ANTONIO PETRACCA

Solo Exhibitions

2011 ‘10’ Kim Foster Gallery, New York, NY

2010 ‘From Here To There’ Mercer Gallery, Monroe Community College, Rochester, NY

2009 ‘Overlay’ Kim Foster Gallery, New York, NY

2008 ‘Identity Theft’ Garibaldi Meucci Museum, Staten Island, NY

2007 ‘Pompeii Tagged’ Kim Foster Gallery, New York, NY

2006 ‘Identity Theft’ Italian American Museum, New York, NY

2005 ‘These are not my Shoes’ (Queste non sono mie Scarpe), Kim Foster Gallery, NYC

2003 ‘Intangible Presence’ Oxford Gallery, Rochester, NY

2002 ‘Forecast: Sunny & Clear High in the Low 80s’ Kim Foster Gallery, NYC

2000 'Space Constructed' Kim Foster Gallery, NYC

1999 'Architectonic' Galerie Bhak, Seoul, Korea

'China' Kim Foster Gallery, NYC

Oxford Gallery, Rochester, NY

1997 'Architectonic' Kim Foster Gallery, NYC

'Back from the Future' Pyramid Arts Center, Rochester, NY

1995 'Heavy/Light' Kim Foster Gallery, NYC

'Objects and Apparitions' Oxford Gallery, Rochester, NY

1994 'Mysteries' Kim Foster Gallery, NYC

1991 'Chance Glance' Cleaver Callahan Gallery, NYC

1988 'Road Views' Mercer Gallery, Monroe Community College, Rochester, NY

1987 Little Gallery, Rochester, NY

1985 Shahin Requicha Gallery, Rochester, NY

1984 Tower Gallery, SUNY College, Brockport, NY

1981 Monroe Community College, Rochester, NY

1980 Pyramid Arts Center, Rochester, NY

1976 Metro Gallery, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY

1975 'Gurning and Flexing' Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY

1974 'Non-Silver Photography' MFA Gallery, Rochester Institute of Technology, NY

Group Exhibitions

2011 “IAVANET” Calandra Institute Queens College, New York, NY

2010 “Nature Calls” Shore Institute of Contemporary Art, NJ curator Dominick Lombardi

“Anonymous” Kim Foster Gallery, New York, NY curator Dominick Lombardi

2009 Art Chicago 2009, Kim Foster Gallery booth, Chicago, IL

2008 Art Chicago 2008, Kim Foster Gallery booth, Chicago, IL

2006 ‘Natural and Unnatural: Imagining Landscape’ Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ

‘Terrain,’ Kim Foster Gallery, New York, NY

2005 ‘The City: Contemporary Views of the Built Environment’ Lehman College Art Gallery, NY

2004 ‘Landscape 2’ Allyn Gallup Contemporary Art, Sarasota, Florida

2003/4/5 U.S. State Department, Art In Embassies Program, US Embassy in Caracas, Venezuela

2002 ‘Voyage’ Flowers East Gallery, London, UK

‘Woodwork’ Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, NY

2001 ‘Close to Home’ Oxford Gallery, Rochester, NY

‘Seeking the Sequential’ Pyramid Art Center, Rochester, NY

2000 'Elbow Room: Manhattan's Public Spaces in Recent Art' curated by Grady T. Turner, NYC

