EDUCATION
International School of Milan Liceo Classico Cassini
Universitá di Genova, Masters of Art History, 1980 Cultural studies abroad SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2019 / March "Panorama Editions II" International Contemporary Arts Salon, Unesco Site Mehrangarh Jodhpur, India 2018 "Winter Group Exhibition", Leonard Tourné Gallery, NYC 2018 "Spring Show", Studio D + Leonard Tourné Gallery, Milano, Italy 2017 / fall, "Mixed Media Works", Leonard Tourné Gallery, NYC 2017 / spring, "Gallery Artists", Leonard Tourné Gallery, NYC 2016 "Fall Exhibition", Leonard Tourné Gallery, NYC 2016 / spring, solo show "Cristina Vergano: Then and Now", Leonard Tourné Gallery, NYC 2015 / summer, "Art Southampton Fair", Southampton, NY 2014 / fall, solo show “The Laws of Attraction,” Woodward Gallery, NYC
2013 “Fresh,” Gourmet Garage SoHo, 489 Broome Street, NYC
2009/10 “Cristina Vergano: Just For You,” Nov - Jan, Woodward Gallery, NYC
2008 “Cristina Vergano,” University of Ohio, The Conard Pearl Gallery, Mansfield, OH 2007 “Fresh,” Gourmet Garage SoHo, 453 Broome Street, NYC
2006 “Cristina Vergano: Figure of Speech,” Sep - Nov, Woodward Gallery, NYC 2003 “Cristina Vergano: Bitches,” Woodward Gallery, NYC
2000 “Cristina’s World: Chronicles of Evolution,” Woodward Gallery, NYC
1998 “Pan-American Thanksgiving,” Woodward Gallery, NYC
1997 Cascabel Restaurant, curated by John Woodward, in collaboration with Woodward Gallery, NYC
1996 “Neo-Icons,” Woodward Gallery, New York, NY
1994 “Under the Influence (of Old Masters),” Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY 1992 “Recent Work,” Gail Moore Gallery, Atlanta, GA 1990 “Myth and Dream,” Westbanks Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY 1988 “Passion and Pursuit,” Port Armor Country Club, Athens, GA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2014 “Sur-Real,” Woodward Gallery, NYC 2013 “Femalenergy3,” Woodward Gallery, NYC “DETAIL,” Woodward Gallery, NYC
2011 “Secret Message,” Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY, Sep 14 – Nov 14
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2010 “Cristina Vergano,” Lobby of ICM (International Creative Management), NYC 2008 “Fashion Forward,” Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY 2008 “In the Land of Retinal Delights: The Juxtapoz Factor,” Jun 22 - Oct 5, The Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
2007 “White Box Benefit Auction,” Live Auction by Christie’s, The Altman Building, NYC “We Cover the Waterfront- A Celebration of Seaport Artists” at the SDCA Exhibition and Performance Space, by invitation through the Seaport District Cultural Association
2006 Featured Artist at Whitebox “Toy Box- Holiday Benefit Auction” at Robert Miller Gallery, NYC 2006 “Gallery Artists ’06 -’07,” Group Exhibition, Woodward Gallery, NY
C 2005 “Variations on a Theme: Money,” The City of Brea Art Gallery, Brea, CA “Winter Paper Seven,” Group Exhibition including works on paper by Jean Michel Basquiat, Alexander Calder, Richard Estes, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Tom Wesselmann, and others, Woodward Gallery, NYC 2003 Track 16 Gallery in collaboration with Juxtapoz magazine, Santa Monica, CA
2003 “Paper Invitational VI,” Group Exhibition including works on paper by Andy Warhol, Robert Indiana, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein and others; Woodward Gallery, NYC 2002 “Art Juxtapoz 8th Anniversary Art Show” Group Exhibition, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 2002 “Paper Invitational V,” Group Exhibition including works on paper by Andy Warhol, Robert Indiana, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein and others; Woodward Gallery, NYC 2001 “Paper Invitational IV,” Group Exhibition including works on paper by Ellsworth Kelly, Keith Haring, Robert Rauschenberg and others; Woodward Gallery, NYC 2001 “Terrors and Wonders,” Decordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA
2000 “Fantasies and Curiosities,” The Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, FL 2000 “Anthropology in Art: A Viewer’s Perspective,” Anthropology Museum of the People of New York, NYC 2000 “Paper Invitational III,” Group exhibition including major contemporary and pop artists, Woodward Gallery, NY
C 2000 “Cow Parade,” City of New York, NY
1999 “Femalenergy II: 2000,” Woodward Gallery, NYC
1998 “Nature Outdoors/Inside,” Woodward Gallery, NYC 1997 “The Figure Revisited,” The Gallery at Hastings on Hudson, curated by Lester Kane, Hudson, NY
1996 “The New York Foundling Hospital Benefit Exhibition,” Reggio Gallery, NYC 1995 “The Lyrical, the Expressionist and the Poetic,” National Juried Exhibition curated by Michael Walls, Honorable Mention, Denise Fibro Fine Arts, NY
C 1995 “Miniature Chairs by Artists of Chairmania,” The Chicago Athenaeum, Chicago, IL 1995 “Personal Pursuits”- Creations and Collections of Today’s Top Designers, The New York School of Interior Design, NYC
1995 “Critical Mass,” Tribeca 148 Gallery, NYC 1995 “Erotic Art Expo,” Griffen Gallery/Florida Art Review, Miami Beach, FL
1994 “Parrish Art Museum’s 34th Juried Exhibition,” The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY 1994 Masterworks Re-worked,” New York Law School, NYC
1993 Gloria Delson Contemporary Arts, Los Angeles, CA
1991 Mari Hube Gallery, NYC 1991 Kips Bay Showhouse, NYC 1991 Harry Winston Gala Auction, Dallas, TX
1990 “Bid for the Benefit of New York City Children,” Talbot Perkins Children’s Services, Christie’s,NYC 1990 “Summer Scenes,” Garrett-Stephens Gallery, Southampton, NY
1989 “Summer Pleasures,” Masters of Croquet Tournament, Sag Harbor, NY
1989 “Oconee Artists Exhibition VII,” Awarded “Best of Show” and “Best In Mixed Media” Atlanta, GA
1988 “International Artists,” Box Gallery, Penfield, GA
Awards
Selected as Featured Artist for the The Georgia Review, Summer 2001, literary magazine published by the University of Georgia; full color illustrations of paintings in retrospective format.
