EDUCATION
2021 MFA, University of Tennessee
2017 BFA, University of South Florida
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2022 Guest Lecturer, Subjective Landscapes, University of Tennessee- School of Architecture-
Knoxville
2021 Instructor of Record, Beginning Ceramic Sculpture, University of Tennessee-
Knoxville
2020 Instructor of Record, Foundations, Art 101, University of Tennessee-Knoxville
Instructor of Record, Beginning Ceramic Sculpture, University of Tennessee-
Knoxville
2019 Instructor of Record, Foundations, Art 101, University of Tennessee- Knoxville
Teaching Assistant, Beginning Ceramic Sculpture, University of Tennessee-
Knoxville
2018 Teaching Assistant, Beginning Pottery, University of Tennessee-Knoxville
Instructor at the Morean Center for Clay
2017 Course Assistant to John Byrd, Ceramics Professor, University of South Florida
RELATED WORK
2019-2021 Foot Balance, Plaster Shop Manager, Knoxville, TN
Maintaining all plaster mold work for custom orthotic inserts. I was in charge of
ordering material, making plaster molds, working machinery including belt sanders,
band saw, and vacuum press. I trained new employees in the safety, use and proper
mixing techniques for plaster as well as using all other machinery.
2019 Demonstrating Artist, Atelier de la Nature, Arnaudville, Louisiana (demonstrating
and leading workshop of cyanotype prints, making public sculpture)
2018 Studio Assistant to Sue Havens, Painting Professor, University of South Florida,
Tampa (studio maintenance, movement of large scale paintings and drawings,
making clay slabs and coils in preparation for sculpture)
2016 Studio Assistant to John Byrd, Ceramics Professor, University of South Florida, Tampa
(studio maintenance, assisted in the creation of a public functional Terracotta sink)
AWARDS
2020 Orin B. & Emma G. Graff Graduate Student Travel Award $1800
Graduate Student Senate Travel Award $600 - towards travel to Chicago for Orange 8
2016 College of the Arts Scholarship, University of South Florida $1000
2011 Grand Prize, Weeki Wachee Art Fair $100
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 My Inner survey Says No, Relay Ridge Gallery, Knoxville, TN
2021 Mom’s Birthday Party, Le Swampp, Knoxville, TN
Parasite with a Proper Name, University of Tennessee Ewing Gallery, Knoxville, TN
2019 BUMP, Gallery 1010, Knoxville, TN
Thud, Dobrow Freeman Gallery, St. Petersburg, FL
2018 Soft Flex, Ghost Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2017 Smoosh, Centre Gallery, Tampa, FL
2014 Solitary, BOX Gallery, Tampa, FL
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Body Erotic, The Hive, St. Petersburg, Florida
2022 Stove Works Resident Salon Exhibition, Stoveworks Gallery, Chattanooga, TN
Stove Works Resident Review Show, Stoveworks Gallery, Chattanooga, TN
The Gift, Taylor Books Annex Gallery, Charleston, WV
2021 Relay Ridge Semi-Soft Opening, Relay Ridge Gallery, Knoxville, TN
2020 Orange 8, Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL
Worser Artists Betterer Spreads, Gallery 1010, Knoxville, TN
2019 Lifts & Separates, Gallery 1010, Knoxville, TN
RINGER, a1 Lab Arts, Knoxville, TN
Worse Artists Better Spreads, Gallery 1010, Knoxville, TN
Back For Seconds, Gallery 1010, Knoxville, TN
Atelier de la Nature, Arnaudville, Louisiana, 2019
Rulers, Coco Hunday, Tampa, FL
Glitzwhip, Fluorescent Gallery, Knoxville, TN
Eye Is For Imagination, Honeybee, Knoxville, TN
Orange7, Foley Gallery, New York, NY 2019
2018 The Dirty Dozen, UTK Downtown Gallery, Knoxville, TN
Genital Panic, Cunsthaus, Tampa, FL
2017 Pretty in Porcelain, Center Gallery, Tampa, FL
Little Triggers, Tempus Projects, Tampa, FL. Juror: Duke Riley
Last Call, Carolyn M Wilson Gallery, Tampa, FL
5x5, Centre Gallery, Tampa, FL
