Angelina Parrino was born in Darby, FL.
Angelina is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and arts educator. She has over 15 years of experience in drawing and painting, and additional expertise in printmaking, book arts, creative fiction, film photography, and installation. She received an MFA from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, in spring 2020. Her work has been exhibited at the Scarfone/Hartley Gallery (Tampa), The Emporium (Knoxville), Foley Gallery (NYC), Ewing Gallery (Knoxville), and Louisiana Tech University (Ruston). Her work was also featured in Maake Mag, Issue 10, curated by Nickola Pottinger, accompanied by an interview with Maura Clarke. In 2019, she was shortlisted for the Hopper Prize and received the Thomas Fellowship, a prestigious award supporting thesis work with real-world implications.
More recently, in 2024, she was a Maxwell/Hanrahan Artist-in-Residence at Peters Valley School of Craft, where she developed a body of work responding to the impacts of Hurricanes Helene and Milton. In 2025, she was a semifinalist for the Salzberg Residency at the Jaffe Center for Book Arts and a nominee for the 2025 SMPOP Photo Laureate of St. Petersburg and Tampa Bay. In June 2026, she was a resident artist at Vermont Studio Center, where she explored the parallels between Johnson, Vermont—a town repeatedly affected by flooding—and her hometown of Darby, FL. She is currently preparing for a solo exhibition at OXH Gallery in Tampa, opening in January 2027.
Service through arts education is central to her work; she has nearly a decade of teaching experience across higher education, K-12, and community settings, having taught students ages 4-75. She has been a PreK-8th grade arts teacher, a visiting assistant professor at the University of Tampa, a subject matter expert in book arts, an adjunct instructor at multiple universities, and has partnered with Blazing Stars Montessori in historic Dade City to offer art workshops to primary and elementary children. Her teaching philosophy is rooted in the belief that classrooms, galleries, and public spaces should serve as sites of inquiry, connection, and civic engagement—places where art becomes a means of understanding ourselves, one another, and the environments we share.
In her spare time, Angelina enjoys gardening, observing Sandhill Cranes (Grus canadensis), reading, arranging (ideas, rooms, words), and spending time with her family at the home that her dad built.