Carol Acquilano

Painter, Printmaker, Book Artist

Education

  • School of the Museum of Fine Arts - Boston, MA 1978 -1982

  • State University of New York, Empire State College - BA1997

  • University of Georgia Studies Abroad Program, Cortona, Italy (Scholarship) 1981

  • Pilchuck Glass Center, Stanwood, Washington:

  • Anne Wolff, Corning Museum of Art Scholarship 1984

  • Dana Zamecnikova, Teaching Assistantship 1985

  • Woman’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY: Hanga Woodblock Printmaking 1993

  • Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY - Printmaking 1992-1999

  • Center for Book Arts, NYC: Barbara Mauriello Boxes and Portfolios 2004

  • Mountmaking for Museum Objects, David Geiger, 2014 - Beth Brideau, 2016

Carol Acquilano Resume

Artist in Residence / Painting Retreats

  • Campo Rasa, Switzerland 2024

  • Linwood Gardens, Pavillion NY, summer 2016 - ongoing

  • Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA, 2003

  • University of Georgia Studies Abroad Program, Cortona, Italy (fall semester) 1985

  • Cortona, Italy 1988, 1989, 2001, 2009, 2010

Exhibiting Member

  • Print Club of Rochester, Rochester, NY

  • The Boston Printmakers, Boston MA

  • Rochester Contemporary, Rochester, NY

  • Anderson Arts Building, Rochester, NY

  • Mill Center for the Arts, Honeoye Falls, NY

  • Memorial Art Gallery Store, Rochester, NY

Solo Exhibits

  • Diary of Ideas: Sketchbooks and Projections, Studio Gallery 401, Anderson Arts Building, Rochester, NY 2022

  • Ars Poetica, Axom Gallery, Rochester, NY 2023

  • Sunshine and Shadows, Spectrum Gallery, Lumiere, Rochester, NY 2013

  • Inaugural Exhibition, Roz Steiner Gallery, Genesee Community College, Batavia, NY 2011

  • New York Landscapes, Little Theatre Arts, Rochester, NY 2010

  • Painting Cortona, Phillips Fine Arts Rochester, NY 2010

  • Paintings, Casa Italiana, Nazareth College, Rochester, NY 2001, 2004

  • Little Theatre Arts, Rochester, NY 1998, 2003

  • Cedar Arts Center, Corning, NY 1997

  • Arts for Greater Rochester, NY 1991

  • Lightner Gallery, Keuka College, NY 1987

Group Exhibitions

2022 

  • Surface Impressions, Lux Center for the Art, Lincoln, Nebraska

  • Printmaking, Cobblestone Art Center, Farmington, NY

  • A Dialogue in Print, Exchange Portfolio, California Society of Printmakers, San Francisco, CA & Anderson Arts Building, Rochester NY

    2022 

  • Small Works, Main Street Arts, Clifton Springs, NY

  • Art of the Book, Rundel Library, Rochester NY

    2020 

  • In The Garden, Studio 402 Gallery, Anderson Arts Building, Rochester, NY

    2019 

  • Environs, Alfred State College Alfred NY

  • Perception of Time, Main Street Arts, Clifton Springs, NY

  • Art of the Book, Rundel Library, Rochester NY 

    2018

  • Genesee Valley 100, Silver Lakes Brewing, Perry, NY

  • Art and Craft, Clover Center for Arts and Spirituality, Rochester, NY

    2017 - 1982

  • Marking Time, Boston Printmakers 70th Anniversary, Cotuit, MA

  • Along The Rivers Edge, Thousand island Art Center, Clayton NY

  • Ink, Press, Repeat: National Juried Printmaking and Book Arts,Ben Shahn Center for the Visual Arts, William Patterson University Galleries, Wayne, NJ

  • Upstate New York Printmaking Invitational, Main Street Arts, Clifton Springs, NY

  • A State of Mind, Boston Printmakers, Frederick R. Mayer Art Center, Exeter, CT

  • Out of the Vault, Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, NY

  • Fingerlakes, Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, NY

  • New Acquisitions, Memorial Art Gallery,University of Rochester, NY

  • Neblette Gallery, College of Imaging Arts and Sciences, of Rochester Institute Technology, New York

