Discipline: Visual Art – painting

Joseph Girandola

Discipline: Visual Art – painting
Region: Cincinnati, OH
MacDowell Fellowships: 2004

Joseph Girandola is a professor at the University of Cincinnati and is originally from Baltimore. His work has been exhibited broadly and in many venues, including; the Museum of Contemporary Art (Geffen Contemporary), Los Angeles; Kunsthalle Wien, Austria; Kwangju Biennial, South Korea; and the Center for Contemporary Art (Nexus) Biennial, Atlanta, Georgia. He was the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant for 2003-04, an Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Grant; Change, Inc. Grant; and an Artists Fellowship, Inc. Grant. Girandola received artist fellowships at MacDowell, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe Art Institute, DUCTAC Art Center (Dubai), and at the Caldera Artist Residency Program. His work is included in collections nationally and internationally and he was a West Prize winner in 2012. Girandola was formerly the Director of the MFA Program at the University of the Arts, Philadelphia from 2009-2012 and was Assistant Director for the Santa Fe Art Institute from 2002-2004. He has a Masters of Fine Arts, University of Georgia Athens, GA, 1996 (Sculpture/Time Based Media) and a B.A. from Pepperdine University Malibu, California, 1992 (Studio-Art Sculpture).

Studios

Heinz

Joseph Girandola worked in the Heinz studio.

The icehouse, built of fieldstone in 1914–1915, was a practical part of Marian MacDowell’s plan for a self-sufficient farm. Winter ice cut from a nearby pond was stored here for summer use on the property. Idle since 1940, it was a handsome but outdated farm building. In 1995, Mrs. Drue Heinz, a vice chairman…

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