mauro altamura
Mauro Altamura has exhibited and published his visual art nationally and internationally. He received a BA in Fine Art from Ramapo College of New Jersey in 1976. His MFA in Visual Arts from the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, NY, was granted through the State University of New York, Buffalo in 1981. He completed an MFA in Creative Writing in 2009, awarded by Rutgers University, Newark. Altamura taught at the University of Akron, Ramapo College, Mercy College and several other universities and institutions in the New York/New Jersey metropolitan region, including the International Center of Photography. He was a visiting professor at John Cabot University, Rome, from 1990 -1998. From 1985 to 2017 he taught at New Jersey City University where he was an Associate Professor.
Mauro Altamura received three fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, including a Distinguished Artist Fellowship in 1988. He was awarded a fellowship from the New York State Council on the Arts, and a 1988 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. He’s been an artist-in-residence in programs funded by both the NJSCA and NYSCA as well as private institutions. Mauro Altamura is currently working on a series of related novels, short stories and various photographic projects.
