John Ruggieri's award-winning work is included in collections internationally and has been shown in galleries and museums throughout the United States since 1991. John's art has been exhibited at the Boston Center for the Arts, Danforth Museum of Art, Texas Fine Arts Association, LFL Gallery in New York, Samson Projects, Bernard Toale Gallery, Schoolhouse Gallery, among others.

His work has been included in museum and gallery exhibitions by curators such as Neal Benezra, Zach Feur, Camilo Alvarez, Annette Lemieux, Michael Carroll, James Hull, TJ Norris, and Helen Shlein. In 1997 he received the Jean and Kalil Gibran Award for Excellence in Art from the Copley Society in Boston, juried by Carl Belz, Director of the Rose Art Museum.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2008 Newspace Center for Photography, Portland, OR, 2008 Juried Exhibition, Guest juror: TJ Norris.

2007 Schoolhouse Gallery @ The Art Now Fair, Art Basel Miami Beach.

2007 Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA, featured photographer.

2006 Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA, featured photographer.

2005 Bernard Toale Gallery, The Boston Drawing Project, Boston, "The Place," Guest curator: Shawn Hill.

2005 Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA, "Gallery Photographers."

2005 Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA, "A Drawing Show."

2004 Bernard Toale Gallery, The Boston Drawing Project, Boston, MA.

2004 Samson Projects, Boston, MA.

2004 Gallery at City Square, Charlestown, MA.

2002 Mills Gallery/Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, "South Enders," Guest juror: Annette Lemieux.

2002 Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA, "Making a Mark," Guest curator: Helen Shlien.

2001-03 Bernard Toale Gallery, The Boston Drawing Project, Boston, Curator: James Hull.

2001 Oni Gallery, Boston, Grand Opening exhibition.

2000 Gallery Bershad, Somerville, MA, "Modular," Curator: Roland Smart.

2000-02 LFL Gallery, New York, NY, Flat Files project, Curator: Zach Feuer.

1999 Gallery 5 North, Boston, "RISD on Point" exhibition of Boston RISD alumni, Curator: Jeff Kalin.

1999 Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, MA, "Pattern, Pop, and Layer" exhibition with Michelle Weinberg, Kelly Spalding and AME students; Curators: Daniel Elias, Elias Fine Art, and David Sullivan, Genovese-Sullivan Gallery.

1997 The Copley Society of Boston, Boston, MA, "Manifest 97" biennial survey of contemporary art, Juror: Carl Belz, Rose Art Museum.

1997 South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA, "White Black & Shades of Gray," Juror: Carl Belz, Director, Rose Art Museum.

1996 Provincetown Art Association & Museum, Provincetown, MA, "20/20," Curator: Lee Musselman and selected for extended show curated by Michael Carroll.

1995 Office Environments of New England with Creiger-Dane Gallery, Boston, Grand Re-opening exhibition.

1993-95 Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin, TX, "Drawing into the 90s" traveling exhibition and catalogue, Juror: Neal Benezra, Chief Curator, Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden.

1993 Berta Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA, Group exhibition.

1992 National juried alumni exhibition, Rhode Island School of Design, Woods-Gerry Gallery, Providence, RI.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2008 F. collective, Hudson, NY.

2004-05 Boxx, Boston, MA.

2004 Gibson Domain | Domain, Boston, MA.

1998 Provincetown Group Gallery, Provincetown, MA.

1997 Provincetown Group Gallery, Provincetown, MA.

1996 Provincetown Group Gallery, Provincetown, MA.

1995 Gallery Matrix, Provincetown, MA.

1994 Gallery Matrix, Provincetown, MA.

1994 Providence Art Club, Providence, RI.

1993 Gallery Matrix, Provincetown, MA.

1992 Gallery Matrix, Provincetown, MA.

1991 Stellwagen Gallery, Provincetown, MA.

CURATOR AND EXHIBITION DESIGNER

2006-07 Curator for Wilkes Passage Lofts Condominium, Boston, Select and install artist residents' art for quarterly exhibitions in 155-unit luxury building.

2006 Exhibition designer for rehanging private collection in clients' new home at Laconia Lofts, Boston. Creatively assess, select, organize, and install painting, photography, and prints in large loft.

2003 Lekker, Boston, "Home Is Where the Art Is" AME Benefit & Art Auction, Recruited artists and Honorory Chair George T. M. Shackelford, Chair, Art of Europe, at the MFA and fellow Art Auction Judges Cheryl Brutvan, Robert L. Beal, Enid L. and Bruce Beal Curator of Contemporary Art and Kathy Tilton, Marketing Art Director, Boston Magazine.

1999 Harvard Graduate School of Education, “Pattern, Pop, and Layer” exhibition with artists Michelle Weinberg and Kelly Spalding and AME students; Curators: Daniel Elias, Elias Fine Art, and David Sullivan, Genovese-Sullivan Gallery.

1996 The Copley Society, Boston, MA, Co-juror, Winter Members' exhibition.

1993 James R. Bakker Gallery, Provincetown, MA, Group exhibitions: "The Soft Edge" featuring Ellen Gallagher and Paul Resika; "Homorealism" featuring Andy Warhol and John Dowd.

