Lauren DiCioccio is an emerging artist living in the Bay Area, an hour south of San Francisco. Born and raised in Philadelphia, DiCioccio received a BA from Colgate University in 2002 where she studied art and art history. Though academically trained in painting, much of her current body of work employs the medium of embroidery, which she learned at an early age from her mother. Since moving to California in 2004, she has worked as the Resident Manager at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, where she lives on-site in a cabin overlooking the Pacific Ocean. DiCioccio has shown her work at venues in San Francisco including: Jack Fischer Gallery, Intersection for the Arts, The Lab and the SFMOMA Artists Gallery. In 2009, she will present her work in solo shows at the Clifford Art Gallery at Colgate University and at Lyons Wier Ortt Contemporary Art in New York.