Biography

Gina Pruette is an artist specializing in painting and metalworking. She was born in Austin, TX in 1975 and received her B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1997. Her instruction in painting began with her late grandmother, a master landscape and still life painter, in the early 1990s as well as summer courses in life drawing and graphic design at the Austin Museum of Art. During college she completed courses in art history and film and was employed at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia. She also worked as a graphic and digital artist for MASCA, the research lab at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Anthropology and Archaeology. While living in Portland, Maine in 2001, she completed additional coursework in oil and acrylic painting at the Maine College of Art. In 2010 she embarked on the study of metal fabrication and jewelry design and is taking courses at the Sawtooth Center for Visual Art.

Gina Pruette lives and works in Winston-Salem, NC. Her paintings are held in collections in New York, North Carolina, Maine, and Texas.