STEPHANIE CORTAZZO
b. 1993 in Cresskill, NJ, lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
EDUCATION:
2015 BFA, Photography, Mason Gross School of The Arts, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2018 35mm Color Diary, Cresskill Public Library, Cresskill, NJ
2013 Aftermath, Cresskill Public Library, Cresskill, NJ
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2020 Educate, Christie's, New York, NY
2019 Feed Your Walls: Collage Group Show, Brooklyn Collage Collective Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Flowers of Khaos, 182 Ave. C Gallery, New York, NY
Fuck Love, Brooklyn Collage Collective Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (curator)
Resurge, Bento on Hudson, New York, NY (curator)
2018 ArtJam, The Paper Box, Brooklyn, NY
Bushwick Open Studios, Brooklyn Collage Collective Gallery Brooklyn, NY
By Chance, Montclair Public Library, Montclair, NJ
2016 Post Limbo: A Pop-Up Show, West Chelsea Arts Building, New York, NY
2015 We Will Always Have This, Xoomba, Brooklyn, NY
BFA Thesis Exhibition: For the Crown, Mason Gross Galleries, New Brunswick, NJ
3rd Annual RAW Photography Exhibition, Noyes Gallery at Stockton University, Hammonton, NJ
2014 Undergraduate Annual Art Open: City and Myth, Mason Gross Galleries, New Brunswick, NJ
Arrest of Interpretation, Mason Gross Galleries, New Brunswick, NJ
Rutgers Review Annual Photography Exhibition, Alfa Art Gallery, New Brunswick, NJ
Rejection Has a Name, Mason Gross Galleries at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
2nd Annual RAW Photography Exhibition, Noyes Gallery at Stockton University, Hammonton, NJ
2013 F2 = (F) (F), Mason Gross Galleries at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Rutgers Review Annual Photography Exhibition, Alfa Art Gallery, New Brunswick, NJ
2012 Undergraduate Annual Art Open: Systems: Word and Text, Mason Gross Galleries, New Brunswick, NJ
TEACHING:
2017 Teaching Assistant, International Center of Photography, New York, NY (current)
2016 Gallery Educator, Aperture Foundation, New York, NY
2014 Workshop Assistant, VSANJ: The State Organization on Arts and Disabilities, New Brunswick, NJ
AWARDS:
2014 Honorable Mention Award, 3rd Annual RAW Photography Exhibition, Noyes Gallery at Stockton University, Hammonton, NJ (Juror: Bill Horin, Photographer, Founder of ArtC)
Undergraduate Award of Excellence in Visual Art, Annual Art Open: City and Myth, Mason Gross Galleries (Juror: Hanneline Røgeberg, Professor in Painting, Mason Gross School of The Arts, New Brunswick, NJ)
PRESS:
2019 Israel, Alexandra, “Visual Artist Stephanie Cortazzo on Her Curatorial Debut, Resurge”, Cultbytes, Jan. 11.
2018 Schlutt, Marcel, “Private Bodies: A Conversation with Stephanie Cortazzo, Interview by Monica Zandi”, Kaltblut, Nov. 19.
Zandi, Monica, “Cosmic Crisis: An Interview with Artist Stephanie Cortazzo”, Feminist Wednesday, Nov. 13.
Angell, Melissa, “Getting to Know the Brooklyn Collage Collective,” Brokelyn, Oct. 15.
2014 “Photography Exhibit Celebrates the “Raw” Spirit and Splendor of New Jersey”, Adaptive AC, Dec. 2014.
Parker, Reginald, “Rutgers Artists Speak of Their Inspiration for Afro-Caribbean Exhibit”, New Brunswick Today, Nov. 2014.
Parker, Reginald, “Mason Gross Galleries Host Works by African and Caribbean Students”, New Brunswick Today, Sept. 2014.
PUBLICATIONS:
2014 Evelyn Abramson, "America The Prudest," The Rutgers Review, September 2014. 8. Print.
"Photos by Stephanie Cortazzo," The Rutgers Review February 2014. 18-19. Print.
Volume 2. 'The Photo Issue' The Rutgers Review, January 2014. Print.
2013 Volume 1. 'The Photo Issue' The Rutgers Review, January 2013. Print.