Marcia Biasiello's work has been exhibited in galleries and shows and is included in private collections in the US and Canada, including Albuquerque, Alexandria, Appleton, Berlin, Bloomington, Boise, Boston, Brooklyn, Burbank, Chicago, Coeurd'Alene, Costa Mesa, Cranston,Eleva, Evanston, Fort Worth, Grosse Pointe Farms, Laveen, Ligonier, Lincolnshire, Los Angeles, Manhattan, Monticello, Oakland, Omaha,
Polk City, Riverside, Riverwoods, San Francisco, Sacramento, SaratogaSprings, State College, St. Augustine, St. Petersburg, Talahassee,
Toronto, Westlake Village, West Chester, Westfield and Vernon Hills.
Rare Nest Gallery
Gallery 1070
2020
VENICE INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR 2020
Venice, Italy | April 09 – May 10, 2020
Invitational: paintings
Florence Contemporary Gallery, Italy
Inclusion in juried 2020 Gallery Artists
Magazine March, 2020
Highland Park Art Center, Highland Park, Illinois
Group Show "Love"
March 2020
Second Story Studios, Chicago, Illinois
Group Show "LE•AP BIG PRINT Art Show"
March 2020
Cornelia Arts Building, Chicago, Illinois
Solo show/Front gallery in conjunction with Open Studios
May 2020
Destig
Awarded January 2020: Best of the Year 2019
First Place: Eastern Conference USA and Canada
Strawdog Theatre Chicago, Illinois
Solo Show/Winter Residency
2019
Gallery 1070 Chicago, Illinois
Group Show
DESTIG Magazine London, UK
6 page feature as one of DESTIG's 2019 Top Artists
https://www.destig.com/marcia-biasiello-interview.html
Minted San Francisco, Ca
Award: Most Unique Drawing Style/Children's Mural
Award: 11th of 2000 entries for Children's Art
1100 Florence Gallery Evanston, Illinois
Group Show/Planned Parenthood Benefit
Strawdog Theatre Chicago, Illinois
Solo Show
2018
Minted San Francisco, Ca
Award: Editor's Choice: Painting
Award: Travel to Minted Artist Conference, Las Vegas
2017
Rare Nest Gallery Chicago, Illinois
Two exhibitions of invited artists
Since 2017 I have reemerged as a consistently working and exhibiting artist.
As an artist and Higher Education instructor,
I participated in numerous exhibitions from the 1980s thru 2000s:
ARC Gallery, Raw Space Chicago, Illinois. Installations.
Armitage Gallery Chicago, Illinois. Representation. Drawings.
Beloit College; Beloit, Wisconsin. Invitational drawings
Evanston Art Center Evanston, Illinois. Invitational: Paintings.
Hyde Park Art Center Chicago, Illinois. Paintings.
Krannert Art Museum University of Illinois Group exhibit: Visual Novel.
MARS Gallery, Chicago, Illinois. Paintings.
McKinley Gallery Urbana, Illinois. Photographs.
Photography International Chicago Amphitheatre, Chicago, Illinois
Prairie Ranch Productions St. Paul, MN Invitational; Drawings.
Randolph Street Gallery Chicago, Illinois: Martha. An Opera.
Collaboration with Robert Metrick.
Third Coast, Chicago, Illinois. Drawings.
Traveling Exhibition San Francisco Art Institute; Osaska, Japan. Photographs and drawings
Warm Gallery MiInneapolis, MN Installation.
Awards
1986: Illinois Arts Council Grant With Robert Metrick for The Martha Opera
1982: Illinois Arts Council Grant Visual Art
Professional Employment
1985 - Current
Educational publishing Project Manager, emphasis on image curation, acquisition and licensing.
Free-Lance illustration.
College Teaching
Visiting Artist; School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Photography. 1985
Visiting Assistant Professor, College of Art and Design; Photography. 1981 - 1984
Education
BA, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 1978 - Individual Plan of Study in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences: "A Conceptual Approach to Intermediate Art". Graduation with Highest Honors.
Thesis title, "Memory Pages".
MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago / Photography, 1981
Strawdog Theater
Solo Show
Winter Residency