Adriana Farmiga (; born July 17, 1974) is an American visual artist, curator, and professor based in

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. She serves as a programming advisor for the non-profit La Mama Gallery in the East Village, and is the current

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at Cooper Union School of Art.

Early life

Farmiga was born and raised in a small

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community in Rosendale, New York. Her paternal first cousins are actresses

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and

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. She was educated at Cooper Union, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1996. Farmiga went on to study at the

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, where she was taught by the late installation artist

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; she received her Master of Fine Arts degree from Bard in 2004.

Career

Farmiga began teaching at

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and at her alma mater Cooper Union. Additionally, she served as a visiting lecturer at the

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in 2013. In October 2017, Farmiga was appointed to the position of Assistant Dean at Cooper Union School of Art. Farmiga has displayed her artwork at many solo exhibitions, including ''objects'' (2001) in New Orleans, Scape'' (2006) in Miami, and ''Versus'' (2012) in New York. In 2004, Farmiga was among a group of artists displaying their work in the exhibition ''The Reality of Things'' at Triple Candie in Harlem. In 2008, she received the Emerging Artist Fellowship from

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. In 2011, Farmiga worked as a curator and artist for her cousin

's directorial debut film '' Higher Ground''. That same year, her work appeared in ''Thisorganized'', a group exhibit curated by painter

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, which was displayed at the Susan Inglett Gallery. In 2013, Farmiga was part of the ''Screen Play'' exhibition at the

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in New Paltz. The following year, she was one of 16 artists chosen, from over 320 applicants, to display her work in the ''Worlds of Wonder'' exhibition, also shown at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art. In December 2016, Farmiga's work as part of ''CIM'' began showing at the

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, where it was exhibited until September 2017. From January to February 2017, her work as part of ''Abandoned Luncheonette'' was exhibited at the Jeff Bailey Gallery in Hudson, New York. In April 2018, it was announced that Farmiga was one of twelve visual artists whom had been granted a summer fellowship at the

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