C.V.
C A R O L Y N D I F I O R I H O P K I N S
Cell: 607-542-0581 • Email: gray1carolyn@gmail.com
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📍 Based in Albany, NY
📞 607-542-0581
✉️ gray1carolyn@gmail.com
🌐 www.carolyndifiorihopkins.com
📸 Instagram: @difiorihopkinsstudio
Education
MFA with High Distinction, SUNY Albany
MA with High Distinction, SUNY Albany
BA Rutgers University, Camden
Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia
Teaching
• Instructor – The Atelier, Albany (current)
• Instructor of Record – Drawing, SUNY Albany
• Technical Assistant – Film, SUNY Albany
• Assistant – Archival Services, SUNY Albany
Publications
• The Daily Gazette – Indiana Nash, 2020 & 2019
• ARThropocene – Online Artist Interview Series
• Woven Tale Press – Summer 2020
• Peeling Back the Layers, The Sage Colleges, 2019
• Times Union, William Jaeger – “In-Faux-Structure” review
• PBS AHA! A House for Arts, Opalka Gallery feature
• Apogee Magazine, High Point University – Spring 2019
• Apogee Journal – “We Were Flying Over the Sunlit Side of the Earth”
• Nasty Women Everywhere, 2017
• Future Perfect: Picturing the Anthropocene (SUNY Albany)
Curatorial Projects
• WTF – Storefront Gallery, Troy NY (2022)
• The Hallway Gallery – Shows 1–6, Troy NY (2019–2021)
• Co-founder, The Hallway, Troy NY (2019)
• A Show About Nothing – Boor Sculpture Studio (2017)
• Guest Curator – Future Perfect, SUNY Albany Museum (2016)
Awards & Honors
Honorable Mention, 14th Annual Upstate Artists Juried Exhibition, Laffer Gallery, Schuylerville, NY 2025
2023 Featured Artist – Berlin Collective International
Individual Artist Grant – NYSCA & The Arts Center of the Capital Region
Fellow in Fine Art – Woven Tale Press, Elizabeth Sloan Tyler Award
Acquisition – Two works in SUNY Chancellor’s Permanent Collection
Additional funding from:
– NYS Council on the Arts
– Regional Economic Development Council
– The University at Albany Foundation
– NYS Collaborative Decentralization Grants
Best in Show, 360’s Exhibition, Saratoga, NY 2018
Professional Memberships
• Ecoartspace – Artist Member (2022–present)
• Berlin Collective International – Artist Member (2018–present)
Solo Exhibitions
The Hallway Gallery, Troy NY
The Plum Gallery, Paoli PA
The Designer’s Eye, Philadelphia PA
September Moon Gallery, Haddon Heights NJ
Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia PA
Selected Exhibitions
2024
The Hallway, Show 30 – Troy NY
2023
SCR Visual Artist Exhibition – Troy NY
The Hallway – Troy NY
2022
Not a Holiday Show – The Hallway
Take Action – Poster collaboration, Canada
2021
You Are Here Now – Berlin Collective
Flat File – Deanna Evans Projects, NYC
The Sketchbook Project – Brooklyn
2020
The Other Virus – 344 Second Street Gallery, Troy NY
Berlin Collective (online)
ARThropocene (online)
The Hallway Show #6
2019
LabSpace – Holiday, Hillsdale NY
In-Faux-Structure – Opalka Gallery, Albany NY
Pause Gallery – Works on Paper, Troy NY
SUNY Plaza Public Collection
MFA Thesis Show – University Art Museum
SUNY Global Abstraction – NYC
SUNY Albany Capital Center Exhibit
2018–1981 (Highlights)
Fence Select – Troy NY
Nasty Women Art Show – Queens NY
Linus Art Gallery – Los Angeles
Mangel Gallery Invitational – Philadelphia
Artists Call National – Philadelphia & NYC
Salmagundi Club – Pastelists National
Garth Clark Gallery – Soho
Woodmere Gallery – Chestnut Hill PA
Wayne Center for the Arts – PA
Cassatt Mansion – Berwyn PA
Yellow Springs Institute – PA
Art Expo – NYC
Artist Residencies
Arts, Letters & Numbers – Averill Park NY
The Anti-Graffiti Network – Philadelphia
Elmira Public Schools – Broadway School mural project (2007)
Keuka Lake Players – Set & Costume Design
Yellow Springs Fellowship for the Arts – Technical Artist in Residence
Artists Call Philadelphia – 2-year residency with Lucy Lippard