Colin Pezzano, born in 1992, is a woodworker, printmaker, and craft artist based in South Philadelphia. His practice combines digital and hand processes to infuse humor, pathos, and memory into his chosen materials. By relying on woodworking processes, he connects his actions and memories to the traditions of his predecessors.
Colin graduated from University Of The Arts in 2014. Upon graduation he received The Faculty Choice Award along with The Windgate Fellowship. After Graduation, Pezzano was featured in Craft Forms (2014) and was interviewed in an article with American Craft. In the Spring of 2015 Pezzano had his first solo show “Contain You” at Bridgette Mayer Gallery. In 2018, Colin had his second solo show “Still Life With Dead Game” at Allens Lane Art Center. In 2022, he received The Windgate-Lamar Fellowship Award, through The Center for Craft.
In conjunction with the exhibition “Home as Stage” in the fall of 2022 at the Wharton Esherick Museum, Colin released a graphic novel told in 45 woodcuts titled, Soma. A “mundane horror”, the narrative investigates lived and imagined experience, corporality, and the passage of time.
During his career Pezzano has participated in group shows, juried exhibitions and attended residencies in the USA and Sweden. He maintains his practice in his basement studio.