Jason A. Cina
Photographer / Painter
Studio:
718 651 8362 Cell:917 509 1799
55-05 Woodside Avenue, Woodside, NY 11377
Email: jc@jasonacina.com
Teaching
01/08 - Present Studio
Art & Photography, A.H.R.C. www.ahrcnyc.org
Adults with Intellectual & Developmental
Disabilities in 5 facilities in NYC.
Large scale works in a variety of media: spray paint, pastel, plaster, wire & photography.
02/07-02/08
Photography: Harlem Children’s Zone / Promise Academy, NYC www.hcz.org
-Created and Implemented curricula and facilities in three locations
-35mm
B&W Film w/ manual SLR cameras. Film developed by students: scanned & printed.
-8 classes per week. Age 13 - 19. at Main Site, Lincoln and St. Nicholas Comm. Centers.
2006
Photography: Boys Club
of NY, Lower East Side
(Black & White Darkroom) Students Age 10-16
2003 - 2006
Teaching Artist, Lectures in Theatre: Concepts, Art & Design:
NYC & Yonkers
Public High Schools via The Times Square Group, NYC--501c3
2004/05
Visual Arts (Temp/Sub); NYC private and charter schools.
via 'School Professionals Inc' (Temp Agency)
1997–1999
Adjunct Faculty—Lighting Design for The Stage (2 sections):
Long Island University, CW Post. (Grad and Undergrad Students)
1995
Painting & Drawing for Theatre
Studio
Arena Theater School, Buffalo, NY (summer season)
Professional
2000 - Present
Lighting Designer & Photographer: Jazz Reach / Metta Quintet
National tours to Performing Arts Centers, Concert Halls & Night Clubs www.jazzreach.org
2007-2008
Lighting Designer & Photographer
Helen Mills Theater & Event Space. West 26th street, NYC
2007-2008
House Photographer: Harlem Children’s Zone 135 East 125th Street
Sports, Stage, Rallies, VIPs, Corporate Sponsors, Out Reach, Community Service etc.
1994 - 2001
Lighting Designer: Off-Broadway,
Off-Off Broadway, Regional and Summer Stock
1996 & 1997 Lighting
Designer Weathervane Theater. Whitefield, NH. (summer season)
1997/98 Season
Lighting Supervisor: The Acting Company, NYC (USA Tour and London)
1988 - Present. Scenic Painter,
Freelance: NYC theatrical venues and some T V.
2005 - Present
Decorative, Faux Painting / Consulting Private Clients for Home and Office.
EDUCATION
1993—1995
1988--1993
MFA (candidate) Theatre Design
BFA Theatre Design
N.Y.U /Tisch – 54 credits
C.W. Post, Long
Island University
Courses Taken in the Following: Set Design, Lighting
Design, Painting & Drawing, Scenic Painting, Drafting & Model Making, Photography, Sculpture, Architecture, Dance,
Opera, Art History, Theater History, Carpentry, Welding, Rigging
EXHIBITIONS
2006/’07 -Queens Museum of Art:
“Queens International” 10/06 – 3/07(Photography)
-Jesaurai: Featured Artist, (Photography)
-Cocoa Bar. Park Slope, NY (Feb 28 – March 30) Mixed Media Mosaics
2005 -Art
Gotham "The Square Foot Show", Chelsea, NYC (October)
-Emerging Artists International, NYC Citywide Open Studios Weekends; (Oct. 8 & 9),
-Art Revolutionaries (web gallery) Featured Artist
-The Art Show Amherst; MA: May 28 & 29, June 11 & 12
Group Show (Mixed Media, Drawings and Photographs)
-Teaneck Cultural Arts Coalition; (April 10th Jazz Photography,)
2003
-Open Studios Weekend, D.U.M.B.O. Brooklyn, NY.
(Mixed Media, Drawings and Photographs)
2002
-Queens Museum of Art, NYC. Group Show, “Queens International”
(Photography)
-Kellogg Art Gallery, Pomona, CA. “Digitally Propelled Ideas” (Mixed-Media
Mosaic)
-Rockaway Artists Alliance, Queens, NY. Group Show (Photography)
2001
-The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, NY Featured Artist (Federal Reserve
Bank--Photography)
-BE Gallery,
Asbury Park, NJ. Group Exhibition; (Photography, Drawings, & Mixed Media Mosaics)
2000
-Barry Gordin Hair Gallery, Greenwich Village,
NY. Solo Photography Exhibition
| COLLECTIONS: E.C.S.Inc.
