Curriculum Vitae
Christine Palamidessi’s sculptures and paintings are held in homes of private collectors in Italy, US, Dominican Republic, Saudi Arabia, France and Brazil. Her work has been exhibited in galleries in Boston, Washington D.C., Pittsburgh, Woodstock, Vermont, England and Italy; and in Boston’s State House. Her memoir “Grandmothers” is engraved on granite monolith installed at Jackson Square in Boston. She is the author of two novels, one memoir, and a collection of fiction and academic writing. She is the fiction editor of the academic journal Italian Americana. Palamidessi works and resides in Cambridge, MA.
EDUCATION
BA in Film and Literature, University of Pittsburgh, 1973.
MA in Creative Writing, Boston University, 1995.
Hands-on study with mask-making, ceramic and cartapesta artisans in Venice, Rome, Tricase, and Lecce, Italy (1990, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2022)
RESIDENCIES
American Academy in Rome, Visiting Artist and Scholar, May 2017 and December 2022.
MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA, 2017.
ACCM Residency, Palace Bacile di Castiglione, Spongano, Italy, 2015.
BAU, Otranto, 2014.
Dorset House, Dorset, VT, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998.
Dorset House, Vermont 1992,1994,1996, 1998.
AWARDS
1998 Dante Alighieri Fellowship (study in Rome)
1996 Barbara Deming Award for Women Artists
1995 UrbanArts Award (public art)
PUBLIC ART
Grandmothers, 8ft granite monolith permanently installed at Jackson Square, Boston, MA.
ONE + TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2024 Dig Art Museum Complex, Duxbury, MA
2024 Spirit Vessel, BostonSculptor's Gallery, Boston MA
2023 Couples, Galatea Fine Art, SOWA, Boston Ma
2023 Summer, Atlantic Works Gallery, Boston, MA
2021 The Future Has an Ancient Face, Galatea Fine Art, Boston
2021 Sensations of Soaring, Atlantic Works Gallery, Boston, MA.
2020 Icons & Talismans, Galatea Fine Arts, Boston, MA.
2019 Wabi Sabi, Atlantic Works Gallery, Boston, MA.
2017 Silent.Silence.Silenced, Atlantic Works Gallery, Boston, MA
2017 Inside Outside, Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Cambridge, MA
2016 Yogi Stupa, Atlantic Works Gallery, Boston.
2014 Episodes of Violence, Otranto Castle, Otranto, Italy.
2014 The Brazilians, West Side Lounge, Cambridge, MA.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS (CURATED)
2024 Feast Mosesian Center for the Arts, Watertown MA.
2024 Untangled, Six Bridges Gallery, Maynard MA
2023 Printmaking and Social Engagement, Mosesian Center for the Arts, Watertown, MA.
2021 Women in Abstraction, curated by Destiny Palmer, New Art Center, Newton, MA
2020 Art Woman:Geo-Graphies, Culture and Contemporary Art Gallery, Lecce, Italy.
2019 This is How It Starts, Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Cambridge, MA
2018 Prometheus Lights, Boston East Gallery, Boston, MA.
2018 Between the Seams, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL.
2017 Visionary Art Show, Palazzo Vernazza Castromediano, Lecce, Italy.
2017 Wings, Beaks, Feathers, ArtScape, W. Concord, MA.
2017 Escape, Annemarie Sculpture Garden (Smithsonian Museum affiliate), Solomons, MD.
2016 Drawn from Within, Chandler Gallery, Cambridge, MA .
2016 boXed, Nave Gallery, Somerville MA.
2016 Self-ish, University Gallery, Cambridge, MA.
2015 Alfred Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel.
2015 New England Collective VI, Galatea Gallery, Boston, MA.
2015 Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Cambridge, MA.
2015 University Place Gallery, Cambridge, MA.
2015 Unbound Vol V, Artistree, Woodstock, VT.
2015 Doppelganger, Atlantic Works Gallery, Boston, MA.
2015 Annemarie Sculpture Garden (Smithsonian Museum affiliate), Solomons, MD.
2015 Palazzo Bacile di Castiglione, Spongano, Salento, Italy.
2015 National Salon des Refusés, Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WI.
2015 Spring Bull Gallery, Newport, RI. (Honorable Mention)
2014 Figure50, Massachusetts Artists (online curated exhibit of 50 US figurative artists).
2014 Unbound Vol IV, Artistree, Woodstock, VT.
2014 New England Collective V, Galatea Gallery, Boston, MA.
2014 Annemarie Sculpture Garden (Smithsonian Museum affiliate), Solomons, MD.
2014 Piano Craft Gallery, Boston, MA.
2014 Alpers Fine Art, Andover, MA.
2013 New England Collective IV, Galatea Gallery, Boston, MA.
2013 Boston State House, Boston, MA.
2012 Boston State House, Boston, MA.
2012 Gallery on Main Street, Saxonburg, PA.
2012 North River Gallery, Marshfield, MA.
2011 Boston State House, Boston, MA.
COLLECTIONS
Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Boston MA
PRESS (See Bibliography for complete list)
Artscope, 2023; Art New England 2022; Les Femme Folles: Women in Art, February 2016
Art as A Spiritual Practice, Spirit of Change Magazine, 2016
BOOKS
Bridge of Love, Artist Book, Christine Palamidessi, 2021
The Virgin Knows - St.Martin’s Press, 1995; GATE Press 2010; Kindle 2013
The Fiddle Case - IAP 2007; GATE Press, 2010, Kindle, 2008
American Women, Italian Style - Fordham University Press, 2010
PUBLISHED
2023, Couples, artist book
2018 Art Basil, cookbook featuring art and artist recipes
2017 About Otranto Cannonballs: Silence, Violence and Subsequent Art (artist book)
2017 Pennsylvania English, University of Indiana, PA (national literary journal/cover art)
2017 Interim, Las Vegas University, NV (national literary journal /cover art).
2015 Unbound Vol V, Artistree, Woodstock, VT. (sculptural book).
2014 Unbound Vol IV, Artistree, Woodstock, VT. (sculptural book)
CURATION
2020 ClipArt Gallery, East Boston, Reflections
TEACHING
2018-Present - Writing for Artists Workshops, facilitator and instructor
1995-2008 Boston University, College of Arts and Sciences, Professor of Writing