GENERAL
2025-
- Completed the Profesional Home Staging Institute Certification program. Adriana is a Certified Staging Expert, CSE
- Adriana Siso is a Graduate of the Staging Diva Home Staging Business Training Program, taught by internationally recognized home staging expert Debra Gould
2024-
Completed the Interior Decorator Certification program conducted by Ron Renner, ASID of the Decorator Training Institute, and membership in Certified Interior Decorators (CID) International. Adriana is a Certified Interior Decorator, CID.
2022-current-
Molecule Design, the sustainable shipping container building that housed the design store, has sold. Molecule Design continues as usual, offering innovative contemporary design via the Molecule Design Online Store.
2021-
Podcast Production for Dark Sky Land, Top of the World, New Mexico – www.darkskylandnm.podbean.com
2020-
- The Trend Release Party– At the Baca Railyard district
- Next Generation Water Summit, event by the City of Santa Fe Water Conservation, participated with a booth for Tower Garden/Vertical Cultivation Technology
2019-
- Annual Baca Street Art Tour at Molecule– December 6,7,8
- Happy Tower Hour: A Tower Garden Meet and Greet, at Molecule Design
- 5th Annual Baca Street Bash
- Transcending Boundaries: Ellen Jantzen-A Journey, at Molecule Design
- Life in Flux-To Challenge Apathy in The 21st Century-Group Show- Michael Jantzen, Ellen Jantzen, Justin Crowe, Jamie Hamilton, at Molecule Design
2018-
- Featured artist: Isaak-Kevan Hoffman-Oil Paintings
- Black Friday Sale
- FabLab Pop-Up Furniture & Jewelry at Molecule. The MIT Digital Fabrication Hub, founded by Sarah Boisvert partners with Molecule. FabLab highlights digital fabrication using CAD design, 3D Printing, CNC machining, and laser cutting
- Across The Spectrum-Fluorescent Plexiglass Sculpture, by Colin Barker. Scientist/writer thinks DNA sequencing in colored plexiglass
- Intentional Inclusion-Nation of Makers Conference–(NOMCON) brings together leaders from maker organizations representing the diverse sectors, people, regions, and foci that represent the U.S. maker movement
- Santa Fe Railyard 10 Year Celebration
- 4th Annual Baca Street Bash
- Sculpture Union at Molecule-Group Show-Colin Barker, Fairley Barnes, Faye Bates, David Burling, Charlie Carruthers, John Cordova, Laura Fram Cowan, Patricia Daly, Monique de Nys, Rose Driscoll, Stephen Dunlap, Daniel Forest, Lisa Freeman, Martin Helldorfer, Ezra Hubbard, Nina Mastrangelo, Yahne McLemore, Annette Morreale, Royce Montoya, Susan Ohori, Tom Osgood, Dick Podmore, Gayanne Stem Robinson, Spencer Snyder, Touri Strick, Karen Tiliakos, Ken Wilson, at Molecule Design
2017-
- Salone del Mobile-Salone Satellite/20 Years-A Celebration, Milan, Italy. Marva Griffin celebrates her founded Salone Satellite, 20 years of curatorial international work, and young designers
- New Works: Seven Local Product Designers- Group Show – Banyan Fierer – Sculptural Lighting, Santa Fe, NM, Justin Crowe – Ceramics, Santa Fe, NM, David Hamlin – Felt Wall Panels, Albuquerque, NM, Brian Arthur – Lichen Modules, Santa Fe, NM, Mat Long – Wood/Metal Furniture, Santa Fe, NM, Kristin Bonkemeyer – Metal Furniture and Raku Pots, Marfa, Texas–Santa Fe, NM, Dick Podmore – Powder Coated Metal Chairs, Santa Fe, NM
- Sponsorship-FANTASE Fest
- Third Annual Baca Street Bash
- First Annual Baca Railyard Block Party
- Introducing Moroso, A leading industrial designer/manufacturer from Italy
2016-
- Gus* Summer Sale
- Black Friday Sale event
- New Mexico Designs- 6 New Mexico product designers- Eric Haskins, Albuquerque architect, and designer. Damian Pascetti–Pascetti Steel, contemporary hand-made commercial and residential steel furniture, lighting, and décor. Mat Long, of HoCo Fabrication, sustainable woodwork design sourced in Amish country. Kristin Bonkemeyer, minimalist architect and furniture designer, Santa Fe, NM, and Marfa, Texas. Scott Ernst from Glorieta at Scott Ernst Custom Woodworks designs and builds custom residential and commercial high-end furniture. Yuki Murata, an industrial designer, founded Moderngoods, which specializes in hand-painted slip-cast bone china tableware
- Urban Farming at Molecule-Event to learn about how to grow your food, sustainable planting, and ideas for small space and vertical gardening. With local experts Maria Bernardez of The Mother Nature Center, and Christie Green of Radicle Landscape Design. Molecule will share Woolly Pocket’s recycled industrial fabric pockets for vertical wall design. Molecule is also pleased to announce the first annual Green Molecule School Garden Program by donating a 50-piece wall garden set to the Mother Nature Center
2015-
- Ground Work-Art & Design series– Group Show- , at Molecule Design
- Baca Street Studio Tours Celebrates 15 Years and Baca Railyard
- POP-STUDIO at Molecule-Designer manufactures personalized iPad bags on site-Swedish-born local solar-mesh-bag fabricator extraordinaire, Erika Eckerstrand, from Designs Of Erika, joins Molecule for a fun approach to product presentation. She will bring her whole manufacturing studio, including rolls of fabrics, scissors, and her industrial sewing machine!