Brooklyn, NY Photography Memorial-Sloan Kettering NYC & Long Island,
Photography
Individual Collectors
Photography, MixedMedia& Drawings |
PUBLICATIONS:
2006
The Barrytown Trilogy by Roddy Doyle
Book Cover. Second Addition. Dutch Translation
(Netherlands & Belgium) 2005 Branches Quarterly, "Best of
Branches 2004" Uccelli Press. Seattle, WA 2002 Animal Watch Magazine;
ASPCA of NYC, (Photograph--Winter 2002 Ed.) 1996 New York
1996 New York Magazine (Photograph;
October Ed)
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THEATRE:
SCENIC ARTIST:
1988-Present: Freelance.[Techniques
of Painting, Sculpting, Textures and Faux Finishes].
Most noted venues: NY Stage and Film, MTV's 'Real World'-NYC, WWOR TV--NJ, Second
Stage Theater,
Lucille Lortel, CSC, Barrow Street, Madison ‘SCARE’ Garden & The New School (Actors Studio),
Sharon Playhouse, NYU
Grad Design Dept.
LIGHTING DESIGN: (abridged)
2007-2008
Corporate Events and Private Receptions
Helen Mills Theater, Chelsea, NYC
2007-Present:
Kotchegna Dance Co, Annual Concerts
2000- Present
Concerts: Jazz-Reach
and the Metta Quintet.
NATIONAL TOURS TO PERFORMING ARTS CENTERS AND CONCERT HALLS
2001
"Scenery"
BY ED DIXON
DIRECTED BY FRANK DUNLOP
Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY--WITH CLIVE REVIL AND MARYLIN SOKOL
"Uncle Bob"
SoHo Playhouse, NYC
BY AUSTIN PENDLETON
DIRECTED BY COURTNEY MOOREHEAD. STARING GEORGE MOREFOGEN and GALE HAROLD
"The Irish
and How They Got That Way"
BY FRANK McCOURT
DIRECTED BY CHARLOTTE MOORE
Irish Repertory Theater, NYC--(Peekskill, NY
Production)
"Importance of Being Oscar" Irish Rep. NYC
STARING NIALL BUGGY.
DIRECTED BY CHARLOTTE MOORE
"Rosmersholm" BY HENRIK IBSEN Century Center
for the PA, NYC
DIRECTED BY J.C. COMPTON
2000
"Don Juan in Hell" BY G.B. SHAW Irish Repertory Theater, NYC
DIRECTED BY CHARLOTTE MOORE. STARING: CELESTE HOLM and FRITZ WEAVER
"As You
Like It" Blue Heron Arts Center, NYC
"O'Neill" Blue Heron Arts Center
"Invasions and Legacies" Irish Rep. BY TOMMY MAKEM
DIRECTED BY CHARLOTTE MOORE & STARING TOMMY MAKEM
"Ghosts" BY IBSEN Century Center DIRECTED BY J.C. COMPTON
1999
"Oh, Coward" Irish Rep.
"Viva Cummings"
Blue Heron Arts Center
"Enemy of the People" BY Ibsen The Century
Center,NYC
"Admissions" Blue Heron Arts Center BY TONY VELELLA . DIRECTED
BY AUSTIN PENDLETON
1998
"King Lear" Chekhov Theatre Ensemble, NYC
"A Doll House" The Century Center,NYC
"Pillars of Society" Century Center
1997
"La Bete’" Post Theatre Co. L.I.U.
"A Loss
of Roses" Irish Arts Center, NYC
"Ain’t Misbehavin’"
"Children of Eden" "Don’t Dress for Dinner" "Grease" "Into the Woods" "Nunsense"
WEATHERVANE REP, WHITEFIELD, NH
"Othello" Jean
Cocteau Rep/ Baruch College Performance
1996
"Julius Caesar"
Samuel Beckett Theater, NYC
DIRECTED BY TODD FLETCHER
"The Fantastiks"
"Camelot" "Joseph and the…" "Crazy for You"
Weathervane REP, NH-- Summer Season
LIGHTING ASSISTANT / SUPERVISOR:
"Loves Fire"
BY TONY KUSHNER, WENDY WASSERSTEIN, JOHN GUARE
AND OTHERS
The Acting Co. NYC.--USA Tour 1997-’98 Season (Gutherie Lab, MN; The Public, NYC; Barbican Center,
London)
DIRECTED BY MARK LAMOS
"Romeo and Juliet" The Acting Co. USA Tour and New Victory Theater,
NYC.
DIRECTED BY JAMES BUNDY
1999 Concert. Enrico Marcias
Avery Fischer Hall, Lincoln Center, NYC
DESIGN ASSISTANT—SETS & LIGHTS
1993-1995
Various Graduate Productions:
NYU/Tisch Grad. Design Department
1988-1993 All Productions: Post Theater Company,
Long Island University
