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John Giannotti (b. 1945, New York, New York) sculptor, painter and educator. His works have been exhibited at the Gallery of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London, England, the Galleria Lucia Burgassi, Galleria Uraniadue, the Galleria Cimabue in Florence, Italy, and the Margaret Lipworth Gallery in Boca Raton, Florida. His monumental bronze sculptures and other works are in public and private collections in the U.S., Italy, Venezuela, Australia, and Japan, where his bronze monuments of Walt Whitman and Madame Curie stand in sculpture parks at Soka University in Tokyo. In 2010, his Walt Whitman with Butterfly, an 8' work in bronze, was placed on permanent display at the Walt Whitman Birthplace Museum in Huntington, New York.

In the United States his monumental bronzes can be seen in St. Lucie, Florida, Selden, New York, E. Patchogue, New York, and Willow Springs, Illinois. In the Philadelphia region, Giannotti’s public art is on display at the Children’s Garden near the Adventure Aquarium in Camden, NJ (Whitman bronze), the Lakeland Fire Training Center in Blackwood (Fireman monument), the Chews Landing Fire Company (“The Rescue” monument), Harleigh Cemetery (Illustration on granite marker for Walt Whitman’s tomb), Camden County Parks (“Seven Deadlies” bronze shark series), Rutgers University (Bronze time capsule), the Camden waterfront (L-3 Communications monument), the Franciscan Monastery in Cherry Hill, NJ, Camden Shipyard and Maritime Museum (Matthew Henson Monument) and Valley Forge, (Monokefalos Bronze at the Pontian Memorial).

He completed the Victims of Terrorism Memorial in 2002 honoring civilians and U.S. military personnel who have lost their lives in terrorist attacks during the past 20 years. The memorial is located along the Cooper River in Pennsauken, New Jersey near Philadelphia, PA. He completed a 15 foot bronze sculpture of Hadrosaurus Foulkii, the first dinosaur discovered in the United States. The work is on permanent display in Haddonfield, New Jersey, near the site of the original discovery.

John Giannotti is a member of the Da Vinci Art Alliance in Philadelphia, PA and has been declared a Paul Harris Fellow by Rotary International. He has lectured at the Philosophical Society and the Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, Smith College and S.A.C.I Art Institute in Florence, Italy, and the Yale Art Gallery in New Haven, Connecticut. He is a regular faculty member at the Landmarks Elderhostel where he conducts lectures at the Rodin Museum. He received a BFA cum laude from SUNY Buffalo, an MFA from the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers, and was a Visiting Artist at the Johnson Atelier in Princeton. He served as that institute’s Academic Director in 1980. Giannotti is Professor Emeritus at Rutgers University where he was a faculty member at the Camden and New Brunswick campuses for thirty three years until his recent retirement. While at Rutgers he chaired the Department of Fine Arts (Art, Music and Theatre), developed both the International Studies Program and the Computer Graphics/Computer Animation program in Camden, and served as Resident Director of the Rutgers Junior Year Program in Florence in 1990-1991 and 1996-1997. He received the Warren I. Susman Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Outstanding Faculty Award in 1988.

PUBLIC ART, AWARDS, and COMMISSIONS 2011 Bascom Waugh and Lewis Coriell Relief Portraits (7' x 10') for the Coriell Institute/Cooper Hospital. Dedication, April, 2011. 2010 Walt Whitman with Butterfly (Bronze) Whitman Birthplace Museum, Huntington, NY 2009 Matthew Henson Monument, Camden Shipyard and Maritime Museum, Camden, new Jersey 2006 Pontian Genocide Memorial. Bronze Eagle (Monokefalos) Dedicated September 10, 2006, Valley Forge, PA 2006 Rescue V (bronze), Port St. Lucie Fire District, Port St. Lucie, Florida 2005 Sister Barbara Micarelli (bronze), Franciscan Missionary Sisters of the Infant Jesus, Cherry Hill, New Jersey (in progress) 2004 Chief Robert Kristie Memorial (bronze), Willow Springs Fire District, Willow Springs, Illinois 2003 Hadrosaurus Foulkii Sculpture, Bronze, 15' in length, Haddonfield NJ 2002 Rescue IV (bronze) Hagerman Fire Disrict, East Patchogue, New York 2002 Memorial of the Innocents, Cooper River Park, Pennsauken, NJ (Projected completion, July, 2002)

2001 Applause Award for Visual Art -- Markeim Art Center, Haddonfield, NJ 2001 L-3 Communications Monument (granite/concrete) Camden, NJ 2001 Shark Series VII (bronze) - Cooper River Park, Haddon Twp., NJ

