Josette Urso
Painting - Landscape Painting: The Quick Study

Josette Urso received her MFA/Painting from the University of South Florida and currently works in New York City. Urso has had numerous grants and residencies, including, Yaddo in 2009 and a second Pollock-Krasner Foundation award and residency at the Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus in Germany, both in 2008. She traveled to Taiwan for a residency at STOCK20 in 2006 and to Cambodia with the AIEP American Artist’s Abroad program in 2004. Other awards include those from the NEA and Art Matters, and she was a participant in the Bronx Museum for the Arts AIM program. In New York City, she has shown at the Drawing Center, DFN Gallery, Julie Saul Gallery, Lyons Wier Gallery, Metaphor Contemporary, Kerrigan Campbell art+projects, and Sears-Peyton Gallery and, in Chicago, at the gescheidle Gallery.

Josette Urso has taught workshops at Cooper Union in New York City, Art New England at Bennington College in Vermont and at other venues, including locations in Costa Rica, Cambodia, Florida, North Carolina, Massachusetts and Virginia. Recently she was a Visiting Artist at Montclair State University in New Jersey (2008), Savannah College of Art and Design in Georgia (2007) and the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Canada (2007).

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