Taryn Pizza is an interdisciplinary artist and educator from New Jersey.
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Education
2018 MFA Fine Art
Massachusetts College of Art and Design
Graduate Dean's Scholarship Recipient
2013 BS Visual Arts Education with Honors
Concentration in Drawing and Painting
State University of New York at New Paltz
Exhibitions
2023 Portfolio Series: Local Materiality, Studio Montclair, Montclair, NJ
2023 The Hour of Lead, MassArt x SoWa, Boston, MA
2020 State of the Art 2020, Studio Montclair, Montclair, NJ
2020 Be Here Now, featured set artwork, Vivid Stage Theatre, Summit, NJ
2019 Everyday Objects, Studio Montclair, Montclair, NJ
2019 on tender ground, Current Space, Baltimore, MD
2019 *Traces: Works by Taryn Pizza, Hamilton Street Gallery, Bound Brook, NJ
2018 Inside Small, The Outside In Gallery, Piermont, NY
2018 MFA Thesis Exhibition, Patricia Doran Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
2017 Domestic: MFA Biennial, Carole Bieber and Marc Ham Gallery, The Delaware Contemporary, Wilmington, DE
2017 In the Theater of the Past, Patricia Doran Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
2017 The Elephant in the Room, Hamilton Street Gallery, Bound Brook, NJ
2015 Process, Release, Repeat, City Without Walls, Newark, NJ
2012 Hallway Show, Smiley Art Building, SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY
2010 Migration and Other Flights, Fine Arts Rotunda, SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY
2010 Stop and Look: Animation and Performance, Wooster Hall, SUNY New Paltz, NY
*solo exhibition
Press & Publications
2020 "The Perennial," Volume 11, Issue 1, Hudson County Community College
2019 Bellantoni, Ralph, "Hamilton Street Gallery in Bound Brook hosting pair of solo shows," My Central Jersey
2018 Sanchez, Jasper, "Creating Space: MassArt's MFA BLR Thesis Exhibition," Boston Hassle
2018 Roosevelt, Caroline, "Mixed Media: Contemporary Art and Chocolate," Chadds Ford Live
Artist Lectures
2023 Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
2023 Community Arts Association, Allendale, NJ
2019 Hamilton Street Gallery, Bound Brook, NJ
2018 Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
Teaching
2014-Present Visual Arts Teacher, Mahwah High School, Mahwah, NJ
2019 Adjunct Professor (Drawing), Hudson County Community College, Jersey City, NJ
2013-2014 Art Teacher, Ramsey High School, Ramsey, NJ
Instagram @tarynpizza_art