Honorable Mention, 2000 “Anthropology in Art: A Viewer’s Perspective,” Anthropology Museum of the People of New York, New York, NY
Honorable Mention, 1996 “The Lyrical, the Expressionist and the Poetic,” National Juried Exhibition curated by Michael Walls
“Best of Show,” 1989 “Oconee Artists Exhibition VII,” Atlanta, GA
“Best in Mixed Media,” 1989 “Oconee Artists Exhibition VII,” Atlanta, GA
Bibliography
2015 "Figure 8 + 8", Post Road Magazine, Boston College 2014 "Wise Buys - 50 Women Artists Worth Watching", Blouin Arts+Auction Magazine, Sep issue 2014 "Cristina Vergano -The Laws of Attraction", hard cover book, published by Woodward gallery, NYC. Full color illustrations, 10" x 10". 2011 Painting “Eighteen” featured in Elle Decor Magazine, Spain http://www.elle.es/elledeco/casas/atico-en-nueva-york 2011 “Secret Message,” Islip Art Museum, featured by Long Island Newsday and New York Foundation of the Arts, Sept 2011 2011 Exhibition catalogue, “Secret Message,” Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY, Featured as cover illustration 2011 “Home by Novogratz,” HGTV, Featured artist, Jan & David’s Manhattan Townhouse, Episode HHBN-111H 2009 Islip Art Museum, “Fashion Forward” Exhibition Catalogue, Nov 26, 2008 - Jan 25, 2009, Curated by Karen Shaw, Feature with illustration.
2009 New York Times, “Where Fashion Meets Its Artistic Match” by Benjamin Genocchio, Jan 11, Arts and Entertainment, p. 8. 2009 In the Land of Retinal Delights: The Juxtapoz Factor, Laguna Art Museum in association with Gingko Press, full page color feature pg. 105, text pg. 191. ISBN 978-1-58423-317-6. 2008 Islip Bulletin, “Assorted Apparel Tapered as Art - Islip Art Museum presents Fashion Forward” by Tinamarie Caputo, Dec 11, p. 12 2008 Central Ohio, “Entertainment briefs: New Exhibits Announced- Mansfield”, Oct 30 http://centralohio.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/B7/20081030/ ENTERTAINMENT/ 810300327/1002 2008 Laguna Art Museum, “In the Land of the Retinal Delights: The Juxtapoz Factor”, Jun 22 - Oct 5, http://www.lagunaartmuseum.org/past-exhibitions.html 2008 Live Journal, Sunday in Laguna...Pt1- “Art Geeking to the Max”, July 14 http://evb.livejournal.com/163799.html 2008 OSU Today, “Mansfield Art Gallery hosts The Jaffe/Vergano Connection exhibition,” October 20. http://oncampus.osu.edu/osutoday/102008/10312008.php 2007 Juxtapoz, “Old Friends,” Jan, p. 16
2007 American Arts Quarterly, “Reviving Iconography: Cristina Vergano and Irene Hardwicke Olivieri” by Gail Leggio, Volume 24, number 1 2006 What’s What, Hunter College High, Nov 3, Feature with b&w illustrations, p.3 2006 Women’s Art News, October, Featured b&w illustration with listing.
2006 ArtNews, Nov, Review by Valerie Gladstone, p. 186.
2006 The Art Guide, Harbour Publications, Oct, full page color illustration with listing 2006 Flash Art, Oct, full page color illustration
2006 Art in America, Sep, full page color illustration, p. 59
2006 Art and Auction, Sept, full color illustration with calendar listing
2006 ArtNow Gallery Guide, Sep, page one, full color illustration with listing
2006 The Art Guide, Harbour Publications, Sep, full color illustration pg 44 with feature listing pg 51
2006 www.ArtNet.com, week of Sep, Feature, Events and Artists pages with illustrations 2006 Coagula, Sep, B&W full page illustration- back cover
2006 Art and Auction, Sep, full color illustration with calendar listing
2006 Juxtapoz, Sep, two page full color illustrations pgs. 94-95 2006 ArtNews, Sep, two page full color illustrations pgs. 30-31 2006 www.ArtNet.com, Aug, Feature/Events, pages with illustrations 2006 Cristina Vergano’s Stupendous World, Tuesday, August 15th online under “My Stars And Garters” by Incendiary Granny with full color illustrations. 2006 Art Knowledge News, Aug, Feature article, online- www.ArtKnowledgeNews.com, with full color illustrations. 2006 Juxtapoz, Aug, Feature article by Valerie Gladstone with full color illustrations. 2006 Cristina Vergano: Figure of Speech, Catalogue to accompany exhibition, published by Woodward Gallery, New York, full color illustrations. 2005 Black Rose, Novel by Nora Roberts, pgs. 174 and 175
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