F.R. Gagliano is an interdisciplinary artist working in illustration, painting, creative writing, and songwriting. Gagliano is also a practicing healing artist as a certified Reiki Master/Teacher, Trauma-Informed 200hr Registered Yoga Teacher, and Theta Healer™. As an artist interested in Healing, Gagliano creates work about nature, transformation, God/Source/Energy, communication, interconnectedness, intuition, dreams, memory, POV of shared experience, Time, and uncovering hidden memories and truths.

Gagliano’s work has been exhibited by The Woods Gallery, Misker Gallery, Thumbs Up Detroit, DMJ Studios, Artworks Detroit, Museum of New Art, Corktown Studios, Fancy Pants Arts & Entertainment and Hand Group Studios. Their work has been shown at the following exhibition spaces: The Carr Center, The Detroit Contemporary, Northend Studios & Gallery, The Jam Handy, Tangent Gallery, Woods Gallery, The Alchemy, Blick Detroit, The Detroit Public Library–Main Library, ARC Gallery in Chicago, IL; Intermedia Arts Gallery and the Theological Seminary Gallery in Minneapolis, MN. F.R. Gagliano illustrated Kelly Sheehy’s children’s book, Ocean Whispers.

F.R. Gagliano received an M.F.A. in Writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a B.A. in Literature and Creative Writing from DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois. 

Contact @ FRGagliano@gmail.com