Artist Bio
Cristina Salusti earned her MA from Teacher’s College at Columbia University. She also attended Tufts University and Manhattanville College, where she received her BFA. Lengthy periods of time in the marble quarries of Italy furthered her education. She has taught Sculpture at Manhattanville College and Teacher’s College. Salusti has received numerous honors and awards in her career as both sculptor and ceramicist, including a Fulbright Fellowship in Italy, a Pollack-Krasner grant, and residencies at the MacDowell Colongy and at the Invitational Stone Carving Symposium in Iwate-Ken, Japan.
She has exhibited her work internationally and in the U.S. and is represented by the Valerie Goodman Gallery in New York.
Curriculum Vitae (CV)
EDUCATION
2025 The Studio at the Corning Museum of the Arts Corning, NY
1979-81 Columbia University School of the Arts New York, NY
1976-78 Columbia University Teachers College New York, NY M.A. Art and Education
1970-74 Manhattanville College Purchase, NY
1973 Istituto Statale Stagio Stagi Massa Carrara, Italy
1971-72 Tufts University/ Boston Museum School Medford, MA
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2024 Vermont State Council on the Arts Artist Development Grant
1987 MacDowell Colony Fellowship Peterborough, NH
1986-87 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
1983-84 Fulbright Lusk Fellowship Pietrasanta, Italy
1981 Tenth Annual Invitational Sculpture Symposium Iwate-Ken, Japan One of Six International Sculptors –Carved Site-Specific Granite Sculpture For Public Sculpture Park
1978 Chaim Gross Award New York, NY
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013 Valerie Goodman Gallery, New York City, NY
2012 View Art Center, Old Forge, NY
1985 Manhattanville College Brownson Gallery, Purchase, NY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018 Art at the Kent, Kent Museum, Calais, VT, “Backstory,”
Brooklyn Berlin Gallery, Studio S Rosenthal, Berlin, Germany, “Eulen nach Athen”
2017 Valerie Goodman Gallery, New York City, NY, “New Work, New Space” King Farm, Woodstock, VT, “LandArtLab”
2016 Carla Massoni Gallery, Chestertown, MD, “THE UNSETTLED EARTH: The Art of Stewardship”
King Farm, Woodstock, VT, “Grounding”
2014 Carla Massoni Gallery, Chestertown, MD
2010 Simon Pearce Gallery, Quechee, VT
1991 Korean Cultural Center, New York, NY, “CROSS CURRENTS IN SCULPTURE” curator: Margaret Cogswell
Long Island University- collaboration with Jeffrey Simpson, Brooklyn, NY
Scott Hanson Gallery, New York, NY, “NY OUTSIDE THE CLOCK: Beyond Good and Elvis” curator: Robert Longo (catalogue)
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, “UNFORGETables”
1989 Kenkeleba House, New York, NY, “PILLAR TO POST” curator: Terry Adkins (catalogue)
1987 Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY
1986 Concord Museum, Concord, MA, “TABLESCAPES”
Mendecino Arts Center, Mendecino, CA, “MODERN POTTERY” curator: Kathy Erteman
1984 Biblioteca Communale, Pietrasanta, Italy, “Le Donne Nelle Arti,”
1983 College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, NY
1982 Cutler-Stavaridis Gallery, Boston, MA
Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY 1981 Saiensu Gallery, Morioka, Japan
Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2017 Cynthia Close, “LandArtLab,” Art New England, November/December
2008 “DESIGN new England,” art+antiques, July/August
1995 “ESSENTIAL DESIGNS FOR LIVING ‘The Craft of Hands’ Cristina Salusti/The Ceramicist” Zona Home
1989 Hilton Kramer, “Soho Show: Prestigious, Maybe, But Just More Shopworn Farce” The New York Observer July 31
1989 Roberta Smith, “Outside The Clock: Beyond Good and Elvis” The New York Times, July 21
1989 Elizabeth Hess, “Material Nature” Village Voice March 7
1989 Michael Brenson, “Sculptors Using The Wall as Venue and Inspiration” New York Times, February 24
1988 “Archetypal Form,” New York Times Home Section
1981 Interview with Symposium Sculptors, Asahi-Shimbun (Japanese National Newspaper)
1981 Interview and Documentary of Symposium, NHK National Television Broadcast Group
1980 Work has been featured in numerous editions of Bon Appetit, Gourmet and other periodicals as well.