Biography

Marisa Tesauro lives and works in Turin, Italy. Her sculptures, installations and works on paper address how industrial materials and structures are built and how they corrode. Working with forms and structures taken from packaging materials, derelict spaces and architectural debris, she gives profound significance to overlooked fragments that narrate our contemporary histories. She shifts 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, Queens Museum of Art, New York, Eyebeam Gallery, New York, La Escocesa, Barcelona, Stand4 Gallery, New York, Martina Simeti, Milan, 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 gives lectures on her 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.