Debranne Cingari

BIOGRAPHY

Debranne Cingari Biography

American, b. 1963

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND ART FAIRS

  • Villa Carlotta — Lake Como, Italy, June 2025
  • Art Capital, Grand Palais — Paris, France, February 2025
  • Art Miami — Miami, Florida, 2020–2024
  • AIPAD — New York, New York, 2024
  • Art Palm Beach — Palm Beach, Florida, 2020-2026
  • Art Expo New York — New York, New York, 2023, Booth S-500
  • Chelsea Winter Group Show — New York, New York, 2023
  • Summer Selection, 2023
  • Cavalier Gallery 30th Anniversary Group Show — New York, New York
  • Architectural Digest Home Design Show — New York, New York
  • New York Art, Antique & Jewelry Show — New York, New York
  • Message in a Bottle — Nantucket, Massachusetts
  • Naples Art, Antique & Jewelry Show — Naples, Florida
  • Palm Beach Art, Antique & Jewelry Show — Palm Beach, Florida
  • LA Art Show — Los Angeles, California
  • Project 3W57 — New York, New York
  • Rivers of Air — Veneto, Italy
  • NADA — New York, New York
  • Foundations Art Fair — New York, New York
  • SeaFair — Greenwich, Connecticut
  • Art Hamptons — Long Island, New York
  • Constructions and Self-Portraits, Red Dot Art Fair — Miami, Florida
  • Constructions, Red Dot Art Fair — Miami, Florida
  • Cavalier Gallery LLC — New York, New York
  • Cavalier Galleries Inc., Group Exhibition — Nantucket, Massachusetts
  • Self Images, Cavalier Galleries Inc. — Greenwich, Connecticut
  • Two-Person Exhibition with Alan Fontaine, B.E.L. Gallery — Westport, Connecticut
  • Passions Gallery — Provincetown, Massachusetts
  • Art with a Heart, Henri Bendel — New York, New York

 

JURIED EXHIBITIONS

  • Masters Exhibition, Salmagundi Art Club — New York, New York, 2014
  • Annual Members Exhibition, Salmagundi Art Club — New York, New York, 2014
  • 58th Annual Art of the Northeast Exhibition, Silvermine Arts Center — New Canaan, Connecticut, 2007
  • Texas Artists Museum, 10th Annual National Photography Contest — Weathered VII, 2004
  • Invitational Contemporary Exhibition, Salmagundi Art Club — Sunday Read, 2004
  • Spectra National Photography Triennial — Seduced, 2004
  • Women’s Art Show, Shubert Theater Gallery — New Haven, Connecticut; Second Place
  • Disney’s Epcot — Orlando, Florida; Honorable Mention
  • Discovery Museum — Bridgeport, Connecticut; Honorable Mention
  • Sacred Heart University Gallery — Fairfield, Connecticut
  • Bernhard Gallery — Bridgeport, Connecticut
  • Sackler Gallery — Stamford, Connecticut
  • Printmaking Council — Somerville, New Jersey
  • Graphic Arts Center — Norwalk, Connecticut
  • National Women’s Music Festival — Muncie, Indiana

 

AWARDS AND HONORS

  • Finalist, Redwood Art Group / Art Expo New York — One of 11 finalists; Field of Possibilities, featured by Art Business News, 2025
  • Weston 250 Art Celebration — Field of Possibilities, group exhibition
  • Third Prize Certificate of Merit, Special President’s Collage & Mixed Media Exhibition, Salmagundi Art Club — Tree Hugger, 2010
  • Merit Award, Annual Photography & Graphics Exhibition, Salmagundi Art Club — The Bank, 2010
  • 58th Annual Art of the Northeast Exhibition, Silvermine Arts Center — New Canaan, Connecticut, 2007
  • Philip Isenberg Award, Salmagundi Art Club — Snow Flake, 2005
  • International Spider Award — The Womb, 2004; published in the 2005 promotional calendar
  • President’s Award, Annual Non-Juried Summer Exhibition, Salmagundi Art Club — The Womb, 2004
  • John N. Lewis Award, Annual Members Photography and Sculpture Exhibition, Salmagundi Art Club — Fallen with Exhaustion, 2004
  • Second Place, Women’s Work: 2nd Annual Women’s Art Show, Shubert Theater Gallery — Marilyn at Rest, 2002
  • Honorable Mention, 22nd Annual Spring Photography Contest, Photographer’s Forum — Seduced, 2002
  • Fourth Place, Photographer’s Forum Best of Photography Annual — Seduced, 2001
  • Honorable Mention, Photographer’s Forum Best of Photography Annual — The Encounter, 2000
  • Honorable Mention, Photographer’s Forum Best of Photography Annual — Enchantress, 1999
  • Honorable Mention, Photographer’s Forum Best of Photography Annual — Admirer, 1994
  • Honorable Mention, Photographer’s Forum Best of Photography Annual — Storefront, 1987

 

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

  • The Metropolitan Museum of Art — New York, New York
  • The Kinsley Institute — Bloomington, Indiana
  • Cantor Fitzgerald — New York, New York
  • Chelsea Piers Sports Complex — New York, New York
  • Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center — New York, New York
  • Stamford Museum & Nature Center — Stamford, Connecticut
  • HQ Global Workplaces Corporate Headquarters — Westport, Connecticut
  • Carlton House Model Condominium — New York, New York
  • Station 21 — Nantucket, Massachusetts
  • Private collections throughout the United States
  • LoLa 41 - Boston, MA

 

PUBLISHED WORKS

  • Comfort Zone: Interiors by Trudy Dujardin
  • Photographer’s Forum Best of Photography Annuals — 1987, 1989, 1994, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002
  • Portraits in Clay — Peter Rubino, sculptor and author
  • The Family Doctor — Lynn Dodson
  • Henry Will Account Bill — Donald L. Fennimore
  • Plants, Pills & Potions — Lynn Dodson

 

PUBLISHED COLLECTIBLES

  • Millennium calendars: Intimate Moments and Debranne Cingari, 2000
  • Intimate Moments calendar, 1999
  • Exclusive greeting-card lines and limited-edition posters — Borealis Press, G-Gallery, and 10% Publishers

 

EDUCATION AND ADVANCED STUDY

  • M.A., Education, Sacred Heart University — Fairfield, Connecticut
  • B.S., Media, Sacred Heart University — Fairfield, Connecticut
  • A.S., Advertising, Endicott College — Beverly, Massachusetts
  • Mosaic studies with Luciana Notturni — Ravenna, Italy, 2011 and 2013
  • Private instruction in photo-transfer techniques with Steve Sunshine, 1999
  • Photography studies with Joyce Tenneson, Bruce Hudson, Julie Wilson, and Arthur Rainville
  • Papermaking, photo transfer, bookmaking, and box making, Creative Arts Workshop — New Haven, Connecticut
  • Stone sculpture, figure sculpture, glassblowing, collage, and mixed media, Silvermine Arts Center — New Canaan, Connecticut

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

  • Landmark Academy — Wilton, Connecticut
  • Long Lots Elementary School — Westport, Connecticut
  • Riverfield Elementary School — Fairfield, Connecticut
  • Mill Hill Elementary School — Southport, Connecticut

 

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

  • American Society of Media Photographers
  • National Press Photographers Association
  • Canon Professional Services
  • Nikon Professional Services
  • Graphic Arts Center — Norwalk, Connecticut
  • Arts Council of Greater New Haven
  • Kodak’s Promise of Excellence
  • Salmagundi Club — New York, New York