ABOUT
Adam Frezza (b.1977, Rochester, NY)
Terri Chiao (b.1981, Atlanta, GA)
CHIAOZZA is the collaborative practice of Adam Frezza & Terri Chiao. The studio explores play and craft across a range of mediums, including sculpture, painting, works on paper, installation, design, and public art. CHIAOZZA has had solo exhibitions with Wave Hill Sunroom Project Space (The Bronx, NY), Hashimoto Contemporary (New York, NY), Heron Arts (San Francisco, CA), Owen James Gallery (NYC), Long Island University (Brooklyn, NY), Casa Romantica (San Clemente, CA), Westchester Community College (Valhalla, NY), Poketo (Los Angeles, CA), Uprise Art (New York, NY), and Vox Populi (Philadelphia, PA), among others. They have installed public artworks in New York City Parks (Central Park and Tappen Park), Industry City (Brooklyn, NY), University of Florida (Gainesville, FL), Northeastern University (Boston, MA), Downtown Cleveland, OH, Downtown Houston, TX, and at Riverside Art Museum in Beijing, China. In 2017, they created an acre-spanning 32-sculpture installation at Coachella Art & Music Festival in Indio, CA.
EDUCATION
Adam Frezza
MFA, Drawing and Painting, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL (2007)
PBACC, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA (2004)
BA, Studio Art, Flagler College, St. Augustine, FL (2001)
Terri Chiao
M. ARCH, Columbia University, New York, NY (2008)
BA, Architectural Studies/History of Art & Architecture, Brown University, Providence, RI (2004)
SOLO EXHIBITION
2024 Pair, Pare, Pear, Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art & Design, Portland, ME
2023 Slow Growth, Uprise Art, New York, NY
2023 Inside Mirror, Hashimoto Contemporary, New York, NY
2022 Bouquet Paintings & Other Works, Heron Arts, San Francisco, CA
2022 Shape & Structure: Gemels, Casa Romantica, San Clemente, CA
2022 CHIAOZZA: Paper Pulp, Owen James Gallery, New York, NY
2020 Gemels, Launch F18 Viewing Room, New York, NY
2020 Color Gathers Space, Westchester Community College, Valhalla, NY
2019 Cascades & Crescendos, Owen James Gallery, New York, NY
2019 CHIAOZZA, Poketo ROW DTLA, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Al Fresco à la Mode (In the Open Air with Ice Cream), CY Fiore, New York, NY
2018 Chiaozza Chapel, Cooler Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2017 CHIAOZZA : Wall Works, Owen James Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2015 Paper Islands, Long Island University Humanities Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2014 CHIAOZZA, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA
2013 A Controlled Wild, Wave Hill Sunroom Project Space, Bronx, NY
INSTALLATIONS AND PUBLIC WORKS
2023 Charm Field, Somerset County Courthouse Lawn, Somerville, NJ
2023 Sprout Forest, HEJI Lightbox, Shanghai, China
2022 Whale Bone Dinner Party, Trebly Park, Houston, TX
2022 Wooden Wall Works, Google Maritime Building Cafe, Pier 57, New York, NY
2022 Scumble Lumps, Industry City, Courtyard 1/2, Brooklyn, NY
2022 Pulp Paintings, MacArthur Place, Sonoma, CA
2021 Lumpy Notes, Northeastern University, Boston, MA
2021 Up, Down, Beneath, and Around, Lincoln Lawn, Cleveland, OH
2021 Meander Mural, Harriet Tubman Supportive Housing Building, Far Rockaway, NY
2020-21 Picnic in the Treetops, installation, Hermès Ginza, Tokyo, Japan
2020 CHIAOZZA Shuffle Board, installation, Media Slopes, Deer Valley, UT
2019 Riders, installation, Hermès Geneva, Switzerland
2019 Log, Tree, Mound, installation, Wild Child, Oakland, CA
2019 Sprout Garden, Riverside Art Museum, Beijing, China
2019 Please Pass The Salt, interactive sculptures, Google’s Women Techmakers Dinner, Mountain View, CA
2019 Succulent Sundaes, installation, The Line Hotel, Los Angeles, CA
2019 The Invisible Traveler, installation, Hermès Shanghai, China
2019 Pulp Vessels and Wall Works, installation, 200 5th Avenue, New York, NY
2018 Stick Stump & The Lawn Lumps, public art installation, Tappen Park, Staten Island, NY
2018 Cherry Stalk Leg Lump, outdoor sculpture, Southampton, NY
2018 CHIAOZZA x Nike Epic React, installation, Nike Flatiron, New York, NY
2017 Chiaozza Zen Garden, outdoor sculptures, Industry City, Brooklyn, NY
2017 Exquisite Plants, public art installation, Brooklyn Bridge Park, Brooklyn, NY
2017 Sea Paddles, outdoor sculptures, Central Park, New York, NY
2017 Chiaozza Garden, outdoor installation, Coachella Music & Arts Festival, Coachella Valley, CA
2017 Suspended Confetti, collaboration with Alex Proba, installation, Canal Street Market, New York, NY
2016 Puddle Lumps, outdoor sculpture, The Ashland, Brooklyn, NY
