Cat Del Buono
artist / filmmaker
I am an artist who uses video, installation, performance to address social issues and to engage my community. I prefer creating works that are accessible to the public, allowing visitors to interact and be affected.
Projects have included Voices, an immersive 20-monitor video installation where viewers hear the experiences of domestic violence survivors in their own words; virtual environments created indoors to comment on our destruction of nature; and interactive public performances that use humor to address society’s unattainable beauty standard. Whatever the medium, the goal of all my works is to inspire and influence change.
Contact:
cdelbuono@yahoo.com
Education
2006-2008 School of Visual Arts – MFA in Photography, Video, and Related Media
1994-1995 New York University – Tisch School of Arts, Graduate Film Program
1988-1992 Boston College – BA in Communications
Selected Exhibitions
2023 Impact of Exchange, traveling photo exhibit, US Dept. of State and Photoville, multiple cities in the US
2022 Voci, Castel Nuovo, Naples, Italy (solo show)
Museum of Sonoma County, Agency: Feminist Art and Power, Santa Rosa, CA
2021 ArtRage the Norton Putter Gallery, Deadlocked and Loaded, Syracuse, NY
2020 Microscope Gallery, Voices installation, Brooklyn, NY (solo show)
2019 Every Woman Biennial, New York, NY
2018 Violated Bodies, Shiva Gallery, John Jay College, New York, NY
FCKVRYTHNG.com, online exhibit, curated by Lori Zimmer
2017 Whitney Houston Biennial,Chashama, New York, NY
We Need to Talk, Petzel Gallery, New York, NY
Nasty Women, Knockdown Center, Queens, NY
STooPs, Interactive performance, Brooklyn, NY
2016 Winthrop University, Voices installation and panel discussion, Rock Hill, SC (solo show)
Blue Sky Gallery, Voices installation and panel discussion, Portland, OR (solo show)
CURRENTS New Media Festival, Magdalena, NM
2015 MoCA Miami, Meta-Gallery, Voices installation and panel discussion, Miami, FL (solo show)
Bronx Calling: Third AIM Biennial group show, Bronx Museum, New York, NY
BRIC Gallery Open Call: The Artists Studio, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Woman Made Gallery, Voices installation and panel discussion, Chicago, IL (solo show)
Web Video Biennial, curated by Jose Vieria for Web Art Center
VideoMedeja, Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia
2013 5th Base Gallery, Film Nights, London, England
2012 Gallery 263, Meta, Cambridge, MA
Field Projects Gallery, Minutia Militia, New York, NY
Fonlad Digtial Arts Festival, Coimbra, Portugal
Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, Amid the Street Noise, Fort Lauderdale, FL
Fountain Art Fair, Art For Progress, New York, NY
Vetlanda Museum, art:screen, Sweden
6th Street Container, Vanity Unfair, multi-media installation, Miami, FL (solo show)
2011 Fountain Art Fair, Art For Progress, Miami, FL
Governors Island Art Fair, large multi-media collaboration, Governors Island, NY
NYC Downtown Short Film Festival, New York, NY
2010 White Box Gallery, Sanctioned Array, New York, NY
From the Center: Now! Women’s Caucus for Art National Exhibition, juror: Lucy Lippard
Los Angeles International Short Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA
San Francisco Documentary Film Festival, San Francisco, CA
Awards/Press
2023 Fulbright 75th Anniversary Award, Rome, Italy
2022 Fulbright Scholar Award, Naples, Italy
2020 Brooklyn Arts Fund, Brooklyn Arts Council
2020 Advocate of NYC, Mayor's Office Against Domestic and Gender-based Violence, NYC
2018 American Academy in Rome, Visiting Artist Program, Rome, Italy
2017 Anti-Heroin Chic, Art as Another Language, by James Diaz, August 23
First 100 Plus Leader Award, CT Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Hartford, CT
2016 The Portland Mercury, "Cat Del Buono's Art of Witness," by Megan Burbank, July 13
Orange County Register, "'Voices' exhibit in Costa Mesa casts light on domestic violence in our midst," by Theresa Walker, February 11
Charlotte Observer, "Winthrop exhibitions use humor and harsh reality to examine domestic issues," by Barbara Schreiber, February 16
2015 ISE Cultural Foundation Grant, New York, NY
Bronx Museum AIM Program, Bronx, NY
The Art Newspaper, “Artists respond to call from the Bronx,” by Victoria Stapley-Brown, July 13
New York Times, “Bronx Museum Showcases Emerging Artists,” July 10
Miami Herald, “Silence is Domestic Violence’s Enabler” by Kinisha Correia, May 4
Miami Herald, “Hear the Voices of Domestic Violence Survivors” by Cat Del Buono, April 16
Miami New Times, “Cat Del Buono Brings Feminist Art to Miami” by Kat Bein, March 2
2014 Awesome Foundation Grant Winner
Miami Masterminds Award Honorable Mention
PBS Art Loft, WPBT South Florida, November 11
Miami New Times, “Miami Women Share Domestic Violence Stories,” by Shelly Davidov, September 12
Time, “Let This Video Explain How to Not Get Raped,” by Jessica Roy, March 10
Jezebel, “Finally! A Video Guide that Shows Ladies How Not to Get Raped,” by Erin Gloria Ryan, February 10
2013 Winner of Baang & Burne New Works Grant, Baang & Burne Contemporary, NYC
2012 Huffington Post, “6th Street Container Opens Cat Del Buono’s Vanity Unfair,” Amanda McCorquodale, January 19
Gallery La Pan / Pantocrator, Summer Artist Residency, Barcelona, Spain
2009 NYFA Strategic Opportunity Stipend
Juried Artist Program, Residency at ArtCenter, Miami Beach, FL
2008 Thomas Reiss Memorial Award, SVA Alumni Association
Publications
2023 Voci, digital book, FedOA - Federico II University Press, August 23
2019 A Year's Worth of Real Time with Bill Maher Tallies, Gender Avenger, December 6
2017 Nasty Women Protest with Art, Expose Art Magazine, February
2016 #ScopeSoMale, Expose Art Magazine, March 6
Voices, Blue Sky Gallery exhibition catalogue and essay
2015 Who’s Afraid of Feminism? juried by Catherine Morris. Exhibition catalogue essay.
Voices: An Artist’s Perspective curated by Karen Gutfreund and Karen Teegarden. Exhibition catalogue essay.
Miami Herald, Hear the Voices of Domestic Violence Survivors, Op-ed piece. April 16
Additional Work
Founder of Our House Meriden, a nonprofit after-school arts program
Columbia University Creative Changemakers panelist
Presentation for Remember the Women symposium at Hunter College
Curator for Art Connects New York
SVA Art & Activism panelist
SVA i3 Lecturer
SVA Thesis Advisor
Cinema Lighting teacher at CCAT Miami
Talent Manager for televised specials including Super Bowl Halftime Show, In Performance at the White House, and Mark Twain Prize