Allison Bianco

Allison Bianco is an American artist and printmaker based in Rhode Island. Born in 1979 in Providence, Rhode Island, Bianco earned her Master of Fine Arts in printmaking from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa in Honolulu, Hawaii and a Bachelor of Arts in studio art from Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts.

Work
Bianco draws upon a visual history of Rhode Island by using oceanscapes and physical changes to depict a shift in our remembrance of those places.

Curator Britany Salsbury describes Bianco's work as using, "printmaking to explore her relationship to her memories of her native Rhode Island through a combination of technical experimentation and art historical references... these landscapes have increasingly symbolized the juxtaposition between memory and reality, and the impact of nostalgia on the reliability of her own experience of place... Bianco leads the viewer through her own memory of a place, translating experience through process."

Bianco's work uses, "arresting color," at times contrasted by the allusion of more tragic circumstances. In his article in Hyperallergic, art critic, writer and museum scholar Seph Rodney describes Bianco's Gaspee Down the Line as a disorienting and fantastical beach scene with, "prodigal visual elements."

Collections
Bianco's work can be found in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania; The New York Public Library, New York, New York; New York City Department of Education, Public Art for Public Schools, New York, New York; University Print Collection, University of San Diego, California; Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, Rhode Island; Hawaiʻi State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, Art in Public Places Collection, Honolulu, Hawaii; and Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut.

Exhibitions
Bianco's solo exhibitions include: Permanent Public Art Installation, PS 958, Sunset Park, Brooklyn, New York; Saint Anselm College, Manchester, New Hampshire; University of Rhode Island Main Gallery, Kingston, Rhode Island; Cade Tompkins Projects, Providence, Rhode Island; University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Commons Gallery, Honolulu, Hawaii; Weil Gallery, Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts; AS220 Project Space, Providence, Rhode Island; The Print Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Hawaii Pacific University Art Gallery, Honolulu, Hawaii.

Notable group exhibitions include: Give Me Space: New Prints 2020/Summer, Print Center New York (formerly International Print Center New York), New York, New York (selected by Chitra Ganesh); Raid the Icebox Now with Sebastian Ruth: Witnessing, RISD Museum, Providence, Rhode Island; Emphasized, Selections from the Art in Public Places Collection, Hawaiʻi State Art Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii; Innervisions: New Prints 2016/Summer, Print Center New York, New York, New York; Print Love: Celebrating the Print Center at 100, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.