2000 Rescue III (bronze), Selden, New York

2000 Philadelphia Flower Show (12' x 38' mural) - Convention Center, Phildelphia, PA

1999 Whitman III (bronze) - NJ State Aquarium Children's Garden, Camden, NJ

1994 Madame Curie Monument II - bronze sculpture commissioned by Brassner Fine Arts, W. Palm Beach, FL

1993 Madame Curie Monument I - bronze sculpture commissioned by Soka University, Japan

1992 Walt Whitman Monument III - bronze sculpture commissioned by Soka University, Japan

1992 Walt Whitman Monument II - bronze sculpture commissioned by Brassner Fine Arts, W. Palm Beach, FL

1990 Walt Whitman Monument - bronze sculpture commissioned by City of Camden

1988 City of Camden Exhibition - Outstanding Artist award

1986 The Rescue, II - lifesize bronze sculpture commissioned by Chews Landing Fire Company, Chews Landing, NJ

1984 Spanish Consulate, New York, NY - exhibition graphics for Francisco Goya Exhibit

1983 University of Pennsylvania - exhibition graphics for Francisco Goya Exhibit at the Furness Gallery

1983 George Imhof Award - office of the Mayor, Camden, NJ

1982 Cooper Medical Center, Murals for pre-op and post-op rooms

1981 The Rescue - lifesize bronze sculpture commissioned by Camden County Board of Freeholders, Lakeland, NJ

1981 Outdoor sculpture, Atlantic City, New Jersey; contributing sculptor

1976 Martin Senour Award, - for preparation of exhibition at Philadelphia Art Alliance

1974 Playground Design, Atlantic City, NJ commissioned by Atlantic City Housing Authority

SOLO EXHIBITIONS - International Torre Alberti, Florence, Italy, 1997 Lucia Burgassi: Gallery, Florence, Italy: March 1997

St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, England: January,1994

Bottega di Cimabue, Florence, Italy: November,1988

Galleria Settembrini, Forte dei Marmi, Italy: June, 1987

Uraniadue Gallery, Florence, Italy: May, 1986

Port Colburne Fine Arts Center, Port Colburne, Canada: June, 1971

Welland Art Center, Welland, Ontario, 1969

SOLO EXHIBITIONS - USA

"Conversazioni", Art Library, Rutgers University, April, 2003

Onawa Center, Lake Onawa, Maine: July 2002

Toccando i Muri - Stedman Art Gallery II, 1998

Retrospective Exhibition - Stedman Art Gallery Jan., 1995

Margaret Lipworth Fine Arts, Boca Raton, Florida: June, 1993

Four Corners Gallery, Lambertville, New Jersey: April, 1988

L.B. Jones Gallery, Wilmington, Delaware: April- May, 1987

The Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA: October, 1977 SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS "Forging Memorial Art for Public Memory" Art Library, Rutgers University

American Consulate - Caracas, Venezuela

Brenau National Invitational - Atlanta, Ga.

New Expressions by Southern New Jersey Art Faculties Noyes Museum, Pomona, New Jersey

National Drawing Exhibition, "For Love or Money", Cameron University; Cameron, Oklahoma

Copper Two, International Sculpture Competition, University of Arizona at Tucson

Group Exhibition, Gallery 641, Washington, DC

National Drawing Exhibition, University of North Carolina, John Canaday, curator

Charles Rand Penney, Exhibition of the Collection, Kenan Center for the Arts, Lockport, New York

Albright-Knox Annual, The Albright-Knox Gallery Buffalo, New York

Delaware Museum Invitational, Wilmington, DE

Sculpture Annual, Rodger LaPelle Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Nabisco Invitational, East Hanover, NJ

Sculpture Annual, Rodger LaPelle Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Sculpture Annual, Rodger LaPelle Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Eastern Light Exhibition, Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA

Group Invitational, Robeson Center, Newark, NJ

20th Anniversary MFA Exhibition, NJ State Museum, Trenton

National Endowment Exhibition, Pavilion Gallery, Mt. Holly, NJ

Atelier Sculptors, Lycoming College, Williamsport, PA

Group Invitational, Philadelphia Art Alliance

NEA Invitational, Pavilion Gallery, Mt. Holly, NJ

26th Annual, Hunterdon Art Center, Clinton, NJ

Living Art in the Schools, Traveling Artists Equity Show

25th Annual, Hunterdon Art Center, Clinton, NJ

Bicentennial Exhibition, Memorial Hall, Philadelphia, PA

New Jersey, Seven, Somerset Art Center, Somerset, NJ

Earth Art, Two, Museum of the Civic Center, Philadelphia, PA

Philadelphia Festival 1974, Philadelphia, PA

13th Annual, University of Delaware, Newark, DE

Arts in the Schools, Artists Equity Traveling Exhibition

Earth Art 73, Museum of the Philadelphia Civic Center

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