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Enne Tesse aka Antonella Piemontese
Lives in Beacon, NY
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Group Exhibitions
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2024 Jane St. Art Center, Saugerties, NY, Off the Charts - Medical Art and the Internal Body
Arts Mid-Hudson Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY, Artists Respond to Poetry
2023 Gallery 44, Frederick, MD, Word
Jane St. Art Center, Saugerties, NY, Go Figure
2022 Rattle Online Publication, Rattle Foundation, CA, August Ekphrastic Challenge, Worm
Puffin Cultural Forum, Puffin Foundation, NJ, We The People, Online Exhibition
2021 Emerge Gallery, Saugerties, NY, Petit: Smaller Sized Art
Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Altoona, PA, Almost Endless
ArtsWestchester, White Plains, NY, Together apART: Creating During COVID
118 Art Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, RE:INVENT IN MOTION, Online Exhibition
2020 Librarian of Babel, Boston, MA, The Babel Masks, Online Exhibition
Ethan Cohen KuBe, Beacon, NY, Darkest Before Dawn: Art in a Time of Uncertainty
ArtsWestchester, White Plains, NY, Give Us the Vote 2020, A Virtual Exhibition
Treat Gallery New York, NY, Pretty in Pink, Online Feature
Arts Mid-Hudson Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY, Look Back In Wonder, Virtual Exhibit
Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz, Stay Home, Make Art: Hudson Valley, NY, Edition on Instagram or Facebook at @dorskymuseum
Duluth Art Institute, MN, Response: An Online Exhibit
Emerge Gallery, Saugerties, NY, Paper Trail, Art on Paper
2019 Collar Works, Troy, NY, Art Stands Still
Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester, VT, Unusual Threads: Stitching Together the Future of Fashion
Arts Mid-Hudson Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY, Artists Respond to Poetry
2018 Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz, Time Travelers: Hudson Valley Artists 2018 curated by Anastasia James, Jun 16-Nov 11
Arts Mid-Hudson Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY, Here & There
2017 Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz, Undercurrents: The River as Metaphor / Hudson Valley Artists 2017 curated by Livia Straus
Vassar Farm, Poughkeepsie Farm Project, NY, Art on the Farm
New Britain Museum of American Art, CT, The Nor’Easter
Gallery 66 NY, Cold Spring, NY, Duality of Feminine and Feminist
Five Points Gallery, Torrington, CT, Figure This
TheoGanz Studio, Beacon, NY, Bowled Over Pop-Up Event
2016 Rutgers University Paul Robeson Galleries, Newark, NJ, The Undesirables
2015 Kingston Sculpture Biennial, Kingston, NY
The Big Draw, Catalyst Gallery, Beacon, NY
2014 Theo Ganz Studio, Beacon, NY
Windows on Main Street, Installation at Antalek & Moore, Beacon, NY
2013 TheoGanz Studio, Beacon, NY
Minus Space, Brooklyn, NY, Julian Pretto Gallery
Windows on Main Street, Installation at Beacon Institute for Rivers and Estuaries, Clarkson University, Beacon, NY
Dream in Plastic, Beacon, NY, Tiny Windows
2012 TheoGanz Studio, Beacon, NY, Prints Without Pixels
Windows on Main Street, Installation at Clay, Wood & Cotton, Beacon, NY
Dream in Plastic, Beacon, NY, Tiny Windows
2010 Beacon Open Studio, Beacon, NY
2003 Van Brunt Gallery, Beacon, NY
Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY, Brooklyn on 57th Street
2002 The Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, Try This
Akus Gallery, Eastern Connecticut State University, CT, Permeable Borders
2001 Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, Holiday Group Show
Flynndog Gallery, Burlington, VT
Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 21st Suffragettes
2000 The Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, Wunderkammer: Wonderworks
1999 The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, and Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan, Visions of the Body: Fashion or Invisible Corset,
curated by Shinji Kohmoto
White Columns, New York, NY, Outer Boroughs
Richard Anderson Fine Arts, New York, NY
1998 Norwalk Community Technical College, Norwalk, CT, Art and Language
Stefan Stux Gallery, New York, NY, Invitational ‘98
Gramercy Park Hotel, New York, NY, The Gramercy International Contemporary Art Fair
1997 Gallery A, Chicago, IL, READ Text and the Visual
67 Broad St, New York, NY, The Art Exchange Show
Stefan Stux Gallery, New York, NY
1996 Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT, Conceptual Tools (Selected Works from the LeWitt Collection)
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT, The Collection of Julian Pretto / Acquiring Art in the 90’s
Stefan Stux Gallery, New York, NY
1993 Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT, Nature, Memory, Strength, curated by Kimberly Davenport
1992 University Art Museum, Santa Barbara, CA, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA, and North Carolina Museum Of Art, Raleigh, NC,
Knowledge: Aspects of Conceptual Art, curated by Phyllis Plous
Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Paint/Print
Julian Pretto Gallery, New York, NY, Photography/Text
1990 The Institute of Contemporary Art, PS1 Museum, Long Island City, NY Special Projects 1990
Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH, In the Beginning
Julian Pretto Gallery, New York, NY, New Conceptualists
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Solo Exhibitions
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2024 Super Secret Projects, Beacon, NY, Animal Kingdom
2019 Trolley Barn, Poughkeepsie, NY, Passage
1997 Littlejohn Contemporary, New York, NY, Accessorized (object/text)
1993 Julian Pretto Gallery, New York, NY, Dual Word Patterns
1992 Julian Pretto Gallery, New York, NY, Artificial Landscape
Jan Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, The Boundaries of Quantity
1991 Julian Pretto Gallery, New York, NY, Exercice de Mémoire
1989 Julian Pretto Gallery, New York, NY, Weight of Words
Site-Specific Installation
Barb's Butchery, Beacon, NY, Linked Source, Aged, 2015-ongoing
Awards
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2019 Arts Mid-Hudson Individual Artist Commission DEC Grant
2017 Arts Mid-Hudson Under-Recognized Artist Award
2014 WOMSXcellence Award, Beacon, NY
1998-99 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
Teaching
Creator, Collaborator and Professor of The Hudson River: Food & Design – A Special Project Collaboration between
The Culinary Institute of America, Hyde Park, NY and Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, Sept-Dec 2017.
