Discipline: Visual Arts
Based In: Brooklyn, NY
Year at Millay: 1990
Awards/Honors: Artist-in-Residence, Ballinglen Arts Foundation, County Mayo, Ireland (2025, 2022, 2018, 2002, 2000); Artist-in-Residence, Soaring Gardens Artists Retreat, The Ora Lerman Charitable Trust, Laceyville, PA (2019); Artist-in-Residence, Visual Arts, Ucross Foundation, Clearmont, WY (2014, 1995); Grant Recipient, Individual Support Grant, Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, Inc., New York, NY (2013); Artist-in-Residence, Art & History Museums, Maitland, FL (2013); Artist-in-Residence, Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY (2009); Artist-in-Residence/Project Director, Mary & Martha House, Ruskin, FL (2009); Artist-in-Residence, Franz Mayer of Munich, Inc., Munich, Germany (2008); Artist-in-Residence, Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus, Schwandorf–Fronberg, Germany (2008, 1993); Grant Recipient, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York, NY (2006, 1997); Artist-in-Residence, Stock 20, Taichung, Taiwan (2005); Artist-in-Residence, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT (2005); American Artists Abroad/Art in Embassies, U.S. Department of State and U.S. Embassy in Cambodia, Phnom Penh, Cambodia (2004); Artist-In-Residence, National Park Service Artists-in-Residence Program, Weir Farm, Wilton, CT (2003); Artist-in-Residence, Cill Rialaig Arts Centre, County Kerry, Ireland (2002); Artist-in-Residence, Heinrich Böll Cottage, County Mayo, Ireland (2002); Award Winner, The Basil H. Alkazzi Award, Basil H. Alkazzi Foundation (2000); Fellow, Visual Artist Fellowship, The Center for Emerging Visual Artists, Philadelphia, PA (1996); Fellow, Painting, Regional Fellowship, Mid Atlantic Arts, Baltimore, MD/National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, DC (1994); Artist-in-Residence, Camargo Foundation, Cassis, France (1991); Artist-in-Residence, VCCA Residency, Sweet Briar, VA (1990); Grant Recipient, Art Matters, New York, NY (1988); Fellow, AIM Fellowship, The Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY (1988); Grant Recipient, Ruth and Harold Chenven Foundation, New York, NY (1988); Artist-in-Residence, Residency #7, Mentoring Artist-in-Residence, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL (1984).
Website: https://www.josetteurso.com
Josette Urso, a Brooklyn-based visual artist, received her MFA in Painting from the University of South Florida in Tampa. Her awards and residencies include those from the Gottlieb and Pollock-Krasner Foundations, Basil H. Alkazzi, Mid-Atlantic NEA, Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Ucross, Yaddo, and Camargo. Urso is represented by Markel Fine Arts in New York and Kenise Barnes Fine Art in Connecticut.