Adriana Farmiga

Adriana Farmiga ( ; born July 17, 1974) is an American visual artist, curator, and professor based in New York City. She serves as a programming advisor for the non-profit La Mama Gallery in the East Village, and is the current Associate Dean at Cooper Union School of Art.

Early life Farmiga was born and raised in a small Ukrainian community in Rosendale, New York. Her paternal first cousins are actresses Vera Farmiga and Taissa Farmiga. She was educated at Cooper Union, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1996. Farmiga went on to study at the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College, where she was taught by the late installation artist Maryanne Amacher; she received her Master of Fine Arts degree from Bard in 2004.

Career Farmiga began teaching at Temple University's Tyler School of Art and at her alma mater Cooper Union. Additionally, she served as a visiting lecturer at the Rhode Island School of Design in 2013. In October 2017, Farmiga was appointed to the position of Assistant Dean at Cooper Union School of Art.

Farmiga has displayed her artwork at many solo exhibitions, including objects (2001) in New Orleans, 'Scape (2006) in Miami, and Versus (2012) in New York. In 2004, Farmiga was among a group of artists displaying their work in the exhibition The Reality of Things at Triple Candie in Harlem. In 2008, she received the Emerging Artist Fellowship from Socrates Sculpture Park.

In 2011, Farmiga worked as a curator and artist for her cousin Vera Farmiga's directorial debut film Higher Ground. In 2013, Farmiga was part of the Screen Play exhibition at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art in New Paltz. The following year, she was one of 16 artists chosen, from over 320 applicants, to display her work in the Worlds of Wonder exhibition, also shown at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art.

In December 2016, Farmiga's work as part of CIM began showing at the Ukrainian Museum, where it was exhibited until September 2017. From January to February 2017, her work as part of Abandoned Luncheonette was exhibited at the Jeff Bailey Gallery in Hudson, New York. In April 2018, it was announced that Farmiga was one of twelve visual artists whom had been granted a summer fellowship at the MacDowell Colony.

Exhibitions

Solo Year Title Location 2001 objects Marguerite Oestreicher Gallery 2006 'Scape Spinello Gallery 2008 44/55 La Mama Gallery 2009 lives Newman Popiashvili Gallery 2012 Versus La Mama Gallery 2014 Still Life La Mama Gallery 2015 Suite for Pong New Media Gallery 2017 HA HA FRESH La Mama Gallery 2017 Blue Hour Marisa Newman Projects

Group Year Title Location 2001 Under the Influence Contemporary Arts Center 2003 Enchante Bard College 2004 Serralves Casa Project Serralves Museum 2004 Gallery Exchange: Placemaker Guild & Greyshkul Gallery 2004 Shelters Byrdcliffe Arts Colony 2004 The Reality of Things Triple Candie 2004 ache La Mama Gallery 2005 Something is Somewhere Monya Rowe Gallery 2005 Red White and Blue Spencer Brownstone Gallery 2005 Frisbee Cavalier Hotel 2006 Advent ArtCenter/South Florida 2006 Speed Limit Lower Manhattan Cultural Center 2006 The Tupperware Party Spinello Gallery 2006 At Hand Lower Manhattan Cultural Center 2006 Spiral Huset Tensta Konsthall 2007 Free Frisbee Cirrus Gallery & Cavalier Hotel 2007 M*A*S*H The Helena 2007 Smash and Grab Locust Projects 2007 Red Badge of Courage Newark Arts Council 2007 Dream of Today Steve Turner Contemporary 2008 Brucennial Bruce High Quality Foundation 2008 intransit Moti Hasson Gallery 2008 Where Are We Pearl Gallery 2008 Art Crush Jenny Jaskey Gallery 2008 Zig Zag Hariyat Karakov Gallery 2008 Without Walls Museum 52 2009 Beauty Underfoot Smack Mellon 2009 Unmistakable HERE Arts Center 2009 The Armory Show Socrates Sculpture Park 2010 Made in Rosendale Roos Arts Gallery 2011 Pretty Vacant Brooklyn, New York 2011 Shapeshifters 443 PAS 2011 Thisorganized Susan Inglett Gallery 2012 Graphomania Geoffrey Young Gallery 2013 Almanac Newman Popiashvili Gallery 2013 Eight Ball Geoffrey Young Gallery 2013 Our Backyard Roos Arts Gallery 2013 Screen Play Samuel Dorsky Museum 2014 Worlds of Wonder Samuel Dorsky Museum 2014 Autumn/Flat Light Through An Open Door Dumbo Arts Festival 2016 Dress the Form Derek Eller Gallery 2016 Spirits in the Material World Prizm Art Fair 2016 CIM Ukrainian Museum 2017 Abandoned Luncheonette Jeff Bailey Gallery 2017 Whitney Houston Biennial New York City, New York 2017 Supreme Friction Geoffrey Young Gallery 2017 Rally in the Valley Instar Lodge and September Gallery 2017 CIM Ukrainian Museum 2017 The Transphysics We Knew About... Prizm Art Fair 2018 Indeterminacy Koenig & Clinton Gallery 2018 NADA New York La Mama Gallery