Allison Bianco American, b. 1979

Allison Bianco received her MFA in Printmaking (2010) from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI and her BA in Studio Art (2001) from Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA. Bianco has recently been awarded a public art commission for New York City public school 671K in Brooklyn for a new, permanent site-specific artwork. The commission is through the New York City School Construction Authority, Public Art for Public Schools program in collaboration with the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Percent for Art program for the collection of the New York City Department of Education. Recent awards include a project grant from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts for the completion of a large etching entitled The Providence River Cover Up (2019);  a Visual Arts Sea Grant from the University of Rhode Island (2015); and a solo exhibition at The Print Center in Philadelphia as part of their 88th International Competition (2014). Her work is in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA; The New York Public Library, NY; RISD Museum, RI; Yale University Art Gallery, CT; University of San Diego, Hoehn Family Print Collection, CA; Wheaton College, Norton, MA; and the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, HI; among others.