  • Ten Years Anniversary Invitational, The Ink Shop, Ithaca, New York

  • Thinking on Paper, Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, NY

  • Brush Strokes Land Marks, Schweinfurth Art Center, Auburn, NY

  • Four Corners of Current, Arts and Cultural Council Gallery, Rochester, NY

  • Drawing Landscapes, Nazareth College, Casa Italiana, Rochester, NY

  • Global Matrix, International Traveling Print Exhibition:

  • Wright State University Galleries, Dayton, Ohio

  • Clara M. Eagle Gallery, Murray, State University, Kentucky

  • Northern Illinois University, City Center Gallery, Chicago

  • Blanden Memorial Art Museum, Fort Dodge, Iowa

  • Ontario South Printmakers, Kirkland Art Center, Clinton, NY

  • Print Media, New York State University at Buffalo, NY

  • Interpretive Landscape, 15 Prince Art Gallery, Rochester, NY

  • Here and There, Mill Art Center, Honeoye Falls, NY

  • 75th International Printmaking Competition, The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA

  • Upstate Invitational - Tyler Art Gallery, State University of New York, Oswego

  • Ten Boston Artists - MPG Gallery, Boston, MA

  • Los Angeles Printmaking Society - Occidental College, Weinart Center for the Arts, CA

  • Retablos - The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA

  • Saltonstall Grant Recipients - Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, NY

  • Painting 1000 Islands - Winged Bull Studio, Clayton, NY

  • Color - NTID Switzer Gallery, Rochester Institute of Technology, NY

  • Saltonstall Grant Recipients - State of the Art Gallery, Ithaca, NY

  • 1000 Islands - Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts, Blue Mountain Lake, NY

  • Made in New York - Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, NY

  • 19th Annual Albany Print Club Exhibition - Schenectady Museum, 

  • Artists’ Small and Miniature Books: The National Library of Canada and Papertrail Gallery, Ottawa, Canada

  • Artist Views from the Fingerlakes - Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn N.Y.


Awards and Publications

  • Park Avenue Festival Poster, 2016

  • Patron Print Award - Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester 2012, 2006, 1992

  • Cover Art for Daniel Smith Reference Catalog 2005

  • Special Opportunity Stipend - Arts and Cultural Council of Greater Rochester 2003

  • The Best of Printmaking, An International Collection by Allen and McGibbon 1997

  • Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts - Artists’ Grant 1996

  • Fingerlakes Exhibition Peter Berg Memorial Award, Memorial Art Gallery University of Rochester 1991

  • Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation Traveling Fellowship 1987

  • Lift Grant New York State Council on the Arts & Arts for Greater Rochester1986

  • Corning Glass Works Foundation Scholarship, Pilchuck Glass Center 1984

  • Glass Art Invitational - Glassmasters Guild, New York City (Second Prize Award) 1983

  • New Glass Review 3 - The Corning Museum of Glass 1982

Public Collections

  • Jewish Senior Life Home,  Rochester, NY

  • The Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge MA

  • Boston Public Library, Boston, MA

  • Charles Hotel, Cambridge, MA

  • Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA

  • Wright State University Art Galleries, Dayton, Ohio

  • The Friendly Home, Rochester, N.Y.

  • Elizabeth Collection, Rochester N.Y.

  • University of Rochester Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, N.Y.

  • Meridian Center, Rochester, N.Y.

  • Strong Memorial Hospital Cancer Center, Rochester, N.Y.

  • Freeborn and Peters LLP, Denver, CO

  • Kutak Rock LLP, Denver CO

  • State University of New York, Brockport, N.Y.

Exhibiting Member

  • Print Club of Rochester, Rochester, NY

  • Mill Art Center, Honeoye Falls, NYw

  • The Boston Printmakers, Boston MA

  • Rochester Contemporary, Rochester, NY

Employment

  • Memorial Art Gallery, Curatorial Department, Preparator; master archival framer for permanent collection, cataloguer, mount maker, box builder and courier 1990-2022

  • Studio classes - painting, printmaking and bookbinding

  • State University of NY, Empire State College, Fine Art Instructor 1993 – 2015

  • Roz Goldman Fine Art Consultant and Appraiser, assistant 1988-1990

  • Light Impressions, master archival framer 1982 – 1988