Allison Bianco received her MFA in Printmaking (2010) from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI and her BA in Studio Art (2001) from Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA. Bianco completed a porcelain tile mural with mahogany for PS 958 Brooklyn, NYC. The public commission is through the New York City School Construction Authority, Public Art for Public Schools program in collaboration with the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Percent for Art program for the collection of the New York City Department of Education. Her second public artwork Long Foretold (2024) consists of three large scale aluminum works at Horace Mann Hall, Rhode Island College, commissioned by the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts and Rhode Island College through the Allocation for Art for Public Facilities Act.
Awards include a Visual Arts Sea Grant from the University of Rhode Island (2015); and a solo exhibition at The Print Center in Philadelphia as part of their 88th International Competition (2014). Her work is in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA; The New York Public Library, NY; RISD Museum, RI; Yale University Art Gallery, CT; University of San Diego, Hoehn Family Print Collection, CA; Wheaton College, Norton, MA; and the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, HI; among others.