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Tore Terrasi is an Intermedia artist and designer whose work spans static and dynamic media. His ambitions as a communicator are to reconsider the conventions through which we experience texts and images by way of exploring the simultaneously independent and interdependent nature of their relationship.

Terrasi’s work has been nationally and internationally exhibited and published, including “Currents – International New Media Festival” in Santa Fe, New Mexico, “L’Hybride Cinema Les Mots S’Animent (The Words Animated/Animation and Typography)” in Lille, France, “Ten Artists To Watch” at The Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, “Alphabet” at The Cooper Union in New York,  “Typomania ” at The Moscow Museum of Russia, “TypoDay” in India, “Creative Crisis at Forward Festival” in Austria, and a solo exhibition at Czong Institute of Contemporary Art in Seoul. He has also presented his work at the international typography conference, TypeCon amongst numerous other venues.

He earned a Master of Fine Arts in Visual Design from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth in 2005 and has held positions teaching design, animation, and foundation courses at Lasell University, Bridgewater State University, Rhode Island College, and the University of Texas at Arlington. Terrasi is currently an Associate Professor of Studio Foundation at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design.

Awards

selected

2024                 

Gold, Bronze, and Special Judging Award, Cross Connections 2024 International Exhibition and Competition of Visual Communication Design and Emerging Media Design

2022                 

Special Award (Honorable Mention) 2022 KSDS International Tangshan Annual Invitational Exhibition

2021                

Silver Award, United Designs Alliance Annual International Poster Design Competition                            

Bronze Award, United Designs Alliance Annual International Poster Design Competition                     

2020                

1 of 10 winning entries, Creative Crisis 2020 Poster Competition, Vienna, Austria and Berlin, Germany

Merit Award, Typography Day 2020 Poster Competition, Amman, Jordan

2018                

1 of 8 Poster Honorable Mention Awards, iJungle Graphic Design Awards 2018

Silver Award, United Designs Alliance Annual International Design Competition

2017                

Jury Special Prize, Grafers 2017 International Poster Competition

2015                

Certificate of Recognition, Recycle, Brooklyn Waterfront Artist Coalition, NYC

2014                

Juror’s Selection, Transportation, Site 109 Artist Gallery, New York, NY.

2013                

Permanent Collection, Los Angeles Center For Digital Art, Los Angeles, CA.

Permanent Collection, Crouch Fine Arts Library, Baylor University, Waco, Texas

Grand Prize Winner, Urban Landscapes, SOHO Gallery For Digital Art, NYC

2012                

Special Recognition Award, 14th Annual Abstraction Juried International Art Exhibition

Honorable Mention, 27th Annual Positive / Negative National Juried Exhibition

Founder’s Choice Award, 3rd Annual Fiber Arts Show

Best In Show, White, Black & Shades of Gray

2011                

Viewers Choice Award, 6th National Juried Exhibition, Axis Gallery, Sacramento, CA

2008                

Charrette Corporation Award Winner, Shelter – A Juried Book Arts Exhibit

 2006                

Permanent Collection, Exhibition Archive, Lumen Eclipse Gallery, Cambridge, MA