Curriculum Vitae

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EDUCATION
Transart Institute, NY/Berlin – Plymouth University UK | MFA Creative Practice 2020
Austen Riggs | Stanford | Berklee – Online psychology, education & music courses, 2015-2017
Elizabeth Freeman Center – Domestic Violence/Sexual Assault Hotline Counselor Training, 2014
Viborg Katedralskole – American Scandinavian Student Exchange, Viborg, Denmark, 1984-1985
Dartmouth College – Classes in French, Studio Arts and Dance, 1980-1984

SELECTED AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
2021   Unsung Hero Award, 4th Annual Berkshire Nonprofit Awards
2018   MCC Local Cultural Council Award, Egremont / Alford, MA
2018   ZK/U Center for Art and Urbanistics Residency Fellow, Berlin
2017   ZK/U Center for Art and Urbanistics Residency Fellow, Berlin
2016   Imperceptible Self Social Practice Award, Transart Institute, New York/Berlin
2009   Artist’s Fellowship Award, Salamagundi Club, New York
2008   Assets for Artists Fellowship
2004   A.R.T. (Artist’s Resource Trust) Award, Berkshire Taconic Foundation
2004   Change, Inc. Award
2002   The Puffin Foundation, Public Interest Project Grant
2001   Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art; Kidspace Honorarium
1997   Pastificio Cerere, Residency, Rome, Italy
1996   Politecnico Associazione Culturale, Rome, Italy
1989   MCC Local Cultural Council Award, Lenox, MA

PUBLIC INSTALLATION / CREATIVE ENGAGEMENT / PERFORMANCE EVENTS

2022      INVISIBLE, Group Exhibition curated by Jill Kearney, ArtYard, Frenchtown, NJ
2021      IN/VISIBILITY: A LAB REPORT, Immersive performance work, International Human Rights Art Festival, Wild Project NYC
LIVE ART! Up Close and Digital with Gabrielle Senza An Interactive Performance and Invisibility Workshop, Wake Forest University, online
2020     1,000 INVISIBLE THINGS: Investigating the Unseen in Our Everyday Lives, online interactive performance lecture and workshop, part of the Transart Sympoiesis symposium
Sympoiesis, online symposium co-curated with Transart Institute for Creative Research and other MFA graduating students
2019     1000 Invisible Things: Exploring the Unseen in Our Everyday World, Performance-Lecture-Workshop, International Transgender Conference, NYC
Incarcerated on Sunday, Solo Performance Dedicated to the Families and Children Detained at the US-Mexico Border, Governors Island, NY
Stories, Smiles, Art + Ice Cream, Public creative engagement event, Scranton Fringe Festival, Scranton, PA
Stories, Smiles, Art + Ice Cream, Public creative engagement event, ArtWeek Massachusetts Festival, Great Barrington, MA
2018     QUILL HOUSE, Performance created for International Human Rights Art Festival 2018, Wild Project, New York City
              Incarcerated on Sunday, Solo Performance. Walkin’ With WordXWord, Performers Respond to SculptureNow exhibit at The Mount, Lenox MA
              INVISIBILITY LAB: Archive of Invisibility, Installation & Participatory Event. Gütermarkt #32, ZK/U, Berlin, Germany
              INVISIBLE SUSTENANCE, Invisibility Lab’s Hosted Dinner Conversation at PS Kitchen, Open Engagement 2018: SUSTAINABILITY Conference, NYC
2017     INVISIBILITY LAB, Installation & Performance, Invisible Republic Conference, Lisbon
              1,000 Invisible Things, Performance Lecture, Invisible Republic Conference, Lisbon
              INVISIBILITY LAB, Installation & Performance. Berlin Art Week, ZK/U, Berlin, Germany
2015     Art + Activism: Creativity, Connection & Change, Performance & Artist Talk, Lauren Clark Fine Art, Great Barrington, MA
2014     Terra Temporalis: Create & Destroy, Performance, Thompson-Giroux Gallery, Chatham, NY
              Invisible & Forgiven, Performance, Living Room Theater, Rogue Angel Theater, Great Barrington, MA
              Embrace, Installation & Performance, Bard College of Simon’s Rock, Great Barrington, MA
              Facing Shame: Straight Talk on Childhood Sexual Assault, Performance Lecture, Red Collaborative’s Courageous Conversations Series, Great          Barrington, MA
2013     Heart Healing Ritual, Performance, Living Room Theater, Rogue Angel Theater, Great Barrington, MA
              Hysteria, Installation & Performance, Rites of Passage Living Museum & Dance Event, Rogue Angel Theater, Whitney Center for the Arts,   Pittsfield, MA
2012     Terra Temporalis: Create & Destroy, Installation & Performance, Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Brattleboro, VT
Nature Waits for No One, Performance, Living Room Theater, Rogue Angel Theater, Great Barrington, MA
2011     Terra Temporalis, Everhart Museum of Natural History, Science & Art, Scranton, PA
2010     Walk Unafraid, Amnesty International Human Rights Art Festival, Pyramid Atlantic, Silver Spring, MD
2008     The Collaborative Scroll + Seeing Red, V-Day’s V to the Tenth Super Love Event, New Orleans, LA
2006     Walk Unafraid Chelsea, Until The Violence Stops New York Festival, Kashya Hildebrand Gallery, Chelsea, NY
Walk Unafraid Brooklyn, UTVSNY Festival, Take Action Brooklyn! Block Party, Williamsburg, NY
              Walk Unafraid New York, UTVSNY Festival with ViBe Theater Experience at Here Arts Center, Chelsea, NY
              Walk Unafraid Pittsfield, Pittsfield City Hall, Pittsfield, MA
2003     Walk Unafraid, New Marlborough Meeting House Gallery, New Marlborough, MA

