Solo and Two-person Exhibitions

2018     “Holes in Walls” Centotto, Brooklyn, NY. (two-person show with Richard Sigmund).

2009     Urban Landscapes, Edward Hopper House Museum and Study Center, Nyack, NY.

2008     Lucas Schoormans Gallery, New York.

            Azarian-McColough Art Gallery,St. Thomas Aquinas College, NY.

2004     Lucas Schoormans Gallery, New York.

2002     Lucas Schoormans Gallery, New York.

2000     Lucas Schoormans Gallery, New York.

1998     Lucas Schoormans Gallery, New York.

1996     Project II.  155 Mercer St. New York. (with Jeffrey Sturges).

Selected Group Exhibitions  

2023 The Parsonage Gallery, summer group exhibition.

2022 The Parsonage Gallery. Summer group exhibtion featuring Parsonage artists as well as guest artists John Descarfino, Shahed Saleem, and David Matson.

2020 Drawing Challenge, online @ Jason McCoy Gallery.

2018     "Sojourn". South Broadway Cultural Center, Albuquerque, NM.  John Descarfino, Kim Arthur, Jose Arenas.   

“In Their League”, Cluster Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.         

“Return To Light”. Green Door Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Curated by Elisa Jensen.          

2017     DSC Flatfile exhibition, David and Schweitzer Contemporary, Brooklyn, NY.

"True Believers". David and Schweitzer Contemporary - M. David studio. Curated by Daniel John Gadd.

“The New York State of Painting" Works of Intimate Scale by 26 Colorists. Curated by Michael Walls.  Kingsborough Art Museum (KAM), Kingsborough Community College CUNY, Brooklyn, NY.

"Talking Pictures 1st Invitational" Curated by Paul D'Agostino, Jeffrey Bishop, and Cathy Ann Quinlan. Talking Pictures, Brooklyn, NY.

NURTUREart benefit, hosted at The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, NY. NY.

2016     “In Monitoring”.  John Descarfino, Jeffery Bishop and Tom Butter. An offsite Centotto

              Intersttizio exhibition curated by Paul D’Agostino, hosted by the Buggy Factory.  Brooklyn, NY.

"NOMENCoLorATURE". [Simposio]. Centotto at Studio 10. Brooklyn, NY.

2015     “Thrice Legendary, or Forever Thens”.  Centotto, Brooklyn, NY.

 “You Are Here”. Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh, NY.

2012     "Antes e Despois". Galeria Espacio 48, Santiago De Compostela, Spain.

2010     “48 Metros de Camino”, Galeria Espacio 48, Santiago De Compostela, Spain.

2008     “Diana 08”, Galeria Espacio 48, Santiago De Compostela, Spain.

2004     “Drawing” Lucas Schoormans Gallery.  Featuring Will Cotton, John Descarfino, 

            Stuart Elster, Anthony Goicolea, Karim Noureldin, Antonio puleo, and Lyle Starr. 

2002     Lucas Schoormans Gallery, New York.

2001     “That Championship Season”.  Blum and Poe.  Santa Monica, CA. Curator: Jenelle Porter.

McNay Art Museum.  San Antonio Texas.  Collector’s Gallery XXXIV.

1997     The Art Exchange Show @ Lucas Schoormans.

The Gramercy International Contemporary Art Fair @ Lucas Schoormans.

1996     Berkshire Museum.  Pittsfield  MA.

“Summer Trash”,  Curators: Kenny Schachter and Sandra Gering.

 Stedman Art Gallery, Rutgers University, Camden NJ.

Collections

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art.  Humlebaek, Denmark.

The Capital Group, Los Angeles, California.

Shaw Pittman, New York.

Perry Capital, New York.

JP Morgan Chase, New York.

Awards

Cafe Royal Cultural Foundation. Visual Arts Grant 2019

PSC CUNY (City University of New York) Research Grant. 2019

PSC CUNY (City University of New York) Research Grant. 2016

The City University of New York Fellowship Leave 2012-2013.

PSC CUNY (City University of New York) Research Grant. 2009.

Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant Recipient, 2008.

PSC CUNY (City University of New York) Research Grant. 2008.

Parsons School of Design Faculty Development Leave 2004-05.

Publications

Image. Winter 2022 . Number 115. “Bodies of Light: A Study in Windows”.

La Piccioletta Barca. Issue XIV December 2019. “Blind Navigations / Phantom Islands”.

Journal of Italian Translation.  Volume IX  Numbers 1&2  Spring & Fall 2014. Project: “Flesh and Stone”.

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Fleming, Colin. “John Descarfino” review, ARTnews  Summer 2008, P 170- 171, ill.

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