Jason A. Cina, Artist C.V.
Studio: 42-24 Orchard
Street
Queens Plaza, LIC, Queens
Ph.
(917) 509 1799 info@jasonacina.com
PAINTING:
2022
- Manhattan Showroom. West 72nd Street.
By Appointment Only. Text 917 509 1799
2021
- Painting Residency: Topaz Arts, NYC
- Studio Demolition 2020
- COVID Holiday
- New Studio / New Work
2019
- Group Member Show: Plaxall
Gallery, Long Isl. City, Queens
- Solo Exhibition.
ChaShaMa @ 733 Third Ave. NYC. Jan 23rd to May 6th
2018
- Painting Residency, Bliss Studios, Queens – Solo Show, Corks on Columbus, NYC
- Solo Show, Poco NYC – Solo Show, LIC Arts Open @ Modern Spaces
- Plaxall Gallery, LIC.- BWAC: “Color” – BWAC: “Material Maters”
- 2 shows @ The Factory, LIC Arts Open.
2017
– LIC-A
@ Plaxall Gallery. - Painting Residency III, Topaz Arts – LIC-A @ Plaxall Gallery.
2016
- Painting Residency,
Topaz Arts
2015
2013 - Curate NYC.
SLAB 3 of 10 Rated in the "Top 150" plus 2 Curatorial Selections.
2012
- Greenpoint Gallery
PAST EXHIBITIONS: photography
& painting
2006-Queens
International, Queens Museum 2005 -Art Gotham, "Square Foot Show" / The Art Show,
Amherst, Pittsfield MA / Teaneck Cultural Arts Coalition, NJ 2003-DUMBO Open Studios Weekend 2002-Queens International,
Queens Museum of Art
/ Digitally Propelled Ideas, Kellogg Art Gallery,
Pomona CA / Rockaway Artists Alliance, Queens NY 2001-Featured Artist, Lower Manhattan Cultural
Council, Fed Reserve Bank /
BE Gallery, Asbury Park, NJ. 2000-Bary Gordin Hair Gallery, Greenwich Village
PROFESSIONAL
1989 – 2015
Scenic Painter: Off
Broadway, Regional and some TV, NYC
1993 – 2002
Lighting Designer: Off-Broadway
& Off-Off Bway NYC (see below for details)
1996 & 1997
Lighting Designer:
Weathervane Theater. Whitefield,
NH. (summer season)
1997/98
Lighting Supervisor: The Acting
Company, NYC (USA Tour and London)
2000 - 2010
Lighting Designer & Photographer:
Jazz Reach / Metta Quintet
Local & National tours to Performing Arts Centers, Concert Halls & Night Clubs 2007-2008
Lighting Designer & Photographer Helen
Mills Theater & Event Space, NYC.
2007-2008
House Photographer: Harlem
Children's Zone 135 East 125th Street
TEACHING
01/08 - 08/13
Studio
Art & Photography, A.H.R.C. NYC.
02/07-02/08
Photography: Harlem Children's Zone / Promise Academy, NYC
2006
Photography: Boys Club of NY, Lower East Side (Black & White Darkroom)
2003 - 2006
Teaching Artist, Lectures in Theatre:
NYC & Yonkers Public High Schools
2004/05
Visual Arts (Temp/Sub); School
Profs. NYC private and charter schools.
1997-1999
Adjunct Faculty-Lighting Design for the Stage
Summer 1995
Painting & Drawing for Theatre Studio
Arena Theater School, Buffalo, NY
EDUCATION
1993-1995 MFA (candidate) Theatre Design, N.Y.U Tisch. (3 Semesters)
1988-1993 BFA Theatre Design, Long Island University, C.W. Post
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THEATRE:
SCENIC PAINTER: 1989-2015: Freelance. Most
noted venues: Irish Rep, MCC, NY Stage and Film, MTV's 'Real World'-NYC, WWOR TV--NJ, Second Stage, Lucille Lortel, CSC, Barrow
Street, 59E59, New World Stages, Actors Studio, SoHo Playhouse, NYU Grad Design Dept.
