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EDUCATION
Master of Fine Arts The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Bachelor of Fine Arts Alfred University, School of Art and Design, Alfred, NY
International Study Camberwell School of Art, London, England
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 TANGIBLE No. 5 Butchie Alley, Philadelphia, PA
2017 Sewn Line The Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
2015 Continuum The Marlin Gallery, Rutgers, Camden County College, Blackwood, NJ
2015 Churn Ripple Flow Fairmount Water Works, Philadelphia PA
2014 Portico International Art & Artists, Hillyer Art Space, Washington, DC
2013 Laccio Solo Series, Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA
2010 Stratum Inliquid at The Crane, Crane Arts Building, Philadelphia, PA
2004 Drawn To Scale Pentimenti Gallery, Project Room, Philadelphia, PA
2003 Helix Series Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts, Harrisburg, PA
2002 Pools & Paragraphs Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA
2001 Terra Toma ARC Gallery and Educational Foundation, Chicago, IL
2000 Terra Toma Allens Lane Art Center, Philadelphia, PA
Two Person Exhibitions/Projects
2022 Suspended in Nature Agati/Donnelly at Allens Lane Art Center, Philadelphia, PA
2021 WATER TABLE New Jersey Climate Risk Project Agati/Schultz, Atlantic City, NJ
2021 Della Vite Art in the Park, Agati /McLaughlin, High School Park, Elkins Park, PA
2018 Nancy Agati/Agathe Bouton NoBA Artspaces Exhibition, Bala Cynwyd, PA
2014 FROST Agati/Potsic Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education, Philadelphia PA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Breaking Ground :Art about the Earth Annemarie Sculpture Garden&Arts Center, Solomons, MD 2023
Woodlands Chestnut Hill Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2023
Interconnected Artessa at Francis Cope House, Awbury Aboretum, Philadelphia, PA 2023
Ecotopian Toolkit Project Independence Seaport Museum, Philadelphia, PA 2022
SUMMERHOUSE Hot Bed Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2021
Celebration of Trees Henry Gallery, Penn State Great Valley, Malvern, PA 20
Citizen’s Eye Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education, Philadelphia, PA 2020/21
Group Show 2 SHRINE, online exhibition, New York, NY 2020/21
FLOW Floating Sculpture/Installation at Independent Seaport Museum Philadelphia, PA 2019
We All Fall Down Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education, Philadelphia, PA 2019
Woods to Water Art Across the Academy, Germantown Academy, Fort Washington, PA 2018
Pleasure/Terror en Plein Air Pierro Gallery, South Orange, NJ 2018
Oars for Art Harve de Grace Maritime Museum, Maryland 2018
SWAY art/walk Art in the Open 2018, Schuylkill Banks Park, Philadelphia, PA 2018
Let’s Connect The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, PA 2018
Summer Group Exhibit Onishi Gallery, New York, NY 2018
Women in Craft Art Across Academy, Germantown Academy Art Center, Fort Washington, PA 2018
Constructing Organics Park Towne Place and Inliquid, Philadelphia, PA 2016
Nonesuch Paper Main&Station, Parrsboro, NovaScotia & Griffintown, Montreal 2016
FLUID Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor, Staten Island, NY 2015
Open Spaces The Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education, Philadelphia PA 2015
Lumen Festival Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor, Staten Island, NY July 2015
Within the Foreground Rosenwald Wolf Gallery, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia PA 2014
Open Channels Art in The Open Exhibition, CFEVA, Philadelphia, PA 2014
Four Artists Calandra Italian American Institute, New York, NY 2013
Art of the State The State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA 2013
Library of Life Art in City Hall, City Hall, Philadelphia, PA 2013
Lo Studio dei Nipoti International Art & Artists, Hillyer Art Space, Washington, DC 2012
Lo Studio dei Nipoti Monasterace, Calabria, Italy 2012
Art in the Open I, II, & IV Schuylkill Banks Park, Painted Bride Art Center- Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, Phila. PA 2010/11/14/18
The Sketchbook Project National Traveling Exhibition, Brooklyn Art Library, Brooklyn, NY 2011
Virtual Public Art Project Breadboard/Esther Klein Gallery, Philadelphia PA 2010/2011
Ephemerality The Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education, Philadelphia PA 2009/10
6-III* NCECA Conference, site-specific ceramic installation, Haverford, PA 2010
GRANTS/AWARDS/RESIDENCIES
Puffin Foundation Grant 2023, designated for Aqua Terrace and Tributaries Permeable Surface Project 2023/24
Illuminate the Arts Grant 2022 City of Philadelphia Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy
Ecotopian Toolmaker Award 2022 Penn Program in Environmental Humanities and the Independence Seaport Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Meadowbrook Farm Artist Residency 2021 PHS/InLiquid, Jenkintown, PA
Artist in Residence August 2017 Main and Station, Parrsboro, Nova Scotia
Creative Paper Construction Award 2016 Main &Station Nonesuch Paper, Parrsboro, Nova Scotia
Tending Space Fellowship 2014 The Hemera Foundation, Boulder, CO