2016 Barely There, Parallelogram Gallery, Tampa, FL
4x4, William and Nancy Oliver Gallery, Tampa, FL
Portable Frictions, William and Nancy Oliver Gallery, Tampa, FL
As They Come, William and Nancy Oliver Gallery, Tampa, FL
JURIED EXHIBITIONS
2021 Get That Bread, University of Tennessee-Knoxville Ewing Gallery, Knoxville,
TN. Jurors: T. Michael Martin, Denise Woodward-Detrich, Hamlett Dobbins
2019 Are You Still Watching “Episode 72:Annual Student Art Competition”?, Ewing
Gallery, Knoxville, TN. Juror: Aaron S. Coleman
2017 Annual Student Juried Exhibition, Carolyn M Wilson Gallery, Tampa, FL. Juror:
Shaun Leonardo
2016 Annual Juried Exhibition, Centre Gallery, Tampa, FL. Juror: Benjamin Zellmer Bellas
RESIDENCIES
2022 Stoveworks, Chattanooga, TN, June-July 2022
2021 Mineral House Media, Chattanooga, TN, December 2021
COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS
2020 Lifts and Separates, ongoing collaboration with Rachel Coderre. The collaboration
includes physical shows and performance but also continuously showing through the
social media platform Instagram as @Lifts_and (series of call and response
performance video works taking place on the platform of instagram, for public viewing)
COMMUNITY PROJECTS
2019 Building of a Train Style Wood Kiln, Mighty Mud, Knoxville TN. (planning and constructing
a functional wood kiln for use of the community)
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2022 Nuveen Barwari, “Under The Rug: An Interview with Nuveen Barwari and Gina
Stucchio,” Number Magazine, (expected june 2022)
2021 Larkin Cook, Olivia Tawzer, Brianna Bass, and Clay Aldridge, “Interview With Gina
Stucchio,”Mineral House Media, December 22,2021 https://www.mineralhousemedia.com/media/ginastucchio
Ashley Ekstrum, “Mom’s Birthday Party,” Le Swamp, April 25-current https://leswamp.hotglue.me/?
momsbirthdayparty
The University of Tennessee - Knoxville “Class of 2021 ”The University of Tennessee,Knoxvile 2021 MFA Catalog,” The
University of Tennessee - Knoxville, 2022 https://art.utk.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/GradCatalog2021-
WEB2.pdf
“Get That Bread” Catalog for Juried Exhibition for the University of Tennessee-Knoxville Ewing Gallery
2019 Michael Grubb, “Escape Rooms and First Friday,” The Balltower, May
5https://theballtower.com/2019/05/05/escape-rooms-and-first-friday/
2017 “Last Call” Catalog for University of South Florida graduating BFA Thesis Show
COMMISSIONS
2017 Private Art Collector, Tampa FL. matching set of cast bronze pieces.
2021 MFA, University of Tennessee
2017 BFA, University of South Florida
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2022 Guest Lecturer, Subjective Landscapes, University of Tennessee- School of Architecture-
Knoxville
2021 Instructor of Record, Beginning Ceramic Sculpture, University of Tennessee-
Knoxville
2020 Instructor of Record, Foundations, Art 101, University of Tennessee-Knoxville
Instructor of Record, Beginning Ceramic Sculpture, University of Tennessee-
Knoxville
2019 Instructor of Record, Foundations, Art 101, University of Tennessee- Knoxville
Teaching Assistant, Beginning Ceramic Sculpture, University of Tennessee-
Knoxville
2018 Teaching Assistant, Beginning Pottery, University of Tennessee-Knoxville
Instructor at the Morean Center for Clay
2017 Course Assistant to John Byrd, Ceramics Professor, University of South Florida
RELATED WORK
2019-2021 Foot Balance, Plaster Shop Manager, Knoxville, TN
Maintaining all plaster mold work for custom orthotic inserts. I was in charge of
ordering material, making plaster molds, working machinery including belt sanders,
band saw, and vacuum press. I trained new employees in the safety, use and proper
mixing techniques for plaster as well as using all other machinery.
