Education
She was educated at Cooper Union (alongside Amy Cutler), from which she graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1996.
She was educated at Cooper Union (alongside Amy Cutler), from which she graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1996.
She has exhibited her work in both North America and Europe. Farmiga serves as a programming advisor for the non-profit space LaMama Gallery in the East Village, Manhattan, and teaches at Cooper Union. Farmiga went on to study at the Milton Avery School of the Arts at Bard College (taught by the late installation artist Maryanne Amacher), from which she received her Master of Fine Arts degree in 2004.
Since graduating, Farmiga has taught classes at the Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia, and at her alma mater Cooper Union.
She has worked with Cooper Union"s Outreach Program since 2008. Additionally, she has been a guest lecturer at the Rhode Island School of Design.
Farmiga has shown many solo exhibits, including objects (2001) in New Orleans, "Scape (2006) in Miami, and VERSUS (2012) in New New York In 2004, Farmiga was among artists displaying work in the exhibition The Reality of Things at Triple Candie in Harlem.
In 2008, she received the Emerging Artist Fellowship from Socrates Sculpture Park.
That same year, her work appeared in Thisorganized, a group exhibit curated by painter Hope Gangloff, which displayed at the Susan Inglett Gallery. In 2013, Farmiga was part of the Screen Play exhibition at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art in New Paltz. The following year, she was one of 16 artists chosen, from over 320 applicants, to display her work at the Worlds of Wonder exhibit, also shown at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Artist
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