Terri Chiao, b. 1981, Atlanta, GA
EDUCATION
Adam Frezza
MFA, Drawing and Painting, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL (2007)
PBACC, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA (2004)
BA, Studio Art, Flagler College, St. Augustine, FL (2001)
Terri Chiao
M. ARCH, Columbia University, New York, NY (2008)
BA, Architectural Studies/History of Art & Architecture, Brown University, Providence, RI (2004)
SOLO EXHIBITION
Idea Machine: CHIAOZZA, Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH (2026-2028)
New Collage Works, Uprise Art, New York, NY (2025)
Four Rooms (Six), VSOP Projects, Greenport, NY (2024)
Our Garden Needs Its Flowers, Baik Art, Seoul, Korea (2024)
Pair, Pare, Pear, Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art & Design, Portland, ME (2024)
Slow Growth, Uprise Art, New York, NY (2023)
Inside Mirror, Hashimoto Contemporary, New York, NY (2023)
Bouquet Paintings & Other Works, Heron Arts, San Francisco, CA (2022)
Shape & Structure: Gemels, Casa Romantica, San Clemente, CA (2022)
CHIAOZZA: Paper Pulp, Owen James Gallery, New York, NY (2022)
Gemels, Launch F18 Viewing Room, New York, NY (2020)
Color Gathers Space, Westchester Community College, Valhalla, NY (2020)
Cascades & Crescendos, Owen James Gallery, New York, NY (2019)
CHIAOZZA, Poketo ROW DTLA, Los Angeles, CA (2019)
Al Fresco à la Mode (In the Open Air with Ice Cream), CY Fiore, New York, NY (2018)
Chiaozza Chapel, Cooler Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (2018)
CHIAOZZA : Wall Works, Owen James Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (2017)
Paper Islands, Long Island University Humanities Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (2015)
CHIAOZZA, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA (2014)
A Controlled Wild, Wave Hill Sunroom Project Space, Bronx, NY (2013)
INSTALLATIONS AND PUBLIC WORKS
Storm Boogie, BECU Center for Basketball Performance, Seattle, WA (2026)
CHIAOZZA x Prymachenko, Kontraktova Ploscha, Kyiv, Ukraine (2025)
Drawing Flowers, Luye Highlands, Taitung County, Taiwan (2025)
Charm Valley, The Aspen Institute and Red Brick Center for the Arts, Aspen, CO (2025)
Charm Harbour, Maxwell Place Park, Hoboken, NJ (2024)
Two Giros, Royalmount, Montreal, Canada (2024)
Wiggle in the Wild, Renacchi Garden at Villa Lena, Palaia, Italy (2024)
Meander Mural, Artworks, Cincinnati, OH (2024)
Charm Field, Somerset County Courthouse Lawn, Somerville, NJ (2023)
Sprout Forest, HEJI Lightbox, Shanghai, China (2023)
Whale Bone Dinner Party, Trebly Park, Houston, TX (2022)
Wooden Wall Works, Google Maritime Building Cafe, Pier 57, New York, NY (2022)
Scumble Lumps, Industry City, Courtyard 1/2, Brooklyn, NY (2022)
Pulp Paintings, MacArthur Place, Sonoma, CA (2022)
Lumpy Notes, Northeastern University, Boston, MA (2021)
Up, Down, Beneath, and Around, Lincoln Lawn, Cleveland, OH (2021)
Meander Mural, Harriet Tubman Supportive Housing Building, Far Rockaway, NY (2021)
Picnic in the Treetops, installation, Hermès Ginza, Tokyo, Japan (2020-21)
CHIAOZZA Shuffle Board, installation, Media Slopes, Deer Valley, UT (2020)
Riders, installation, Hermès Geneva, Switzerland (2019)
Log, Tree, Mound, installation, Wild Child, Oakland, CA (2019)
Sprout Garden, Riverside Art Museum, Beijing, China (2019)
Please Pass The Salt, interactive sculptures, Google's Women Techmakers Dinner, Mountain View, CA (2019)
Succulent Sundaes, installation, The Line Hotel, Los Angeles, CA (2019)
The Invisible Traveler, installation, Hermès Shanghai, China (2019)
Pulp Vessels and Wall Works, installation, 200 5th Avenue, New York, NY (2019)
