Biography
Born in New York, New York
Lives and works in Las Cruces, New Mexico
Teaching
Associate Professor, Department of Art, New Mexico State University (NMSU), Las Cruces, NM, 2017 – Present
Assistant Professor, Department of Visual & Performing Arts, Daemen University, Buffalo, NY, 2013 – 2017
Education
MFA, University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), Baltimore, MD, 2007
BA, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, 2003
Recent Awards
Seed Funding Award for Research, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, 2022 & 2023
Faculty Travel Grant, New Mexico State University, 2022
Fulbright Fellowship to the University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia, 2019
Solo Exhibitions
Brita d’Agostino: Same Rituals, New Spells, Viewpoint Photographic Art Center, Sacramento, CA, 2022
Brita d’Agostino: Premium Glossies, Arts Visalia Visual Arts Center, Visalia, CA, 2021
Brita d’Agostino: Reconstructing Desires, Kipp Gallery, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA, 2020
(Exhibition Catalogue that I designed is distributed by Printed Matter, NYC )
Selected Juried and Invitational Exhibitions
13th Annual National Juried Exhibition, Carroll Gallery, Marshall University, Huntington, WV, 2024
36th Annual McNeese National Works on Paper Exhibition, Juried Exhibition, Grand Gallery, McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA, 2023
Assembly Required, (Lygia Clark photograph), Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, MO, 2022
Objects of Desire, Cedarburg Art Museum, Juried Exhibition, Cedarburg, WI, 2022
Smart Objects/Flattened Images, Well Well Gallery, Juried Exhibition,Portland, OR, 2022
İKÇÜ Art Gallery, Small Works,, Juried Exhibition, İKÇÜ Art Festival, Izmir, Turkey, 2021
Sponsored by: The Faculty of Art and Design at Izmir Katip Celebi University, Turkey
The Magic Silver Show, Juried Exhibition, The Clara M. Eagle Gallery, Murray State University, 2021
Cimarron National Works On Paper Exhibition, Juried Exhibition, Gardiner Gallery of Art, Oklahoma State University, Oklahoma, 2021
Monochrome, PH21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary, 2020
Looking Good, Juried Exhibition, MetroLab Gallery, Florida Atlantic University, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 2020
Exposure: An Exhibition of Experimental Photography, AIR Gallery, Juried Exhibition, Altrincham, UK, 2019
Collage, Juried Exhibition, Site:Brooklyn Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2019
8th Annual National Juried Exhibition, Carroll Gallery, Marshall University, Huntington, WV, 2019
2nd Place Award for Best in Show
Bloom, Sykes Gallery, Juried Exhibition, Millersville University of Pennsylvania, Millersville, PA, 2019
Contemporary Landscape, Juried Exhibition, CICA Museum, Gimpo-si, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea, 2018
Three, Attleboro Arts Museum, Juried Exhibition, Attleboro, MA, 2018
Art of Our Century 2018, Juried Exhibition, Woodbury Art Museum, Utah Valley University, Orem, UT, 2018
Here and Now, Las Cruces Museum of Art and NMSU University Art Gallery, Juried Exhibition, Las Cruces, NM, 2018
Amid/In WNY Epilogue, Invitational, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo, NY, 2017
Aperture Summer Open, Juried Exhibition, Aperture Foundation, New York, NY, 2014
Selected Presentations
Brita d’Agostino: Reconstructing Desires, Socially Distanced Virtual Artist Lecture, Kipp Gallery, IUP, Indiana, PA, 2020
Fulbright Lecture, University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia, 2019
International Conference on Communication & Mass Media, Athens, Greece, 2018
International Conference of Word & Image Studies, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2017
CAA Annual Conference, Washington DC, 2016