2016 Greenhouse Theater, floating art pavilion for Swale, Hudson River, NY
2016 Pattern Field, mural, Affordable Art Fair, Uprise Art, New York, NY
2015 Cairn, public sculpture, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
2015 Puddle Platforms, play structure, Villa Lena, Palaia, Italy
2015 Fake Spring, installation, Coming Soon, New York, NY
2014 Projection Hut, interactive media pavilion, Eco-Hacker Build, Catskills, NY
2013 Willow Hut, temporary pavilion, The School of Making Thinking, Catskills, NY
2012 A House for a Forest, interactive web installation, Parallelograms.info
2009- A Cabin in a Loft, on-going installation, Brooklyn, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION
2024 Cosmic Bloom, Hashimoto Contemporary, San Francisco, CA
2024 Eternal Flame, Fredericks & Mae, New York, NY
2023 Dreamhouses, Fort Makers, online exhibition
2022 Embodiment, Heron Arts, San Francisco, CA
2022 Potluck, Hashimoto Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
2022 Lush, Hashimoto Contemporary, New York, NY
2021 For Folk’s Sake!, American Folk Art Museum, New York, NY
2021 Supergroup 2, Superhouse, New York, NY
2021 Cow Parade, Hudson Yards, New York, NY
2021 Friends & Family, Launch F18, Putnam Park, Peterborough, NH
2021 Vessel, Hashimoto Contemporary, San Francisco, CA
2021 Post Painterly Now, Sugarlift, New York, NY
2021 Make Arrangements, Uprise Art, New York, NY
2021 Art Basil, VSOP Projects x Treiber Farms, Peconic, NY
2021 Jardín Espacial, AGO Projects, Mexico City, Mexico
2021 Goodnight House, Fort Makers, New York, NY
2021 Broom Show, Cooler Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2021 Launch F18: 10 Years, Launch F18, New York, NY
2021 I Love You Too, Gaotai Gallery, Xinjiang, China
2020 Four Rooms 3, VSOP Projects, Greenport, NY
2020 Kismet, Monaco, St. Louis, MO
2020 The Sun Also Rises, Owen James Gallery, New York, NY
2020 Don’t Try This At Home, Antilia Gallery, virtual exhibition
2019 Trunk Show, Owen James Gallery, New York, NY
2019 Continuous Regeneration, Columbia Circle, Shanghai, China
2019 The Long and The Short Of It, Fredericks & Mae, Brooklyn, NY
2019 A Body Awaits, Cooler Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2019 Future Starts Slow, Launch F18, New York, NY
2019 Continuous Refle(a)ction, Riverside Art Museum, Beijing, China
2019 Inside/Out, The William Vale, Brooklyn, NY
2019 The Stoop, Cooler Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2019 Pulp + Process, Society of Arts + Crafts, Boston, MA
2019 Art on Paper, Owen James Gallery, New York, NY
2019 Art on Paper, VSOP Projects, New York, NY
2018-2019 Home Futures: Living in Yesterday’s Tomorrow, Design Museum, London
2018 Urns, Cooler Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2018 About Face, Fredericks & Mae, Brooklyn, NY
2018 FL/NY, Usagi Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2018 The Clown Show, Elephant Gallery, Nashville, TN
2018 Pocket Object, Juice Box Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2018 Materiality Leading Design, VSOP Projects, Greenport, NY
2018 Art on Paper, Sugarlift, New York, NY
2018 Let It Grow, Wave Pool Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2018 In Search Of, VSOP Projects, Greenport, NY
2017 Small Moments, Brilliant Champions, Brooklyn, NY
2017 Material Matters: Contemporary Art Meets Frank Lloyd Wright, Organized by Silvermine Arts Center, Petra Island, NY
2017 Call & Response, Wave Hill Glyndor Gallery, The Bronx, NY
2017 Plant Patterns, The Arsenal Gallery in Central Park, New York, NY
2017 Bluff Projects, Hero Beach Club, Montauk, NY
2017 Maker, Maker, Children’s Museum of the Arts, New York, NY
2017 Piles, Stacks, Lumps & Mounds, Canal Street Market x Sight Unseen, New York, NY
2017 Flags, Ace Hotel x Objectify 139, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Art on Paper, Uprise Art, New York, NY
2017 Work By Pairs, Distillery Gallery, Boston, MA
2017 Flash Me, Cooler Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2016 Lit, Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, Alfred University, Alfred, NY
2016 The Plant Show, 99¢ Plus Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2016 Someplace Elsewhere, Gallery Protocol, Gainesville, FL
2016 Vitamin C(ollage), Rabbit Hole Studio, Brooklyn, NY
2016 Formulations, Owen James Gallery at Sculpture Space, Queens, NY
2016 NYCxSKYMALL, Wintercheck Factory, Brooklyn, NY
2016 Void + Collapse, Chloe Curtis, New York, NY
2016 Thing One Thing Two, One Grand Gallery, Portland, OR
2016 Permeate the House, The Hollows, Brooklyn, NY
2016 Art on Paper, Owen James Gallery, New York, NY
