Gianluca Giarrizzo is a figurative sculptor and draughtsman. He received his BA from Lewis and Clark College and an MFA from the New York Academy of Art in Sculpture and Anatomy. Giarrizzo has received various awards and residencies including the New York Academy ofArt and ABC Stone’s Merit Award Scholarship for a Stone Carving Residency (Carrara, Italy), the Bill and Sharon Jacob Award for Outstanding Ability in Sculpture (Carrara, Italy), Gallery Demonstrator at the Whitney Western Art Museum, and the Sculpture ScholarAward by the New York Academy of Art. He has actively taught drawing and sculpture and lectured at various institutions including The East Harlem School, Fleisher Art Memorial, Josephy Center for Arts and Culture,  and The Buffalo Bill Center of the West Museum. Giarrizzo has sculpture and drawings in private collections across the U.S. and has been exhibited in shows and auctions nationally.