CV
Name: Francesca Brunetti
Gender: Female
Nationality: Italy
email: francescabrunetti@hotmail.it
website: https://www.francescabrunetti.net
Education and qualifications
Degrees
2020 PhD Visual and Performing Arts, University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, Texas, USA (Forthcoming)
2015 Master’s Degree Communication Design (focus on Illustration), Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland
2011 Master’s Degree in Philosophy, University La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
2007 Bachelor’s Degree in Philosophy, University La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
Additional Education
2019 Rosi Braidotti Summer School, Posthuman Knowledge(s), Utrecht University, Netherland
2019 Italian Society of Women Historians Summer School, CISL Studies Centre, Florence, Italy
2013 Certificate of Higher Education in Art and Design, Edinburgh University, Edinburgh, Scotland
2012 Certificate in Graphic Design, Romeur Academy, Rome, Italy
Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
The Incursions of the Southern Italian Woman into the Discourse of Man. February 1st-March 1st, 2022. Liliana Bloch Gallery, Dallas, TX, USA (Forthcoming).
Post-terrona. A drawing project about an imaginative reconfiguration of the southern Italian woman. October 2nd-October 31st, 2020. University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX, USA.
Strange Rooms. Saatchi & Saatchi, 24 January – 24 February 2019. Dallas, TX, USA
Home Un-Homey Home. 500X, September 8 - October 7, 2018. Dallas, TX, USA
Group Exhibitions
TRAHC's 33rd Annual Juried Exhibition. August 6th-September 25th, 2021. Regional Arts Center, Texarkana, TX, USA.
Frame/re-Frame. March 2021. Naramachi Nigiwai-no-le. Nara, Japan.
Fall Festival: All Together Now Art Exhibition. Friday, December 18, 2020 – Friday, January 15, 2021. University of Texas at Dallas. Dallas, TX, USA
Clip. An International Exhibition of Works on Paper. Friday, September 6-September 30, 2019. 5&J Gallery - Charles Adams Studio Project, Lubbock, TX, USA
ART Off the Wall, April 28-May 12, 2018. Brookline Arts Centre, Brookline, Massachusetts, USA
Art214, April 12-May25, 2017. Latino Cultural Centre, Dallas, USA
Fall Festival 2017, December 17, 2017. Spin Gallery, Dallas, USA
AnFiArt, June 10-11, 2017. Lungolago Anguillara Sabazia, Italy
Temporary Collectives, April 5, 2017. 500 Singleton Blvd, Dallas, Texas, USA
Up/Rooted, March 17-April 21, 2017. Brookline Arts Centre, Brookline, Massachusetts, USA
Through the Lens: found object/readymade, January 21-February 25, 2017. CentralTrak, Dallas, USA
Hi to Hibi to Hito, December 16 - December 18, 2016, Tengaibou, Nara, Japan
New Texas Talent XXIII, August 6 - September 2, 2016, Craighead Green Gallery, Dallas, Texas, USA
Hanarart Art Festival, October 24 – November 3, 2015, Nara, Japan
Biennale di Viterbo 2016, May 5- July 5, 2016, Palazzo dei Papi, Viterbo, Italy
WIP, February 11-13, 2015, Drygate, Glasgow, UK
WAF, December 22/January 6, 2012, Fruttiere di Palazzo Te, Mantova, Italy
Publications
Peer Reviewed Articles
Brunetti, Francesca. Delicious Bodies, Beautiful Food, Powerful Pleasure. Exchanges: The Interdisciplinary Research Journal (Under Editorial Review).
Brunetti, Francesca. Drawing as a Device to Deconstruct Gender Stereotypes. The Case of The Southern Italian Woman. Art Journal (Under Editorial Review)
Brunetti, Francesca. Raging Women and Green Energies. The Southern Italian Woman’s Ecological Fury. Art/Research International. A Transdisciplinary Journal (Under Editorial Review).
Brunetti, Francesca. The Representation of The Southern Italian Mother in Italian Media. Studies on The Maternal (Under Editorial Review).
Academic Articles
Brunetti, Francesca. Home, Tradition, and the Mediterranean Landscape: The Uncanniness of the Italian Woman. Athenaeum Review, Issue 3, Fall 2019 (https://athenaeumreview.org/essay/home-tradition-and-the-mediterranean-landscape-the-uncanniness-of-the-italian-woman/).
Brunetti, Francesca. Photography as Presentation and Representation. Athenaeum Review, Issue 3, Fall 2019 (https://athenaeumreview.org/essay/photography-as-representation-and-presentation/).
Art Magazines
Brunetti, Francesca. “Waves.” Artistonish, July 2021, p.71
Exhibition Reviews
Drake, Abigail. Francesca Brunetti: Home, Un-homey Home. Athenaeum Review, Issue 2, Summer 2019 (https://athenaeumreview.org/review/francesca-brunetti-home-un-homey-home/)
Artistic Collaborations in academic papers
Warren, Shilyh & Balanta, Beatriz. Revolution is another Climax. Women and Language (Forthcoming).
Teaching Experiences
Teaching Assistant. Art History. University of Texas at Dallas, USA. Fall 2015. Survey on Western Art History: Ancient to Medieval.
Teaching Assistant. Art History. University of Texas at Dallas, USA. Spring 2016. Survey of Western Art History: Renaissance to Modern.
Teaching Assistant. Art History. University of Texas at Dallas, USA. Fall 2016. Survey on Western Art History: Ancient to Medieval.
