I grew up in the center of Rome, Italy. Both of my parents were photographers, and you could say I was marked for photography early on—my first scar came from falling onto camera equipment. I started studying photography in high school, and around the same time, I developed a deep interest in art history. Being surrounded by Rome’s history and art shaped the way I learned to see and understand the world. With the city as my everyday backdrop, I was lucky to experience many of the Renaissance and Baroque works I first encountered in textbooks. Those early encounters taught me to value craft, patience, and close attention to detail.
Moving to London to study at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design was a turning point. Immersed in a contemporary art environment, I was challenged to rethink many of my assumptions about what art is and how it can function. That shift in perspective expanded my thinking and continues to influence my work today. I later completed my graduate studies in photography and art history at the Savannah College of Art and Design.
My work has been exhibited in Italy, the UK, and the United States. Alongside my studio practice, teaching has become an important part of my life. I have taught at South Carolina State University and Claflin University, and I currently teach at the University of South Carolina.
I’ve also worked as a curator at the FAB Gallery in Orangeburg and at the McKissick Museum in Columbia—experiences that deepened my understanding of how artwork lives in exhibition spaces and how audiences engage with it. I currently manage the McMaster Gallery in the School of Visual Arts and Design at USC.
Photo by Ginia Worrell
Curator, photographer, and educator with extensive experience in higher education, museums, and the arts. Specializes in exhibition design and curation, analog and digital photography, and digital media. Demonstrated record of teaching a broad range of university-level courses, curating exhibitions, and mentoring students. Fluent in Italian and English, with professional experience in the United States and Europe.
McMaster Gallery, School of Visual Arts and Design, University of South Carolina
Aug 2023 – Present
School of Visual Arts and Design, University of South Carolina
Jan 2023 – Present
McKissick Museum, University of South Carolina
Mar 2020 – Jul 2023
South Carolina State University
Aug 2016 – May 2019
South Carolina State University
Oct 2014 – Aug 2016
Claflin University
Oct 2014 – Aug 2016
Savannah College of Art and Design
2013 – 2014
Giordano Angeletti Photography
2008 – Present
Savannah College of Art and Design, 2015
Central Saint Martins, London, 2000
Chelsea College of Art and Design, 1997
Istituto Rossellini, Rome, 1993
January 2023: “Imaginary Landscapes” – Wateworks Center for the Arts, Salisbury, NC
January 2020: “Imaginary Landscapes” – I.P. Stanback Museum, SCSU, Orangeburg, SC
October 2019: “Paesagi Immaginari” – Associazione Culturale TRAleVOLTE – Rome, Italy
January 2015: “Reveries & Other Fantasies; Conjured Architectural Escapes” – FAB Gallery, SCSU,
Orangeburg, SC
March 2014: “Reveries & Other Fantasies; Conjured Architectural Escapes” – Fahm Hall Gallery,
Savannah, GA
December 2009: “India” – Sala Comunale, Attigliano, Italy
December 2009: “Tempo InDefinito” – Associazione Culturale Arte & Benessere, Bomarzo, Italy
April 1998: “Astrazioni” – Associazione Culturale Liberamente, Rome, Italy
February 1996: “Frammenti” – Associazione Culturale Liberamente, Rome, Italy
April 2024: “SVAD USC - Faculty Show” – Stormwater Studios, Columbia, SC
March 2019: “Faculty Show” – FAB Gallery, SCSU, Orangeburg, SC
February 2019: “News from Nowhere” part of “deFINE ART 2019” – Curated by Ben Tollfeson, Assistant Curator of SCAD Exhibitions – Gutstein Gallery, Savannah, GA
November 2018: “Epiphanies”– I.P. Stanback Museum, SCSU, Orangeburg, SC
February 2018: “Resistance, Reform, and Reasoning”– I.P. Stanback Museum, SCSU, Orangeburg, SC
September 2017: “Old Friends and New Initiatives” – I.P. Stanback Museum, SCSU, Orangeburg, SC
February 2017: “Memory, Identity, and Place” – I.P. Stanback Museum, SCSU, Orangeburg, SC