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020     Archive of Invisible Things, ZK/U Berlin Center for Art and Urbanistics, Berlin
2011     Terra Temporalis, Sanford Smith Fine Art, Great Barrington, MA
2007     Meditations with Fire, Bard College at Simon’s Rock, Great Barrington, MA
2006     Untitled Dialogues, O.K. Harris Gallery, New York, NY
2005     RADALDA: Rotations: Addiction, Desire & Abuse Linked to Depression & Alcohol, Gabrielle Senza & The Red Collaborative at the Storefront Artist Project Main Space, Pittsfield, MA
2003     Between the Lines, organized by the Contemporary Art Center @ Inkberry, North Adams, MA
              Unspoken, Atrium Gallery, Bard College at Simon’s Rock, Gt. Barrington, MA
2001     Seeing Red, Project Room, Meeting House Gallery, New Marlborough, MA
1998     Gabrielle Senza, Pastificio Cerere, Rome, Italy
              Gabrielle Senza, Jaffe Baker Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
1997     Gabrielle Senza, Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, CT
1996     Gabrielle Senza, David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, MI
              Gabrielle Senza, Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, CT
1993     Works on Paper, O.K. Harris Gallery, NYC
              Industrial America, David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1991     Small Works, O.K. Harris Gallery, NYC

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020     Sympoiesis, Spike Berlin, Berlin Germany
2017     Open Frame Film Festival, Berlin Germany
2015     EN MASSE II, Thompson-Giroux Gallery, Chatham, NY
2014     The Aura of Fiery Inspiration, Thompson-Giroux Gallery, Chatham, NY
2012     Arcadia, OK Harris Gallery, New York, NY
              Outside/Inside, Thompson-Giroux Gallery, Chatham, NY
              Bridging Earth & Sky, Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Brattleboro, VT
2011     Buds, Blooms & Berries: Plants in Science, Culture & Art, Everhart Museum, Scranton, PA
2010     Information Revisited, Belskie Museum of Art & Science, Closter, NJ
2007     Women of the SKH Gallery, SKH Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
2006     4 Women Standing Nude, Lauren Clark Fine Art, Housatonic, MA
              Woman: A Self Portrait, Kashya Hildebrand Gallery, Chelsea, NY
2005     The Power of Place, Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA
2004     Art & The River, Housatonic River Project, Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, MA
              STREAM Lines, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
              Toxic Landscapes: Artists Examine the Environment, Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences, Loveladies, NJ
2003     Deep Listening, Gallery of Modern Art, Marblehead, MA
              Art As Activism As Art, The Meeting House Gallery, New Marlborough, MA
              Love Behind Glass, Storefront Artist Project, Pittsfield, MA
2002     Phenomena, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
              Paperworks, Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, CT
              EcoArt, The Meeting House Gallery, New Marlborough, MA
              Paisajes Toxicos, El Reino del Mundo Gallery, Bibliotéca Nacional José Marti Havana, Cuba. Organized by the Puffin Foundation.
              Books by Artists, CAC & Inkberry, North Adams, MA
              Toxic Landscapes: US Artists Examine the Environment, Puffin Cultural Forum, Teaneck, NJ
              New Digs For The Dog,  Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, MA
2001     Toxic Landscapes: US Artists Examine the Environment, international traveling exhibition sponsored by the Puffin Foundation. The exhibition opened in Pittsburgh, PA during the WASTE summit (Nov. 2001) at Chatham College sponsored by the Rachel Carson Institute and the Women’s Environment and Development Organization (WEDO).
              Connections: Past, Present, Future, Gallery of Modern Art, Marblehead, MA
              Urban Imagery, Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, CT
