Carlo Abruzzese

Carlo Abruzzese is a visual artist. He began his career as an Architect working on a variety of projects (residential, nonprofit and public buildings at UC Berkeley and Kaiser Hospitals). In mid-career, his focus shifted to painting. His current art, based on data sets, has been exhibited extensively at galleries and museums throughout Northern California. He has been an artist-in-resident at the de Young Museum, the Santa Fe Art Institute, the Vermont Studio Center and at Google Headquarters in Mountain View, CA  among others. Carlo believes in the importance of community and the benefits of collaborative work. He has served on the Board of Directors at D.E., a nonprofit that provides affordable live-work space for artists in the Mission District of San Francisco. He has also been a long-time volunteer at Maitri, an AIDS hospice. Born in Newark, New Jersey, Carlo has a BA from UC Berkeley and a Masters in Architecture from Harvard University. He currently lives and makes art in the Mission in San Francisco.