February 2016: “Faculty Show” – Arthur Rose Museum, Claflin University, Orangeburg, SC
February 2014: “deFINE ART 2014” – Alexander Hall Gallery, Savannah, GA
June 2011: “Group Show” – Malton Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
June 2000: “Central Saint Martins Degree Show” – Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London, UK
October 1999: “Vessels” – Studio d’Arte Contemporanea Valentina Zatta, Brescia, Italy
January 1999: “Get Together” – Byam Shaw Art College, London, UK
March 1998: “Can you make sense of this?” – Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London, UK
July 1997: “Final Exhibition” – Chelsea College of Art and Design, London, UK
April 1995: “Urbis et Orbis” – Associazione Culturale Liberamente, Rome, Italy
March 1994: “Trastevere” – Associazione Culturale Eralove, Rome, Italy
April 2018: “ArtFields” – 122 Sauls St. Gallery, Lake City, SC
January 2018: “The State of America” – PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT
April 2017: “ArtFields” – The Gallery at the Crossroads, Lake City, SC
April 2016: “ArtFields” – The R.O.B., Lake City, SC
April 2015: “ArtFields” – Whitehead Infirmary, Community Museum Society Welcome Center, Lake City, SC
April 2015: “Open 2015” – PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT
January 2015: “Digital Exhibition” – Arthur Rose Museum, Claflin University, Orangeburg, SC
April 2014: “Silver & Ink” – Gutstein Gallery, Savannah, GA
December 2013: “Small Works” – Gutstein Gallery, Savannah, GA
November 2013: “Silent Communication” – Linus Gallery, Pasadena, CA
November 2013: “Transformations: The Ordinary Made Extraordinary” – PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT
August 2013: Online Showcase “Curiouser and Curiouser: Photographic Dreams and Fictions” – PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT
May 2013: “Miniatures” – Linus Gallery, Pasadena, CA
April 2013: “Silver & Ink” – Gutstein Gallery, Savannah, GA (Presidential Spotlight Selection)
April 2012: “Silver & Ink” – Gutstein Gallery, Savannah, GA
October 2025: “Intersections II: Teachers and Students in Art and Design” – McMaster Gallery, USC, Columbia, SC
August 2025: “...and this stays between us, right?” by Taylor Colimore & Noren Gelberg-Hagmaier (cyber//chiffon Artist Collective)– McMaster Gallery, USC, Columbia, SC
February 2025: “70th Annual Juried Student Exhibition” – McMaster Gallery, USC, Columbia, SC
Jannuary 2025: “Intersections I: Teachers and Students in Art and Design” – McMaster Gallery, USC, Columbia, SC
October 2024: “Unrequited United” by Sophia Brueckner – McMaster Gallery, USC, Columbia, SC
August 2024: “The Dog Show: Time Traveler Umeyama’s Drawings from the 21st Century” by Hiromi Stringer – McMaster Gallery, USC, Columbia, SC
March 2024: “Breathing Room: a poem, a stroll, a dance” by Anna Grace Lafaye – McMaster Gallery, USC, Columbia, SC
February 2024: “Makeready” by Brad Vetter & Adrienne Miller– McMaster Gallery, USC, Columbia, SC
Jannuary 2024: “69th Annual Juried Student Exhibition” Juried Exhibition – McMaster Gallery, USC, Columbia, SC
October 2023: “You Look Like The Right Type: 15 Years” by Mark Addison Smith – McMaster Gallery, USC, Columbia, SC
August 2023: “Beyond Violet” by Christina Kerns – McMaster Gallery, USC, Columbia, SC
June 2023: “Paths to Freedom” by John Dowell – McKissick Museum, USC, Columbia, SC
February 2023: “The Lost City: Between Art and Science” by Anna Davidson – McKissick Museum, USC, Columbia, SC
March 2022: “The Medium is the Message” – McKissick Museum, USC, Columbia, SC
January 2022: “Inheritance” by Brett Schenning – McKissick Museum, USC, Columbia, SC
January 2022: “Wild Bees” by Paula Sharpe & Ross Eatman – McKissick Museum, USC, Columbia, SC
January 2021: “A Child’s Play” – McKissick Museum, USC, Columbia, SC
March 2017: “Handle With Care?” Degree Show by Denisha Bond, Shakeethia Mobley, Santez Tucker, and Antwone Dixson – FAB Gallery, SCSU, Orangeburg, SC
January 2017: “Pre/Post/Eros” by Deepanjan Mukhopadhyay – FAB Gallery, SCSU, Orangeburg, SC