2015 Excerpts from Paper Islands, Miami Projects, Uprise Art, Miami, FL
2015 Products of the Playful, Art + Method, Brooklyn, NY
2015 Into The Woods, Morris-Warren Gallery, New York, NY
2015 Published by the Artist, International Print Center, New York, NY
2015 Materials / Abstraction, Owen James Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2015 Curious Mediums, City of Brea Art Gallery, Brea, CA
2015 Winter’s Garden, Silvermine Arts Center, New Canaan, CT
2014 Design in Full Colour, Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
2014 Ashen Branches, Vibrant Keys, Wayfarers, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Boxes Lost in Circulation, Flushing Town Hall, Queens, NY
2014 Stone Show, KIOSK, New York, NY
2014 Over the Edge: Paperworks Unbound, Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Hang Ten Heat Wave, The Bakery, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Plant Shop, SightUnseen OFFSITE, New York, NY
2013 Ransom, Wayfarers, Brooklyn, NY
2013 WAH Bridges Bushwick, Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY
2013 Wrap Around Two, ARENA@Suite 806, 89 Fifth Ave., New York, NY
2013 Birdhouses, Wharton Esherick Museum, Paoli, PA
2013 Another New York, Artbridge, Barclays Center, Brooklyn, NY
2013 Atmospheric Pressure, Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY
2013 Making Room, Museum of the City of New York, NY
2012 Objects by Architects, Keller Gallery, MIT, Cambridge, MA
2011 Faraway Neighbor, Flux Factory, Queens, NY,
2011 Museum All-Over, Raccolte Frugone Museum, Genoa, Italy
2011 Little Wonder, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland
ARTIST BOOKS
2020 Exquisite Plants, CHIAOZZA, Hato Press
2019 Man With Amoeba, CHIAOZZA, Little Big Time Press
2016 Blocks Blocks Blocks, CHIAOZZA, Hato Press
2016 Lump Nubbin Coloring Book, CHIAOZZA, TXT Books
AWARDS & HONORS
Children’s Museum of the Arts, Benefit Auction, Guest Curators, New York, NY (2018)
Art in the Parks: UNIQLO Park Expressions Grant (2018)
Curtis Gates Lloyd Research Fellowship, Lloyd Library, Cincinnati, OH (2016)
NYSCA Finishing Funds Grant (2015)
Puffin Foundation Grant (2015)
American Design Hot List, Sight Unseen, New York, NY (2014)
Visiting Scholars, Pratt Institute Ceramics Department, Brooklyn, NY (2014)
Hot Picks, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY (2014)
BRIC Media Arts Fellowship, Brooklyn, NY (2014)
Brooklyn Community Supported Arts + Design, Brooklyn, NY (2013)
The Viewing Program, The Drawing Center, New York, NY (2009)
NYSCA Independent Project Grant in Architecture, Planning, and Design (2008)
RESIDENCIES
MacArthur Place x Uprise Art Artist Residency, Sonoma, CA (2021)
Cooler Ranch, Treiber Farms, Southold, NY (2019)
Shell House Arts, Roxbury, NY (2018)
Villa Lena, Tuscany, Italy (2015)
Kökarkultur, Kökar, Finland (2014)
Starry Night Retreat, Truth or Consequences, NM (2014)
The School of Making Thinking, DeLancey, NY (2013)
George Rickey Residency, The Corporation of Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY (2009, AF)
Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT (2009, AF)
Keyholder Residency, Lower East Side Printshop, New York, NY (2008, AF)
INVITED WORKSHOPS & LECTURES
Google Visual Design Summit (2023)
Google Artists-in-Residence Workshop (2023)
Uprise Art, New York, NY (2023)
Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta, GA (2021)
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI (2021)
Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA (2020)
California State University, Long Beach, CA (2020, 2021, 2023)
People in Places 003: On Intimacy (2020)
Studio to the Streets, LAND Studio, Cleveland, OH (2019)
University of Toronto, Daniels School of Architecture, Toronto, Canada (2019)
Children’s Museum of the Arts, Family Day, New York, NY (2018)
SUNY Westchester Community College, Valhalla, NY (2018)
Brooklyn Bridge Park, Brooklyn, NY (2017)
The Arsenal Gallery, Central Park, New York, NY (2017)
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, New York, NY (2016)
Families Who Create, The Brooklyn Cottage, Brooklyn, NY (2016)
Lloyd Library, Cincinnati, OH (2016)
Free Arts: Parents & Children Together, New York, NY (2016)
Group Under: Salon, Brooklyn, NY (2015)
The Last Weekend, Catskills, NY (2014)
Ceramics Department, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn (2014)
Kökar Grundskola, Kökar, Finland (2014)
Eco-Hacker Build, Catskills, NY (2014)
High School Fellows Workshop, Arts in Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY (2014)
Family Art Project, Wave Hill, The Bronx, NY (2014, 2017)