2019 Demonstrating Artist, Atelier de la Nature, Arnaudville, Louisiana (demonstrating
and leading workshop of cyanotype prints, making public sculpture)
2018 Studio Assistant to Sue Havens, Painting Professor, University of South Florida,
Tampa (studio maintenance, movement of large scale paintings and drawings,
making clay slabs and coils in preparation for sculpture)
2016 Studio Assistant to John Byrd, Ceramics Professor, University of South Florida, Tampa
(studio maintenance, assisted in the creation of a public functional Terracotta sink)
AWARDS
2020 Orin B. & Emma G. Graff Graduate Student Travel Award $1800
Graduate Student Senate Travel Award $600 - towards travel to Chicago for Orange 8
2016 College of the Arts Scholarship, University of South Florida $1000
2011 Grand Prize, Weeki Wachee Art Fair $100
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 My Inner survey Says No, Relay Ridge Gallery, Knoxville, TN
2021 Mom’s Birthday Party, Le Swampp, Knoxville, TN
Parasite with a Proper Name, University of Tennessee Ewing Gallery, Knoxville, TN
2019 BUMP, Gallery 1010, Knoxville, TN
Thud, Dobrow Freeman Gallery, St. Petersburg, FL
2018 Soft Flex, Ghost Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2017 Smoosh, Centre Gallery, Tampa, FL
2014 Solitary, BOX Gallery, Tampa, FL
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Body Erotic, The Hive, St. Petersburg, Florida
2022 Stove Works Resident Salon Exhibition, Stoveworks Gallery, Chattanooga, TN
Stove Works Resident Review Show, Stoveworks Gallery, Chattanooga, TN
The Gift, Taylor Books Annex Gallery, Charleston, WV
2021 Relay Ridge Semi-Soft Opening, Relay Ridge Gallery, Knoxville, TN
2020 Orange 8, Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL
Worser Artists Betterer Spreads, Gallery 1010, Knoxville, TN
2019 Lifts & Separates, Gallery 1010, Knoxville, TN
RINGER, a1 Lab Arts, Knoxville, TN
Worse Artists Better Spreads, Gallery 1010, Knoxville, TN
Back For Seconds, Gallery 1010, Knoxville, TN
Atelier de la Nature, Arnaudville, Louisiana, 2019
Rulers, Coco Hunday, Tampa, FL
Glitzwhip, Fluorescent Gallery, Knoxville, TN
Eye Is For Imagination, Honeybee, Knoxville, TN
Orange7, Foley Gallery, New York, NY 2019
2018 The Dirty Dozen, UTK Downtown Gallery, Knoxville, TN
Genital Panic, Cunsthaus, Tampa, FL
2017 Pretty in Porcelain, Center Gallery, Tampa, FL
Little Triggers, Tempus Projects, Tampa, FL. Juror: Duke Riley
Last Call, Carolyn M Wilson Gallery, Tampa, FL
5x5, Centre Gallery, Tampa, FL
2016 Barely There, Parallelogram Gallery, Tampa, FL
4x4, William and Nancy Oliver Gallery, Tampa, FL
Portable Frictions, William and Nancy Oliver Gallery, Tampa, FL
As They Come, William and Nancy Oliver Gallery, Tampa, FL
JURIED EXHIBITIONS
2021 Get That Bread, University of Tennessee-Knoxville Ewing Gallery, Knoxville,
TN. Jurors: T. Michael Martin, Denise Woodward-Detrich, Hamlett Dobbins
2019 Are You Still Watching “Episode 72:Annual Student Art Competition”?, Ewing
Gallery, Knoxville, TN. Juror: Aaron S. Coleman
2017 Annual Student Juried Exhibition, Carolyn M Wilson Gallery, Tampa, FL. Juror:
Shaun Leonardo
2016 Annual Juried Exhibition, Centre Gallery, Tampa, FL. Juror: Benjamin Zellmer Bellas
RESIDENCIES
2022 Stoveworks, Chattanooga, TN, June-July 2022
2021 Mineral House Media, Chattanooga, TN, December 2021
COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS
2020 Lifts and Separates, ongoing collaboration with Rachel Coderre. The collaboration
includes physical shows and performance but also continuously showing through the
social media platform Instagram as @Lifts_and (series of call and response
performance video works taking place on the platform of instagram, for public viewing)
COMMUNITY PROJECTS
2019 Building of a Train Style Wood Kiln, Mighty Mud, Knoxville TN. (planning and constructing
a functional wood kiln for use of the community)
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2022 Nuveen Barwari, “Under The Rug: An Interview with Nuveen Barwari and Gina
Stucchio,” Number Magazine, (expected june 2022)
2021 Larkin Cook, Olivia Tawzer, Brianna Bass, and Clay Aldridge, “Interview With Gina
Stucchio,”Mineral House Media, December 22,2021 https://www.mineralhousemedia.com/media/ginastucchio
Ashley Ekstrum, “Mom’s Birthday Party,” Le Swamp, April 25-current https://leswamp.hotglue.me/?
momsbirthdayparty
The University of Tennessee - Knoxville “Class of 2021 ”The University of Tennessee,Knoxvile 2021 MFA Catalog,” The
University of Tennessee - Knoxville, 2022 https://art.utk.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/GradCatalog2021-
WEB2.pdf
“Get That Bread” Catalog for Juried Exhibition for the University of Tennessee-Knoxville Ewing Gallery
2019 Michael Grubb, “Escape Rooms and First Friday,” The Balltower, May
5https://theballtower.com/2019/05/05/escape-rooms-and-first-friday/
2017 “Last Call” Catalog for University of South Florida graduating BFA Thesis Show
COMMISSIONS
2017 Private Art Collector, Tampa FL. matching set of cast bronze pieces.