Giannina Coppiano Dwin

Giannina Dwin has been the recipient of grants and awards including the prestigious South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship for Visual and Media Artists and the Women in the Visual Arts Award. She has also received many other sponsorships and grants including ones to conduct research in Spain and Brazil. She lives and works in South Florida.

Her work has been included in national and international exhibitions as part of solo and group shows. Some of her more notable exhibitions include solo installations at the Cornell Museum in Delray Beach; P/81 Gallery in Allapatah, Miami; Fundación Valdes-Salas in Asturias, Spain; Far Gallery in Ft. Lauderdale; Project Space in The Art and Culture Center in Hollywood, Florida; the contemporary wing of the Museo Municipal de Guayaquil, Ecuador; Ornare-Miami as a collateral event during Art Basel; the Coral Springs Museum of Art, Coral Springs; Illegal Gallery, Florence, Italy.

Selected group shows include venues such as The Hudson River Museum, New York; Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT.; BREF Art and Design, Paris France, Ca’Doro Gallery, Chelsea, New York; Spinello Projects at Brickell City Center; Miami Design District Pop Up; ArtHill, Gallery, London, UK; Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut; International Museum of Art and Science, McAllen, TX.; University Galleries Boca Raton at Florida Atlantic University; Duncan Gallery, St. Petersburg, Fl.

She has completed a public art sculpture commissioned by the Broward County Cultural Council at the Broward County Main Library in Ft. Lauderdale, as well as a glass mosaic mural for the City of West Palm Beach Public Art Department. Some of her past public works include an outdoor sculpture for the Cultural Loop at Pineapple Grove in Delray Beach and an Office Depot commission to design and execute in bronze the Visionary Women Award. Dwin has accomplished art residencies Argentina, Spain and Brazil among several others.

Dwin is also a curator with exhibitions such Polyopia at Arts Warehouse in Delray Beach, Fl., Contemporary Ceramics and Textiles at the Coral Springs Museum, Corporal at the Schmidt and Ritter Galleries at Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton Campus, and Fabricated at FC Gallery among others. She is part of the Collective62, Miami, Fl. Dwin Is a multidisciplinary artist, she works on installations, sculpture, ceramics, photography, and performance.