JEANNE CIRAVOLO is a mixed media artist whose work explores family narratives and amplifies female experience, challenging conventional art historical depictions of women.

Raised in Miami, Florida, Ciravolo later moved to New York City, where she studied at the Art Students League and served as class monitor for Harvey Dinnerstein—an experience that deeply shaped her early practice. In 2006, she was named a finalist in the Portrait Society of America’s International Portrait Competition, and her observational skills led to a successful career as a commissioned portraitist. Her portrait of Connecticut Supreme Court Justice David Borden was unveiled at the Appellate Court in Hartford in 2016.

Ciravolo earned her MFA from the University of Connecticut in 2019, receiving the Joan and George Cole Master of Fine Arts Award. In 2020, she was awarded the Walter Feldman Fellowship, juried by Ellen Tani of the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston.

Her work has been exhibited widely, including at Fondamenta Gallery (Rome), Odetta Gallery, LMAK Gallery, SITE: Brooklyn, and Ethan Cohen Gallery (NY); ARC Gallery and Woman Made Gallery (Chicago); the Butler Institute of American Art (OH); the Yellowstone Art Museum (MT); the Ann Arbor Art Center (MI); the New Britain Museum of American Art (CT); the Coral Springs Museum (FL); and the Indianapolis Art Center (IN). Her work is held in public collections including the William Benton Museum of Art, Easter Seals Goodwill Industries, and The Connecticut Hospice, as well as in numerous private collections.

Ciravolo’s work has been featured in Manifest International Painting Annual 10 and Rejoinder, a publication of the Institute for Research on Women at Rutgers University in partnership with the Feminist Art Project. She has held residencies at the Byrdcliffe Guild, the Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Research, the Hambidge Center, and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Art Center.

She currently serves as Assistant Professor in Residence and Director of the Alexey von Schlippe Gallery at the University of Connecticut.

More of her work may be appreciated on her website and IG Account.