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Catherine Christiano is an American visual artist who lives and works in coastal, semi-rural Southeastern Connecticut. She is known for creating works based on everyday life that combine detailed representational painting, graphics, and conceptual elements. Her latest paintings juxtapose nature still-lifes with newspaper text and images that reflect contemporary socio-political concerns.
Catherine had her first solo museum exhibition in 2022 at the Lyman Allyn Art Museum in New London, CT. She has participated in numerous group exhibitions at regional museums, universities, and commercial galleries. These include the New Britain Museum of American Art, George Billis Gallery in New York City and Los Angeles, and public spaces between New Haven and Rhode Island with the itinerant cooperative group Gallery One.
In 2023, Catherine was awarded an Artist Fellowship Grant by the Department of Economic and Community Development, Office of the Arts, State of Connecticut. In 2022 and 2015, she was awarded residencies at the Vermont Studio Center.
Earlier in her career, Catherine designed the seal for the Town of Old Lyme and illustrated the memoir Poverty Island, published by the Old Lyme Historical Society. Her work has also been published in American Artist Drawing, on the cover of JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association, and on the cover of Trusteeship, a journal of the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges.
Born and raised in suburban New Jersey to first- and second- generation parents, Catherine’s path to studio art was unconventional. Early on, her analytical strengths led her to earn engineering and finance degrees. After work hours, while employed by organizations like GE and Deloitte, she developed her skills in artmaking. This led her to the National Academy of Design School in NYC and then the Lyme Academy of Fine Arts. At that time, the Lyme Academy was a small school for the serious study of drawing, painting, sculpture, and art history, that had been established in the heart of the former American Impressionist colony. Catherine spent several years there intensely working from the human figure and completed a BFA in 2001.
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Artist / Creative (Individual)
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Commercial / For profit - Sole proprietorship
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1992
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Artist / Creative (Individual)
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Commercial / For profit - Sole proprietorship
Year Founded:
1992
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