Jaina Cipriano
Jaina Cipriano is an experiential designer, filmmaker and photographer exploring the emotional toll of religious and romantic entrapment. Her worlds communicate with our neglected inner child and are informed by explosive colors, elevated play and the existence of light in the dark.
Jaina writes and directs award winning short films that wrestle with the complicated path of healing. Her second short, ‘Trauma Bond’ is a dreamy, coming of age thriller that explores what happens when we attempt to heal deep wounds with quick fixes. In 2023 Trauma Bond took home the grand prize at the Lonely Seal International Film Festival.
Jaina’s photographic works are fabricated by hand in her Lowell studio. Working with Jaina is often described as cathartic and playful. Her photographic work has been shown at Griffin Museum of Photography, the Photographic Resource Center/Boston, PhotoPlace Gallery VT, Medium San Diego among others.
She is the founder of Finding Bright Studios, a design company specializing in set design for music videos, immersive spaces and public art. Jaina is the owner and executive director of the longstanding Arlington International Film Festival. She has collaborated with GRRL HAUS, Boston Art Review, and was a Boston Fellow for the Mass Art Creative Business Incubator, a finalist in EforAll Merrimack Valley and was a participant in the city of Boston’s Un-monument augmented reality workshop.
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SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Laconia Gallery, The Empty Mirror, Boston, MA, 2023.
Boston University 808 Gallery, Dreamscapes: Finding the Light Through Immersive Design, Boston, MA, 2022 Beacon Street Gallery, The Infinite Mirage of Rapture, Brookline, MA, 2022.
Griffin Museum of Photography WinCam Gallery, The Infinite Mirage of Rapture, Winchester, MA, 2021.
Shelter in Place Gallery, Empty Spaces,
Boston, MA, 2020.
Gallery Seven, Directed Imagination, Maynard MA. Curated by Kelli Costa and Nick Johnson, 2019.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Kingston Gallery, TOO HOT!, Boston, MA. Juried by Jessica Roscio, 2024.
Cambridge Art Association, Blue 2023, Cambridge, MA. Curated by Abigail Ogilvy, 2023.
Rivalry Projects, collective selection / selective collection, Buffalo, NY. Curated by Camilø Álvårez, 2023.
Medium Photo, Size Matters, San Diego, CA. Curated by C. Meier, 2023 Photographic Resource Center, Night of Film, Cambridge, MA, 2023.
NE Sculpture, Artifactuality, Minneapolis, MN. Curated by Allison Baker and Jannell Hammer.
The Curated Fridge, Winter 2023, Somerville, MA. Curated by Brian Piper. Leica Gallery, Inward Outward, Boston, MA. Curated by OJ Slaughter, 2022.
Panopticon Gallery, First Look 2022,
Online, 2022.
The British Journal of Photography,
Edition 365, 2021.
Rhode Island Center for Photographic Art, Behind the Lens Plus 2021: Women in Photography, RI, 2021.
Emerson Contemporary Gallery, Digital Dreams, Boston, MA, 2020.
PhotoPlace Gallery, Altered Realities, Online Gallery. Middlebury, VT. Curated by Brooke Shaden, 2019.
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Gampat, Chris. “5 Women Photographers You Should Teach Your Kids About.” The Phoblographer, 16 Feb. 2024, www.thephoblographer.com
Photographie, L’Œil de la. “Jaina Cipriano.” The Eye of Photography Magazine, 16 Dec. 2023, loeildelaphotographie.com
Gampat, Chris. “The 12 Most Inspirational Photographers of 2023: A List of the Best.” The Phoblographer, 9 Dec. 2023, www.thephoblographer.com
Gampat, Chris. “Jaina Cipriano Is the Best Thing since Gregory Crewdson.” The Phoblographer, 3 Dec. 2023, www.thephoblographer.com
“As Luck Would Have It Artist Feature – Jaina Cipriano.” 13FOREST Gallery, 19 July 2023, 13forest.com
Sleboda, Kathleen. “Newly Remodeled 808 Gallery Opens with Immersive Show Exploring Fantastical Worlds.” Boston University, 23 Sept. 2022, www.bu.edu
COMMISSIONS
Who Invited Them?, 2024, Providence, RI, Level 99.
Cartoon Fire Pits, 2023, Boston, MA, BRM Production Management and Massport.
Butter Bench, 2023, Boston, MA, Johnny Cupcakes.
PUBLIC ART
NERVOUS SYSTEM, 2023, Boston, MA,
Isenberg Projects, Boston Art Review and The Fenway.
Tiny Memphis Room, 2023, Boston, MA, Boston Art Review.
