C A R O L Y N D I F I O R I H O P K I N S
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EDUCATION
MFA with High Distinction, State University of New York at Albany
MA with High Distinction, State University of New York at Albany
BA Rutgers State University of New Jersey at Camden
Philadelphia College of Art (University of the Arts), Philadelphia, PA
TEACHING
Instructor - The Atelier, Albany: Present.
Instructor of Record - Drawing, State University of New York at Albany.
Instructor of Record - Film, State University of New York at Albany.
Assistant, Archival Services Office, State University of New York at Albany.
PUBLICATIONS
Nash, Indiana, On Exhibit: Two new galleries rise up on Troy’s Second Street, The Daily Gazette, John DeAugustine, November 4, 2020. Print.
ARThropocene, ‘Interviews with the Artists’ 2020 Online. www.arthropocene.com
Woven Tale Press, East Setauket, NY. Summer 2020. Print.
LaValle, Casper Roth, Sarris. Peeling Back the Layers. The Sage Colleges 2019. Print.
Jaegar, William. Opalka Gallery’s ‘In-Faux-Structure’ Artists question how structures become facts and who they serve. Albany: Times Union, George Randolph Hearst III 2019. Print.
Nash, Indiana. On Exhibit: ‘In-faux-structure’ at Opalka Albany: The Daily Gazette, John DeAugustine, 2019. Print.
PBS. AHA! A House For Arts: Opalka Season 4 Episode 46 https://www.pbs.org/video/opalka-5qkqe7/. 2019. Video
Funchion, John. ‘Seers of the Damned’. High Point, North Carolina: Apogee Magazine, High Point University, Spring 2019. Print. The Daily Gazette, August 8, 2019 On Exhibit: ‘In-faux-structure’ at Opalka Gallery
Apogee Journal, Spring 2019 We Were Flying Over the Sunlit Side of the Earth
Nasty Women Everywhere, January 2017, Girl Power
Future Perfect, Picturing the Anthropocene: https://www.albany.edu/futureperfect/
Recent CURATORIAL PROJECTS
WTF - Storefront Gallery, Troy, NY 2022
The Hallway: Shows 1-6, Troy, NY 2019 - 2021
Conceived and co-founded the alternative artist-run gallery, The Hallway in Troy, NY, 2019
A Show About Nothing - Boor Sculpture Studio, 2017
Guest Curator - SUNY UAlbany Museum - Future Perfect, Picturing the Anthropocene: Moving freely across artistic disciplines, Future Perfect brings together visual artists whose work explores our conflicted relationship to the natural world. 2016
Recent Honors
Recipient of an Individual Artist Commissions Grant for MONOTYPE TUITION FREE WORKSHOP with funds from the Statewide Community Re-grants Program, a re-grant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by The Arts Center of the Capital Region.
Featured Artist 2023 Berlin Collective International
Recipient of grants from The New York State Council on the Arts, NYS COLLABORATIVE Decentralization Grants, The University at Albany Foundation, and the Regional Economic Development Council Initiative. Recipient of a New York State Council on the Arts Grant under Governor Andrew M. Cuomo’s Regional Economic Development Council Initiative.
She is a Fellow in Fine Art - Woven Tale Press, Elizabeth Sloan Tyler Award.
Recent acquisition of two paintings: SUNY Plaza Permanent Collection Office of the Chancellor of Education
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Artist Member, Ecoartspace - 2022 to present
Artist Member, Berlin Collective International - 2018 to present.
SOLO SHOWS
The Hallway, Troy, NY
The Plum Gallery, Paoli, PA
The Designer’s Eye Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
September Moon Gallery, Haddon Heights, NJ
Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Selected SHOWS
2024
The Hallway, Show 30, Troy, NY
2023
Statewide Community Regrants / SCR Visual Artist Exhibition, Troy NY
Select Group Show - The Hallway Gallery, Troy NY
2022
NOT A HOLIDAY SHOW - The Hallway Gallery, Troy NY
TAKE ACTION - TAKE A STICKER
Social Justice Action Collaboration Artist Hajar Moradi Art Action Poster for Ontario, Canada
2021
YOU ARE HERE NOW - A Summer Group Exhibition, June 6 - Aug. 6, 2021, Berlin Collective
Deanna Evans Projects, Flat File NYC
The Sketchbook Project, Brooklyn Library, NYC
2020
The Other Virus, 344 Second Street Storefront Gallery, Troy, NY
Berlin Collective, Online Exhibit
Show #6 - The Hallway in Troy, NY
ARThropocene, Online Exhibit
2019
LabSpace, Holiday, Hillsdale, NY.
