Resumé/CV
Anita Giraldo is an educator, designer and installation artist living and working in New York City. She has created site-specific installations, photographic documentaries and fine art print series which have been exhibited in New York City, and throughout the United States and Europe. She is currently an associate professor of media technology and design at the New York City College of Technology (CUNY) in Brooklyn New York.
Exhibition Experience
Solo Shows
2013: Steel Ice & Stone, ArtWorks Trenton, Trenton, New Jersey (Curated). http://artworkstrenton.org/steel-ice-stone-archive/
2007: Looking for Work, The Columbia County Historical Society Museum, Kinderhook, NY (Curated). Catalog available. Exhibition resulting from the commission of documentary photographs of industrial structures in Columbia County, New York, to accompany the book by the same name. Curated by Bonnie Yochelson.
1996: See My Voice, the Adams Landing Arts Center, Cincinnati (Curated).Exhibition of a series of sppech-animated photographs. Each piece contains a multimedia playback unit designed to play when the viewer crosses a sensor.
1991: Urban Ghosts, the Municipal Art Society, New York (Curated). A photo documentary on the forgotten historical burial structures around New York City.
Select Group Shows
2024 Democracy Spoken Here, exhibited at:
• The Contemporary Print, Austin TX, Icosa Gallery
• Diversity Unveiled: An American Mosaic, University of Wyoming, Laramie
2023 Democracy Spoken Here, exhibited at:
• Pivotal: An Exploration of Art and Activism, Women’s Artist Coalition, Washington DC.
• FL3TCH3R: 11th Annual FL3TCH3R, curated by Adam De Marcelle. WInner of the FL3TCH3R Defence of Human Rights Award.
• Roe 2.0, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL, https://womanmade.org/roe-2pt0/;
• Print Austin/Print Santa Fe, p. 24 of catalog: https://issuu.com/printaustin/docs/2printaustin2023_issu;
• Awake! Ann Arbor Art Center, Ann Arbor, MI
2020 Synapse exhibited in
• Cultura Del Vaquero, Eamon Carter Visual Arts Center, Fort Worth Texas. Panoramic photographic images from (Curated).
2020 Democracy Spoken Her , exhibited at
• Suffrajetting: Woman Made Gallery. Two images exhibited (Curated). https://womanmade.org/artwork/suffra-jetting/
The online exhibition: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=674039100012293
• Voting Daughters, The Foundry, St. Louis: http://www.foundryartcentre.org/about-the-foundry
Virtual Exhibition: http://www.foundryartcentre.org/voting-daughters. (Curated).
2019: Democracy Spoken Here, exhibited at :
• Stories in Print: Rockaway Artists Association, Fort Tilden, New York. https://www.rockawave.com/articles/stories-in-printopens/
2014: Steel Ice & Stone exhibited in
• Concerning Matter, The Gowanus Ballroom, Brooklyn, NY. https://www.facebook.com/events/313622282125792 (Curated)
2013: Invited to exhibit one piece from Steel Ice & Stone at TEDxUES, August 2013, Bohemian National Hall.
2010: See My Voice, exhibited at
• About Face, Tabla Rasa Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (Invitational).
2002: Images Against War, Cologne Germany (Juried; on world tour until 2014).
1996: See My Voice, exhibited at
• The Adams Landing Art Center, CIncinnati, Ohio
• The Amsterdams Centrum Voor Fotografie, Amsterdam, Netherlands (Curated).
Grants/Fellowships
2022: PSC CUNY for continued research grant for Finding the Sky, a multi-media installation, for AR/VR delivery.
2020: PSC CUNY Research grant for Democracy Spoken Here, a series of typographic art pieces using a variety of print methods to express the American progressive discourse in a particularly turbulent political era.
2016: PSC CUNY Research grant for Democracy Spoken Here.
2014: PSC CUNY Research grant for Finding the Sky, a multi-media installation. photographed throughout South America, illustrating the story of a centenarian’s travels.
2011: PSC CUNY Research grant for Steel Ice & Stone, a multi-media installation exhibited public galleries throughout the New York metropolitan area.
2005: The Puffin Foundation Artist Fellowship Grant to travel to the Mississippi delta and photograph the ship building industry in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
1998: Köln Salon, artist-in-residence program, Cologne, Germany
1989: National Endowment for the Arts for Documentary Photography: Urban Ghosts, a documentary of unknown gravesites throughout the New York City Area.
1985: New York Council on the Arts Fellowship (NYSCA) to photograph the architecture of Queens cemeteries.
Blogs and writings:
steeliceandstone.blogspot.com. The research of multimedia installation work is documented here. 2013-present. Still and moving images; sound.
democracyspokenhere.blogspot.com. The research and development of the print series is documented here 2016 - present.
2013 Author: Information Processing, New Photography 2012, a review of the new photography exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art. New York Photo Review, Volume 4, Issue 4, January 23, 2013.
Publications featuring artworks:
2023: Three panoramic photographs from another work, Synapse were featured in The Museum of Americana: A Literary Review, Vol 28, In Company of the Obsolete. https://themuseumofamericana.net/in-company-of-the-obsolete/
2023: Two images published to illustrate an article in Passenger’s Journal.
Publications reviewing exhibitions:
2019: The Wave reviews pieces from Democracy Spoken Here: https://www.rockawave.com/articles/stories-in-print-opens/
2007: The Independent, May 25, 2007 and October 19, 2007, page 9 and 17 respectively,review of Looking for Work, a photo documentary exhibition on the industrial architecture of Columbia County.
Commissions
2006: Commissioned by the Columbia County Historical Society to photograph the
industrial architecture of the county following the historic document Looking for Work
by architectural historian, Peter Stott. The photographs resulted in a curated exhibition
in 2007. Catalog available.
Professional Organizations (Professional Affiliations):
Design Incubation: International Design Research Association: presented at Colloquia 7.1;
https://designincubation.com/publications/abstracts/graphic-design-principles-a-history-andcontext-
based-first-year-design-textbook/
IdeaAlliance, the national organization of graphic arts professionals: https://idealliance.org/
Cooper Union Alumni Association: https://cooper.edu/alumni
School of Visual Arts Alumni Association
WAM, Women’s Audio Mission
Professional Experience:
Associate Professor of Design, Photography and Design Theory, New York City College of Technology, CUNY, Brooklyn, New York. 2010 - Present.
Education:
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Art and Science, Bachelor of Fine Arts, graphic design and photography major
The School of Visual Arts. Master of Fine Arts, Photography and Related Media.
Related experience
Successfully funded Kickstarter campaign for Steel Ice & Stone, 2013.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/anitagiraldo/steel-ice-and-stone-relaunch/description
Freelance Photographer. Photographs appearing in Vogue, Mademoiselle, Elle, Vanity Fair.
Portfolio upon request.