SMCM-MICA Artist House Teaching Fellow (Fall 2018) of
Biography
Giulia Piera Livi is an emerging interdisciplinary artist from Philadelphia, now living and working in Baltimore City. She earned a B.F.A. in Painting and Drawing from Penn State University (2015) and an M.F.A. in Multidisciplinary Arts from the Mount Royal School at the Maryland Institute College of Art (2017). Her work in painting and instillation is an investigation of interior space and design, focusing on the acute and the polite, the domestic and the utilitarian. Giulia has exhibited both nationally and internationally with solo shows in Baltimore, Maryland and University Park, Pennsylvania, with an upcoming solo show in Arlington, Virginia (Spring 2018). Other exhibition locations include Maryland Art Place (Baltimore, MD), Woskob Family Gallery (State College, PA), Philadelphia Sketch Club (Philadelphia, PA), Meyerhoff Gallery (Baltimore, MD), , Edwin W. Zoller Gallery (University Park, PA), Indigo Bleu Design & Culture Center (Philadelphia, PA), Underground Arts (Philadelphia, PA), and the Trocadero Theatre (Philadelphia, PA). Giulia has a passion for mural work, as a former employee of the City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program and Art@Work Baltimore, and has participated in international mural collaborations (Florence, Italy). She is a 2017 Bethesda Contemporary Art Trawick Finalist, and a 2017 Janet & Walter Sondheim Prize Semi-Finalist.
Areas of Research Specialization
- Painting & Drawing
- Mural Design & Execution
- Fibers
- Sculpture
- Art History & Critical Studies
Education
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in Multidisciplinary Arts at Maryland Institute College of Art, 2017
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in Painting & Drawing at Penn State University, 2015