Rosemarie Chiarlone - Biography
Rosemarie Chiarlone lives/works in Miami, FL. Her work explores the physical and psychological boundaries of human connection, creating works that comprise multifaceted matters addressing gender, societal and political contexts. These concepts are created in works on paper, hand-made books, photo and video-based work, installations, and sculpture.
Chiarlone studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and at Florida International University with a BFA and a Master’s degree in the arts.
She has exhibited both nationally and internationally. Her works have most recently been on view at the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Miami, FL; the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA and the Center for Book Arts in New York, NY. She has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions including Galerie Verein Berliner Kunstler, Berlin, Germany; the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC; University of Gloucestershire, England; University of Kyoto, Japan; Universidad de Costa Rica and the Museo de Artsy Diseno Contempranio, San Jose, Costa Rica; McMullen Museum of Art, Boston, Massachusetts; Spaces Gallery, Cleveland, OH; Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL; Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, Hollywood, FL; Girls Club, Ft. Lauderdale, FL; and MDC Museum of Art + Design, Miami, FL.
She has received honors and awards including the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, Florida Visual Arts Fellowship, Florida Artist Enhancement Grant and the Artist Opportunity Award from Citizens for Florida Arts and the Division of Cultural Affairs. She’s received other grants from public and private organizations as well as a residency at the Vermont Studio Center and the Deering Estate, Miami Florida.
Chiarlone’s work is in numerous private and national museum collections including: Yale University Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, New Haven, CT; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC; The Walker Library of the History of Human Imagination, Ridgefield, Connecticut; The Center for Book Art, New York, NY; The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, Miami, FL; The Arthur & Mata Jaffe Collection of Books as Aesthetic Objects, Boca Raton, FL; The Mosquera Collection, Liza and Dr. Arturo F. Mosquera, Coral Gables, FL; Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL; Girls’ Club/Francie Bishop Good and David Horvitz Collection, Ft. Lauderdale, FL; University of Miami, Special Collections, Coral Gables, FL and the Bienes Museum of the Modern Book, Ft. Lauderdale, FL.