Philomena Marano is a new York City based artist who grew up in Brooklyn, spending endless summers at Coney Island. She graduated the High School of Art & Design and earned her BFA at Pratt Institute. Shortly after that, she began working as a studio assistant to noted Pop artist Robert Indiana and created cut paper maquettes for a special Bicentennial project.

Around this time, something beckoned her to return to Coney Island. Blown away by the neglected appearence of the amusement park coupled with being deeply under the influenece of Indiana's American landscape sensibility, she was compelled to begin a cut paper series, American-Dream-Land starting with the symmetry and punch of the sublimely graphic Shooting Gallery.

In an effort to subdue the decline, Plilomena, along with the artist Richard Eagan co-founded the Coney Island Hysterical Society playing an integral role in the "Artists' Renaissance of the 1980's"

Continuing to explore the cut-out form in her work, Coney Island surfaces, along with other themes emblematic of urban popular culture. She also examines the quirky and lyrical beauty of life under the sea in her Aquatic Series

Marano's bold graphic style has crossed over into other venues: Theater, film, Broadcast graphics, illustration, murals and children's projects.

Her work is included in the collections of The Museum of the City of New York, The Brooklyn Historical Society, Chase Manhattan Bank and numerous corporate and private collections.