New York State Museum Public Collection, State University Plaza, Albany, NY
Honorary Mention in Fine Art, Woven Tale Press, Elizabeth Sloan Tyler Award. Selected by Emilia Dubicki
In-Faux-Structure, Opalka Gallery, The Russell Sage Colleges. Albany, NY Curators: Madison LaVallee, Julie Casper Roth, Melissa Sarris.
Pause Gallery, Works on Paper. Troy NY
Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition, University Art Museum. University at Albany
SUNY Global Abstraction Exhibit. NYC
SUNY Albany Capital Center Fine Art Exhibit. Albany, NY
2018
Fence Select, Capital District Gallery. Troy, NY Curator David Gersten
2017
NASTY WOMEN ART EXHIBITION, The Knockdown Center. Maspeth, Queens
120' Saratoga Gallery, Saratoga, NY. Best in Show Curator Ginger Ertz
MA Thesis Exhibit, Boor Sculpture Building Gallery. SUNY at Albany
2016
Linus Art Gallery, International Oddities Select Show. Los Angeles, California
1992 Mangel Gallery Invitational. Philadelphia, PA Curator Bill Scott
1991 Art Educators as Artists. Glassboro State College, NJ
1985 Art Expo International. Jacob Javits Convention Center, NYC
1984 Artists Call National, Marian Locks Gallery. Philadelphia, PA
1984 Pastelists National Exhibit. Salmagundi Club, NYC
1983 Cassatt Mansion. Berwyn, PA Curator Morris Burd
1983 Garth Clark Gallery, Group Show. Soho, NYC
1983 Wayne Center for The Arts, Select Exhibit. Wayne, PA Curator Jan Baltzel
1992 Woodmere Gallery. Chestnut Hill, PA Curator Jane Piper
1981 Southeastern Massachusetts University National Exhibit. Dartmouth, MA
ARTIST IN RESIDENCY
Arts, Letters & Numbers - Averill Park, NY
The Anti-Graffiti Network, and Powelton Village Art Initiative in Philadelphia, PA
Keuka Lake Players and Small Pond Players: In-House Costume and Set Designer, Hammondsport, NY.
Elmira New York Public Schools Resident Visiting Artist, designed and executed six panel mural project over a 3-month period, working with children grades 1-6, Broadway School. Elmira, NY 2007.
Technical Artist in Residence at The Yellow Springs Fellowship for the Arts, later Yellow Springs Institute (YSI) for Contemporary Studies and the Arts, founded in 1975 to “establish an interdisciplinary laboratory for creative individuals whose work interprets aspects of contemporary experience, encourage creation of works that expand artistic boundaries, enlarge cultural understanding, and employ art and artists in the life of communities.” John A. Clauser, an architect, was its founding director and ran the Institute for its entire existence. Among its most notable programs were Six Saturdays: Explorations in Six Archetypal Themes in 1980; mythology scholar Joseph Campbell and poet Robert Bly held workshops for this program; Ages Apart(1982) which examined cultural transformation and change, also with Robert Bly; and ACCIONES (1989), a project concerned with the cultural realities and concerns of Latino interdisciplinary artists from the two Americas.
Artists Call Philadelphia, resident artist/coordinator - worked on multiple art projects over a two-year period including performance art, traveling exhibits, murals, banners, group exhibits. Appointed by/worked directly with Lucy Lippard, internationally known writer, art critic, activist and curator. ARTISTS CALL is the largest cultural campaign of its kind ever organized in the United States. (Philadelphia and NYC 1984 - 1985)
CAROLYN DIFIORI HOPKINS • Cell: 607-542-0581 • Email: gray1carolyn@gmail.com
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