About
Mike Piergrossi is an artist who lives and works in New York City. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania in 1974, but grew up in a suburb of Boston, Massachusetts named Chelmsford. Mike completed his Bachelor of Fine Art degree in Painting at the Ringling College of Art and Design in Sarasota, Florida in May 1996, and moved to New York City a month later. He earned his Master of Art in Studio Art in 2001 from New York University in three summers studying in Venice, Italy. Mike continues to travel to Venice regularly, and to visit with his family in Padova, Veneto. He maintains his studio in his tiny tenement apartment in Greenwich Village.
EDUCATION
New York University, New York, NY, Master of Arts in Studio Art, Venice Program, 2001
Ringling College of Art, Sarasota, FL, Bachelor of Fine Art in Painting, 1996
EXHIBITIONS
2015: Bushwick Open Studios, Brooklyn Collage Collective, Brooklyn, NY
A Celebration of Life, Pennsylvania Hospital, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
2014: Summer Show, Road Gallery, NY, NY
2013: Sea and Sky, Liz Afif Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2012: It’s The End of the World, Rubber Jerusalem Experiment,
Brooklyn, NY
Strange Glue: Collage at 100, Thompson Gallery, The Cambridge School of Weston, Weston, MA
2011: The PooL Art Fair New York, Gershwin Hotel, NY, NY
2010: Installation at Schaeffer Landing, Brooklyn, NY
The PooL Art Fair Miami Beach, Carlton Hotel, Miami, FL
2009: The Art of Travel, curated by Brigid Watson, Tinku Gallery,
Toronto, Canada
Collision Course, curated by Elaine Berger, Nassau County
Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY
2008: Chinoiserie and Other Follies, curated by Lori Kent, Hunter College, NY, NY
Irregardless, Temporary Gallery, NY, NY
2006: Ex-Ample, Andre Zarre Gallery, NY, NY
Stuck: The Influence of Collage on 21st Century Artists, curated by Suzanne Dell’Orto, Molloy College Art Gallery, Molloy College, Rockville Center, NY
2004: Small Works, 80 Washington Square East Galleries, New York University, NY, NY
2003: Douglas Dibble Memorial Show, Times Square Gallery, Hunter College, NY, NY
Everything Must Go, 59 Harrison Street, Brooklyn, NY
2002: Circumnavigating a Sea of Shit, Cynthia Broan Gallery,
NY, NY
Turning Point Seven, Allyn Gallup Contemporary, Sarasota, FL
2001: Clara e Gli Americani, Galleria AAB, Brescia, Italy
2000: Selections, curated by Annie Heron, Eyewash, Brooklyn, NY
Dispatch, curated by Vittorio Urbani, Nuova Icona, Venice, Italy
1998: Offbeat: Humor in Life and Art, Eyewash, Brooklyn