Background
Capasso, Nicholas John was born on November 16, 1959 in Alexandria, Virginia, United States. Son of Nicholas Salvatore and Clio Maria (DiNapoli) Capasso.
curator public art expert art historian
Capasso, Nicholas John was born on November 16, 1959 in Alexandria, Virginia, United States. Son of Nicholas Salvatore and Clio Maria (DiNapoli) Capasso.
Bachelor magna cum laude in Art History, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts, 1982. Master of Arts in Art History, Rutgers University, 1984. Doctor of Philosophy in Art History, Rutgers University, 1998.
Teaching assistant Rutgers University, 1986-1988, lecturer, summer 1988, Rochester Institute of Technology, fall 1988, Boston University, Spring, 2005. Associate curator, curator DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, Massachusetts, since 1990, acting director, since 2006. Guest curator Fire and Ice, Attleboro (Massachusetts) Museum, 1993, Sculpture Walk '93, Larz Anderson Park, Brookline, Massachusetts, 1993, Seventh Annual Sculpture Exhibition, Bradley Palmer State Park, Topsfield, Massachusetts, 1993, Relief Printmaking in the 1980s: Prints and Blocks from Rutgers Archives for Printmaking Studios, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1988, Arts Afloat, Boston Children's Museum, 1998, Just the Thing, Woodson Museum, Wausau, Wisconsin, 1998, Contemporary Outdoor Sculpture, City of Boston, 1997.
Public art juror.
Board chair Urban Arts Institute, Massachusetts College Art. Member American Association Museums, Association Historians American Art, College Art Association, New England Museum Association, International Sculpture Center, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Andrea Maxim Southwick, July 25, 1992.