PUBLIC ART

2002-03 Fuller Museum of Art, Art ASPIRE artist residency program, Brockton, MA, Directed mural project for RISE Youth Opportunity Center.

2001 Cambridge River Festival, Cambridge, MA, Directed public art education project Boogie-Woogie Building inspired by exhibition "Mondrian: The Transatlantic Paintings," Harvard Art Museums.

2000 First Church in Jamaica Plain, Unitarian Universalist, Jamaica Plain, MA, Directed ART@NIGHT multimedia public art event. Funded in part by The Fund for the Arts, a restricted fund of the New England Foundation for the Arts.

AWARDS

2001 Seybold Boston Digital Art Contest, Boston, MA, Awarded Grand Prize for digital art.

2000 New England Foundation for the Arts, The Fund for the Arts, Boston, MA, Awarded $30,000 grant for ART@NIGHT multimedia public art event

1997 The Copley Society of Boston, Boston, MA, Awarded First Prize in "Manifest 97," a biennial survey of contemporary visual art. Juror: Carl Belz, Director, Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

John Ruggieri's work has been reviewed and featured in local and national press, including Newsweek, Boston Globe, Improper Bostonian Magazine, and South End News. Please visit johnruggieri.com/press.htm for a list of selected press, publications, and writing.

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Dr. Leonard Alberts, Provincetown
Michael Baker, Boston
James R. Bakker & Russell Bigelow, Provincetown
Joseph P. Barri & Randal A. Farrar, Milton, MA
Kevin Berry, Boston
Blaine Bershad & Will Sherwood, Sterling, MA
Camilla & David Brinkman, Somerville, MA
Alice Brock (aka "Alice's Restaurant"), Provincetown
John Choly & Saul Olyan, Providence
Gregory & Sarah Clark, Concord, MA
Todd & Kerry Coble, Lancaster, PA
Paul Dandini, Boston
John R. Drews, Provincetown
Ron Duby & Ken Fulton, Laguna Beach, CA
Jeremy Fowler, Washington DC
Paige Gillies, Newtown, CT
Jeremy Fowler, Washington, DC
David Griffiths Ed.D, Boston
Birgir Gudjonsson, Reykjavik, Iceland
James Harris, New York
Dr. Igor Kubalek & Dr. René Granier, Paris
Paul Lanoix, Boston
Christian K. Liese, New York
Larry Magras & Bruce Lieb, Miami Beach
Dr. Richard Marshal, Boston
Jim Rhea, Boston
David Simpson & Thomas Green, Boston
Duane Slick, Providence, RI
Dr. Neal R. Smookler, Wellesley, MA
Ross Sormani, Boston
Honorable Gerry E. Studds & Dean Hara, Boston
Dr. Bruce J. Thompson, Providence, RI
Bernie Vyzga, West Hollywood, CA
Michelle Weinberg, Miami Beach
David Whitman, Boston
Tony Wong

VISITING ARTIST AND TEACHING

2005 United South End Settlements' Children's Art Centre, Boston, Taught Children's Portfolio program for Hurley Elementary students: art-making with field trips to South End contemporary art galleries and artist studios.

2005 ESAC (Ensuring Stability through Action in our Community) and Cyber Y Technology Lab, Boston, Graphic design course for urban youth ages 16-24.

2002-03 Fuller Museum of Art, Art ASPIRE artist residency program, Brockton, MA, Directed mural project for RISE Youth Opportunity Center.

2002 Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA, Art ASPIRE (After-School Programs Integrating Residencies and Education) artist residency programs in Gilmore Elementary School.

2002 Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA, Art ASPIRE (After-School Programs Integrating Residencies and Education) artist residency programs in North Jr. High School.

2002 Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA, Art ASPIRE (After-School Programs Integrating Residencies and Education) artist residency programs in Arnone Elementary School.

2002 Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA, Art ASPIRE (After-School Programs Integrating Residencies and Education) artist residency programs in Brockton High School.

2002 Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA, Art ASPIRE (After-School Programs Integrating Residencies and Education) artist residency programs in Plouffe Elementary School.

2001 Kennedy Elementary School in conjunction with Mondrian exhibition at Harvard University Museums, Cambridge, MA, AME "Boogie-Woogie Building."

2000 Castle Hill, Truro Center for the Arts, Truro, MA, Abstract painting class.

1996-2001 James M. Curley Elementary School, Boston, MA, multi-year grants from Boston Cultural Council supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council for artist residency programs.

1994 Provincetown Art Association & Museum, abstract painting program with Veterans Elementary School students, supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the Provincetown Cultural Council, Steven Jay Sampson Charitable Foundation, Provincetown.

1990 John G. Austin All-Age School, Jamaica, West Indies, Community service and drawing with students.

1986 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, Continuing Education teaching assistant.

EDUCATION

1991 Hampshire College, Amherst, MA, B.A. Philosophy and Painting.

1984-87 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, Full-time art and design studies.

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