Bianca Valencia Criscuolo

Parsons-trained artist and curator; Bianca Valencia Criscuolo is an artist who believes darkness glorifies the light. She worked as a curator at several galleries, before fully claiming her own voice as a full time artist. That proximity to community lit something enduring in her: a first solo show at 25, co-leadership of her local artist guild, and a hand in building 'Call to Gather,' where artists mentor each other and arts is public community focused.

Shaped by collaboration with Clara Fialho and Guang-Yu Zhang, and by the deep mentorship from Esther Mun, Makoto Fujimura, and Haejin Shim-Fujimura, her conviction runs beneath everything: truth, beauty, and hope must be held alongside darkness. Without seeing the darkness, redemption loses its truth. Her work evolved through her Ambassador role with Embers International as an Artist Advocate against human trafficking, and through instructor training in the IAM Academy's Kintsugi culture care initiative focused on the philosophy of beauty found in brokenness.

Her abstract landscapes are dark, but not without direction. Each work is married to a poem, “they are a marriage; two unique and whole entities witnessing each other into deeper meaning”. The works are an invasion to part...

PARSONS School of Design

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026 Thresholds - Hope HUB, Gallery 31 - New York, NY (catalogue on request)
2024 Beyond the Veil; Exploring the Tensions Between -Wilder Gallery, Bridgeport CT (catalogue on request)

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 The Journey of the Soul - Alpha - Studio 260 - New York, NY
2026 Collections - The Klein Memorial Mezzanine Gallery

2025 Behind The Mind -Studio -Bridgeport CT
2025 BAT:Studios - The Knowlton, Bridgeport Arts Trail
2025 Aether & Earth: Sensing the Imperceptible - Wilder Gallery -Bridgeport CT

2024 Iterations; a Dialogue of Scale- The Armstrong Gallery; Bridgeport CT
2024 BAT:Studios - The Knowlton, Bridgeport Arts Trail
2024 Transitions- The Armstrong Gallery; Bridgeport CT
2024 Collections - The Klein Memorial Mezzanine Gallery, Bridgeport, CT
2024 Manifestations of the Self- Wilder Gallery; Bridgeport CT
2024 Looking Forward- The Armstrong Gallery; Bridgeport CT

2023 Contemporary Abstraction & Expressionism; Aqua Art Miami - SHIM Arts Gallery - Miami Florida
2023 In the Spaces - The Knowlton, Bridgeport Arts Trail
2023 EXQUISITE AI - The Armstrong Gallery; Bridgeport CT (in partnership with SHIM Arts)

2022 Pr0file Show-Foley Gallery; New York NY
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