Stick Stump & The Lawn Lumps, public art installation, Tappen Park, Staten Island, NY (2018)
Cherry Stalk Leg Lump, outdoor sculpture, Southampton, NY (2018)
CHIAOZZA x Nike Epic React, installation, Nike Flatiron, New York, NY (2018)
Chiaozza Zen Garden, outdoor sculptures, Industry City, Brooklyn, NY (2017)
Exquisite Plants, public art installation, Brooklyn Bridge Park, Brooklyn, NY (2017)
Sea Paddles, outdoor sculptures, Central Park, New York, NY (2017)
Chiaozza Garden, outdoor installation, Coachella Music & Arts Festival, Coachella Valley, CA (2017)
Suspended Confetti, collaboration with Alex Proba, installation, Canal Street Market, New York, NY (2017)
Puddle Lumps, outdoor sculpture, The Ashland, Brooklyn, NY (2016)
Greenhouse Theater, floating art pavilion for Swale, Hudson River, NY (2016)
Pattern Field, mural, Affordable Art Fair, Uprise Art, New York, NY (2016)
Cairn, public sculpture, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL (2015)
Puddle Platforms, play structure, Villa Lena, Palaia, Italy (2015)
Fake Spring, installation, Coming Soon, New York, NY (2015)
Projection Hut, interactive media pavilion, Eco-Hacker Build, Catskills, NY (2014)
Willow Hut, temporary pavilion, The School of Making Thinking, Catskills, NY (2013)
A House for a Forest, interactive web installation, Parallelograms.info (2012)
A Cabin in a Loft, on-going installation, Brooklyn, NY (2009-ongoing)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION
On Paper, Hashimoto Contemporary, New York, NY (2026)
True Blue, LIGHT Art + Design, Chapel Hill, NC (2025)
Moving Forward in Reverse, VSOP Projects, Greenport, NY (2025)
amuse-bouche, Hashimoto Contemporary, New York, NY (2025)
10 Year Anniversary, Hashimoto Contemporary, San Francisco, CA (2024)
Cosmic Bloom, Hashimoto Contemporary, San Francisco, CA (2024)
Eternal Flame, Fredericks & Mae, New York, NY (2024)
Multiples, Hashimoto Contemporary, San Francisco, CA (2023)
Dreamhouses, Fort Makers, online exhibition (2023)
Embodiment, Heron Arts, San Francisco, CA (2022)
Potluck, Hashimoto Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA (2022)
Lush, Hashimoto Contemporary, New York, NY (2022)
For Folk's Sake!, American Folk Art Museum, New York, NY (2021)
Supergroup 2, Superhouse, New York, NY (2021)
Cow Parade, Hudson Yards, New York, NY (2021)
Friends & Family, Launch F18, Putnam Park, Peterborough, NH (2021)
Vessel, Hashimoto Contemporary, San Francisco, CA (2021)
Post Painterly Now, Sugarlift, New York, NY (2021)
Make Arrangements, Uprise Art, New York, NY (2021)
Art Basil, VSOP Projects x Treiber Farms, Peconic, NY (2021)
Jardín Espacial, AGO Projects, Mexico City, Mexico (2021)
Goodnight House, Fort Makers, New York, NY (2021)
Broom Show, Cooler Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (2021)
Launch F18: 10 Years, Launch F18, New York, NY (2021)
I Love You Too, Gaotai Gallery, Xinjiang, China (2021)
Four Rooms 3, VSOP Projects, Greenport, NY (2020)
Kismet, Monaco, St. Louis, MO (2020)
The Sun Also Rises, Owen James Gallery, New York, NY (2020)
Don't Try This At Home, Antilia Gallery, virtual exhibition (2020)
Trunk Show, Owen James Gallery, New York, NY (2019)
Continuous Regeneration, Columbia Circle, Shanghai, China (2019)
The Long and The Short Of It, Fredericks & Mae, Brooklyn, NY (2019)
A Body Awaits, Cooler Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (2019)
Future Starts Slow, Launch F18, New York, NY (2019)
Continuous Refle(a)ction, Riverside Art Museum, Beijing, China (2019)
Inside/Out, The William Vale, Brooklyn, NY (2019)
The Stoop, Cooler Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (2019)
Pulp + Process, Society of Arts + Crafts, Boston, MA (2019)
