My family moved to Wisconsin from Long Island, New York, and I was born in Madison and raised in central Wisconsin. I graduated from the University of Wisconsin - Madison in Fine Arts and later moved to New York to study at the Grand Central Atelier. After completing the three year program, in addition to study at the Art Students League, I returned to Madison to paint and to teach. In an effort to build a community, to learn from other artists, and to routinely practice painting from the figure, I rented a studio and started offering classes, workshops, and open studios. I now teach at both the University of Wisconsin - Madison and also at my school, the Atwood Atelier.
For more information:
on the Atwood Atelier please click here.
on the Facebook page for the Atwood Atelier please click here.
on the University of Wisconsin - Madison classes please click here.
on my Instagram page please click here.
EDUCATION
Various Workshops by esteemed artists such as Grigor Eftimov, Frank Porcu, Michael Grimaldi, Tony Curanaj, Mason Sullivan, Stephen Perkins, Clayton Beck, Greg Rodriguez, Eddie Nino, Zack Zdrale, and Angela Cunningham
Chicago, New York City, and Madison 2006 - present
Water Street Atelier / Grand Central Academy of Art (currently the Grand Central Atelier)
New York City 2006 - 2009
The Art Students League of New York
New York City 2009
University of Wisconsin - Madison
Bachelors of Science, Fine Arts, Class of 2003
Institute Politecnica
Valencia, Spain 1/01 – 6/01
SOLO
2016 People, Drury Gallery, Portage, WI
2014 - 2015 Portraits, Continuing Studies Gallery, Madison, WI
2014 Ice Cave Murals, Epic, Verona, WI
2014 American Girl mural ceremony, Middleton, WI
2013 Ice Cave Murals, Epic, Verona, WI
2012 Recent Still Lifes, Yahara Bay Distillery, Fitchburg, WI
2012 Drawings, Fair Trade, Madison, WI
2012 Recent Works, TNT, Madison, WI
2011 Nosce Te Ipsum (dual show), The Overture Center for the Arts, Madison, WI
2006 Recent Works, Mildred’s, Madison, WI
2004 Wisconsin Union Bowling Alley, Madison, WI
2003 Minorities and Hunger, The Neighbor’s Place, Wausau, WI
GROUP
2012-2016 biannual Gallery Night Winnebago Studios, Madison, WI
2016 Faces of Incarceration, Winnebago Studios Gallery, Madison, WI
2015 Roots, Yahara River Gallery, Madison, WI
2015 Renaissance Perspectives, Yahara River Gallery, Madison, WI
2015 Beauty and the Beast, Yahara River Gallery, Madison, WI
2014 Creekside Elementary Freedom Shrine Mural, Sun Prarie, WI
2013 Works from Atwood Atelier, U Frame It, Madison, WI
2013 Beautiful People, The Inferno, Maple Bluff, WI
2012 Globe University Art Show, The Inferno, Maple Bluff, WI
2011 Faith or Justice?, Red Gym, Madison WI
2011 Evolution Arts Collective, Madison, WI
2011 Seeing Green, The Inferno, Maple Bluff, WI
2011 Evolution Arts Collective, Madison, WI
2010 My Favorite Things, The Inferno, Maple Bluff, WI
2007 Grant Central Academy Grand Opening, New York City, NY
HONORS
Exhibited in Dane Arts Buy Local (DABL), a juried art fair, and received second place Audience Choice Award, 2016
Finalist for The Artist's Magazine's 33rd Annual Art Competition with 'Sketch of the Artist's Mother', 2016
Chosen to act as juror and presenter for the Wisconsin Regional Arts Program (WRAP), Portage, WI, 2016
Grantee from the Madison Arts Commission and the Wisconsin Arts Board for the Atwood Atelier, 2015
Featured artist at UW-Madison DCS, 2015 See brochure here
Creekside Elementary Freedom Shrine Mural, Sun Prairie, WI 2014
Gallery 408 Residency program, Carrizozo, NM 2010
Alfred Ross award for Outstanding Achievement in Classical Arts 2007
School Mascot design contest 1991
TEACHING
Penninsula School of Art, workshop, 2017, Fish Creek, WI
Atwood Atelier, 2012 - present, Madison, WI
University of Wisconsin Continuing Studies, 2013 - present, Madison, WI
University of Wisconsin Minicourses, 2006 - present, Madison, WI
Private Studio, 2001 - present
Center of Visual Arts, June 2010, Wausau, WI
PRESS
Kay Myers, "Philip Salamone - Painting his own Path," Madison Essentials, November, 2015 www.madisonessentialsmagazine.com/Article/2015-11/Philip-Salamone
Johanna Jackson, "Philip Salamone, Painter, Winnebago Studios," Art-City.org, December 12, 2012
Dan Hogan, “UW Graduate Shows True Colors in Union South Bowling Alley Murals,” The Daily Cardinal, Vol. 114, Issue 91, Monday, February 21, 2005.
Amanda McGowan, “Artist and Union South Split over Future of Bowling Alley Mural, Defunct Building,” The Daily Cardinal, Vol. 115, Issue 48, Thursday, November 10, 2005