LEE CANNAROZZO

Lee Cannarozzo (b. 1989, Las Vegas, NV) is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist with an M.F.A in Studio Art from SUNY University at Buffalo and a B.A. in Art History from The University of Nevada Las Vegas.  

Through a protean practice that utilizes constantly evolving methodologies and media relevant to the subject of each artistic project, his work investigates the contemporary resonance of various social, legal, and ecological histories. 

Education

SUNY University at Buffalo - Master of Fine Arts (Studio Art)

University of Nevada Las Vegas - Bachelor of Arts (Art History)

 Installations/Solo Projects

[2020] Underneath The Surface, The Visual Studies Workshop Project Space, (Rochester, NY)

[2020] Slow Art The Drawing A Blank Nonsites, Mirabo Press (Buffalo, NY)

[2019 – 2020] Drawing A Blank, Hotel Henry Urban Resort (Buffalo, NY)

[2017] Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here, The Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art (Las Vegas, NV)

[2016] Disconnected: The Creation of An American Phenomenon, Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery (Las Vegas, NV)

Group Exhibitions

[2024] Fallow Frames, PS122 Gallery (New York, NY)

[2023] Fallow Frames, Stephen Street Gallery (Queens, NY)

[2023] Lined and Torn: Paper Works from the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art Collection, The Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art (Las Vegas, NV)

[2022} Making Room: Works from the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art Collection, The Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art (Las Vegas, NV)

[2022] All Together, Amongst Many: Reflections on Empathy, Mary Elizabeth Dee Shaw Gallery (Ogden, Utah)

[2021] All Together, Amongst Many: Reflections on Empathy,The Bemis Center (Omaha, Nebraska)

[2021] Art In Craft Media, The Burchfield Penny Art Center (Buffalo, NY)

[2020] Art Virus 20, Gyeongmin Museum of Contemporary Art, (Uijeongbu, South Korea)

[2019] Hotel Henry Summer Detournement, Hotel Henry (Buffalo, NY)

[2019] Overlap, UB Art Gallery (Buffalo, NY)

[2018] Matter, Silo City (Buffalo, NY)

[2018} An Introduction, The Project Space (Buffalo, NY)

[2018] Monuments Arts and Conservation Panel Discussion/Pop Up Exhibition, Sahara West Library (Las Vegas, NV)

[2008] SF Open Studio Event, Rozanoff Art, (San Francisco, CA)

[2008] SF Open Studio Event, Market Street Gallery (San Francisco, CA)

[2008} Art For AIDS Charity Auction, Herbst International Exhibition Hall, (San Francisco, CA)

[2008] Absurd Reality, Rozanoff Art (San Francisco, CA) 

Teaching

[2022] University at Buffalo Intro to Modern Art (AHI 251)

[2021] University at Buffalo: Visual Theory (Art 150) & Machines, Codes, Cultures (DMS 220)

[2018-2020] University at Buffalo: 2D Design Concept (Art 105) and Visual Theory (ART 150)

 Lectures / Workshops / Programs

[2021] Speaker, “Art in Craft Media Artist Tours,” The Burchfield Penny Art Center (Buffalo, NY)

[2021] Panel Discussions, “Visual Artists Read Braiding Sweetgrass,” The Visual Studies Workshop (Rochester, NY)

[2019] Speaker / Artist Talk, “The Hotel Henry Summer Art Walk,” The Hotel Henry (Buffalo, NY)

[2018] Speaker / Artist Talk, “Super/Quick!” Squeaky Wheel Film and Media Art Center (Buffalo, NY)

[2018] Speaker / Artist Talk, “Mojavean Artistic Material Production,” The Sahara West Library (Las Vegas, NV)

[2017} Curator / Host, “The Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enters Here Film Series,” The Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art (Las Vegas, NV)

 Awards and Residencies

[2020] Visual Studies Workshop Project Space Residency (Rochester, NY)

[2008] Cat’Art Centre d’Art Contemporain (Sainte-Columbe-sur-l’Hers, France) 

Public Collections

The Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art

Press

[2020] “Slow Art: The Drawing A Blank Nonsites,” by Newell Nussbaumer, published online in Buffalo Rising, https://www.buffalorising.com/2020/03/slow-art-the-drawing-a-blanknonsites/

[2016] “Lee Cannarozzo ‘Disconnected’ At Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery,” by Ed Fuentes, published online in Paint This Desert, https://www.edward-fuentes.com/field-notes/lee-cannarozzo-disconnectedat-donna-beam-fine-art-gallery