Art on Paper, Owen James Gallery, New York, NY (2019)
Art on Paper, VSOP Projects, New York, NY (2019)
Home Futures: Living in Yesterday's Tomorrow, Design Museum, London (2018-2019)
Urns, Cooler Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (2018)
About Face, Fredericks & Mae, Brooklyn, NY (2018)
FL/NY, Usagi Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (2018)
The Clown Show, Elephant Gallery, Nashville, TN (2018)
Pocket Object, Juice Box Gallery, Kansas City, MO (2018)
Materiality Leading Design, VSOP Projects, Greenport, NY (2018)
Art on Paper, Sugarlift, New York, NY (2018)
Let It Grow, Wave Pool Gallery, Cincinnati, OH (2018)
In Search Of, VSOP Projects, Greenport, NY (2018)
Small Moments, Brilliant Champions, Brooklyn, NY (2017)
Material Matters: Contemporary Art Meets Frank Lloyd Wright, Organized by Silvermine Arts Center, Petra Island, NY (2017)
Call & Response, Wave Hill Glyndor Gallery, The Bronx, NY (2017)
Plant Patterns, The Arsenal Gallery in Central Park, New York, NY (2017)
Bluff Projects, Hero Beach Club, Montauk, NY (2017)
Maker, Maker, Children's Museum of the Arts, New York, NY (2017)
Piles, Stacks, Lumps & Mounds, Canal Street Market x Sight Unseen, New York, NY (2017)
Flags, Ace Hotel x Objectify 139, Los Angeles, CA (2017)
Art on Paper, Uprise Art, New York, NY (2017)
Work By Pairs, Distillery Gallery, Boston, MA (2017)
Flash Me, Cooler Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (2017)
Lit, Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, Alfred University, Alfred, NY (2016)
The Plant Show, 99¢ Plus Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (2016)
Someplace Elsewhere, Gallery Protocol, Gainesville, FL (2016)
Vitamin C(ollage), Rabbit Hole Studio, Brooklyn, NY (2016)
Formulations, Owen James Gallery at Sculpture Space, Queens, NY (2016)
NYCxSKYMALL, Wintercheck Factory, Brooklyn, NY (2016)
Void + Collapse, Chloe Curtis, New York, NY (2016)
Thing One Thing Two, One Grand Gallery, Portland, OR (2016)
Permeate the House, The Hollows, Brooklyn, NY (2016)
Art on Paper, Owen James Gallery, New York, NY (2016)
Excerpts from Paper Islands, Miami Projects, Uprise Art, Miami, FL (2015)
Products of the Playful, Art + Method, Brooklyn, NY (2015)
Into The Woods, Morris-Warren Gallery, New York, NY (2015)
Published by the Artist, International Print Center, New York, NY (2015)
Materials / Abstraction, Owen James Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (2015)
Curious Mediums, City of Brea Art Gallery, Brea, CA (2015)
Winter's Garden, Silvermine Arts Center, New Canaan, CT (2015)
Design in Full Colour, Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven, The Netherlands (2014)
Ashen Branches, Vibrant Keys, Wayfarers, Brooklyn, NY (2014)
Boxes Lost in Circulation, Flushing Town Hall, Queens, NY (2014)
Stone Show, KIOSK, New York, NY (2014)
Over the Edge: Paperworks Unbound, Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY (2014)
Hang Ten Heat Wave, The Bakery, Brooklyn, NY (2014)
Plant Shop, SightUnseen OFFSITE, New York, NY (2014)
Ransom, Wayfarers, Brooklyn, NY (2013)
WAH Bridges Bushwick, Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY (2013)
Wrap Around Two, ARENA@Suite 806, 89 Fifth Ave., New York, NY (2013)
Birdhouses, Wharton Esherick Museum, Paoli, PA (2013)
Another New York, Artbridge, Barclays Center, Brooklyn, NY (2013)
Atmospheric Pressure, Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY (2013)
Making Room, Museum of the City of New York, NY (2013)
Objects by Architects, Keller Gallery, MIT, Cambridge, MA (2012)
Faraway Neighbor, Flux Factory, Queens, NY, (2011)
Museum All-Over, Raccolte Frugone Museum, Genoa, Italy (2011)
