About
Rosemarie Chiarlone (b. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1951) works and lives in Miami, Florida. Education, MS & BFA, Florida International University – certificate, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Chiarlone’s artistic practice centers on examining the fragility of the human condition defined by multifaceted factors which address societal and political contexts. The concepts that define Chiarlone’s work are explored through installations, works on paper, hand-made books, photo and video-based work, installations, and sculpture.
Chiarlone has exhibited both nationally and internationally. Recent solo exhibitions include Mapping Trajectories (2025), The Wolfsonian-FIU, Miami Beach, FL; LANDscape (2024) Under the Bridge, Miami, FL; Still Now! Deering Estate (2020) Miami, FL. Recent solo exhibitions include Mapping Trajectories (2025), The Wolfsonian-FIU, Miami Beach, FL; LANDscape (2024) Under the Bridge, Miami, FL; Still Now! Deering Estate (2020) Miami, FL. She has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions including USF Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL; Frost Art Museum, Miami, FL; Galerie Verein Berliner Kunstler, Berlin, Germany; the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC; University of Gloucestershire, England; University of Kyoto, Japan; Universidad de Costa Rica and the Museo de Artsy Diseno Contempranio, San Jose, Costa Rica; McMullen Museum of Art, Boston, Massachusetts; Spaces Gallery, Cleveland, OH; Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL; Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, Hollywood, FL; Girls Club, Ft. Lauderdale, FL; and MDC Museum of Art + Design, Miami, FL.
Her work Chiarlone’sis in numerous private and national museum collections including: Miami Dade Art in Public Places, Yale University Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, New Haven, CT; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC; The Walker Library of the History of Human Imagination, Ridgefield, Connecticut; The Center for Book Art, New York, NY; The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, Miami, FL; The Arthur & Mata Jaffe Collection of Books as Aesthetic Objects, Boca Raton, FL; The Mosquera Collection, Liza and Dr. Arturo F. Mosquera, Coral Gables, FL; Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL; Girls’ Club/Francie Bishop Good and David Horvitz Collection, Ft. Lauderdale, FL; University of Miami, Special Collections, Coral Gables, Bienes Museum of the Modern Book, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, The Center for Book Arts, New York; Bainbridge Island Museum, Seattle, Washington; Florida International University, Special Collections of the Green Library, Miami, FL; Bowdoin College, Special Collections Library, Brunswick, ME; Deering Estate, Miami, FL; Franklin Furnace Artists Book Collection, New York, NY; School of Visual Arts Library, New York, NY as more.
Recent Publications: (2025) Steven Heller, Site-Specific Visual Poetry, The Daily Heller, 07/16; Carmen Ferreira de Terenzio, The Story that Remains, Too Much Love online Magazine, 06/8; Alexandria Martinez, Creation and Destruction in Miami’s Urban Landscape, Dimensions Variable Journal, 03/13.