Daniel Cosentino was born in Lincoln Park, NJ in 1974. He is currently a lecturer and unit head for the Media and Graphic Communication Concentration at the American University in Kosovo through the Rochester Institute of Technology’s Center for Multidisciplinary Studies global programs. Cosentino holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Rutgers University in Philosophy and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Photography/Imaging Arts from RIT. Although his personal exhibitions and artwork focus mainly on photography, the education gained through the combination of Philosophy and Photography has enabled him to work various jobs and create several different independent artworks.

With a diverse curriculum vitae his work experience ranges from individual exhibition work to cooperation with different designers, artists, and choreographers as well as architects and urban planners. His work experience includes exhibition preparation at the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, Adjunct Professor of Art at the University of Rochester, Department of Art and Art History and at the Rochester Institute of Technology, College of Liberal Arts. He has worked closely with Architects, Urban Planners, Designers and citizens at the Rochester Regional Community Design Center serving as a design consultant, creating and assisting with programming, presentation and design of visual communication, products, publications and gallery development. During his tenure there the RRCDC received two consecutive awards from the National Endowment for the Arts for Design Excellence.

Cosentino’s exhibition work incorporates aspects of performance, sculpture, video, design and digital imaging often including references to traditional and historically significant paintings and seminal performance works. In 2003 Cosentino studied in Florence, Italy exploring master techniques in photography, museology and art history and produced the body of work presented here as the “Images/Italy”. His thesis work includes dual channel video projections along with sculptural elements such as “12 Hour Portrait”, depicting the expanse of a day from dawn until dusk across his seated form and “Standing Box”, a revealing work which explores stark realities in human relationships between the real and projected self. Cosentino continues to explore these themes through presentation and writing in select exhibitions, online publishing and studio practice.

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