Curriculum vitae
BIOGRAPHY
Representation
Miele Fine Arts, LLC. Washington, D.C.
1969 Born Bronx, NY
1990 Scoula Lorenzo Di Medici Istituto di Studi Italiani, Florence, Italy Intensive academic study in Fine Arts, Art Theory and Art History
1991 BA The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, Degree in Studio Art, Concentration in Painting
Graduation with Honors
HONORS & AWARDS
2022 Recipient of the District of Columbia Commission on the Arts and Humanities Art Bank Grant with the acquisition of “Sekyia with Helga and Nefretitti”, oil on panel, into Permanent Public Collection
2022 Recipient of The Arts and Humanities Fellowship, excellence in Artistic Discipline, The District Of Columbia Commission on the Arts and Humanities
2021 Painting “Reflections on the Potomac” acquired into Permanent Pubic Collection, The Italian America Museum of D.C., Washington, DC
2021 Recipient of the District of Columbia Commission on the Arts and Humanities Art Bank Grant with the acquisition of two paintings into Permanent Public Collection
2020 Recipient of The Arts and Humanities Fellowship, excellence in Artistic Discipline, The District Of Columbia Commission on the Arts and Humanities
2019 Recipient of The Arts and Humanities Fellowship, excellence in Artistic Discipline, The District Of Columbia Commission on the Arts and Humanities
2019 Recipient of the District of Columbia Commission on the Arts and Humanities Art Bank Grant with the acquisition of one drawing and one painting into Permanent Public Collection
2018 Recipient of the District of Columbia Commission on the Arts and Humanities Art Bank Grant with the acquisition of two paintings into Permanent Public Collection
2018 Visiting Artist and Lecturer Northern Virginia Community College, Alexandria Campus, funded with a grant request by Professor Stacy J. Slaten, Associate Professor of Painting and Drawing
2018 Participant on panel discussion, “Urban Monopoly DC Arts and Mass Gentrification”, The George Washington University Textile Museum auditorium as part of my solo exhibition “Urban Monopoly” at Gallery 102. Honorarium funded by the Corcoran School of Art at The George Washington University
2014 Artwork selected for the annual book publication of “Studio Visit Magazine” by Juror Trevor Richardson, Spring 2014 edition
2012 Artwork selected for the annual book publication of “American Art Collector Juried Competition of New York” Alcove Books, Berkeley CA
2011 Artwork selected for the annual book publication of “American Art Collector Juried Competition of New York” Alcove Books, Berkeley CA
2010 Invited by “Su Grubu”, The Water Group, as a guest of honor to participate in The International Arts Biennal, Izmir International Fair Center, Izmir, Turkey, May 4-11
2010 Nominee the “25th Annual Mayor’s Arts Awards”, Excellence in Artistic Discipline
2009 Artwork selected for the annual book publication of “American Art Collector Juried Competition of New York” Alcove Books, Berkeley, CA
2009 Semifinalist “The Bethesda Painting Awards”
2007 BOFA DC Urban Arts Alliance honorary committee member
2006 Guest Lecturer and Presenter to Fairfax County Public School Secondary Art Teachers
2006 Drawing “Alley Rear Corcoran” acquired into permanent pubic collection “The HeArt of D.C.” The Wilson Building, City Hall, by the District of Columbia Commission on the Arts and Humanities
2006 Cummings MFA grant recipient
2005 “Friends of The Corcoran” studio visit
2005 Agora Gallery representation, 415 West Broadway, New York, NY
2001 Juror for Artoconecto, recipient of City Arts Grant, the National Endowment for The Arts, National Juried exhibitions “Hermione” and “Lust and Revenge in the Year of the Snake”
1999 Guest Lecturer and Visiting Artist The University of North Iowa, Waterloo Advanced Painting, Painting I, and Drawing II
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2021 “DC Art Now, 2021” is the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities annual exhibition of selected work by finalists for the Art Bank Program grant, Washington, DC, October 11 – December 19
2020 “DC Art Now, 2020” is the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities’ annual exhibition of selected work by finalists for the Art Bank Program grant. Washington, DC., November 16 – December 11
2020 “The Figure Interpreted Redux” The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, March 5- April 2
2019 Solo Exhibition, “All Good Things are Wild and Free” The Women’s National Democratic Club, Washington, DC, May 4 – September 10
