Corliss Cavalieri is a Philadelphia-based artist who studied at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland (BFA) and the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, PA (MFA). He was a member of the original 55 Mercer Street Gallery in the SoHo district of New York City, a cooperative space where he regularly exhibited and curated exhibitions over a period of 12 years. He has been an invited guest artist for solo exhibits at their gallery space in Chelsea, —NoHo M55, and will exhibit there in January – February 2026. In Philadelphia he has exhibited at Zone One Gallery, Burrison Art Gallery, William Way Center, Pageant: Soloveev Gallery, and the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce where he contributed a large work on view as a long-term loan. Regionally, Mr. Cavalieri has shown his work at the Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art in central Pennsylvania and has been curated into numerous group shows in Baltimore, MD; Washington, D.C; Pittsburgh, PA; and Philadlephia, PA. Mr. Cavalieri was also selected as a feature artist in Philadelphia’s Wind Challenge Exhibition Program of 2017-2018. In addition to exhibiting and curating, the artist has attended residencies at the Vermont Studio Center (VT) in 1996, 2006, and 2007, Yaddo (NY) 2008, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VA) in 2010, and the Jentel Residency (WY) in 2015. He was accepted to the Can Serrat residency in Spain for 2012, and the Auvillar residency in France for 2016. The artist has also worked in arts administration in positions as director or curator at the following institutions: Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art (Altoona, PA), Mangel Gallery (Philadelphia, PA), Port of History/Civic center Museum (Philadelphia, PA), and Paul Robeson Galleries Rutgers University (Newark, NJ). Mr. Cavalieri has work in public and private collections, and maintains a full time active studio practice in Philadelphia.

EDUCATION

M.F.A. Painting, 1989 Tyler School of Art
B.F.A. Painting, 1981 Maryland Institute College of Art


SCHOLARSHIPS & RESIDENCIES

  • MacDowell Colony, Residency in Painting, 2020
  • Jentel Residency Program, Residency in Painting, August-September 2015
  • Virginia Center for the Arts, Residency in Painting, May 2010
  • Yaddo, Residency in Painting, April-May 2009
  • Vermont Studio Center, Residency in Painting, July 2007
  • Vermont Studio Center, Scholarship participant, Residency in Painting, July 2006
  • Vermont Studio Center, Scholarship participant, Residency in Painting, July 1996
  • Mutter Museum, Disaster Preparedness/Mitigation Workshop, September 1995
  • University of Delaware, Scholarship participant, National Endowment for the Humanities, Collection Care Workshop, July-August 1995

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

  • Ghosts and Beads, NoHo M55 Gallery, New York, New York, 2026
  • Three Seasons, 1241 ArtsSpace+, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2024


  • George’s Orchard, NoHo M55 Gallery, New York, New York, 2024
  • “Imagine That…”, Rosemont College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, 2022
  • Painting and Drawings, 1241 ArtsSpace+, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2021
  • Unrolled / Unstretched, 1241 ArtsSpace+, Philadelphia, PA, 2018
  • Wind Challenge Exhibition, Fleshier Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA, 2017-18
  • Paintings and Drawings 2009-2012, NOHO Gallery, New York, NY, 2012
  • Recent Works, 55 Mercer Gallery, New York, NY, 2006
  • Baroque Cabinet, Pageant Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, 2006
  • Commuter Drawings, Southern Alleghenies Museum, Altoona, PA, 2002
  • Recent Works, 55 Mercer Gallery, New York, NY, 2005
  • Recent Works, 55 Mercer Gallery, New York, NY, 2004
  • Paintings 2002, 55 Mercer Gallery, New York, NY, 2002
  • Commuter Drawings, 55 Mercer Gallery, New York, NY, 2002
  • New Work, 55 Mercer Gallery, New York, NY, 1999
  • Recent Paintings and Drawings, 55 Mercer Gallery, New York, NY, 1997
  • Vermont: A Culmination, Bound Brook Art Gallery, Bound Brook, NJ, 1996
  • Recent Paintings and Drawings, Zone One Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, 1993

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

  • Art of the State 2024, The State Museum, Harrisburg, PA, 2024
  • “WHACK,” Hot • Bed Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, 2023
  • Ripple Effect, Fairmount Park Waterworks Site, Philadelphia, PA, 2022
  • 15th Annual LGBTQIA+ Exhibit, William Way Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, 2021
  • Stonewall @ 50, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, 2019
  • Art of the State 2018, The State Museum, Harrisburg, PA, 2018
  • Of House and Home, The Whole Gallery, Baltimore, MD, 2011
  • Recent Works, 55 Mercer Gallery, New York, NY, 2006
  • Small Works, Millennium Gallery, East Hampton, NY, 1999
  • Dreamscapes, Walt Whitman Cultural Center, Camden, NJ, 1995
  • Influences, Zone One Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, 1992
  • Selected Masterpieces, Zone One Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, 1991
  • Selected Regional Artists, Westmoreland Museum, Westmoreland, PA, 1985
  • Four Unrelated Artists, Barbara Fiedler Gallery, Washington, DC, 1978

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

  • New American Paintings, Volume 57, Curator Jonathan Binstock, Curator of Contemporary Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2005
  • Art Matters, Robyn Fuoco, Philadelphia, PA, June 1990

SELECT COLLECTIONS

  • Mr. and Mrs. Otts, Upper Black Eddy, Pennsylvania
  • Natasha and Richard Belcher, Philadelphia, PA
  • Mrs. Stephanie Lewis, Rosyln, NY
  • Mr. Anatole Poholenko, Philadelphia, PA
  • Underhill Farm, Hollidaysburg, PA
  • Mr. and Mrs. Scott and Eryn Rishell, Salem, NY
  • Mssrs. Bonds and Moran, Philadelphia, PA

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Gallery Director
Paul Robeson Art Gallery, The State University of New Jersey Rutgers-Newark, NJ., 2000-2004

Curatorial Museum Supervisor
Development of a registration, conservation and intellectual control system for 30,000 objects, images and documents relating to World’s Fairs and Expositions, Civic Center Museum, Philadelphia, PA., 1993-1996

Curator
Port of History Museum, Philadelphia, PA., 1989-1993


SELECTED CURATED EXHIBITIONS

  • New Jersey Turnpike: 15E, Contemporary Art and the New Jersey Turnpike, 2004
  • Stephen Hendee: Lost Vehicles, 2002
  • Visual AIDS: Selections from the Archive Project, 2000
  • Columbian Iconography: Imagining the New World, 1992
  • Ligurian Exhibition: The Road to the Americas, 1992
  • Aosta: Two thousand Years of History and Architecture, 1992
  • Abstracting the Landscape: A.E. Bye, 1992
  • Mapuche: The Seeds of the Chilean Soul, 1992
  • Art around the Edges II, 1992
  • International Lathe-Turned Objects, 1991- 1992
  • Josef Koudelka: Exiles, 1990
  • Traditional Japanese Ceramics, 1990
  • Make a Joyful Noise, 1990
  • Florence with a View, 1989 – 1990

BOARD MEMBER 

Da Vinci Art Alliance (DVAA), 2023-2025