              Contemporary Religious Art, Fox-Martin Gallery, Housatonic, MA
2000     Human Nature, Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, CT
              PULSE, Barbara O’Brien, curator, Gallery of Modern Art, Marblehead, MA
              Artists Along the Housatonic, Interlaken School of Art, Stockbridge, MA
              Inspired By Rivers, Meetinghouse Gallery, New Marlborough, MA
1999     A Local Habitation & A Name, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
1998     The Landscape Revisited, The Putney School, Putney, VT
              LAND MASS, Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, CT
1997     Selections from SPAZI Contemporary Art, Kim Foster Gallery, New York, NY
              Genius Loci: Hail Corn, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
1996     The Alphabet of Trees, Johan Westenburg Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
              Nine SPAZI Artists in Rome, Politecnico Associazione Culturale, Rome, Italy
              Image + Text, The Sage Colleges, Rathbone Gallery, Albany, NY
1995     The New Landscape, Springfield Museum of Fine Art, Springfield, MA
              Intimate Obsessions, Barbara O’Brien, curator, Cragin Fife Gallery, Brookline, MA
              Painting X 5, Nicholas Davies & Co., New York, NY
1994     Wood and Stone and Steel and Bone, Paris–New York–Kent Gallery, Kent, CT
              Small Paintings and Gilded Artifacts, Modern Rarities, New York, NY
1993     The Post Industrial World, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA
1992     Realism/Photo Realism, David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, MI
              The Big Picture, Paintings in Grandes Format, O.K. Harris Gallery, NYC
              Small Works, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX

TEACHING / VISITING ARTIST
Bard College at Simon’s Rock | Gt. Barrington, MA – Adjunct Professor, 2014, 2004, 2003
A Broader Way | Summer Camp for Girls, NYC @ at Simon’s Rock – Instructor, 2012, 2011
Chesterwood | Stockbridge, MA – Guest Artist / Instructor, 2007
Norman Rockwell Museum | Stockbridge, MA – Instructor, 2005
Cooper Union | New York, NY – Continuing Education Instructor, 2004
Community Access to the Arts (CATA) | Great Barrington, MA – Teaching Artist, 2004
Valleyhead School | Lenox, MA – Instructor, residential treatment facility for girls, 2004
IS 183 North @ MASS MoCA | North Adams, MA – Instructor, 2003, 2001
IS 183 | Stockbridge, MA – Painting & Drawing Courses and Workshops, 2003, 2001, 2000
Flying Cloud Institute | New Marlborough, MA – Teaching Artist, 2003
Kidspace @ MASS MoCA | North Adams, MA – Workshop Instructor, 2001
Hawthorne Valley School | Harlemville, NY – Visiting Artist, 2000

SELECTED LECTURES, PANELS, PRESENTATIONS
Invisible Traces, Artist Talk, SOMA/Transart Institute, Mexico City, 2020
Quill House, Performance, International Human Rights Art Festival, NYC, 2018
Invisibility Lab, Performance Installation, ZK/U, Berlin, 2017, 2018
1000 Invisible Things, Lecture, Invisible Republics Conference, Lisbon, PT, 2017
Making the Invisible Visible, Artist Talk, Transart Institute, Berlin, 2017
Art + Activism, Artist Talk, Lauren Clark Fine Art, 2015
Facing Shame, Performance Lecture, First Congregational Church, 2014
Miss Representation, Panelist, Bard College at Simon’s Rock, 2012
DV and You, Panelist, Berkshire Community College, 2009
Anti-Violence Against Women, Conference Panelist, Amnesty International, 2010
Walk Unafraid + Collaborative Scroll, Human Rights Art Festival, Silver Spring, MD, 2010
Seeing Red, Healing Lounge Interactive, V-Day’s V10 Event, New Orleans, LA, 2008
Walk Unafraid, Until the Violence Stops, Festival Presenter, New York, NY, 2006
Landscape as Inspiration, Artist’s Talk, Berkshire Museum, 2005
Toxic Landscapes: Eco Art Roundtable, Panelist, Puffin Foundation, Teaneck, NJ, 2002
Image + Text, Artist Panel, The Sage Colleges, Albany, NY, 1996
Post Industrial World, Artist Panel, Montserrat College of Art, 1993