2018 Solo Exhibition, “Through the Looking Glass, Urban Perspectives” Honfleur Gallery, Washington, DC, March 16 – April 21
2017 Solo Exhibition, “Quieting Change, Stilling Motion”, The Schleshinger Center, Forum Gallery, Northern Virginia Community College, Alexandria, VA, September 22 – November 5
2017 Solo Exhibition, “Urban Monopoly”, Gallery 102 The Corcoran School of Art at The George Washington University, Summer Solo Series, Washington, DC, July 3 – 26
2017 “Outside Narratives, Modern Stories of the Outside World”, The Catholic University of America, Washington DC, February 20 – March 31
2015 Selected Alumnae Exhibition, “Crafting a Legacy”, The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, October 23 – December 4
2015 Solo Exhibition, “Paintings”, Gallery Plan B, Washington, DC, June 2 – July 19
2015 Solo Exhibition, “Meridians”, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA, March 1- April 10
2015 “10 x 10 Anniversary Exhibition”, Gallery Plan B, Washington, DC, February 18 – March 22
2014 “Man Made”, Gallery Plan B, Washington, D.C., October 15 – November 23
2014 “Art Expo NYC”, Pier 94, New York, NY, April 4 – 6
2014 Solo Exhibition, “Works by Regina Miele”, Gallery Plan B, Washington, DC, February 19 – March 23
2013 “Elevate “, Wright Gallery, Kona, Hawaii, October 26 – November 26
2013 “Caged In”, The George Washington University, Gallery 102, Washington, DC, September 15 – October 4
2013 Solo Exhibition, “Movements”, Union Arts DC, Washington, DC, July 19 – August 30
2013 “24+24 Exhibition”, Waverly Street Gallery, Bethesda, MD, February 9 –March 6
2012 Solo Exhibition, “A Journey to Proximity”, ARTS@1830, Washington, DC, November 10 – January 26
2011 “New York Arts Beijing”, Artwork to remain in China as part of a Permanent Collection, May – June
2011 “2 Contemplate 2”, DC Loft Gallery, Washington, D.C., January 21 – February 19
2010 “International Biennale Artists Miami”, Nina Torres Fine Art, Miami, FL, December 1-20
2010 “Social Networking”, DC Loft Gallery, Washington, DC, November 16 – December 16
2010 “United States Florence Biennale Artists”, Broadway Gallery, New York, NY, October 1 – October 15
2010 “21+21 Exhibition”, Waverly Street Gallery, Bethesda, MD, February 12 – March 6
2009 “Florence Biennale”, Fortezza da Basso, Florence, Italy, December 5 –13
2008 “Celebrating Women’s History Month, Women Artists in the District”,Martin Luther King Library, Washington, DC, March 1 – April 1
2007 “Period Pieces” Baltimore ARTSCAPE 2007, The Eubie Blake Museum and Cultural Center, Baltimore, MD July 14 – August 25
2005 “Enlightened Perspectives”, Agora Gallery, SOHO, New York, NY, Featured Painter, February 25 – March 3
2002 “Curator’s Choice Exhibition”, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, selected by Tosha Grantham, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, January 24 – February 5
2001 “Seventieth Annual Exhibition”, The Newington Cropsey Museum, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY, National Juried Exhibition, May 6 – May 23
2001 “International Winter Show”, Caelum Gallery, Chelsea, New York, NY, January 16 – 27
1999 “Portraits by Women” Woman-Made Gallery, Chicago, IL. National Juried Exhibition, April 3 – 24
1997 “Fifty Washington Artists”, Addison Ripley Gallery, Washington, DC, September 8 – 20
SELECTED COMMISSIONS
2015 Paige Rense Noland, Editor Emeritus of Architectural Digest, to paint her portrait
2014 The National Theater, Washington, D.C. to create a painting for use in all of their print and online media for the 2014-15 Season
2013 Robert Higdon Design, LLC to create watercolor renderings as the driving visuals of his website
2007 Immaculate Heart Academy to paint three four by six foot oils on linen depicting the life of Mary
2003 The Church of the Annunciation, Paramus, N.J. to create a contemporary oil painting depicting “The Annunciation” as part of a permanent installation in the Chapel
2003 The University of Maryland Medical Systems, Baltimore, to design and paint eleven oil paintings for a large municipal area
2002 Walter TV and Kronkite Ward to design and create paintings in a Renaissance style, to be used as stills in the Discovery Channel production “Dante’s Inferno”
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
The Italian American Museum of DC, Permanent Collection
The District of Columbia Art Bank, Permanent Collection
The Schar Cancer Institute , Permanent Collection
The Costar Group, Washington, DC
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart and Sullivan, LLP.