'LandEscape Panorama' Dieu Donne Papermill, NYC

1998 'The Waking Dream' curated by Dominick Lombardi and Steve Lowy,

Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle, NY

'Camera Ready?' Kim Foster Gallery, NYC

Art 1998 Chicago, Galerie Bhak booth Chicago, IL

Collectors Gallery, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY

'The Fanelli Show' O.K Harris Gallery, NYC

1997 '4 Artists From New York' Galerie Bhak, Seoul, Korea

Collectors Gallery, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY

1996 Art 1996 Chicago, Kim Foster Gallery booth

Oxford Gallery, Rochester, NY

Spazi Contemporary Art, Housatonic, MA

1994 Tribeca Towers Exhibition, sponsored by Art Initiative, NYC

'Isn't It Romantic?' curated by Michael Walls, On Crosby St., NYC

'Pages' 450 Broadway Gallery, NYC

'Definitive Decade' Aljira Arts Center, Newark, NJ

'New Space', Foster Peet Gallery, NYC

1993 'Putt Modernism', Artists Space, NYC

Art Chicago International, Foster Peet Gallery booth

Foster Peet Gallery, NYC

1992 'Neurotic Art Show' Artists Space, NYC

'The Other Landscape' Tribeca 148 Gallery, sponsored by Art Initiative, NYC

‘Artists Unleashed’ Brand Name Damages, Brooklyn, NY

1991 'Message to the Future', SUNY College, Oswego, NY

New York State Art Exhibit, Herbert Johnson Museum, Cornell

University, Ithaca, NY

1990 'Contemporary Landscape', Cleaver Callahan Gallery, NYC

'No Trends', Nahan Contemporary, curated by Robert C. Morgan, NYC

Kitchen Benefit Show at Curt Marcus Gallery & Castelli Graphics, NYC

'Altered Landscapes’ Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, NY

1987 Bevier Gallery, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY

1986 14 Upstate NY Artists, Long Island University, NY

1984 Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, NY

1982 Ten American Print Makers, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY

1980 ‘Electroworks’ The Cooper-Hewitt Museum NYC

Education

BFA/MFA Rochester Institute of Technology, NY

Public Collections

National September 11 Memorial and Museum, New York, NY

The New York Historical Society, New York, NY

Museum of the City of New York, New York, NY

Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo, NY

The George Eastman House, Rochester, NY

The Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY

Museo Internacional de Electrografia, Spain

Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY

ASCAP, New York, NY

Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA

Health & Hospitals Corporation, New York, NY

Hutchins Y & R Corporation, Rochester, NY

Medallion Funding Corporation, New York, NY

Mobil Chemical Corporation

Travel Professionals Inc., Chicago, IL

Philip Bennett Smerling Design, Stockbridge, MA

Y.D. Bhak, Galerie Bhak, Seoul, Korea

Xerox Corporation

United Communications System, Chicago, IL

Commissions / Grants / Special Projects

Who's Who in American Art

2003/4/5 U.S. State Department, Art In Embassies Program, US Embassy in Caracas, Venezuela

1993 Putt Modernism, Artists Space traveling exhibit, designed hole #5 of artist

Miniature golf course.

1992 Art Matters Inc.; grant recipient, New York, NY

MTA Arts for Transit, mural installation at Jay Street-Burough Hall subway station.

Best of Show, Casa Italiana, Nazareth College, Rochester, NY

1986 Special Arts Award, Arts Council for Rochester

1976-86 Founder and Executive Director of Pyramid Arts Center, Rochester, NY

Selected Bibliography

“Overlay: Antonio Petracca at Kim Foster Gallery” review by Jonathan Goodman, June 2009

NY Observer, Antonio Petracca, “Overlay”, Currently Hanging Museums & Galleries, 5/18/09

OGGI7, Antonio Petracca at Meucci-Garibaldi Museum, review by Vincenzo Mignino, 11/11/2007

Culture Catch, review by Dominick Lombardi, May 2007

Chelsea Now, “Kindling the Spirits” review by Jeff Wright, May 11, 2007

SUNY-TV, ITALICS The Italian American Magazine, Calandra Institute, episode #167, February, 2005

Democrat & Chronicle, ‘Antonio Petracca at Oxford Gallery,’ April 13, 2003

Art In America, ‘Antonio Petracca,’ review by Melissa Kuntz, January 2003

New York Times, ‘Antonio Petracca,’ review by Ken Johnson, September 13, 2002

Downtown Express, “Painting Architecturally” September 3-9, 2002

ARTnews, ‘The Many Faces of Realism: The Real Thing?’ (Cover story) by Ann Landi, June 2002

Albany Times Union, ‘Sculptural Heights: Technique and artistry in abundance at fine ‘Woodwork’ exhibit,’ review by William Jaeger, February 24, 2002

The New York Art World, ‘Antonio Petracca,’ review by Joyce Korotkin, January 2001

New York Art Magazine, ‘Antonio Petracca Space Constructed,’ review by Elizabeth Neuman, Dec. 2000

‘Space Constructed,’ catalogue essay by Grady T. Turner, Kim Foster Gallery, 2000

Village Voice, Voice Choices, 'Elbow Room,' review by Kim Levin, August 8, 2000

New Yorker, 'Elbow Room,' review by Alexi Worth, August 6, 2000

Art Magazine Seoul, Korea, Misoolsidae ‘Architectonics,’ review October, 1999

Economic Seoul ‘Fall Season International Exhibitions,’ September 13, 1999

‘Architectonic,’ catalogue essay by Ann Landi, Galerie Bhak, 1999

City Magazine Rochester, ‘Fine art: the Pyramid alternative at 20,’ review by Ron Netsky, Dec. 16, 1997

ARTnews, ‘Antonio Petracca,’ review by Margaret Moorman, October 1997

Cover, ‘Peering Past the Mirror,’ review by Jeff Wright, September 1997

Review Magazine, ‘Antonio Petracca,’ review by Elizabeth Neuman, May 1, 1997

Democrat and Chronicle Rochester, ‘Home?’ article by Stuart Low, April 1997

Review, ‘Antonio Petracca and the Order of Syntax’ review by Robert C. Morgan, May 1, 1997

Democrat and Chronicle Rochester, ‘A Crowded Landscape,’ review by John Worden, July 14, 1996

City Magazine Rochester, ‘At Oxford: an abundance of energetic works,’ review by Ron Netsky, Sept.25-Oct.1, 1996

City Magazine Rochester, ‘Manhattan Street Impressions,’ review by Donna De Palma May, 1995

New York Times, ‘Definitive Decade Show,’ review by William Zimmer, October 30, 1994

‘Mysteries,’ exhibition essay by Linda Weintraub, Kim Foster Gallery, NY

New York Times, ‘Inside Art’ by Carol Vogel, October 8, 1993

Metropolitan Transportation Authority News, ‘High-Speed Landscapes,’ December 5, 1991

The Daily Gazette, ‘Brush Marks,’ review by Peg Churchill Wright, May 10, 1990