Mariel Capanna
Exhibitions, CV, Press
Born 1988, Philadelphia, PA
Lives and works in Williamstown, MA
SELECT SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2022
Mariel Capanna, Liste Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland
A Nice Gift for Friends and Relatives, Adams and Ollman, Portland, OR
2021
Good Weather, North Little Rock, AR
Overlook, Adams and Ollman, Portland, OR and Good Weather, Salt Lake City, UT
Mariel Capanna + Pat Adams, Independent NY, New York, NY
2018
Bone Dry with Lucia Thomé, Marginal Utility, Philadelphia, PA
2017
Little Stone, Open Home, Good Weather, North Little Rock, AR
Mariel Capanna + Willie Wayne Smith, Central Park Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
left, Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2016
Our Tacony (Public Fresco), MuralArts, Philadelphia, PA
Mariel Capanna & HOODSisters at Rafa Esparza’s Con/Safos, Clockshop, Los Angeles, CA
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
I have done it again. / One year in every ten / I manage it——, Adams and Ollman, Portland, OR
2022
We Feel Our Way Through When We Don’t Know, Battleboro Museum and Art Center, Battleboro, VT
Elective Affinities, Chapter NY, New York, NY
Keeping Things Whole, North Loop Gallery, Williamstown, MA
Mountains at Collioure, 89 S. Main, White River Junction, VT
2020
Eartha, Adams and Ollman, Portland, OR
Shelter Is, ArtYard, Frenchtown, NJ
Counterparts and Doppelgangers, Cerulean Arts, Philadelphia, PA
ONLY WHEN YOU ARE CALLED, Yale Painting Thesis Show, New Haven, CT
2019
Hold On, Hold Me, Charles Moffett, New York, NY
Power of 10, Steve Turner, Los Angeles, CA
2018
Inside Out, Steve Turner, Los Angeles, CA
The Unlikely Whole, ArtYard, Frenchtown, NJ
New Radicals, Cerulean Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Drift, PAFA Alumni Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Person, Place or Thing with Center for Creative Works, UCAL, Philadelphia, PA
2017
Hello Girls! with Material Girls organized by Alt Esc, No Vacancy 3, Brooklyn, NY
Woodmere Annual Juried Exhibition, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA
RAIR: Filthy Rich, The Galleries at Moore, Moore College of Art & Design, Philadelphia, PA
2016
noon, Kamahira, Philadelphia, PA
A Body Has No Center, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Philadelphia, PA
5 to Watch, Avery Galleries, Philadelphia, PA
fresh stART, Arena 1 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Shades, The Bedfellow’s Club, Little Rock, AR
2015
Gazing Inward, COOP, Nashville, TN
Woodmere Annual Juried Exhibition, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Richard Said, Fjord, Philadelphia, PA
Privacy Made Public, New Hope Arts Center, New Hope, PA
2014
Should I Stay Or Should I Go?, Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
AWARDS AND GRANTS
2019
Robert Schoelkopf Memorial Travelling Fellowship (Yale School of Art)
Katherine Beinecke Michel Scholarship (Yale School of Art)
2017
Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant
2014
Independence Foundation Visual Arts Fellowship
2013
Kittredge Fund Artist Grant
Philadelphia Mayor’s Award (PAFA)
Hobson-Pittman Award (PAFA)
2012
The Cresson Travel Scholarship (PAFA)
The Faculty Award (PAFA)
RESIDENCIES AND FELLOWSHIPS
2019
Wordshapes, Curated Exhibition of Work by Artists from Center for Creative Works, The Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA
2018
Fresco Intensive, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Madison, ME
Visual Culture, Arts and Media Residency at Haverford College, Haverford, PA
2017
Fresco Intensive, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Madison, ME
“Allies in Art” Fellowship at the Center for Creative Works, Wynwood, PA
Little Stone, Open Home, Artist Talk and Discussion with Good Weather Founder/Director Haynes Riley, The Clinton School for Public Service, Little Rock, AR
2016
Guapamacátaro Art & Ecology Residency, Michocán, Mexico
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Woodmere Art Museum
EDUCATION
2020
MFA, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT, Painting
2017
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Madison, ME
2016
The Mountain School of Arts (MSA^), Los Angeles, CA
2013
Certificate of Fine Arts, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), Philadelphia, PA
2012
BFA, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), Philadelphia, PA
TEACHING AND RELATED WORK
2021
Mellon Post-MFA Fellow in Studio Art at Williams College, Williamstown, MA
2020
Yale School of Art Teaching Assistant for “Basic Drawing”
2019
Yale School of Art Teaching Assistant for “Critical Practice”
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Fresco Shop Associate
Yale Norfolk School of Art Program Coordinator
2016
RAIR (Recycled Artist in Residency) Development Associate / Grant Writer
Tacony LAB (Library and Arts Building)/MuralArts Resident Artist & Lead Muralist
CURATORIAL PROJECTS + ARTIST TALKS
2019
Wordshapes (Curated exhibition of drawings by artists from the Center for Creative Works) The Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA
2017
Little Stone, Open Home, Artist Talk and Discussion with Good Weather Director Haynes Riley The Clinton
School for Public Service, Little Rock, AR
2016
Walls Talk Back, Panel Discussion with Kaitlin Pomerantz moderated by Paul Farber Little Berlin, Philadelphia, PA
2015
Artist Interview on Articulate with Jim Cotter, WHYY, Philadelphia, PA
2014
Annual Cohen Arts Lecture, Germantown Friends School, Philadelphia, PA