NEW YORK, NY, April 28, 2022 /24-7PressRelease/ -- John Francis Torreano has been inducted into Marquis Who's Who. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
For more than 60 years, Mr. Torreano has distinguished himself as an American artist maintaining a vital presence in the New York art community since 1968. Renowned for his contributions, he is best known for his unique ability to create the illusion of movement in his artworks with the use of faceted gems. They have served as "star" references or "wounds," depending on his aesthetic purpose. However, their primary use has been to affirm the viewer's uniqueness by reflecting each person's particular location, to an artwork, in space and time. From early on he has looked to the cosmos for inspiration, using imagery gleaned from early telescopic photography and later from the Hubble telescope. In addition to painting and sculpture, Mr. Torreano has explored many other means of expression: photography, hand-blown glass, furniture, and comedic performance.
Well regarded in his field, Mr. Torreano has shown work in numerous museums throughout the U.S. and abroad: Parrish Art Museum, Watermill, NY, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, including at the Whitney Museum of American Art in Stamford, Connecticut, the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C., Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, Grand Rapids Museum of Art, Grand Rapids, MI, Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY, New Museum, New York, NY, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN, Tang Museum of Art, Saratoga, NY, Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA, Laforet Museum, Harajuku, Japan, Museo Ettore Fico, Turin, IT, Palazzo Reale, Milan, IT, Corso Roma Foundation, Villa Rufolo, Ravelle, IT. In 2021 at FIAC-Hours Les Murs, Jardin Des Tuileries-Louvre, Paris, France, he exhibited his "Giant Gem."
In 1969 he was included in the Whitney Annual Exhibition of American Art with a painting titled "TV Bulge." This very large picture, foretold his future use of outer-space imagery. Mr. Torreano has also had extensive one-person gallery exhibitions, most recently at Thomas Brambilla Gallery, Bergamo, IT, Keyes Art, Sag Harbor, NY, and Hill Gallery, Birmingham, NY.
Prior to NYU Mr. Torreano filled many teaching and artists-in-residence roles: Distinguished Visiting Professor at New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, Assistant Professor at University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD, Instructor at Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, Instructor at School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, Instructor at State University of New York at Purchase, Purchase, NY, Instructor at Clarke College, Dubuque, IA, Instructor at Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, Instructor at Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA. Artist-in-residencies include: School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, Banff Center for Art and Creativity, Banff, Alberta, Canada, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA, to name a few.
Over the course of his professional journey, Mr. Torreano has donated numerous artworks to charity. Some examples: Tribeca Film Festival Award, NYC, Pilchuck Glass Auction (s), Seattle, WA, Artists for Ukraine, The Church, Sag Harbor, NY, and served as comedic performer for many fundraising causes: Creative Time (NYC), Glass Art Society, Boston, Gay Men's Health Crisis Benefit (NYC), Hudson River Museum Benefit Performance, Yonkers, NY, and Benefit Performances for Artist Space (NYC).
Mr. Torreano was born in Flint, Michigan. He received an Associate in Arts degree from Flint Community Junior College, Flint, MI, a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI (1963) and completed his Master of Fine Arts at Ohio State University (1967). Subsequent achievements include several fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Grant. He also secured a Nancy Graves Foundation Grant for Visual Arts and two New York Abu Dhabi University Grants.
He attributes his life's success to a combination of curiosity, persistence, and humor and looks forward to many more years in the pursuit of art and the completion of a memoir about his life as an American artist.
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