LIGHTING DESIGN:
Lighting
for scores of Stage Plays, Musicals, One-Acts, Readings, Showcases in Off and Off-Off Broadway Venues. Plus several seasons
of Regional Summer Stock with rotating repertory. Toured nationally (and to London) with The Acting Company and spent
several years on the road with Jazz Reach / Meta Quintet.
Resident
Designer @ The Irish Repertory Theater,
Blue Heron Arts Center, Century Center for the Performing Arts, New Perspectives Theater and The Metropolitan Playhouse.
Other Design Credits: SoHo Rep, SoHo Playhouse, Circle Rep, Chekhov Theater Ensemble, Mint Theater, Aaron
Davis Hall, Miller Theater, John Jay, Culture Project, NYTW. Players Theater, Guild Hall (East Hampton), Weathervane Theater
(NH),
ALL the old Theater Row Theaters, Jean Cocteau Rep, Irish Arts Center, Studio Arena (Buffalo),
The Intrepid Museum…
Abridged
Listing:
2007-2009:
Kotchegna Dance Co, Annual Concerts
2000- 2010
Jazz-Reach and the Metta Quintet.
LOCAL &
NATIONAL TOURS TO PERFORMING ARTS CENTERS AND CONCERT HALLS
2001
"Scenery" Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY
BY
ED DIXON & DIRECTED BY FRANK DUNLOP
WITH CLIVE REVIL AND
MARYLIN SOKOL
"Uncle Bob" SoHo Playhouse, NYC
BY
AUSTIN PENDLETON & DIRECTED BY COURTNEY MOOREHEAD.
STARING
GEORGE MOREFOGEN and GALE HAROLD (replaced by Joseph Gordon Levitt)
"The
Irish and How They Got That Way"
BY FRANK McCOURT & DIRECTED BY CHARLOTTE MOORE
Irish
Repertory Theater, NYC--(Peekskill, NY Production)
"Importance
of Being Oscar" Irish Rep. NYC
STARING NIALL BUGGY. DIRECTED BY CHARLOTTE MOORE
"Rosmersholm" BY
HENRIK IBSEN Century Center, NYC
DIRECTED BY J.C. COMPTON
2000
"Don
Juan in Hell" BY G.B. SHAW Irish Repertory
Theater, NYC
DIRECTED BY CHARLOTTE MOORE. STARING: CELESTE
HOLM and FRITZ WEAVER
"As You Like It" Blue Heron Arts Center, NYC
"O'Neill" Blue Heron Arts Center
"Invasions
and Legacies" Irish Rep. BY TOMMY MAKEM
DIRECTED BY CHARLOTTE MOORE & STARING TOMMY MAKEM
"Ghosts" BY IBSEN Century Center DIRECTED BY J.C. COMPTON
1999
"Oh,
Coward" Irish Rep.
"Viva Cummings" Blue Heron Arts Center
"Enemy of the People" BY Ibsen, Century Center, NYC
"Admissions" Blue
Heron Arts Center BY TONY VELELLA . DIRECTED BY AUSTIN PENDLETON
1998
"King Lear" Chekhov Theatre
Ensemble, NYC
"A Doll House" The Century Center, NYC
"Pillars
of Society" Century Center
1997
"La
Bete'" Post Theatre Co. L.I.U.
"A Loss of Roses" Irish Arts Center, NYC
"Ain't
Misbehavin'" "Children of Eden" "Don't Dress for Dinner" "Grease" "Into the Woods"
"Nunsense"
WEATHERVANE
Rep, NH
"Othello" Jean Cocteau Rep/ Baruch College Performance
1996
"Julius
Caesar" Samuel Beckett Theater, NYC
“Admissions”, “Jihad”, “MacBeth” and more. New Perspectives Theater, NYC
"The Fantastiks" "Camelot" "Joseph and the..." "Crazy for You" Weathervane Rep, NH-- Summer Season
One Act Play Series at Circle
Rep Lab.
1997/’98 LIGHTING ASSISTANT / SUPERVISOR:
The Acting Company
NYC & USA Tour (Gutherie Lab, MN; The
Public, NYC; & The Barbican Center, London)
"Loves Fire"
DIRECTED BY MARK LAMOS
BY
TONY KUSHNER, WENDY WASSERSTEIN, JOHN GUARE AND OTHERS
(In Rep with "Romeo
and Juliet")