John Avelluto

CURRICULUM VITAE

Education:

MFA, Painting/Printmaking, CUNY Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY. 2006.

Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions:

2023
Impasta Handbags curated by Paul D'Agostino, Stand4, 414 78th St Brooklyn, NY.
2021
FooGayZee, Stand4, 414 78th St Brooklyn, NY.
2019
Goombarooch Resignified, John D Calandra Italian American Institute, 25 West 43rd Street, 17th Floor, New York, NY
2018
Use-a the Forza, Mamaluke, Stand4, 414 78th St, Brooklyn, NY.
2014
Disintegrator, Studio 10, 56 Bogart St, Brooklyn, NY
2010
Marksmen and the Palimpsests (catalogue), Centotto: Galleria [Simposio] Salotto 250 Moore St. Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY.
2006
Playstation, Krampf/Pei Gallery 610 West 26th Street, New York, NY.

Group Exhibitions:
2023
A Legacy of Making: 21 Contemporary Italian American Artists, The Calandra Italian American Institute, 25 West 43rd St, 17th Fl, New York, NY.
2021
The Art of Italianità (online), curated by Joanne Mattera.
2020
The Winter Show, Park Avenue Armory, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, NY
2018
Fake News, Tabla Rasa Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
2017
The Way We Were, Stand4, Brooklyn, NY.
2016
Seeking Space: Making the Future, David & Schweitzer Contemporary, Brooklyn, NY.
2015
New Ovington Village, Bay Ridge Art Space, Brooklyn, NY.
Checkered History: The Grid in Art and Life, Outpost Artist Resources, Ridgewood, Queens, NY.
Last Grexit to Brooklyn, Centotto: Galleria [Simposio] Salotto 250 Moore St. Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY.
Sheltered Past, Stand @ The Bay Ridge Carriage House, Brooklyn, NY.
Pop-Up Paper Show, Stand @ Reich Paper, 7518 Third Ave, Brooklyn, NY.
2014
Family Style curated by Julie Torres, Pocket Utopia, 191 Henry St, New York, NY.
2013
Cocktails and Dreams Part 2, AIRPLANE, Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY.
2012
HEROES curated by Julie Torres, Small Black Door, Ridgewood, Queens. Text, Studio 10, Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY.
Fauxstalgia curated by Jackie Cruz, Seton Hall via City Without Walls, Newark, NJ.
2011
Blind Spot, AIRPLANE, Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY.
Copia Cartacea curated by Paul D’Agostino, Studio 10. Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY.
Brooklyn Art Now: 2011 Survey Exhibition Curated by Loren Munk/James Kalm, Verge Art Brooklyn representing Centotto Gallery, DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY.
New Year, New Work, New Faces, Storefront Gallery, Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY.
2010
Solitary Pleasures curated by Kevin Richards and Osvaldo Romberg, Slought Foundation, Philadelphia, PA.
Collaborative Forgeries, or Forged Collaborations curated by Paul D’Agostino, Centotto Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
2009
Impart to the Product/ Part of the Process? Or Quest, Phantom, Vestigium curated by Paul D’Agostino, Centotto Gallery, Bushwick Beta Spaces, Brooklyn, NY.
Language curated by Zane Wilson and Abe Nowitz, Bushwick Beta Spaces, Brooklyn, NY.
Paint!, Climate Gallery, LIC. Queens, NY.
Freestyle curated by Jeanne Brasile, National Newark Building, 744 Broad St, Newark, NJ.
Would, Krampf Gallery, 407 E 75th St., New York, NY.
Intus Tensio or Appropriated Special, Centotto Gallery, Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY.
Lilliput, Walsh Gallery at Seton Hall, South Orange, NJ.
2008
The Price of Freedom, City Without Walls, Newark, NJ.
Scope Art Fair: New York, Regis Krampf Gallery Booth, New York, NY.
Jackson, UCONN Contemporary Art Galleries, Storrs, CT.
Scope Art Fair: Miami, Regis Krampf Gallery Booth, Miami, FL.
No Way Out, The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland.
Scope Art Fair:Hamptons, Regis Krampf Gallery Booth, Hamptons, New York.
Scope Art Fair: Basel, Regis Krampf Gallery Booth, Basel, Switzerland. Artifact-Metafact, Repetti Gallery, LIC, Queens, NY.
Lilliput, Red Saw Gallery, Newark, NJ.
Emergency Room, PS1/MoMA, LIC, Queens, NY.
Scope Art Fair: New York, Krampf Gallery Booth, New York, NY.
2006
Portraits, Scope Art Fair: Miami, Krampf/Pei booth, Miami, Florida. Group Show, Krampf/Pei Gallery 610 West 26th Street, New York, NY.
in-ter-ak'tiv, Walsh Library Gallery (Seton Hall University), South Orange, NJ.
Plan B Prevails, 70 Washington St., Brooklyn NY.
2005
Bam, Boom, Bang, Morsel Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
Recent Paintings: John Avelluto, Fernando Canovas, Xaio Fan, Rene Letourner, 225 East 79th Street, New York, NY.

Selected Bibliography:
"An Italian American colloquy with Joanne Mattera and John Avelluto". Two Coats of Paint, November 9, 2023.
Etty Yaniv. "John Avelluto: Impasta Handbags at Stand4 Gallery". Art Spiel, October 26, 2023.
Joanne Mattera. "Italianità: Contemporary Art Inspired by the Italian Immigrant Experience" (Cover Image with full profile). New York City. Well-Fed Artist Press. 2023. New American Paintings Northeast #152. juror: Liz Munsell Lorraine and Alan Bressler Curator of Contemporary Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Mass.
Hrag Vartanian. "Toppling Columbus with a Rainbow Cookie", Hyperallergic, December 3rd, 2021.
Julian Anthony Tamburri for ITALICS, Goombarooch Resignified
M Cem Mengüç. "Brooklyn-born John Avelluto strikes back on populist nationalism and empire, with a side order of calamari". Medium.com. January 7th, 2019.
Brooklyn Magazine. “The 100 Most Influential People in Brooklyn Culture”. Brooklyn Magazine, March 11th, 2014.
Micchelli, Thomas. “Nothing as It Seems: John Avelluto’s Unrelenting Emptiness”, Hyperallergic, May 31st, 2014.
Micchelli, Thomas. “Single Point Perspective: A New Series”, Hyperallergic, July 7th, 2012.
Panero, James. “Gallery chronicle”, The New Criterion, Volume 29, Number 5, January 2011.
Kalm, James, “Brooklyn Dispatches: Those Damned Weeds”, The Brooklyn Rail, Dec 2010 –Jan 2011.
Fisher, Cora. “Marksmen and the Palimpsests”, The Brooklyn Rail, Dec 2010 –Jan 2011.
Wehr, Anne. “Arts in Bushwick”, www.blogs.wnyc.org. June 4th, 2009.
Genocchio, Benjamin. “The Trickle-Down from Pollock”, The New York Times, November 4th, 2007.