Exhibitions
2012
"The Art of the Coney Island Hysterical Society," 440 Gallery, Brooklyn NY
"Collage & Assemblage" St. Joseph's College Gallery, Brooklyn NY
"GO Brooklyn" a community curated open studio project facilitated by the Brooklyn Museum

2011
"Childish Things" Table Rasa Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Coney Island Film Festival "Take Me There" Animated Short Film
Fragments 1915-2011 Modern & Contemporary Collage, ACA Galleries, NY, NY
"The Fine Art of Baseball" 14th Annual, George Krevsky Gallery, SF, CA
"Creatures of the Deep" The Barge Waterfront Museum, Brooklyn, NY
ArtXWomen at the Affordable Art Fair with Tabla Rasa Gallery, NY, NY
"Prints at Prince Street," Invitational-Prince Street Gallery, NY, NY

2010
Participant in the “American Dream Quilt” Children’s Museum of Manhattan, NY
Collage 1936-2009, NYIT Gallery 61 NY, NY
Urbanessence, NYIT Gallery 61, NY, NY

2009
“New York: Then and Now,” ACA Galleries, New York, NY
“The Funny Face Project” Jonathan O’Hara Gallery, New York, NY
(Benefit/auction for Coney Island USA)
“Amusement Park Science,” The Children’s Museum of Manhattan, New York , NY
“Animal Magnetism,” NYIT Gallery 61, New York, NY
“All Roads Lead to Coney Island,” AM Richard Fine Art, Williamsburg. Brooklyn, NY
“12th Annual Baseball Show,” George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Brooklyn” 440 Gallery, Brooklyn NY

2008
“Building a Team,” George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco, CA
22nd International Juried Show, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ
Small Works Invitational, Prince Street Gallery, New York, NY
“Bridge as Icon,” Tabla Rasa Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
“Coney Island Maybe,” Puffin Room, SoHo, New York, N.Y.
“Imagine Coney Island” Municipal Arts Society, New York, NY

2007
“The Big Print Show,” Tabla Rasa Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
“Divas,” Coney Island Museum , N.Y.

2006
“The Mermaid Show,”-Invitational, Coney Island Museum , N.Y.
“Annual Mermaid Show,” Sideshows Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY
“Coney Island Dreamers,” Brooklyn Public Library, Main Branch

2005
“Paper Cuts,” Tabla Rasa Gallery, Brooklyn, N.Y.,
“(still) Under the Influence,” Coney Island Museum, N.Y. solo show ,
“More than a Game, the Art of Baseball,” George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2004
“Cut Ups,” Marymount Manhattan College, New York, NY
Visual Aids Benefit Brent Sikkema Gallery, New York, NY
“Art Splash,” Rockaway Artist Association, Rockaway, New York
“Shape/Movement/Texture” Community Room Gallery, Brooklyn Borough Hall
“Crack of the Bat, the Art of Baseball,” George Krevsky Gallery San Francisco, CA
“Greed,” Kaufman Arcade, satellite gallery of “A Taste of Art,” New York, NY
“Hot New Works,” Barabara Ann Levy Gallery, Cherry Grove, Fire Island, New York
“Un Natural, Extraordinary Views of Nature,” Full Spectrum Gallery, Lakewood,N.J.

2003
Small Works Invitational Prince Street Gallery, New York, NY
PIER 11- BWAC exhibit, Red Hook, Brooklyn NY
Object Image Gallery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
“Sideshow,” Diesel Gallery, Brooklyn, N.Y.

2002
“Nostalgia & Decay”- Remembering the Thunderbolt Roller Coaster, Coney Island, N.Y.
PIER 10 - BWAC Exhibit, Red Hook, Brooklyn
Inaugural Gallery-: Borough President, Marty Markowitz’s Inauguration, Brooklyn, NY

1999
“Wonders never Cease” Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Solo show Brooklyn, NY,

1997
“Amusing Amusements,” Met Life Windows Program, Grand Central Station, N.Y. “

1996
“Ride Again, Contemporary Visions of Coney Island” Elsa Mott Ives Gallery - N.Y., N.Y. (co-curated with Paul Bridgewater)

1993
“Solar Flair” Bridgewater /Lustberg, New York, NY

1992
“New Work New York” Albright-Knox Museum, New York

1991
“A Spark of Genius,” General Electric Center, Schenectady, New York
“American-Dream Land,” DTW Gallery, New York, NY, solo show

1990
Coney Island Fascination, La Mama Galleria, New York, NY, solo show

1988
“Cut it Out, Artists working with the Cut Form” Bridgewater/ Lustberg, New York, NY
“Billboards”, Littlejohn- Smith Gallery, New York, NY

1987
Bronx Museum of the Arts, Artist in the Marketplace, Bronx, N.Y.

1986
“Engaging objects, the Participatory Art of Mirrors, Mechanisms and Shelters,”
The Clocktower Gallery / Institute of Art & Urban Resources, New York, NY

Special Projects, Commissions & Other Professional Experience
1975-77
Studio assistant to American Pop artist Robert Indiana- Bicentennial project for the Santa Fe Opera; “The Mother of Us All,” rendered set & costume design maquettes in
Papier colle (cut & pasted paper.)

1981-86
Co-founded the “Coney Island Hysterical Society” with Richard Eagan, an artists / activist group dedicated to Coney Island revitalization through artists input. Projects included murals, transformation of a dark ride (Spookhouse) into a ‘ride through gallery in the dark” and numerous site specific projects.

