Gina Siciliano

Gina Siciliano is an artist, writer, musician, and historian living in Seattle, WA. She is the creator of I Know What I Am: The Life and Times of Artemisia Gentileschi, a graphic biography of Italy's most famous woman painter of the seventeenth-century. This ground-breaking synthesis of academic research and ball-point pen art took seven years to complete. I Know What I Am was released in the fall of 2019 by beloved local publisher Fantagraphics. Since then, Siciliano has been lecturing about Artemisia and sharing the story of this project with various museums, schools, and media, from the Seattle Art Museum, to the BBC's Radio 3, to the Frick Museum in Pittsburgh, to St. Olaf College in Minnesota, and more. In 2020 I Know What I Am won an Independent Publisher Award, an American Librarians Association award, and was a finalist for a Washington State Book Award. Siciliano graduated from Pacific Northwest College of Art in 2007, where she studied oil painting, anatomical illustration, figure sculpture, comics, zines, and self-publishing. She's continued oil painting, primarily portraiture, often utilizing early modern and Caravaggesque techniques. Siciliano is also a fixture within Seattle's used bookstore scene, working at various shops where she's determined to put good books into people's hands. Connect with Gina and see her work at Patreon.com/IKnowWhatIAm. 

Website: ginasiciliano.com