Visiting Artist, Fiber Dept., Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD, 2001
Lectures & Talks
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Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz, Time Travelers: Hudson Valley Artists 2018, Gallery Talk, July 15, 2018
Vassar Farm, Poughkeepsie Farm Project, NY, Art on the Farm Walk & Talk, Oct 29, 2017
Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz, Undercurrents: The River as Metaphor/Hudson Valley Artists 2017, Gallery Talk, June 24, 2017
Five Points Gallery, Torrington, CT, “Figure This” Artist Conversation, Jan 27, 2017
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan, Personal Safety Wardrobe, Aug 7, 1999
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Bibliography
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Gallery 44, Word: Catalogue, pp. 73-79, Published Sep 16, 2023, https://issuu.com/prismpress/docs/word_catalogue
The Woven Tale Press, Vol. XI #4, Enne Tesse, pp. 33-40, Woven Tale Press LLC, Aug 2023, https://online.flipbuilder.com/eovs/uzkq/
Vassar Review, Issue 8, 2023 Interiors and Intimacies, https://vassar-review.vassarspaces.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/VR2023_InteriorsIntimacies.pdf
Climate Art Collection, April 2023, Berlin, Germany, https://www.climateartcollection.com/artworks/xaBr6occ0VNHGmbpP4rj
Red Noise Collective, March 2023, https://www.rednoisecollective.com/enne-tesse
White Enso Journal, Issue 7, Spring 2023, Uncategorized Art, http://www.whiteenso.com/7-zigra-e-tesse.html
Josh Ryder and Barbara Scott. "ARTiculAction Meets Enne Tesse", ARTiculAction Art Review, Biennial Edition 2022, Vol.1, pp.22-43.
Paula Billups. "The Babel Masks", Exhibition Catalog, Dragon Food Press, 2020.
Celebrate Womxn845, Social Unity: Volume 1, Issue 2, Digital Zine, Dec 4, 2020.
Jelly Bucket, For Reading Literary Journal, Issue 10, Eastern Kentucky University, July 2020.
Celebrate Womxn845, Social Unity: Volume 1, Issue 1, Digital Zine, May 1, 2020.
William Jaeger, “Art Review: Art Stands Still at Collar Works”, Timesunion, June 6, 2019.
Marta Pauer-Tursi, “SVAC’s Recycled Beauty: Unusual Fashion Threads Showcased in Vermont”, Artscope Magazine, May/June 2019 Issue
Article, May 2nd, 2019.
Ryan Jacobs, “Antonella Piemontese Conceptual Artist & Sculptor”, 12550 The Zine, Issue #2, The Makers Issue, April 2019.
Linda Marston-Reid, “Hudson Valley Artists Create Concept of Time Travel in Dorsky Exhibit”, Special to Poughkeepsie Journal, July 11, 2018.
John Zeaman. "Art (with an explanation)", Design NJ Magazine, June/July 2016 Issue.
James Kalm Rough Cuts. Julian Pretto Gallery at MINUS SPACE, September 9, 2013.
The National Museum Of Modern Art, Kyoto and The Kyoto Costume Institute. Visions of the Body: Fashion or Invisible Corset, Japan, 1999.
Rika Kayama. “Salvation Clothing”, Asahi Shinbun Tokyo Edition, 11/24/99
Geijutsu Shincho. Stardust Review of Exhibitions: Visions of the Body: Fashion or Invisible Corset, Oct 1999
Laurel Berger. “In Their Sights”, Artnews, March 1997.
Elizabeth Langhorne. “To Don the Parangolé?”, Conceptual Tools (Selected Works from the LeWitt Collection), Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT, 1996.
Huston Paschal. “Knowledge:Aspects of Conceptual Art”, Preview, North Carolina Museum of Art, Autumn 1992
Frances Colpitt. “Past and Present Moments of Conceptual Art: the Breadth of Knowledge”, Knowledge: Aspects of Conceptual Art, University Art Museum, Santa Barbara, CA, 1992.
Phyllis Plous. “Speaking to Contemporary Culture: Notes and Excavations”, Knowledge: Aspects of Conceptual Art, University Art Museum, Santa Barbara, CA, 1992.
Susan Kandel. “Reading Between the Lines”, Los Angeles Times, 2/20/92.
Amy Sparks. “Review”, Dialogue, Jan/Feb 1991.
Collections
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Kyoto Costume Institute, Kyoto, Japan; The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan; Richard Brown Baker Collection, Yale University Art Gallery, CT; Sol LeWitt Collection, Chester, CT; The Collection of Julian Pretto, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT; The Progressive Art Collection, OH
Education
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1985 MFA, School of Visual Arts
1982 BFA, SUNY College at Purchase