Little Wonder, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland (2011)
ARTIST BOOKS
Exquisite Plants, CHIAOZZA, Hato Press (2020)
Man With Amoeba, CHIAOZZA, Little Big Time Press (2019)
Blocks Blocks Blocks, CHIAOZZA, Hato Press (2016)
Lump Nubbin Coloring Book, CHIAOZZA, TXT Books (2016)
SELECTED PRESS / PUBLICATIONS
Illustoria #28: Dessert, Cover design and interview (2025)
These Are the Buzziest Artists Discovered at New York Art Week, Galerie (2024)
Collaborative Duos, Illustoria #24: The Love Issue (2024)
CHIAOZZA and Rachel Strum. Cosmic Bloom, Meer (2024)
This humble accessory is all Drew Barrymore needs to bring a sense of uniqueness to her walls – designers say it's perfect for small spaces, Homes & Gardens (2024)
Chiaozza Copartners Dream Up Fantastical, Nature-Inspired Works in Their Brooklyn Studio, Interior Design (2022)
At Boston's Newest Public Art Exhibit, Seeing is Hearing, News at Northeastern (2021)
CHIAOZZA: Lumpy Notes, Northeastern (2021)
CHIAOZZA Explores the Lines Between the Natural and Imagined Worlds, Art Plugged (2020)
CHIAOZZA: Color Gathers Space, Art Gallery, Westchester Community College (2020)
The Fantastic Play Between Harmony and Rigor, Artwort (2020)
Manual for Indoor Play, Hato Press (2020)
CHIAOZZA, Volley (2020)
Wowza! Chiaozza!, Lunch Lady Magazine, Issue 18 (2020)
Inside the Fantastic World of CHIAOZZA, Hypebeast (2020)
Creative Spaces: People, Homes and Studios to Inspire, edited by Ted Vadakan and Angie Myung, Chronicle Books (2019)
Inside the Amazing Bushwick Loft of Artist and Mama Terri Chiao of CHIAOZZA, Mother Mag (2019)
Home Futures: Living in Yesterday's Tomorrow, exhibition catalogue, the Design Museum London (2019)
CHIAOZZA’S WONDERS ENCHANT THE MASSES, Art of Choice (2019)
Papier-Mâché That Goes Beyond the Kindergarten Craft, Architectural Digest Clever (2019)
Design Studio Curious Yellow and Art Advisor Beth Fiore Team Up for a Nonprofit Gallery, Architectural Digest (2018)
Chiaozza, Virgil Abloh, Filip Pagowski, and More Artists and Designers Create Limited Edition Rugs for IKEA, Architectural Digest (2018)
A Colorful Treehouse Grows in Brooklyn, Domino (2018)
Eight Artists to Watch from Bushwick Open Studios 2017, Hyperallergic (2017)
Adam Frezza & Terri Chiao, Matter of Hand (2017)
Sesame Street Meets Surreal Stucco in Striking Sculptures, The Creators Project (2017)
See the Art Replacing Acid in the Candy-Colored Wacky Wonderland of Coachella 2017, Artnet (2017)
These Coachella Visual Artists Made the Music Festival Into a Surrealist Wonderland, LA Weekly (2017)
Studio Chiaozza, Combining the Everyday and the Extraordinary, It's Nice That (2016)
The Working Pair: Adam & Terri, The Working Pair (2016)
CHIAOZZA and The Creative Reliance on Play, Amadeus (2016)
The 5 Best Things About Contemporary Ceramics, The Creators Project (2016)
Clay Makers: 'Void + Collapse' Presents a New Side to Contemporary Ceramics, Wallpaper* Magazine (2016)
Creative Couples, Framework Magazine (2016)
Final Friday Artist Interviews: Episode 14, CHIAOZZA (2015)
A Cabin in a Loft, Brooklyn Magazine Design Issue (2015)
10 Highlights of the New Satellite Miami Art Show, WIDEWALLS (2015)
Terri Chiao, Women Artists, Interviews Vol. 3 (2015)
Paper Plants, CAROUSEL, Summer/Fall, Issue 35 (2015)
Plants Watered with Imagination, Solar Magazine (2014)
Peas in a Pod, METAL (2014)
Studio Visit: Terri Chiao and Adam Frezza, Art and Design Duo, Sight Unseen (2014)
Fantastical Foliage, Wrap Magazine (2014)
Eternity Stew, Drop Magazine (2014)
10 Bushwick Power Couples: Makin' Art and Bushwick Happen, Bushwick Daily (2014)
Magic Made in Brooklyn, Blaze Diaries (2013)
