The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, A Handbook to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum CollectionBorn Newark, New Jersey
Lives and works in New York City

Education
1991
MFA, Montclair State College,  NJ
1952
Graduate Studies with Robert Motherwell, Hunter College, NY
1947-1951
BA, Newark State Teachers College, Newark, NJ

Solo Exhibitions
2007
Things That Happen in the Moonlight, June Kelly Gallery; catalogue
2004
New Paintings, June Kelly Gallery, New York; catalogue
2001
Recent Work, June Kelly Gallery, New York
2000
Carmen Cicero: A Survey of Paintings, Provincetown Art Association and  Museum, MA;catalogue
Carmen Cicero: Watercolors, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1998
Recent Paintings, June Kelly Gallery, New York
Paintings and Watercolors, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1997
Long Point Gallery, Provincetown, MA
1995
Paintings and Watercolors, June Kelly Gallery, New York
1993
New Paintings, June Kelly Gallery, New York
1991
Montclair State College Art Gallery, Montclair, NJ
1990
Paintings and Watercolors, June Kelly Gallery, New York
1988
Paintings, Graham Modern Gallery, New York
Watercolors, June Kelly Gallery, New York
1987
Watercolors and Sculpture, Graham Modern Gallery, New York
1986
Cherrystone Gallery, Wellfleet, MA
1985
Recent Paintings, Graham Modern Gallery, New York
1984
Paintings and Drawings, 1975-1984, Graham Modern Gallery, New York
1983
Art Academy, Museum of Cincinnati, OH
1982
Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York
1979
Gurewitsch Gallery, New York
1978
Dubins Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1976
Caldwell College, Caldwell, NJ
1975
Leslie Rankow Gallery, New York
1972
Simone Stern Gallery, New Orleans, LA
1970
Wellfleet Art Gallery, Cape Cod, MA and Palm Beach, FL
Drawings and Serigraphs, New School for Social Research, New York
1968
Peridot Gallery, New York
Galleri Promenade, Tromso, Norway
1967
Galerie Puntvier, Rotterdam, Holland
1966
Drawings & Gouaches, American Gallery, New York
1957
Peridot Gallery, New York


Selected Public Collections
Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
National Academy of Design Museum, New York
Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Montclair Art Museum, NJ
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA

Selected Bibliography
Catalogues and Periodicals
                        
2007/08
“Carmen Cicero: Things That Happen in the Moonlight: New Watercolors,”
essay by Robert Berlind, June Kelly Gallery, New York
Provincetown A R T S, “Carmen Cicero: Tracer of Lost Persons,” Christopher Busa,
Provincetown Arts Press, annual issue, volume 22, pp. 81-83
2004
“Carmen Cicero: Recent Paintings,” essay by Phyllis Braff, June Kelly Gallery, New York
2000
“Carmen Cicero: Paintings -“A Survey,” Provincetown Art Association and Museum, catalogue essay by Donald Kuspit
1998
“Cicero: Unseen Events: Paintings,” essay by Gerrit Henry, June Kelly Gallery, New York and Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1995
“Italian-American Artists, 1945-1968: A Limited Survey, Works on Paper,” essay by Lisa Panzera Melchor, The Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art
Gallery of Hunter College of The City University of New York
1994
“170th Annual Exhibition,” National Academy of Design, New York
1993
“169th Annual Exhibition,” National Academy of Design, New York
1992
“168th Annual Exhibition,” National Academy of Design, New York



Selected Bibliography
Catalogues and Periodicals

1987
Montclair Art Museum, “The Interior Self: Three Generations of Expressionists View the Human Image,” Montclair, NJ
Boca Raton Art Museum, “Contemporary Painting,” Roger L. Selby, Boca Raton, FL
“Art and the Law,” Gerald L. Cafesjian, West Publishing Co., St. Paul, MN
1986
Rhode Island School of Design, “Life in the Big City,” Providence, RI
1985
“Art & The Law,” 10th Annual Exhibition circulated and published by West Publishing Co., St. Paul, MN
“Carmen Cicero,” Maurice Pine Library, Fairlawn, NJ
1984
“Carmen Cicero, Paintings and Drawings 1975-1984,” catalogue essay by Lowery Stokes Sims, Graham Modern Gallery, New York
April Kingsley, “Emotional Impact: New York School Figurative Expressionism,” Art Museum Association of America; San Francisco, CA
Community Herald, New York City, “Running Scared,” reproduction
1983
Provincetown Advocate, “Death Hails A Cab,” reproduction The New York Times, Grace Glueck, “A Gallery Scene that Pioneers in New Territories”    Gentlemen’s Quarterly Magazine, “Showcasing Arts Forward Moves,” Nicholas A. Moufarrege, review and reproduction of “Prince Charming”
1982
The Village Voice, “An Opinionated Survey of the Weeks Events”
Art Express, photo of the members of the Long Point Gallery
The Village Voice, “Gracie Redux,” March Arts Magazine, “Another Wave, Still More Savagely than the First: Lower East Side,” Nicholas A. Moufarrege
1981
Provincetown Advocate, “Painter, Jazzman Carmen Cicero,” Katherine Gammon
1980
New Jersey Art Forum, “Across the Hudson,” Tony Canger
1978
Boston Globe, “Provincetown: Haven for Talent,” Robert Taylor
1978
Art/World, “Summer '78: Provincetown Journal,” Judith Rothschild  
1976
New Jersey Music and Art, “Nurtured in New Jersey,” Lynn Grafton
1973
New Jersey Music and Art, “Carmen Cicero,” Ruthann Williams, cover
1966
The Visual Dialogue, Nathan Knobler, (book)
1965
Contemporary American Painting, Allen S.Weller
1964
Painting and Sculpture in New Jersey, William Gerdts Art in America, “New Talent USA,” Barbara Rose
1962
Whitney Museum Catalog, “40 Artists Under 40”
1960
Sarah Lawrence College Magazine, cover
1959
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, A Handbook to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Collection