CV / RESUME


A curriculum vitae, CV, resume, list of qualifications, and exhibition history for Casey Farina: Artist and Educator.
Casey Farina: Artist and Educator

Casey Farina is a Phoenix-based artist who creates audio/visual artwork from iterative-electronic processes. This work often combines Farina’s expertise in animation, sound design, visual effects, digital fabrication, and improvisation. Farina’s animated-graphic scores have been described as “imaginative,” and are frequently presented domestically and internationally. Farina is a winner of the 2017 Contemporary Forum Grant. Farina was commissioned by the City of Phoenix to create an interactive audio/visual installation for the 2017 Intersection event at Art Detour, one of Phoenix’s premiere art events. Farina was selected for the second round of the 2013 and 2017 Creative Capital Grant in addition to receiving to receiving public art commissions from Tempe, Glendale, and Scottsdale, AZ. Farina was awarded a residency at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in 2011. Farina is an active artistic collaborator and his work with choreographer Mary Fitzgerald has been presented at the International Computer Music Conference, the Breaking Ground Dance festival, the sub(Urban) Projections festival, and the Frame + Film dance film festival. Casey is a residential faculty member in the Digital Media Arts program at Glendale Community College.

Farina is represented by John Reyes at Reyes Contemporary Art.


P U B L I C A R T CO M M I S S I O N S

  • 2018 exchangeRate generative projected video installation Canal Convergence: Local Light, Scottsdale, AZ
  • 2018 equilibrium thermodynamics interactive video installation, Family Fun Day, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
  • 2017 MICRO::COSMO interactive projected video installation Art Detour 29, Phoenix, AZ
  • 2017 motionVerse interactive video installation Glendale Glitter and Glow, Glendale, AZ
  • 2016 cascade.erode.construct projection-mapped video installation INFLUX Public Art Projects, Tempe, AZ
  • 2006 project CONDOR audiovisual blimp-based installation Chicago Armory, Chicago, IL

S E L E C T E D E X H I B I T I O N S

  • 2019 Under Construction, Mountain Shadows Art Gallery, Paradise Valley, AZ
  • 2018 Contemporary Forum Grant Recipients, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
  • 2017 State of Play, GCC, Glendale, AZ
  • 2017 Full 360: A Southwest Continued, Mountain Shadows Art Gallery, Paradise Valley, AZ 2017 Spark Festival, Mesa Center for the Arts, Mesa, AZ
  • 2017 Phoenix Experimental Arts Festival, PVCC, Paradise Valley, AZ
  • 2017 Glendale Community College Faculty Art Show, GCC, Glendale, AZ
  • 2016 FOUND:RE Hotel Gallery Press Event, Phoenix AZ
  • 2016 Glendale Community College Faculty Art Show, GCC, Glendale, AZ
  • 2016 Phoenix Experimental Arts Festival, PVCC, Paradise Valley, AZ
  • 2015 Glendale Community College Faculty Art Show, GCC, Glendale, AZ
  • 2015 Crossing 32nd St. at the Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ 2015 Phoenix Experimental Arts Festival, GCC, Glendale, AZ
  • 2015 Glendale Community College Faculty Concert, GCC, Glendale, AZ
  • 2014 Pseudo Science, Frontal Lobe Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
  • 2014 Known and Unknown ASU Fall Dance Concert, Arizona State University, ASU, Tempe, AZ
  • 2014 Night Concert IV, International Computer Music Conference, Athens, Greece
  • 2014 Film with Live Musical Performance, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI
  • 2014 University of Central Missouri Music Technology Ensemble, University of Central Missouri. Warrensburg, MO
  • 2013 Breaking Ground Dance Festival. Tempe Center for the Arts, Tempe, AZ
  • 2013 Variable Agency. The Icehouse, Phoenix, AZ

AWARDS & GRANTS

  • 2018 Creative Capital: Second Round Selection
  • 2018 Arizona Water Art Prize: Finalist 2018 City of Scottsdale Public Art Grant ($6,000)
  • 2017 Contemporary Forum Art Grant ($2,000)
  • 2017 City of Phoenix Public Art Grant ($5,000)
  • 2016 City of Glendale Public Art Grant ($6,000)
  • 2015 INFLUX: Public Art Grant, City of Tempe ($4,000)
  • 2013 Creative Capital: Second Round Selection
  • 2011 Atlantic Center for the Arts Residency under Mark Applebaum