- Sponsorship-Current New Media Festival, Simon de Aguero Designs Entrance Panels, Santa Fe, NM
- Outdoor Furniture Feature
- Aids and Comfort Gala– At El Dorado Hotel, Santa Fe, to benefit the patients, programs, and services of Southwest Care Center
- NYC Design Week
2014-
- Book Signing-Radiance-Particles of Silence, a project collaboration by Louis Leray and Karuna DiLibero, produced by Marion Wasserman
- Santa Fe Fashion Week at the Santa Fe Convention Center
- Product Feature-Gothic Chair by Moooi
2011-2013-
- Moooi. Culture & Technology. Dutch Industrial Design Leader since 2001, One of the most important international industrial designers and manufacturers, Moooi joins Molecule in Santa Fe to feature works & presentation talk. Complementary hors d’oeuvres and wine, as well as a Custom Molecule drink by Santa Fe Spirits. Talk by Jan Willem Poels. Also, Shop for SITE-20 % of sales will go to helping fund SITE Santa Fe’s programs.
- Design Lab Awards PreFab Architecture and Digital Dresses, Santa Fe, NM
- New Topographies-An Evening at Molecule / Design Lab
- Art Meets Design-9 Local Artists and Designers
- Sponsorship-SITE Santa Fe, NM
- Introducing New Works by Three Innovative Designers: Matthew Hilton–The most important industrial designer from England, produced by De La Espada from Portugal, will be featured at Molecule. Also Miguel & Rodney Nelson’s-Woolly Pocket, US-Made sustainable planters, and Damian Velasquez, Albuquerque, designer, and fabricator, hand-fabricated steel and powder-coated furniture
- New Product Feature events
- Design Week, NYC, ICFF, Javitz Convention Center
2011-
- Tom Dixon Introduction and Give Away-Leading British industrial designer.
- American-Made- First POP-UP Market – New Mexico Designers: Erika Eckerstrand-Bags, Tony Anella-Architect-Sustainable Furniture & Objects, Jonathan Boyd–Hand Crafted Furniture, Marion Wasserman-Digital Textiles. Also: Norman Cherner-Chairs-Connecticut, MioCulture – Recycled Cardboard Dividers-Philadelphia, Rotoluxe–Recycled Plastic Light Cubes-Washington
- Summer Celebration event
- Mix @ Molecule-Mix Loves you-Local entrepreneurs event
2010-current –
- Store Opening, Molecule Design, Santa Fe, NM
- Inauguration of the Molecule Space, Santa Fe, NM
Adriana Siso founded and runs Molecule Design, a brick-and-mortar and online retail venue that sells avant-garde industrial design. Molecule has worked with the most innovative American and European contemporary design brands in furniture, lighting, and accessories for residential and commercial projects. On a grander scale, Molecule explores general design themes including industrial design, architecture, sustainable design, smart materials, business and technology through InContext – Molecule’s Design magazine
2006-2008 –
Adriana Siso designed the first cargo container building in Santa Fe, New Mexico, a partly sustainable architectural project for the Santa Fe Railyard District in the Baca Street area. The building houses her Molecule Design store
2002-
Adriana Siso founded InStock/Furniture & Design (the initial contemporary design venue in Santa Fe, NM), which also operated as an online store. Then, the very first partner companies were Vitra, Moooi, Calligaris, Innovation, Carl Hansen & Son, Pablo Pardo, Cherner and others. Now, it represents over 80 designers/manufacturers, including De La Espada, Bensen, Droog, Tom Dixon, Loll, and Flux. Adriana’s interest is to promote the work of young industrial design companies both at a local and national level
80’s-2000’s-
- Worked at The Santa Fe Opera in set design and costume design
- Designed a custom all-surface, non-lath plaster material that was shared in many projects with a local Santa Fe contractor, in Santa Fe, New Mexico
- Operated a faux painting endeavor for residential & commercial projects in the USA and Venezuela
- Co-founded West Manhattan ArtSpace (artist’s studios) and Black Mesa Ceramics, Santa Fe, New Mexico
- Still photographer movie production, Caracas, Venezuela, and Miami, Florida
- New Music terrestrial radio DJ at Radio Artifacts, Miami, Florida, and later at Radio Molecule at various internet radio platforms, art making, and exhibitions in the US and Venezuela
1977-1987-
- Owned and operated Entonces, a fashion design store in Valencia, Venezuela. Entonces offered Brazilian and Italian beachwear as well as in-store designed and produced lines.