Visiting Artist/Lecturer 2012 Marywood University, Scranton, PA
Residency Artist June, 2012 Lo Studio dei Nipoti, Monasterace, Calabria. Italy
MFA Faculty Award 2007 The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
MFA Merit Scholarship 2005-2007 The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Artist Residency 2004 Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Painting Award 2004 Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA
Phillips Art Association 2001 Award for Painting, New Hope, PA
Window of Opportunity Award 2000 The Leeway Foundation, Philadelphia, PA
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
FMC Tower at Circa Center, Philadelphia, PA
Temple University, Fox School of Business, Philadelphia, PA
The Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia, PA
AIMCO Park Towne Place, Philadelphia, PA
The Hemera Foundation, Boulder, CO
Keswick Hall, Charlottesville, VA
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Qureshi, Corey “An Assembled Trace at DaVinci Art Alliance”, April 2023
Schultz, Eric “Climate Art in Four Acts” State of the Arts NJ/PBS Video Documentary, 2021
Crivelli, Elaine “The Worth of Water” FLOW catalog essay, October 2019
Kaufman, Leslie “the nature of water is to flow” FLOW exhibition catalog, October 2019
Carse, Kathryn “9 Things You Shouldn’t Miss at Snug ‘Harbor in Bloom’”, SILive, May 2015
Agati, Nancy Essay ‘Noticing Water”, Cleaver Magazine, September 2014
Jenkins, Mark “DC Galleries, Portico”, The Washington Post, February 2014
Grillo, Lucia ITALICS, CUNY TV, “Four Artists, Lo Studio dei Nipoti” Calandra Institute, Sept.2013
Nixon, Bruce “Four Artist, Lo Studio dei Nipoti”, Calandra Institute Exhibition Catalogue, 2013
Brady, Shuan “Schuylkill River inspires Art in the Open Artists”, Metro Philadelphia, May 2014
Jenkins, Mark “Lo Studio dei Nipoti”, The Washington Post, September 2012
Lewis, Susan Creatively Speaking, WRTI, radio interview for Art In the Open, June 2010
Friedman, Sally “Festival Takes Art into the Open”, THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, June 2010
Newhall, Edith “Galleries: Art In the Open”, THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, June 2010
Richards, Ryan “Ceramic Art in Conjunction with the National Conference”, Main Line Times, April, 2010
Brady, Shaun “You Can’t Take It with You” Philadelphia City Paper, Jan. 2009 #1235
Kirsh, Andrea, “Philadelphia Introductions: Nancy Agati” INLIQUID.com Jan. 2007
Falzone, Paul “Crises”, NEWSLINK, Annenberg School for Communications, University of Pennsylvania, 2007
Newhall, Edith “Art Alliance shakes it up”, THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, 2006
Caldwell, Melissa OutsideIN, Exhibition Catalogue, 2006
Strauss, R.B. “Visions Merge at Pentimenti”, THE UNIVERSITY CITY REVIEW, Philadelphia, 2004
BIO
Nancy Agati’s work examines patterns and forms found in nature through physical investigations of materials. Her multidisciplinary work includes; works on paper, printmaking, sculpture, textile, site-specific installation, and public art. Agati holds a BFA from Alfred University, School of Art & Design, NY, and an MFA from The University of the Arts, Philadelphia.
She currently resides and maintains an active studio practice in the Germantown/Mt. Airy section of Philadelphia. Nancy Agati has exhibited her work widely throughout Philadelphia and nationally including exhibitions at the Philadelphia Art Alliance, Hillyer Art Space, Washington, DC, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Staten Island, NY, The Calandra Italian American Institute, New York, Crane Arts Building, Philadelphia, and Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia.
Several exhibitions have allowed for experimentation in multiple mediums, including video, public participatory art, temporal installation, and augmented reality. Nancy has been a recurring participant with Art in the Open, Philadelphia, where, in 2014, she conducted a community carving event entitled Churn Ripple Flow along the Schuylkill River. A similar workshop took place in 2015 at Snug Harbor Cultural Center along the Hudson Bay. The project culminated in the construction of an outdoor sculpture Ripple Effect, at the Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art on Staten Island, NY. The movement of water has been a recurring subject of Agati’s work. Her essay, entitled Noticing Water, was published by Cleaver Literary Magazine in 2014.
In 2000 Agati was a recipient of a Windows of Opportunity Grant from the Leeway Foundation for her solo exhibition, Terra Toma at ARC Gallery Chicago. She has been awarded artist-in-residence placements at the Santa Fe Art Institute, New Mexico, Lo Studio dei Nipoti, Calabria, Italy, and Main & Station in Nova Scotia. Her time spent in Southern Italy initiated several bodies of work, including Portico Series, Ottanta Sette, and Francesca Series. Works from the Portico Series are included in the permanent collection at the Pennsylvania Convention Center.
In 2014, as a Hemera Foundation Tending Space Fellow, Agati began investigating the intersection of mindfulness meditation as it relates to her art-making process. Most studio sessions begin with several minutes of silent meditation.