Gianna Commito earned a BFA from The New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, Alfred, NY and an MFA from the University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA. She resides in Kent where she is Professor of Painting at Kent State University. Commito has exhibited widely throughout the United States and has been included in gallery and institutional shows in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York. Her work can be found in public collections including the Akron Art Museum, Progressive Insurance, and the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. Recently, her work entered the collection of the Columbus Museum of Art, selected for the Wayne P. Lawson Prize for Ohio Artists. She was featured in the inaugural edition of FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art in Cleveland. She received the Cleveland Arts Prize for the Emerging Artist in 2015. Works in this private view are from Commito's first solo exhibition with Abattoir, Slip Lanes, on view until October 14th, 2023.