NICK CRISCUOLO
Education:
BFA from Montserrat College of Art in 2003
MFA from Umass Amherst 2019
Honors / Awards:
• Undergraduate Portfolio earned scholarships at 5 schools
• Official selection, "One Minute Video Festival" Northeast Institute for Analog Studies 05/06
• $5000 grand prize winner, My Video Battle competition, music video “Crank That” 07/07
• Awarded 2 month MacDowell Colony fellowship for digital animation 10/11
• Granted month long residency at I-Park artist colony for digital animation 03/12
• 6 week residency at Yaddo 02/13
• 6 week residency at VCCA 01/14
Employment History:
09/18 - 04/19: UMass - Instructor of record in animation
09/16 - 09/18: UMass - Assistant teacher in animation
01/13 - 01/14: Cartuna / MTV - Freelance Animator
06/13 - 01/16: Lifehacker - designer / illustrator
10/14 - 1/15: CBS Digital - freelance animator
08/14 - 10/14: Internews Interactive - Motion Graphics
10/05 - 01/15: CCI Reprographics - designer, printer, digital media specialist
08/12 - 4/13: Camp Grizzly / Adidas / Champs Sports - freelance illustrator
10/11 - 2/12: Diaspora - freelance animator
06/11 - 07/11: The Verge - freelance illustrator
01/11 - 02/13: Engadget - freelance animator
01/05 - 12/08: NASA - freelance Flash designer
09/03 - 08/05: Peabody Essex Museum - full time
06/02 - 02/06: Chesapeake Software Systems - freelance graphic artist
06/00 - 01/05: Computer Sciences Corporation - full time/part time graphic artist
Program Knowledge:
Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Flash/Animate, Premiere, Muse,
Final Cut 7 and X, Microsoft Office, Quark, Stencyl, Sculptris, Maya, AnimVR, Quill, Medium
Publications:
03/10 Animated music video "I Can't Breathe" was featured on cartoonbrew.com and others
09/10 Animated Short "8bit Zardoz" featured on io9.com, killscreen.com, boingboing.com
01/11 - 02/13 Two animations for The Engadget Show screened at The Times Center in New York
03/12 Featured on filmmakermagazine.com
02/13 Animation about Alberto Salazar featured on killscreen.com
03/13 Animated music video featured on redefinemagazine.com
06/13 Ink paintings featured on animalnewyork.com, trendhunter.com, and laughingsquid.com
11/14 Robert Plant and Ozzy Osbourne Minimations done for CBS to be featured on radio.com
12/15 Animation featured on MTV Snapcat Channel
07/16 Work featured in No Tokens Magazine
Exhibitions:
05/06 1 Minute Video Festival, Northeast Institute for Analog Studies – short animations
11/08 Small Works Show, Bear Gallery – small ink paintings
06/11 Fantasy Fiction and Fables, The 119 Gallery – experimental animation show
07/11 And In One Another, North Hampton, – fine art sketchbook show
07/12 Exhibited work at Salem Collective of Artists and Musicians
03/13 Experimental Painting show at Porter Mill Gallery Beverly MA
06/14 Painting show at Gulu Gulu Cafe in Salem MA
03/18 MFA Midway Show (Ghosted) at Herter Gallery Amherst
04/19 MFA Thesis show (MeatSpace) at Herter Gallery Amherst