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SELECTED EXHIBTIONS:
DENISE BIBRO FINE ART- Art From the Boros III, New York, NY
VANDERBILT MANSION – DOWLING COLLEGE: Memory Palace Chamber/Portal:
Luminosity and Liminality. May through December 2015. Supported by a
National Endowment for the Arts Grant
AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME: When the Stars Came Out in Pienza, Part II.
Video Presentation, Lecture. May, 2014
FOUNTAIN ART FAIR: Counterpart: From Labyrinth to Liberata. 69th Sreet
Armory, NY. March, 2014
NYIT AUDITORIUM ON BROADWAY, Pentimenti -The Past Emerging: When the Stars Came Out
in Pienza,Video Installation, NYIT Auditorium on Broadway, NYC. November, 2012
INTERSECTION – GOVERNORS ISLAND: curator, Karen Wilkin. Memory Palace
Chamber – From the Novel, Installation, natural light, paper, gels, video, sound. June -October,
2011
SCULPTORS GUILD EXHIBIT: Muse on Winged Ox, terracotta, Broadway
Gallery Soho, NYC, March 2011
ENCOUNTERS : GOVERNORS ISLAND,curators, Ann Aptaker, Rocio ArandaAlvarado. Memory Palace Chamber – Transformation. Installation,
Natural light, gels, terracotta. June – October, 2010
AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME: Visiting Artist/Scholar in Residence, Rome.
Summer 2009
READY TO UNVIL , Newark, N.J. Proposal for Newark
Liberty Airport and the New Jersey Performing Arts Center. October-December
2009
ANIMAL MAGNETISM NYIT GALLERY 61, NYC: Soaring Larks, March, 2009
FACULTY EXHIBIT, NYIT GALLERY 61, NYC: The Muse on Luke’s Ox, April, 2009
IN-SITE EXHIBIT, GOVERNORS ISLAND: Ste. Foy, May – October, 2008
CERAMIC EXPRESSIONS, Riverside Library Yonkers: Tempietto,Lucca,
October-November 2008
COMMISSION: The New Church, Swedenborgian, East 35th St. N.Y. Angel of the Font
(permanent installation)
QCC GALLERY, Queensborough Community College, Bayside, N.Y. Esclarmonde, 2006-2008
exhibit
SELF CONTAINED, The Swedish Arts Council. Stockholm:
Ka Enclosed, February, 2008
SCULPTURE PORTAL, White Plains Courthouse: Portal, 2006-2008
NYIT Gallery 61, NYIT Bear Hug Club: Iris. sold at auction, artist donation. 2008
COLOGNE, SCULPTORS GUILD, Koln, Germany. 2007
NYIT Gallery 61: Faculty Exhibit, LIGHT INSTALLATION WITH PORTAL, May, 2007.
NYIT GALLERY 61, NYIT Bear Hug Club: Predella: sold at auction, artist donation.2007
COMMISSION: Rosone Residence, Little Silver, New Jersey 2007
ARCHIVAL TO CONTEMPORARY: SIX DECADES OF THE SCULPTORS GUILD,
Hillwood Art Museum, Old Westbury, N.Y. The Foot of San Michele, March, 2006
SCULPTURE FORUM, White Plains Courthouse: Portal, installed. 2006
NYIT GALLERY 61, Hands On Exhibit: Hecate 2006
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LONG ISLAND CITY OPEN STUDIOS, Independent Studios I, On Site Installation
Liquid Light. 2006
TRANSFORMATIONS, FIREHOUSE GALLERY -Nassau C. College, Uniondale, N.Y. Installation:
From Portal to Light. 2005
COMMISSION: Frank Andrews Collection, New York City, Forza 2005
SUMMER INVITATIONAL AIR Gallery, Chelsea, N.Y. Postcards, 2004
COMMISSION, Safir Collection, Aruba 2003
THE REGINA A. QUICK CENTER FOR THE ARTS, ONE PERSON RETROSPECTIVE - MANZI- SCHACHT, Olana,
N.Y. 2000
QUEENSBOROUGH COMMUNITY COLLEGE ART GALLERY – QCC GALLERY
Artist in Residence: One Person On Site Installation. Bayside, N.Y. 2000
LIGHT EXHIBIT, Islip Art Museum, Islip, N.Y. Three Tempietti. 1999
173 ANNUAL EXHIBIT, National Academy Museum of Fine Art, 5th Ave., N.Y. Tempietto, 1998
NATIONAL SCULPTURE SOCIETY, Americas Tower Lobby. Avenue of the Americas, N.Y.
Esclarmonde, 1995
THE MONTCLAIR MUSEM OF ART, ROTUNDA ROOM: Seraph/Borromini, 1993
THE ARSENAL - The Arsenal Building, Central Park Department of Parks,
On Site Installation/Aquamarine Seraph Site, 1987
P.S. 122 - Mark Russell, Curator 1987 On Stage Set Installation.