Teaching Assistant. Art History. University of Texas at Dallas, USA. Spring 2017. Survey of Western Art History: Renaissance to Modern.
Teaching Assistant. Art History. Franklin University of Switzerland. Summer 2017. Italian Renaissance Art and Architecture.
Teaching Assistant. Art History. University of Texas at Dallas, USA. Fall 2017. Renaissance Art and Architecture
Teaching Assistant. Art History. University of Texas at Dallas, USA. Spring 2018. Understanding Art.
Teaching Assistant. Art History. Franklin University of Switzerland. Summer 2018. Italian Baroque Art and Architecture.
Teaching Assistant. Art History. University of Texas at Dallas, USA. Fall 2018. Contemporary Art.
Teaching Assistant. Art History. University of Texas at Dallas, USA. Spring 2019. Understanding Art.
Teaching Assistant. Art History. Franklin University of Switzerland. Summer 2019. Italian Renaissance Art and Architecture.
Teaching Assistant. Art History. Notre Dame University of Rome. Summer 2019, Rome, Italy. Italian Baroque Art and Architecture.
Adjunct Professor. Digital Graphic Design. ISI Florence. Spring 2022, Florence, Italy.
Conferences
American Association for Italian Studies Conference 2021. March 28-June 6, 2021 (virtual). Post-terrona. A Drawing Project about an Imaginative Reconfiguration of the Southern Italian Woman.
108th College of Art Association Annual Conference 2020. February 12-15, 2020, Chicago, Illinois, USA. The Incursions of the Southern Italian Woman into the Discourse of Man. A Collage Project about Language and Geography.
51st Meeting of the North Texas Philosophical Association. March 29-30, 2019, University of Dallas, TX, USA. The Missing Language and the Future Woman.
RAW Symposium 2019. February 22-23, 2019, University of Texas at Dallas, Texas, USA. Photography as Presentation and Representation.
50th Meeting of the North Texas Philosophical Association. March 30 - 31, 2018, University of Dallas, TX, USA. The Myth of Dionysus and Ariadne in Friedrich Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra.
49th Meeting of the North Texas Philosophical Association. March 31- April 1, 2017, University of Dallas, TX, USA. Conflictual Intimacy and Appropriating Event. Achilles Meets Priam.
RAW Symposium 2018. February 23-24, 2018, University of Texas at Dallas, Texas, USA. The Relationship Between Unconsciousness and Photography in Walter Benjamin and Rosalind Krauss.
Society for the Study of American Women Writers Triennial Conference 2018. November 7-11, The Westin Denver Downtown, Colorado, USA. Choice Cuts. An Artistic Workshop about Language and Feminism.
RAW Symposium 2017. February 24-25, 2017, University of Texas at Dallas, Texas, USA. The Anti-Anthropocentric Art of Eduardo Kac.
Home (Alone). An Interrogation of the Familiar, Transitory Space, and the Contours of the Self. April 1-2, 2016, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. Being in the World as Not Being at Home. The Uncanny Dasein.
Art Residencies
August 2016-June 2017, CentralTrak, Dallas, Texas
Curatorial Projects
Comer Collection of Photography. Representation and Presentation in Photography. SP/N Gallery, Dallas, January 31-February 28, 2019.
Awards
Edith O’Donnell Graduate Fellowship. O’Donnell Institute of Art History at the University of Texas at Dallas, 2019-22.
Graduate Travel Reimbursement Grant, University of Texas at Dallas, Spring 2016.
Graduate Travel Reimbursement Grant, University of Texas at Dallas, Spring 2018.
Presentations
The Incursions of the Southern Italian Woman into the Discourse of Man: A Drawing, Printmaking, and Video Project about Gender, Language, and Geography. UTD SciLab, April 19th, 2019.
Photography as Presentation and Representation. January 31, 2019, SP/N Gallery, Dallas.
Through the Lens: found object/readymade panel discussion. February 9, 2017. CentralTrak, Dallas, USA
Relevant work experiences
Program Assistant, University of Texas at Dallas Summer Program in Switzerland, Franklin University of Switzerland. Summer 2019.
2016 Art Editor at Reunion: The Dallas Review, Dallas, TX
2011/ 2015 Freelance Communication and Graphic Designer in Rome (LabCreativity, HSPI) Edinburgh (The Wee Red Bar), and Glasgow (Union Solidarity International, Bar Bloc, Clarity Recording, No Unicorn Productions).
2013-2015 Organizer of SUGO, a monthly music event in The Wee Red Bar (Edinburgh) and Bar Bloc (Glasgow). Involved in the Concept design, production, music (DJ-ing and visuals) and marketing. Glasgow/Edinburg, UK
Consultancies
Served in the Search Committee at the University of Texas at Dallas as Graduate Student Representative in the Search Committee to hire an Assistant Professor in Philosophy. University of Texas at Dallas. Spring 2018.
Served in the Search Committee at the University of Texas at Dallas as Graduate Student Representative in the Search Committee to hire an Assistant Professor in Visual and Performing Arts. University of Texas at Dallas. Spring 2017.
Travel/Foreign Languages
Fluent in Italian (writing and speech) and English (writing and speech).
Lived, worked and studied in Rome (Italy), Edinburgh (Scotland), Glasgow (Scotland), Dallas (USA), and Lugano (Switzerland).
Artist Competencies
Adobe Suite: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign
Illustration: drawing (hand-drawn and digital), collage, mixed media
Printmaking: screen-printing, risograph, mono-printing, lino-print
Digital Photography