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 
A Creative Career Coach Outlines a Strategy for the Working Artist, Lillian Slugocki, Artrepreneur, June 13, 2017
Selling Art. Ellen Lahr, Berkshire Magazine, May 2013
Terra Temporalis Create & Destroy: Gabrielle Senza, BCTV 2012
Planting an Idea: ‘Buds, Blooms & Berries’ exhibit focuses on environment at Everhart Museum, Lifestyles & People, Caitline Heaney, Times Tribune, August 11, 2011
Visual Arts: A Brush with Life. Feature. Alison McGee, Berkshire Living Magazine, March 2011
Recent Readings of the Housatonic, Geoffrey Young,  Art and the River, 2005
Senza exhibit at Simon’s Rock library offers ambitious agenda in black-and-white and red, Art Review, Charles Bonenti, The Berkshire Eagle, Friday, March 28, 2003, page D4
New Marlborough artist launches Red Collaborative, Judith Monachina, The Advocate, March 19, 2003, page 6
Eco Art: Man’s effect on nature expressed in art, Charles Bonenti, Berkshire Eagle, Thursday, Sept. 12, 2002
Art and Culture, María de la Soledad, Radio Progreso Online, Miami, June 27, 2002
Successful opening for Toxic Landscapes exhibition, Jean-Guy Allard, Granma Internacional Digital, Cuba, June 21, 2002
Pair of shows comment on environmental issues facing our nation – and the world, by Kurt Shaw, The Pittsburgh Tribune, Friday, November 16, 2001
Dog house fantasies at Rockwell museum, Charles Bonenti, Berkshire Eagle, Saturday, April 20, 2002
Cragin Fife Gallery: Intimate Obsessions, Susan Mulski, Art New England, 1995 Dec/January 1996
New Berkshire Landscapes, Daniel M. Klein, Berkshire Magazine, Spring 1995
Massachusetts Milltowns, Gloria Russell & Robin Krasner Cossin, Art New England, Oct/Nov 1994
From Mill Town to Arts Mecca, Jeff Kantrowitz, The Boston Globe, September 3, 1993
Montserrat exhibit presents Post – Industrial images, Elisabeth Clark, North Shore Magazine, Feb. 18, 1993
Exhibit offers look at approaches, Gloria Russell, Sunday Republican, Leisure Section, Sun., Sept. 10, 1995
Interpreting the Landscape, the Paper, October 1995

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
INVISIBLE REPUBLICS: Music, Lettrism, Avant-Gardes, Edited by Dr. Anabela Duarte, FLUL, Lisbon (forthcoming 2020)
An Anthology of Babes: Thirty-Six Women Give Motherhood a Voice, Edited by Suzi Banks Baum. Laundry Line Divine, 2013
MAMA BEAR: It Takes a Village, Roar Magazine, The Advocate, May 2012
MAMA BEAR: The Fueling of Dreams, Roar Magazine, The Advocate, February 2012
Olivia Bernard: Descent and Flight: Terra Incognita, Hampden Gallery at UMass Amherst. Art New England, April/May 2004, Review, p. 27
Carolyn Webb and Neal Parks: Shared Elements, A.P.E. Gallery, Northampton, MA. Art New England, April/May 2004, Review, p. 25
Bonita Sennott: Paintings and Drawings, Center For the Arts, Northampton, MA. Art New England, February/March 2003, Review, p. 28
Jee-Un Kim: Objects of Subjectivity, S.K.H. Gallery, Great Barrington, MA. Art New England, December/January 2003, Review, p. 34
Laura Fayer: New Paintings, Patterns of Movement, Ute Stebich Gallery, Lenox, MA. Art New England, December/January 2003, Review, p. 34
Play With Your Food!, The Family Beat, October 2002, p. 23

PUBLIC & CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Lifetime Entertainment, New York, NY
JMW Consultants Inc., Stamford, CT
Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA
Sackner Archive of Concrete & Visual Poetry, Miami, FL
First Chicago National Bank, Detroit, MI
Paine Webber, Inc., Hato Rey, Puerto Rico
Richard M. Ross Art Museum, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, OH

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