ALLISON BIANCO
American, b. 1979

Education
2010 MFA Printmaking, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa
2001 BA Studio Art/Spanish, Mount Holyoke College

Solo and Two-person Exhibitions
2011
Go Ahead and Sink, Hawai‘i Pacific University Art Gallery

2010
Five Feet in Front of the Horizon, MFA Thesis Exhibition,
Honolulu, HI

2009
Romanesque to Retro: art@town series IV, Town, Honolulu, HI

Group Exhibitions

2013
Locally Made, Museum of Art, RISD
New Prints/New Narratives: Summer 2013, IPCNY, NY
GREEN SPACE at T.F. Green Airport (Sept-Dec 2013),
Wonder Fair 2nd Annual Print Invitational,Lawrence, KS
RI Art on Loan, Hart US Senate Building, Washington, D.C.
Pyramid Atlantic Juried Members’ Exhibition, Washington Printmakers Gallery, Silver Spring, MD
Interwoven: Art.Craft.Design., Arlington Arts Center, VA

2012
Storm Tossed, Imago Foundation, Warren, RI
14th Annual Fidelity Investments All Media Juried Exhibition: Growth, Providence Art Club, Providence, RI.
AS220 Pop Up Show, AS220 Pop Up Gallery, Providence, RI

2011
Ocean States, Salve Regina University Newport, RI
Accession: Recent Acquisitions from the Art in Public Places Collection, Hawai‘i State Art Museum, Honolulu, HI
We Talk to Architecture, Architecture Talks Back, Knight Campus Art Gallery, Warwick, RI
CCRI Faculty and Staff Exhibition, Knight Campus Art Gallery, Warwick, RI

2009
Artists of Hawai‘i 2009, Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, HI
Honolulu Printmakers 81st Annual Printmakers Exhibition, Academy Art Center, Honolulu, HI
Deck yer Walls, Louis Pohl Gallery, Chinatown, Honolulu, HI
ComPRESS, The ARTS at Mark’s Garage, Chinatown, Honolulu, HI
31 Graduate Student Exhibition, University of Hawai‘i, Honolulu

2008
Honolulu Printmakers 80th Annual Printmakers Exhibition, Academy Art Center, Honolulu, HI
Still Impressed! Wanganui Community Arts Centre, Wanganui, New Zealand
Tinfish Press, 18.5 The Book, University of Hawai‘i Commons Gallery

2001
Independent Study, First Street Gallery, New York, NY
Five College Exhibition, Open Square Gallery, Springfield, MA

2000
Ripe Fruit, Nagoya University of the Arts, Nagoya, Japan

Grants, Awards & Residencies
2013
Finalist, AS220 Print Competition, Providence, RI,
Juror’s Award, Pyramid Atlantic Juried Member’s Exhibition, MD
Juror: Amelia Hankin, American University, DC

2012
Pyramid Atlantic Art Center Fall Artist-in-Residence, Silver Spring, MD

2010
John Young Scholarship in the Arts, University of Hawai‘i, HI
Graduate Teaching Fellowship, University of Hawai‘i, HI

2009
Orvis Artist-in-Residence Grant, Honolulu Academy of Arts, HI
Hawai‘i State Foundation on Culture and the Arts Recognition Award, 81st Annual Honolulu Printmakers Exhibition, HI
HonBlue Purchase Award, 81st Annual Honolulu Printmakers Exhibition
Honolulu Printmakers Scholarship, Academy Art Center, HI

2008
Gulab and Indru Watumull Grant for Museum Studies in the Arts, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, HI

2007-2009
Skinner Fellowship Award, Mount Holyoke College, MA
Graduate Division Achievement Scholarship, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, HI

Collections
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design
Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA
truth box, inc., Providence RI
Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Silver Spring, MD
Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, HI
Hawai‘i State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, Art in Public Places Collection, Honolulu, HI
Hon Blue Inc., Honolulu, HI

Bibliography
2013
Van Siclen, Bill, RISD exhibit displays ‘Locally Made,’ survey of Contemporary RI Art: Printmaker Allison Bianco, The Providence Journal, July 7, 2013

2011
Braley, Jess, The sea was angry that day, my friend, Newport Mercury, November 23-29,2011. (cover story and image)
Oshiro, Joleen, Memories Adrift, Honolulu Star Advertiser, Feb. 20, 2011

2010
Tinfish 20. Published by Tinfish Press, www.tinfishpress.com

2009
Gail-White, Victoria, Sculpting with the Air, Honolulu Advertiser, October 4, 2009

2008
18.5 The Book. Published by Tinfish Press, www.tinfishpress.com