September 2016: “Fun Volume One” by Tabitha Ott – FAB Gallery, SCSU, Orangeburg, SC
April 2016: “Senior Show” by Melanie Williams, Nyesha Diesh – FAB Gallery, SCSU, Orangeburg, SC
March 2016: “Contact” by Sarah Horan – FAB Gallery, SCSU, Orangeburg, SC
February 2016: “Urban Habitat” by Swapnil Mathkar – FAB Gallery, SCSU, Orangeburg, SC
February 2016: “Southern _________” Juried Group Exhibition – one of four curators – Orangeburg County Arts Center, Orangeburg, SC
January 2016: “One Thousand Miles - Travel Sketches” by Hsu-Jen Huang – FAB Gallery, SCSU, Orangeburg, SC
September 2015: “Super K.O. Productions” by Jarrett Williams – FAB Gallery, SCSU, Orangeburg, SC
May 2015: “Senior Thesis Exhibition” by Chanel Brown – FAB Gallery, SCSU, Orangeburg, SC
April 2015: “43rd Student Spring Art Exhibition” Juried Group Exhibition – I.P. Stanback Museum, SCSU, Orangeburg, SC
March 2015: “Digital Drawings” by Pete Christman – FAB Gallery, SCSU, Orangeburg, SC
February 2015: “Celebrating Black History Through the Arts” Juried Group Exhibition – one of four curators – Orangeburg County Arts Center, Orangeburg, SC
November 2014: “Senior Thesis Exhibition” by Dean Kohlhepp, Lawrence Davis, Darel McKinney, and Isaac Demetrius Williams – FAB Gallery, SCSU, Orangeburg, SC
November 2014: “The Journey’s End” by Susan J. Smith – FAB Gallery, SCSU, Orangeburg, SC
April 2013: “Burning Time” by Jagrut Raval – Ashmore Gallery, Savannah, GA
“Paesaggi imaginari” – 2019 – Catalogue for solo show in Rome, Italy
“La Solitudine Dell’Architetto” – 2018 – Translation from Italian to English – Rome, Italy
Photography for “The Orangeburg Massacre & America’s Fight for Freedom” 2018 – I.P. Stanback Museum, Orangeburg, SC
“Resistance, Reform, & Reasoning: Artists Respond to theOrangeburg Massacre ~ 50 Years Later” – Catalogue Entry & Photography – I.P. Stanback Museum, Orangeburg, SC
“ArtFields” 2018 – Catalogue Entry – Lake City, SC
“The State of America” 2018 – Catalogue Entry – PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT
“ArtFields” 2017 – Catalogue Entry – Lake City, SC
Photography for “Art with a Conscience” Ellen Zisholtz solo exhibition catalogue
Photography for “Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis (INAA) of Nok Sculptures in The I. P. Stanback Museum” Z.J. Sun, F. Martin, Q.S. Cai and S. Lassell
Photography for “Teaching Arts to English Language Learners” in Teaching ELLs Across Content Areas, edited by Nan Li, Information Age Publishing, 2016
“ArtFields” 2016 – Catalogue Entry – Lake City, SC
“ArtFields” 2015 – Catalogue Entry– Lake City, SC
“Silver & Ink” 2014 – Catalogue Entry – Gutstein Gallery, Savannah, GA
“Transformations: The Ordinary Made Extraordinary” 2013 – Catalogue Entry – PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT
“Curiouser and Curiouser: Photographic Dreams and Fictions” 2013 – Catalogue Entry – PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT
“Central Saint Martins Degree Show” 2000 – Catalogue Entry – Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London, UK
Exhibition reviewed in Art Monthly “The Ones to Watch in 2001” (August 2000), London, UK
September 2023: Guest Lecturer – Limestone College – Gaffney, SC
October 2019: Guest lecturer – Istituto di Stato per la Cinematografia e Televisione Roberto Rossellini – Rome, Italy
February 2019: Juror for “ArtFields Junior Art Competition” – Lake City, SC
October 2018: Image Maker Collaborative Lecture with Brett Schenning at “The Fierce Urgency of Now” – SPE Southeast Retreat, Penland, NC
March 2017: Colloquia “Memory, Identity, and Place” – I.P. Stanback Museum, SCSU, Orangeburg, SC
June 2015: Guest lecturer – Istituto di Stato per la Cinematografia e Televisione Roberto Rossellini – Rome, Italy
April 2015: Artist’s talk at “ArtFields” – Lake City, SC
February 2015: Reviewer at “Senior & Junior Portfolio Reviews” – Claflin University, Orangeburg, SC
January 2015: Artist’s and Gallery Talks for “Reveries & Other Fantasies; Conjured Architectural Escapes” – FAB Gallery, SCSU, Orangeburg, SC
Giordano Angeletti - Artist, Educator, and Curator
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