Nancy Aleo is a cross-discipline artist with a studio practice ranging from mixed media drawing and painting, ceramics, to sound works and performances with large resonant gongs, singing bowls, and harmonious bells, incorporating Harmonic Therapies. Personal spiritual practices, along with decades of travel and study in Mexico inform her work.
Current Professor, Studio Foundation Department, Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Served as Department Chairperson 2008-2016, and Program Area Chair for Form Study AY23/24. Past President (2006-2016), Board of Trustees, Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA. Teaching Assistant for BonPo Shang Retreats with 9Ways Academia, Perkasie, PA.
She exhibits nationally, internationally, and maintains a studio in the Boston area.
Exhibitions include: Fenway Gallery, Boston, MA, Brant Gallery, Boston, MA, Galerie Le Cabannon & Galerie Aqui Siam Ben in Vallauris, France, Attleboro Arts Museum, Cambridge Art Association, New England BioLabs, Ipswich, MA, Sguardi Sonori, Napoli, Italy. Other regional, national, & international exhibitions including Washington DC, Georgia, New Mexico, New England, Germany, & Japan.
Soundscapes and Performances include:
Gong Soundscape Dec. 1st, Medicine Wheel Project, World Aids Day, 24-hr, Vigil, Cyclorama, Boston, MA (6th year).
5 Unique Gong Soundscapes responding to Fujiko Nakaya’s Fog x FLO Ruins climate-response fog sculpture, Franklin Park, Boston, MA.
Recording & performing @ The TANK, Center for Sonic Arts, Rangely, CO.
Secret Gong Orchestra Concert “Red Kachina”, Nancy Aleo, Mitch Nur, Ricarda O’Connor, Sam Weng, & Janet Young @ Widow Jane Mine, Rosendale, NY.
9Ways Academia Gong Camp, solo performance, Perkasie, PA
Awards: Berkshire Taconic Artist Resource Trust, NEFA/NEA Regional Fellowship in Visual Arts Program in Painting (Twice), Massachusetts College of Art & Design Faculty Fellowship (Twice).
Awarded artist residency at A.I.R. Vallauris, France
Independent artist residencies in Mexico, Costa Rica, & Barcelona, Spain
Traveling, studying, & researching in Mexico for over three decades including co-teaching travel courses to Oaxaca, Puebla & Cholula, Mexico.
MFA, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI. Major: Ceramics
BFA, Massachusetts College of Art and design. Major: Ceramics
