JOHN GRANDE

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE

Meet John Grande on Saturday, October 25, between 12 and 2 pm at The Manes Art Education Center.

Nassau County Museum of Art welcomes artist John Grande to our 2025 Artist Residency.

John Grande is a New York-based artist who reflects upon modern and contemporary culture with his constructed paintings, sculptures and murals while carefully utilizing techniques and traditions as far reaching those of Old Master painters, 19th century artists to 20th century advertising and Pop Art. His subjects are diverse, often readily recognizable and at times quite humorous: from glamorous Hollywood stars to the art world itself and the more gritty subjects of street art.

From American Dreams, fantasies, obsessions and cultural practices are all subjects the artist depicted in his action packed, layered and dynamic paintings, some even become spatial explorations on the wall. Grande inserts momentary acknowledgments of art history and other artists. Nothing is off limits, everything is subject to his thought-provoking, yet playful visualization of our society at large.

Grande’s art comes from culture, the history of art and the culture of our times. His work with its vibrant colors, serrated juxtapositions, double and triple dimensions and energetic ideas is set apart by the unexpected — yet it speaks to everybody: “It’s about the people, about us, the human race”. Each line of work, each piece is unique, constructing and deconstructing popular and contemporary culture derived from today’s multi-media world, as well as transforming and uniquely weaving high-end symbols and icons immersed in today’s lifestyle using industrial mediums in the process.

Born in 1969 in Huntington, New York, Grande later attended the School of Visual Arts and in 1995 for a Bachelors of Fine Arts degree. He has exhibited in solo and group shows throughout the world, including New York, Boston, Miami, Los Angeles, Washington DC, South Korea, Italy, India and Canada. His artwork has been collected worldwide, from India to Switzerland and Italy to Mexico and South Korea, and all over the United States.

Grande is currently the Artist-in-Residence at the Nassau County Museum of Art, and his paintings are on view in the Museum’s exhibition At Play: Artists & Entertainment. His studio is located in The Manes Art Education Center where several of his works are currently on view.