Simonetta Moro

Born in Portogruaro (Venice), Italy.
Currently living and working in New York City, USA.

EDUCATION
2003     PhD in Visual Art (studio/theory), University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK
1996     M.A. European Fine Art, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, UK
1994     Diploma in Pittura, 110/110 cum laude, Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna, Italy
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
Fall 2003+     Full-time Faculty, Arts concentration, Eugene Lang College / The New School for Liberal Arts, New York City
Fall 2002-Spring 2003     Introduction to Drawing, Cornell University-in-Rome Program, Roma, Italy
1999 – 2002     Visiting Lecturer in Fine Art, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK
ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE
2006     Swing Space - Lmcc, New York City
2003     Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
2003     Yaddo Art Colony, Saratoga Springs, NY
WORKSHOPS
1998 – 2004     Internationale Sommerakademie für Bildende Kunst Salzburg, Austria (classes Jacobo Borges; Jim Dine; Ilya and Emilia Kabakov; Marjetica Potrč)
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2009     "Art in Odd Places", New York City (in collaboration with Eve Mosher and Tattfoo Tan)
2008     Conflux Festival – Center for Architecture, New York
2008     “The Other Drawings” – two-person show with Marius Lehene, Directions Gallery, Colorado State University , Fort Collins, CO
2008     “An Abbecedarium For Our Times” – Apex Art, New York
2008     “Emotional Geographies”, SACI Gallery, Florence, Italy (solo)
2008     “L(A)ttitudes”, The Ann Loeb Bronfman Gallery, DCJCC, Washington, DC
2007-08     “Mapping the Self”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
2007     “New York New York New York”, Flux Factory, LIC, New York (class project)
2006     Galleria Altri Lavori in Corso, Roma, Italy
2005     “Psy-geo Provflux,” Cube 2 Gallery, Providence, RI (class exhibition)
2005     “Unrecorded Unreckoned Between Thick Walls,” The Gallery at The Marmara Hotel Manhattan, New York (solo)
2004     "psy.geo.Conflux Festival", The Participant Inc, New York (class exhibition)
2003-04     "Outside/in", Wooster Arts Space, New York (curated by Joyce Kozloff)
2002     “Reconstructing Babel”, Harris Museum, Preston, UK. Ph.D. Final Show: a series of interventions in the Museum’s collection. Other venues: Centre for Contemporary Art; Victoria Building Gallery, Preston, UK (solo)
2000     American Academy in Rome, Fellow's exhibition (catalogue)
SELECTED PRIZES / GRANTS / FELLOWSHIPS
2002     “Movin’ Up” Prize for the “Reconstructing Babel” Project, Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, UK, given by the GAI (Giovani Artisti Italiani – Young Italian Artists) in collaboration with the Italian Ministery of Foreign Affairs
1999 – 2002     Ph.D. Research Bursary, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK
1999-2000     Fulbright Fellowship in Visual Arts, American Academy in Rome, Italy
1996-1997     Painting Fellowship, Cheltenham & Gloucester College of Higher Education, UK
CURATORIAL PRACTICE
Since 2006 Simonetta Moro has been the founder and the curator of Eugene Lang College “The Skybridge Art & Sound Space”. Past shows have featured visiting artists Alyce Santoro, John Jesurun, and Martha Rosler; the archive of Performing Art Journal; sound installations and class projects; and student/faculty work.