Curriculum Vitae
Education:
Montserrat College Of Art
2022 - 2025
Bachelor of Fine Arts: Painting
(Cum Laude)
Weber State University
2021 - 2022
Graphic Design
Bunker Hill Community College
2018 - 2020
Fine Arts
Group Exhibitions:
NHAA
Portsmouth, NH
26th Annual Joan L. Dunfey Exhibition
Juried by:
Iris Williamson
Nov 5 - Nov 30, 2025
Opening reception Nov 7, 2025
The Gallery At Jimmys
Portsmouth, NH
NHAA: Billenial Two
Juried by:
Bruce McColl
Sep 5 - Nov 30, 2025
Oct 3 and Nov 7 Receptions
Gallery tours Oct 9, Nov 13
Closing ceremony Nov 22
NHAA
Portsmouth, NH
25th Annual Joan L. Dunfey Exhibition “Resilience”
Juried by: Devon Zimmerman
2024
Montserrat College Of Art
Beverly, MA
Senior Thesis Exhibition
“Disgusting // DIvine”
2025
All Senior Showcase
Juried by: Loretta Park
2025
Student Showcase
2025
See Yourself At Montserrat
2022
Bare Gallery
Beverly, MA
Midway Thesis Show
2024
A Social Rapport
Currated by: Josue Bessiake and Morghan Schnoll
2022
The in Art Gallery
Ogden, UT
Photography Exhibition
Juried by: Libby Rowe
2022
Tell Magazine
Digital Literacy Magazine
Boston, MA
Roots Issue
3 paintings featured
2021
Solo Exhibitions:
Garage Door Gallery
Everett, MA
Playscapes
Curated by: Martha Chason Sokol
2023
Awards:
2025
Second Place
NHAA:
25th Annual Joan L. Dunfey Exhibition
Artist Under 30 award
NHAA: Biennial Two
Best in show Senior Showcase Montserrat College Of Art
Cum Laude Recipient
Montserrat College Of Art
Painting Meritt award
Montserrat College Of Art
2024
Artist under 30 award
NHAA: 25th Annual Joan L. Dunfey Exhibition “Resilience”
Last Updated 11/8/25 Portfolio
Construction
(Piano) Construction 0.6, 25”x 50”, 2024
Collage
(Pulp) Collage 00.16, 30”x 60”, 2024
Louis Staffieri
STATEMENT:
I use my work as a reflection of my environment, self, and comment on socio economic statuses
through medium selection. I execute my works using found woods, metals, papers, and fabrics
and employ traditional art materials as transformative tools for my found mediums. I approach
my constructions and collages with the bias and sensibilities of a painter and consider my work,
regardless of category, to be parallel with or itself painting. Aesthetically my intentions are to
create abstract compositions that are attentively idiosyncratic but not arbitrary and cling to the
wall classically like paintings. I aim to deconstruct languages' visual motifs, dismantle capitalist
ideals, embrace a lack of finesse through basic assembly and attack anti-intellectualism through
non objective means. Exploring connection to ones home and the housing market are also important themes in my work. I find my strongest works come from an intense introspective place of
duress or crisis, accessed only when desperately working a piece to a state that is successful.
The work itself is an organism that is birthed through working class American financial
circumstance; I've found at times this intimate economical broadcasting speaks truer than
aesthetics can.
BIO:
Based in Everett, Massachusetts, Louis Staffieri is a 26 year old Italian American artist working between painting and assemblage.
His practice draws from the textures and realities of working class life, using found wood, metal, fabric, and paper as a foundation for building raw, expressive compositions.
A recent graduate of Montserrat College of Art, Staffieri earned his BFA in painting along with the 2025 Painting Merit Award and Best in Show at the Senior Showcase. His work has been shown throughout the East Coast, and he is an active member of the New Hampshire Art Association and the Rocky Neck Art Colony. He also has shown work at prestigious spaces like The Gallery at Jimmys.
Each piece Staffieri creates begins with observation of his environment, himself, and the social/economic forces that shape daily life.
He is currently seeking gallery representation.
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