Art Replaces Veggies in Brooklyn CSA, Art in America (2013)
AIB Radio Episode 3, Arts in Bushwick (2013)
Making Room, Domus (2013)
Architectural Inventions, Laurence King Publishing (2013)
50 Up-and-Coming New York Culture Makers to Watch in 2013, Flavorwire (2012)
A Cabin, Inside a Loft, in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Magazine (2012)
Into the Wave, Arts in Bushwick (2012)
Houses within Houses, Architizer (2012)
An Afternoon With Terri, An Afternoon With (2011)
Wild & Wonderful, full-page collage, New York Post (2010)
Modern or Retro? Let’s Call it a Draw, Washington Post (2008)
New American Paintings, Issue #74, Open Studios Press (2008)
AWARDS & HONORS
Children's Museum of the Arts, Benefit Auction, Guest Curators, New York, NY (2018)
Art in the Parks: UNIQLO Park Expressions Grant (2018)
Curtis Gates Lloyd Research Fellowship, Lloyd Library, Cincinnati, OH (2016)
NYSCA Finishing Funds Grant (2015)
Puffin Foundation Grant (2015)
American Design Hot List, Sight Unseen, New York, NY (2014)
Visiting Scholars, Pratt Institute Ceramics Department, Brooklyn, NY (2014)
Hot Picks, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY (2014)
BRIC Media Arts Fellowship, Brooklyn, NY (2014)
Wave Hill Sunroom Project Space, The Bronx, NY (2013)
Brooklyn Community Supported Arts + Design, Brooklyn, NY (2013)
The Viewing Program, The Drawing Center, New York, NY (2009)
NYSCA Independent Project Grant in Architecture, Planning, and Design (2008)
RESIDENCIES
Cardinal House Residency, Old Chatham, NY (2026)
East Rift Valley Land Art Festival Artists-in-Residence, Taitung, Taiwan (2025)
MacArthur Place x Uprise Art Artist Residency, Sonoma, CA (2021)
Cooler Ranch, Treiber Farms, Southold, NY (2019)
Shell House Arts, Roxbury, NY (2018)
Villa Lena, Tuscany, Italy (2015)
Kökarkultur, Kökar, Finland (2014)
Starry Night Retreat, Truth or Consequences, NM (2014)
The School of Making Thinking, DeLancey, NY (2013)
George Rickey Residency, The Corporation of Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY (2009, AF)
Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT (2009, AF)
Keyholder Residency, Lower East Side Printshop, New York, NY (2008, AF)
INVITED WORKSHOPS & LECTURES
Maine College of Art & Design, Portland, ME (2024)
Google Visual Design Summit (2023)
Google Artists-in-Residence Workshop (2023)
Uprise Art, New York, NY (2023)
Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta, GA (2021)
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI (2021)
Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA (2020)
California State University, Long Beach, CA (2020, 2021, 2023)
People in Places 003: On Intimacy (2020)
Studio to the Streets, LAND Studio, Cleveland, OH (2019)
University of Toronto, Daniels School of Architecture, Toronto, Canada (2019)
Children's Museum of the Arts, Family Day, New York, NY (2018)
SUNY Westchester Community College, Valhalla, NY (2018)
Brooklyn Bridge Park, Brooklyn, NY (2017)
The Arsenal Gallery, Central Park, New York, NY (2017)
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, New York, NY (2016)
Families Who Create, The Brooklyn Cottage, Brooklyn, NY (2016)
Lloyd Library, Cincinnati, OH (2016)
Free Arts: Parents & Children Together, New York, NY (2016)
Group Under: Salon, Brooklyn, NY (2015)
The Last Weekend, Catskills, NY (2014)
Ceramics Department, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn (2014)
Kökar Grundskola, Kökar, Finland (2014)
Eco-Hacker Build, Catskills, NY (2014)
High School Fellows Workshop, Arts in Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY (2014)
Family Art Project, Wave Hill, The Bronx, NY (2014, 2017)