CONSUMER ART: ABC Norio, 1986
LONGWOOD ARTS GALLERY, Bronx, N.Y. On Site Installation/Archway
Fred Wilson, curator 1986
FIVE SCULPTORS, Memorial Arch, Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, N.Y. On Site Installation/ Circle
Seraph, 1985
THE ARCH EXHIBIT: FOUR SCULPTORS, Memorial Arch, Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, N.Y. On Site
Installation/Violet Seraph, 1984
LUCE: Crisafulli/Accademia dell’Arte, Italy: Documentation/Drawings
THE LIGHT EXHIBIT, The Islip Museum of Art: On Site Installation/ Amber Seraph
ON AND OFF THE WALL, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, NYC: On Site Installation
/Gold Seraph
PRATT INSTITUTE GALLERY Brooklyn, N.Y. One Person Exhibit: On Site Installation/Seraph XXIV.
ARTISTS DOCUMENTATION, Queens Museum, N.Y. Book of Artists Work.
ARTISTS OF NEW YORK, SUNY Stony Brook Gallery: On Site Installation/ Cobalt Seraph. Lawrence
Alloway, curator.
QUEENS MUSEUM JURIED EXHIBIT, The Queens Museum: On Site Installation/ Rose Seraph.
Robert Pincus Witten, curator.
SMALL WORKS, Nobe Gallery, West 57th St. N.Y. Tutmore
JOHN CAMPIONE SPACES, Campione Building, Park Avenue South, N.Y. Invitational: One Person
Exhibit, On Site Installation/Seraph.
OPEN STUDIOS IN MAY, P.S.I (MoMA) Long Island City, N.Y. On Site Installation, Seraph Series
Artist in Residence Fellowship.
LUMINATION, Nobe Gallery, West 57th St. N.Y. On Site Installation/Turquoise Seraph Series.
CUSTOM AND CULTURE, Creative Time,Inc.. U.S. Custom House. Anita Contini, curator.
Manager’s Office Room - On Site Installation/Seraph IX.
P.S I, (MoMA) Long Island City, Open Studio Installation, Seraph Series. Artist in Residence
Fellowship.
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SPECIALIZED AND ADVANCED STUDIES:
The National Academy of Fine Arts
The New York Academy of Fine Arts
The New School University
The Sculpture Center School
The Circolo School, Pietrasanta, Italy
GRANTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS:
Art and Psyche: Siracusa Sicily. Video and Lecture. September, 2015
Partial support by the National Endowment for the Arts, Vanderbilt
Mansion-Dowling College, 2015
American Academy in Rome: Visiting Artist/Scholar in Residence. Rome,
Italy. May, 2014
American Academy in Rome: Visiting Artist/Scholar in Residence. Rome,
Italy. June, 2009
Shuster Thesis Award (Art History Grant) Hunter Graduate School
The Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts, Artist in Residence
Queensborough Community College Art Gallery, Artist Honorarium Grant
P.S.I -Museum of Modern Art: Artist in Residence Fellowship
New York State Council on the Arts: Grand Army Arch Exhibit
Creative Time – US Custom House: Artist in Residence Fellowship
PUBLICATIONS AND REVIEWS:
Sculpture Magazine, William Ganis, 2007.
The Islip Bulletin 1999
Garden State Press, 1992
“Four Italian-American Artists” Ch. 31 1990
The New York Times 1986
“Artists Today” WKRB 90.9 FM1985
The New York Times 1983
WNYC AM November 1983
The New York Times 1982
Artnews 1980
Newday (photo) Oct. 1980
Art Forum 1980
DOCUMENTATION OF QUEENS ARTIS Queens Council on the Arts, 1980
HISTORY OF CREATIVE TIME (photo)
Artnews 1980
Sveriges TV 1 Sweden “The Mirror” 1977
Soho News 1977
“Straight Talk” WOR-TV 1977
The New Yorker 1977
The New York Times 1977
“As It Is” WCBS – TV 1979
“All Things Considered” WNYC FM 1978
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PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS/MEMBERSHIP:
Sculptors Guild, 110 Greene St. N.Y. board member
College Art Association
Independent Studios I – cooperative studio space, board member
Manzi-Schacht is currently an adjunct associate professor of Art and Art History at the New York
Institute of Technology.
Manzi-Schacht’s art history research is presently in process of publication in
MedievalTravel and Travelers, Real and Imagined: Travel as Transformation, by
Ashgate Press, UK.
EDUCATION:
MFA Hunter College Graduate School, New York, N.Y
BA (Sculpture) Queens College, C U N Y Flushing, N. Y
A.A.S. Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, N.Y.
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