Gianna Commito

Gianna Commito (b. 1976, Sea Level, NC) earned a BFA from The New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, Alfred, NY and an MFA from the University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA. She has held solo exhibitions at Rachel Uffner Gallery in New York and Abattoir Gallery in Cleveland, OH, and has been presented in numerous group exhibitions including Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA; Lucien Terras, New York, NY; Ochi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; The Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH; MOCA Cleveland, Cleveland, OH; the Drawing Center, New York, NY, and the FRONT International; Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art in Cleveland, OH. Commito is the recipient of several awards and fellowships including the Columbus Museum of Art Wayne P. Lawson Award; the Cleveland Art Prize; a Pollack Krasner fellowship, and Artist in Residence at Yaddo, McDowell, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, and nido, Monte Castello di Vibio, Italy. Her work is placed in collections at the Akron Art Museum, Columbus Art Museum, the Cleveland Clinic Collection, and the Progressive Art Collection.The artist is represented by Rachel Uffner Gallery in New York, NY, Abattoir Gallery in Cleveland, OH, and Marrow in San Francisco. She lives and works in Kent, OH.