1981-84
“Ask NBC News” Lead artist/Broadcast graphics for a national children’s news show
1983
“Steeplechase Come Back” 2500 sq. ft. mural, Bowery & West15th Street, Coney Island

1989
Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood, PBS TV Assistant designer to Bill Stabile on production of “Josephine the Short Necked Giraffe” (5 part opera series)

1991
“FRIDA”, Puppet renderer for the American Music Theater Festival’s production of the life of Frida Kahlo, Philadelphia PA ,1991 & BAM’s Majestic Theater, Brooklyn,N.Y.

1993
“WORD SANDWICHES,” Scholastic Books, wrote & illustrated children’s playful word game where compound words match up, forming inventive & surprising characters and things.

1999 Finalist for MTA Arts in Transit project, Franklin Ave station, Brooklyn, N. Y.

2000 Mural for Midwood High School, “From School to Work” Brooklyn, N.Y

2003 Awarded first place in the, “Spirit of Brooklyn” poster competition
sponsored by the Borough of Brooklyn Tourism Center & Bklyn Working Artists Coalition

2004 Dreamworks production, ‘The Terminal,”

2005 “Parachute Pavilion” Collabotation w/architect Philip Tusa in Van Alen competition

2006 Finalist for MTA Arts in Transit project, Jamaica Line, Queens

2007- 2008 “GIANY LOLLY / Homage to Philip’s,” installation: constructed collage, Avenue, Stillwell Avenue, Coney Island subway terminal. (tribute to a vanished icon)

Teaching and Residencies
2003-2006 Teaching Artist, Studio in a School, Early Childhood Program
2002-03 ASAP -After School Advancement Program), New Utrecht HS, Brooklyn, NY
1999 BCAT, Brooklyn Community Access Television -Artist in residence
1998 P.S. 1, Long Island City, N.Y. - Family day- Children’s workshop
1996-97 Village Infant Center Preschool- Resident Artist-teacher & consultant
1996-98 Brooklyn Center for the Urban Environment- Children’s after school art classes
1994 -2000 Leffert’s Homestead Historic Children’s Museum, Brooklyn, N.Y. - workshop

Selected Publications
JEREMYRIAD-Pop Culture Collected: "Philomena Marano's Sugar Rush: Escapism for the Eyes, Not the Mouth," June 21, 2012
AMUSING THE ZILLION , Photo of the Day: ART ON THE MOVE IN CONEY ISLAND July 6, 2012
AMUSING THE ZILLION Studio visit: Philomena Marano of the Coney Island Hysterical Society, October 26, 2010
AMUSING THE ZILLION Art of the Day: PLAY FASCINATION by Philomena Marano, Sept 19, 2010
AMUSING THE ZILLION The Wonder of Artist Philomena Marano's Wonder Wheel. Oct 4, 2009
Storycorp Interview by Aaron Beebe with the ”Coney Island Hysterical Society” founders, 2009
Lisa J. Curtis, “Coney Art”, GO Brooklyn, 2005
“A Dreamland called America”, 24/7 magazine, September 2005
“Up and Coming” IN BROOKLYN, pg 10. 2005
Fiona McDonough, “Her Poster’s Full of Spirit” The Daily News, 2003
Prattfolio, Alumni Notes, Fall, 2004
Charles Denson, “CONEY ISLAND LOST & FOUND” “Artist’s Renaissance of the 80’s”
Pgs: 223-227, Ten Speed Pess, 2002
Rick Palley, “Philomena’s Phabulous Paper Portraits of Coney Island” , The Brooklyn Skyline, Nov 26, 2002
“Brooklyn, Two Centuries of Artist’s Views,” 1997 calendar pub. by The Fund for the Borough of Brooklyn
Roni Henning, “ Screenprinting, Water Based Techniques,” Watson-Guptill Publications, 1994
Pgs 35 & pgs 130-131
Dulcie Leimbach “Hope is in the Mail” Currents, The New York Times, July 9, 1992
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Annual Report, page 14, 1992
J.Rudolph Abate, “Park Slope Artist’s fascination with Coney Island”, Brooklyn Free Press, Nov 9, 1990
Richard Eagan, “Alive on the Inside” endpage art, New Observations, Issue #57, May 1998
Tony Lay, ‘L’altra Faccia del Bronx”, Per Lui magazine, 1987
Marie Avona, “Coney Island Rides Road to Recovery” Prattfolio. Summer 1986
“Activity and Hope Rising at Coney Island” The New York Times, Sunday Apr 7, 1985

Collections
The Brooklyn Museum
Chase Bank, Brooklyn, NY
Museum of the City of New York
Brooklyn Historical Society,
Coney Island Hospital
St. Vincent’s Hospital, New York, N.Y.
Pfizer, New Jersey
Coney Island History Project
Coney Island Museum
Milberg, Weiss Law Firm, New York, NY
Harvey Fierstein,
Jerry Stiller & Ann Meara, New York, NY
Arlo Guthrie
John Di Domenico / Architect, New York, NY

Education
BFA, Pratt Institute Brooklyn, N.Y. 1974
The New School for Social Research New York, NY 1978
Pratt Manhattan Center, New York, NY 1997-99

Personal
Born, 1952 in Brooklyn, NY
Grew up in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn
Attended High School of Art & Design, New York, NY
Graduated Pratt Institute, BFA, School of Fine Art 1974
Married, one child
Lives in Brooklyn, NY

*I am deeply indebted to my father, Ralph Marano from whom I inherited my cutting skill. He was a masterful “stripper” in the printing industry.
(industry definition for “stripper”: cutting precise silhouettes with an x-acto knife in order to prepare plates for offset printing)