- Studied art in Venezuela and the US
EDUCATION
2025- Home Staging Institute – Profesional Home Staging Certification program
2024- Interior Decorator Certification program conducted, Ron Renner, ASID-Decorator Training Institute – CID International
1996- Santa Fe Art Institute, Lynda Benglis, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1987- BFA Florida International University, Miami, Florida
1980- CEGRA-Graphics Arts: lithography, serigraphy, etching, drawing, art theory. Mentors: Alirio Palacios & Maria Elena Ramos, Caracas, Venezuela
1976- Pilly Taboada, painting, Valencia, Venezuela
SOLO ART EXHIBITIONS
2002- Archaea, La Sala Alternativa / Elvira Neri / Galeria de Arte, Caracas, Venezuela
1999- Materia Prima, La Sala Alternativa / Elvira Neri / Galeria de Arte, Caracas, Venezuela
1998- Navegación al Reencuentro, Taller Abierto y La Sala Alternative / Elvira Neri / Galeria de Arte, Caracas, Venezuela
1997- Recent Work: Paintings, Sculptures & Works on Paper, West Manhattan Artspace, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1995- Testigos, New Paintings, Santa Fe Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
GROUP ART EXHIBITIONS
2016- El Muro de Soma – De Izquierda a Derecha – Elvira Neri Arte, Carcas, Venezuela
2010- En Arte A Chorros – Elvira Neri Arte, Caracas, Venezuela
2007- Odalys, Subasta 153, Arte Contemporáneo Venezolano y Latinoamerican-Colección Galería Alternativa, Caracas, Venezuela
2005- Impermanence, Bronze Sculpture Installation, AIDS FOR AIDS, 5th Annual Silent Auction, New York City
Exposicion ‘Pequeno Formato’ Colectiva, La Sala Alternative / Elvira Neri / Galeria de Arte, Caracas, Venezuela
2001- Objects for a Ceremony, Mixed Media Installation, Spirited Wanderings: Santa Fe Art at the Threshold, University Art Museum, Northern Michigan University, Marquette
El Cacao, Primer Festival Cultural Caribe, Capital Rio Caribe, Venezuela
2000- Song of Cicada, Mixed Media Installation, Arte Diex, An Exhibition of Ten Contemporary Latina Artists from New Mexico, New Mexico State Capitol, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Drawings, Proyecto Armando Reverón, Museo del Diseño y de La Estampa Carlos Cruz Diez, Caracas, Venezuela
Drawings, Proyecto Armando Reverón, Galeria de Arte Nacional, Caracas, Venezuela
Drawings, Proyecto Armando Reverón, La Sala Alternative/Galeria de Arte, Caracas, Venezuela
Drawings, Projecto Armando Reveron, Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela
Drawings, Projecto Armando Reveron, Galeria Musci, Caracas, Venezuela
1999- A Show of Hands, Guadalupe Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico
El Objeto, La Sala Alternativa/Galeria de Arte, Caracas, Venezuela
1996- Small Works Exhibition, West Manhattan Artspace, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Ill Subasta de Arte, Caracas, Venezuela
Maximum Drawings, College of Santa Fe, New Mexico
Orinoco-Anaburawitu, Installation, Santa Fe Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1995- 8th Annual Shrine Show, Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Eros in Winter, Santa Fe Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1994- Vernissage: A Celebration, Santa Fe Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1991- Group Show, The Steve Boon Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1988- Encounters and Collaborations, Museo Cubano, Miami, Florida
Zero Tolerance Series, Artifacts Art Salon, Miami, Florida
A Special View of Contemporary Art, Joy Moos Gallery, Miami, Florida
Miami/New York Exchange Show, TOBE Art International, New York City and Artifacts Art Salon Miami, Florida
Group Show, Joy Moos Gallery, Miami, Florida
1987- Micro 87, Transatlantic Exhibition, Artifacts Art Salon, Miami, Florida
The Unmasking, The Art Museum, FIU, Miami, Florida
1986- The Dog Trots Freely, Sound Work, Artifacts Art Salon, Miami, Florida
Interference, video work, FIU, Miami, Florida
Group Show, The Art Museum, FIU, Miami, Florida
Discover a New Form of Art, D&D Gallery, Miami, Florida
1985- Group Show, The Art Museum, FIU, Miami, Florida
1984- Group Show, The Art Museum, FIU, Miami, Florida
1983- Twelve in Art, The Art Gallery, MDCC, Miami, Florida
1982- Group Show, The Art Gallery, MDCC, Miami, Florida
AWARDS
1996- John Marion Scholarship, Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1995- Rex Art Award, FIU, Miami, Florida
Brown Marion Whately Scholarship, FIU, Miami, Florida
1983- Frances Wolfson Scholarship, MDCC, Miami, Florida
1982- Francis Wolfson Scholarship, MDCC, Miami, Florida.