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Updated 3/2/2024

Catherine Christiano

  • Connecticut

    CT

Institution/Business Type: Artist / Creative (Individual)

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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Catherine Christiano (she, her, hers)
Job Title: Fine Artist
Address:
Old Lyme, CT 06371

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About

Overview

Institution/Business Type:

Artist / Creative (Individual)

Legal Status:

Commercial / For profit - Sole proprietorship

Year Founded:

1992

Overview

Institution/Business Type:

Artist / Creative (Individual)

Legal Status:

Commercial / For profit - Sole proprietorship

Year Founded:

1992

Disciplines

Primary Discipline:

Visual/Crafts - Painting

Additional Disciplines:

  • Visual/Crafts - Printmaking

Activities and Services

Activities and Services:

  • Creation of a Work of Art (Including Commissions)
  • Exhibitions

Communities

Populations Engaged:

  • Adults
  • Businesses
  • Elders
  • Families
  • General Public
  • Nonprofits

Languages Available:

  • English

Geographic Reach:

  • Town / City
  • County
  • Multi-County Region
  • State
  • Multi-State Region
  • National
  • International

Media Gallery

Painting of sunflowers on image transfers of newspaper
Oil painting of a mountain laurel branch on a collage that simulates a newspaper front page.
Oil painting of origami cranes on newspaper with text for the word peace in many languages.
Oil painting of cherries falling into a bowl painted on a front page of the Wall Street Journal
Oil painting of an artist painting in a flower garden.
Oil painting of kids floating on tubes in a pond.
Oil painting of colorful beach cottages.
Oil painting of a Botticelli Venus with roses and a mirror.

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Affiliations and Accomplishments

Education

Education:

  • Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts, BFA, 2001.
  • Rutgers University, Graduate School of Management, MBA.
  • Stevens Institute of Technology, BE.

Education

Education:

  • Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts, BFA, 2001.
  • Rutgers University, Graduate School of Management, MBA.
  • Stevens Institute of Technology, BE.