Robert Higdon Design, LLC.
The John A. Wilson Building Permanent Art Collection, Washington, DC
Bob Schieffer, CBS Studios, New York, NY
Yorum Shohamy, Jerusalem, Israel
Darrell Riparteau Architects, Washington, DC
Myriam-Norris-Zigrand, Luxemborg City, Luxemborg
Lorraine Botsacos, Art Consultants, New York, NY
PRESS
Review
Gallery and Studio Magazine
April 2005
By Maureen Flynn
Regina Miele works in a manner for which the most accurate term is poetic realism. What romanticism exists in her work is created through her careful attention to what actually exists rather than through imaginative invention or fantasy. And the effectiveness of this approach is everywhere evident in Miele’s recent exhibition at Agora Gallery, 415 West Broadway, in Soho.
Even while adhering to the evidence at hand, however, Miele creates magical atmospheres and auras akin in some ways to Loren MacIver, well known in the 1950’s, whose work has been featured in several recent exhibitions. Indeed, like MacIver, Miele has a way of enveloping all of her pictures in atmospheres that create the gentle inner glow of something fondly remembered as well as something fondly observed. Space and light conspire in her exquisitely refined oils to create the sense of genuine epiphany in a way that few other artists are capable of doing who work only with the subject at hand and do not distort it for emotional effect.
In Miele’s painting “Bryant Park”, for example, the elements of the composition are extremely simple, almost minimal: five outdoor chairs positioned in a seemingly random manner on the lawn in a familiar public park in New York City. However the artist creates the sense of a pastoral oasis in the midst of urban miasma with a brush that appears to have been dipped in liquid light. Luminous yellow hues are combined with cool blues (almost reminiscent of Monet’s paintings of his garden in Giverny) to create a sense of transcendence which is made all the more remarkable by the fact that this picture actually depicts an urban setting.
Apparently, Miele is able to imbue any scene with a sense of serenity that makes her paintings delightful anomalies in contemporary art. Her work indicates a singular sensibility with exceptional technical finesse, as seen in a small oil on panel titled “Roof Top” with its panoramic view of clustered houses under a darkening sky, as well as in the much larger oil on linen called “Above Harlem,” where the various furnitures and fixtures of room interior with day light flooding in create a formal composition that while true to its specifics can also function as an austere geometric abstraction.
Miele’s drawings are also extraordinary for her ability to invest the medium of graphite with a painterly finish, particularly in the atmospheric “Alley, 14th Street,” with its subtle, overcast, tonalities. Especially evocative, however, is the oil on linen “Autumnal Equinox,” with its tiny figure in a shadowy landscape contemplating a vast night sky, which projects a sense of nocturnal mystery reminiscent of the German romantic painter Casper David Friedrich. Here, as well as in “Vernal Equinox” and “Winter Solstice,” two tall vertical oils centering on the full figure of a young man in a shadowy interior, Regina Miele, displays a poetic gift which sets her apart as a realist painter with a unique angle of vision.
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Capitol File Magazine, Summer 2016, named in “Our Portfolio of A List Artists Across America” along with Sam Gilliam and Prince.
“The work maintains an honest sensation, not only of the structural framework of brick, steel, and concrete, but of how light and atmosphere are captured in those spaces. They aren’t as much a way of seeing the city anew but of re-seeing the city through different eyes.”
— John AndersonWashington City Paper, State of the Arts, Spring 2018
In. “Thought the Looking Glass” Miele evocatively depicts the sort of quickly vanishing local warehouse and industrial buildings that once held artists’ studios.”
— Mark Jenkins, April 13, 2018
“Through the Looking Glass” bears a profound witness to the city’s rapid development, a commentary on displacement and who will have access to the city in the future. — Phill Hutinet, Eastside Arts, March 15, 2018
“One of Regina Miele’s principal subjects is sky, cloud-flecked expanses of delicate light and myriad hues. Miele is adept at classical realism, and versatile as well. Color and openness are among the hallmarks of Miele’s work, but she doesn’t require either to craft a striking picture.”
— Mark Jenkins, WAPO, March 14, 2015