Biography

Marisa Tesauro lives and works in Torino, Italy. She creates sculptures, installations and works on paper inspired by packaging, architectural debris and derelict spaces. Her work gives profound significance to the overlooked fragments that reveal contemporary histories, shifting them from the temporary and disposable to something preserved, seen, and remembered.

Tesauro’s work has been exhibited in galleries and museums internationally including La Specola museum, Florence, Italy, Queens Museum of Art, New York, Eyebeam Gallery, New York, La Escoscesa, Barcelona, Spain, Stand4 Gallery, New York, Martina Simeti, Milan, Italy, Project:ARTspace, New York, Andrew Edlin Gallery and the Bronx Museum of Art, New York.

Tesauro’s site-specific installations include Hunter’s Point South, New York, Monasterace Superiore, Italy, Old American Can Factory, New York, Bay Ridge Saw, New York and No Longer Empty at the Andrew Freedman Home. She has published two artist books, Strutture with Content Series and Relics in the Construction of Place. She collaborates with archeologists working in the Magna Grecia area of Italy and has given lectures relating to her research and work within the archeology field.

She is the recipient of an Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Emergency Grant, Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant, Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant and the Yvonne Force Award amongst others. She was formerly an artist in the Artist Pension Trust and was an artist in residence at the Queens Museum Studio in the Park, Bronx Museum of Arts: Artists in the Marketplace and received a full-fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center. Tesauro received her BFA in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2001.