Award-winning artist & photographer based in Pittsburgh, PA.
Francis Crisafio was born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA. and studied painting and printmaking at Carnegie Mellon University. A self-taught photographer he has been included in group exhibitions at Photographic Resource Center in Boston, MA.; “The Fence,” Brooklyn and Boston; Filter Festival/Space, Chicago; Center for Photography, Greenville, SC; A. Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX; Los Angeles Center for Photography; Hoyt Institute of Fine Art, New Castle, PA; PhotoNOLA, New Orleans; Aperture Foundation Gallery and Soho Photo Gallery, both New York; Philadelphia Photo Arts Center; The Print Center, Philadelphia; Silvereye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh; and Providence Center for Photographic Arts, amongst others.
Crisafio was a LensCulture Exposure Awards Finalist, 2015; a Semifinalist in The Print Center’s 87th, 90th and 93rd ANNUAL International Competition, 2013, 2015 and 2018; a Fellow at the Silver Eye Center of Photography, Pittsburgh, 2017; and a Finalist for Exposure at Photographic Resource Center, Boston, 2018 and 2020.
He has been reviewed in Artscope Magazine, The Boston Globe, Feature Shoot, Hyperallergic, Lenscratch, A Photo Editor, SLATE Magazine and Pittsburgh City Paper & Post Gazette.
His work is included in the permanent collection of Carnegie Mellon University, The Center for Creative Photography in Tucson and in a number of private collections across the country .
