Alberta Cifolelli Biography
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About the Artist:
Born 1931

Alberta Cifolelli, painter and printmaker, has had one artist exhibitions thoughout the United States and participated in both group and one woman exhibitions at The Chicago Art Institute, The Cleveland Museum of Art, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, The Bruce Museum, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, The Stamford Museum, The Housatonic Museum of Art, The National Academy of Design, The Portland Museum of Art (Maine) as well as numerous Japanese museums including The Bunkamura in Tokyo.

In New York City, she has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions at Andre Zarre Gallery, The Reece Galleries, The Armstrong Gallery, The Kaber Gallery, The Noho Gallery and Alice Nash Gallery. In Connecticut, she has had solo exhibitions at The Silvermine Guild Arts Center, The Stamford Museum, The Housatonic Museum, the Connecticut Gallery, The White Gallery among others. She has had one artist exhibits in Florida at Harmon Meek Gallery in Naples, Virginia Miller Galleries in Coral Gables and at Captiva Gallery in Captiva.

In September 2007, she was named one of 18 Distinguished Alumni of the Cleveland Institute of Art in celebration of the Institute's 125th anniversary. The anniversary exhibition From Here to Infinity started with Charles Burchfield (1916) through today.

In 1990 she was invited by The National Museum of Women in the Arts to exhibit in Four Centuries of Women's Art. She exhibited in The Connecticut Biennial at the Bruce Museum; A State of Artists at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art; Connecticut's Best at The Connecticut Gallery; and The Natural Image at the Stamford Museum.

In his essay Alberta Cifolelli's Biophiliac Paintings: Nature All The Way, Donald Kuspit describes her work: "Raw instinct and human interest are synthesized in Cifolelli's nature, so that one hardly notices it. That is the ultimate aesthetic triumph". Cifolelli's work deals with landscape, water and floral imagery is often metaphorical and sometimes autobiographical.

Her work is in more than 100 public collections including The National Museum of Women in the Arts, The Housatonic Museum of Art, The United Nations., The Butler Institute of American Art, Francis Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College

Her work is available through Larry Sirolli Fine Art, New York City.

She is listed in The Archives of American Art.

She lives in Westport, CT.