
Image courtesy of Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO
Rosemarie
Fiore (b. 1972, New
York, United States) lives and works in Bronx, NY. She
typically produces artwork out of the actions of mechanisms. She converts popular technology such as
lawn mowers, cars, waffle irons, floor polishers, pinball machines, fireworks
and amusement park rides into painting machines.
Fiore received
her BA from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville and MFA from
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has attended
residencies at Art Omi International Artists Residency Program, Yaddo, Skowhegan,
The MacDowell Colony, Roswell Foundation AIR Program, Saltonstall Foundation
AIR Program, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Bronx Museum (AIM
Program).
Awards received have been granted through The New York Foundation
for the Arts, The New York State Council for the Arts, The Sally and
Milton Avery Foundation, The Bronx Council on the Arts, The Marie Walsh Sharpe
Foundation, The Lower East Side Print Shop, NY and The Dieu Donne Paper Mill,
NY.
Her solo and group exhibitions
include: The SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA and Hong Kong; Von Lintel Gallery, NY; Winkleman Gallery,
NY; Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, NY; The Anderson Gallery VCUarts,
Richmond, VA; Grand Arts, Kansas City; The Bronx Museum, NY; The Weatherspoon Art
Museum, NC; The Queens Museum of Art, NY; Socrates Sculpture Park,
NY; The Roswell Museum, NM and The Franklin Institute of Science,
Philadelphia.
She has been
reviewed by The New York Times, New York Magazine, Art in
America, Artforum, The Village Voice, NY Arts Magazine, FLAUNT Magazine,
Art Papers Magazine, The Washington Post and Art on Paper.