Simonetta Moro


Simonetta Moro is a fine artist and educator. Most well known for her drawings, prints, and paintings, and mapping interpretations, depicting flow of change, landmasses, depth of history, and psychological states or memory. Also gaining notoriety are the long landscape drawings, slowly scrolling in mechanical boxes built by her inventor father Giovanni Moro.
From getting the Fulbright Fellowship to participation in important schools like Yaddo and Skowhegan, Simonetta has led an auspicious life. She now repays that training by participating in influential exhibitions like Mapping Brooklyn, at BRIC; and contributing to popular books like You Are Here, NYC, and The Map as Art.
Born in northern Italy, reared in Portogruaro. Simonetta went to high school in Venice at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia. She went on to earn a B.F.A. in Painting at Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna, Italy, 1994 Magna cum laude. Then a year of printmaking at the International School of Graphic art in Florence on a full scholarship. She then went off to England to get a Master of Art Degree at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, with a studio in Barcelona Spain. She gained a Fulbright Fellowship in 1999 and went to the American Academy in Rome. Continuing in Britain, she earned her Ph.D in visual art at University of Central Lancashire in Preston UK. Further, Simonetta went to Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine USA; on a full scholarship, with Jim Hyde, Nari Ward, and Daniel Boshkov teaching.

Professional development

Moving to New York City in 2003, she took a teaching position at The New School in Manhattan, and developed their art program. In 2010 she became the director of the PhD program at IDSVA, Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts.
She exhibits her artwork in commercial galleries and cultural institutions, and is published in popular books and academic papers.

Artmaking

Simonetta’s artmaking practice centers on painting and drawing, her subject matter has a focus on mapmaking; diagrams of experience or memory, psychogeographical layouts, and urbanality. There is quite a variety within that scope, including multi sheet layered drawing histories of places, paintings from overhead of urban streets negotiated by pedestrians, lithographs, etchings, and panoramic drawings of an outdoor scene so wide they have to be viewed on custom made machines for scrolling the drawing back and forth.

Education

2003 PhD in Visual Art, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK
1996 M.A. European Fine Art, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, UK
1994 Diploma in Pittura, 110/110 cum laude, Accademia di Belle Arti, Bologna, Italy
1989 High school, Venice, Italy

Selected awards

2006 Swing Space – Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, NY
2003 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
2003 Yaddo Art Colony, Saratoga Springs, NY
1999-2000 Fulbright Fellowship in Visual Arts, American Academy in Rome, Italy

Selected exhibitions

2008 Conflux Festival – Center for Architecture, New York
2008 “The Other Drawings” Directions Gallery, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
2008 “An Abbecedarium For Our Times” – Apex Art, New York
2008 “Emotional Geographies”, SACI Gallery, Florence, Italy
2007-08 “Mapping the Self”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
2006 Galleria Altri Lavori in Corso, Rome, Italy
2005 “Unrecorded Unreckoned Between Thick Walls,” Gallery at Marmara, New York
2003-04 "Outside/in", Wooster Arts Space, New York