He has exhibited widely, at venues including the Allen Sheppard Gallery,
Grenning Gallery, Arcadia Gallery, John Pence Gallery, Nabi Gallery,
and Seraphin Gallery, and at the National Academy of Design, in New York
City, and the Fort Wayne Museum of Art, in Indiana. Armetta’s work has
won numerous awards, from such institutions as the Portrait Society of
America and the Art Renewal Center, and has also appeared in several
publications, including a full-length article in the Artist’s Magazine
and, most recently, the book Portrait Painting Atelier, which features a
portrait of his on its cover. He has taught drawing and painting at
Long Island University, Southampton, and currently teaches drawing and
painting at the New York Academy of Art and the Long Island Academy of
Fine Art, in Glen Cove, New York, which he founded in 2000. His teaching
at LIAFA has recently earned him the Distinguished Service in Art
Education Award from the Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts, which
honored him as an outstanding arts educator. His own studio is in
Brooklyn, where he lives with his wife and daughters.