Cianne Fragione
Over four decades, Cianne Fragione has developed process-oriented work that crosses boundaries between abstract painting and sculpture, object, and image. She has exhibited extensively in solo and group exhibitions in national and international venues, including St. Mary’s College Museum of Art, Moraga, CA; Georgetown College, KY; Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery, New York, NY; American University Museum, Washington, D.C.; John D. Calandra Italian American Institute of Queens College, CUNY, New York, NY; Associazione di Museo D’Arte Contemporaneo Italiano, Catanzaro, Italy; a ten-year retrospective at Harmony Hall Regional Center, Washington, MD; University of Scranton Art Museum, Scranton, PA; The Textile Museum, Washington, D.C.; Art in Embassies, Sofia, Bulgaria, and Vilnius, Lithuania; Elizabeth Foundation, New York, NY; Indianapolis Art Center, IN; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Gallery, CA; and Gallery Neptune & Brown, Washington, D.C. Most of these exhibitions have produced publications.
Fragione has been the recipient of awards, fellowships, and residencies, Art Omi receiving the Milton and Sally Avery Arts Fellowship; The Legacy Project (Saving the Legacy) sponsored by Joan Mitchell Foundation; Studio dei Nipoti artist residency, Monasterace, Italy; Soaring Gardens, Laceyville, PA; Spoleto Study Aboard in Spoleto, Italy; and an Artist-in-Institution grants, project of the California Arts Council. Sacramento CA. She was nominated for Joan Mitchell Painting and Sculpture Award and; Anonymous Was a Women Award for artistic achievement.
She received her MFA (1987), in Painting/Mixed Media at John F. Kennedy University Fiberworks Center for the Arts, Berkeley, CA. During this time, she was a guest graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, receiving a fellowship that enabled her to work with a number of artists associated with the beat and funk movements in the San Francisco Bay Area. She received her BFA from Goddard College, in 1981, Plainfield, VT.
