and drawings for auction, Sotheby’s, Manhattan, NY

2023   Greenpoint Gallery - “May Salon Show”

Drawings for group show, New York, NY

2023   New York Academy of Art - “Summer Exhibition”

Drawing for group show, New York, NY

2023   New York Academy of Art - “In the Studio: NYAA Faculty Exhibition”

Sculpture for group show, New York, NY

2022   Attleboro Arts Museum - “Connectivity”

Drawing for group show, Attleboro, MA

2022   Hilliard Gallery - “The Figure in Contemporary Art”

Drawing for group show, Kansas City, MO

2022   Manifest Gallery - "MARK"

Drawing in group show, Cincinatti, Ohio

2021   The Galerie House of Art and Design

Sculpture in group show, Sag Harbor, NY

2021   Fleisher Art Memorial 

Drawing for group show, Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA

2021  National Sculpture Society

Elected Memebership

2020   Greenpoint Gallery

Drawings for virtual group show, Brooklyn, NY

2020   Las Laguna Gallery

Drawings for virtual group show, Laguna Beach, CA

2020   Wallman Contemporary Gallery

Drawings for virtual group show

2020   Paddle 8 Online Auction - Curated by Beth Redmond

Sculpture for auction, Online, Paddle 8

2019   Faculty Show at Fleisher Art Memorial 

Drawing for group show, Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA

2019   The Bill and Sharon Jacob Award for Outstanding Ability in Sculpture

Awarded residency in Italy for sculpture, sponsored by New York Academy of Art

2019   Paddle 8 Online Auction - Curated by Lolita Cross

Sculpture for auction, Online, Paddle 8

2019   Copyist at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Drawing for group copyist show, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Manhattan, NY

2019   The Unveiling

Stone sculpture for group show, ABC Stone Showroom, Manhattan, NY

2019   Phantasmagoria

Sculpture for group show, New York Academy of Art, Manhattan, NY

2019   ABC Worldwide Stone Carrara Merit Residency

Awarded residency in Italy for stone sculpture, sponsored by ABC Stone and New York Academy of Art

2019   Wabi Sabi

Sculpture for group show, New York Academy of Art, Manhattan, NY

2017 and 2018   Sculpture Scholar Award 

Awarded scholarship for sculpture, New York Academy of Art, Manhattan, NY

2018   Buy What You Love

Drawing for group show, Rema Hort Foundation, Manhattan, NY

2017, 18, 19, 22   Deck The Walls

Drawing and sculpture for group show, New York Academy of Art, Manhattan, NY

2018   Figure in Motion

Drawing for group show, New York Academy of Art, Manhattan, NY

2015, 16, 17   Yellowstone Art Museum Annual Auction

Drawings for auction, Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT  

2017   Descent: Sculpture, Drawing, and Painting

Solo show, Josephy Center for Arts and Culture, Joseph, OR  

 

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