Liana Miuccio’s Biography

Visual Artist Liana Miuccio uses photography and filmmaking to explore identity, memory, and migration. She is a dual-citizen with the United States and Italy and was born in Rome and raised in New York City and divides her time between the two cities.  She is a professor at Cornell and Temple University in Rome and has also lectured at numerous universities including, New York University, Middlebury College, and the University of Pennsylvania.

Miuccio’s images have been exhibited across the world. Her recent 2023 solo exhibit, Visual Diary with Miuccio’s images and Puliter Prize Write Jhumpa Lahiri’s text at the Galleria D’Arte Moderna di Roma was sponsored by the American Academy in Rome and Temple University in Rome. Miuccio was a Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome in 2023 and is an Arts Advisor since 2023. Her photographs are part of the permanent collection of the Museum of the City of New York.

Miuccio received her B.A. in humanities from McGill University in Montreal, studied photography at the International Center of Photography in New York City, and received her Master’s in cinema from Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

Galleria d’Arte Moderna Visual Diary exhibition, An innovative visual and literary exhibition 2022-2023 at the Galleria d'Arte Moderna with photographs and a video by Liana Miuccio in conversation with texts by Jhumpa Lahiri

Double Vision/Doppia Visione, Solo Exhibit, Casa Della Memoria, International Festival di Fotografia,  Photography and Screening of Video Documentary “Nonno”, Rome, Italy

St. Stephen’s Cultural Center, Identity: Photography and Video Exhibition, Rome, Italy

Temple University Gallery, Rome, Italy, “Tiny Biennale” Photography

Rialtosantambrogio, Video Projection: “Nonno: Tutti Bene?”, International Festival di Fotografia, Rome, Italy

American Academy in Rome, Italy

Sala Uno, Rome, Italy

Jamaica Arts Center, Queens, NY

Hera Gallery, Wakefield, Rhode Island

Casa de las Americas, Manhattan, NY

Edward Hopper House, Nyack, NY

Desperate Inscriptions, Traveling Solo Exhibit. Hofstra University Museum

An Italian Journey, Solo Traveling Exhibit sponsored by the New York Foundation for the Arts and Alitalia

Inaugurated at Ellis Island Immigration Museum, NY

TRAVELED TO:

The Italian American Museum, Manhattan, NY

New York University, Casa Italiana, Manhattan, NY

Temple University Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA

Italian Cultural Center, Sacramento, CA

University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, PA

Museo Italo-Americano, San Francisco, CA

Villa Trabia, Palermo, Italy

PERMANENT COLLECTION

Museum of the City of New York

TEACHING

Cornell University, Rome Campus 2003-present: Film and Digital Photography Courses

Temple University, Rome Campus 2003-present: Digital and Black and White Darkroom Photography Courses

John Cabot University, Rome 2003-2004: Photography

Brown University/St. Stephens School, Rome Summer Program 2010-2012

GUEST LECTURER (1997-present)

University of Dallas, Rome Campus

Casa Italiana, New York University, New York, NY

Jamaica Arts Center, Queens, NY

Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT

Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, CT

Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC

University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, PA

Italian Cultural Institute, New York, NY

Empire State College, New York, NY

Camera Club, New York, NY

AWARDS/SPONSORSHIP

Biblioteca Angelica, Roma, Oltre I Libri Visual Arts Prize

American Embassy in Rome and City of Rome sponsorship of Doppia Visione/Double Vision Exhibit, Rome Italy

Best Documentary for “Lean On Me” National Hometown Video Festival

Best Documentary for “Lean On Me” Represent the Reel Festival

MacArthur Foundation Arts Organization in Residence Program/Downtown Community Television Artist in Residence

Yann Geffroy Award by Grazia Neri: Italian juried competition for international photographers

National Italian-American Foundation Cultural Awareness Award

New York Foundation for the Arts Individual Artists’ Fiscal Sponsorship

EDUCATION

1987 McGill University, Montreal, Canada, Bachelor of Arts, Humanities

1990-1993 International Center of Photography, New York, NY

2012 Masters Degree in Cinema, Roma Tre University, Roma

Born in Rome, Italy. Raised in New York.

Fluent in Italian, proficient in French, working knowledge of Spanish