Giordano’s work was introduced in New York City and on the national level in the 1971-1972 travelling exhibition curated by the American Federation of the Arts entitled “PAINTERLY REALISTS,” the first nationally circulated exhibition of the Painterly Realists.

He was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow Individual Grant for Painting from the New York State Council on the Arts. Other grants of note include two grants for Collaboration in Dance/Set Design from the National Endowment for the Arts and two grants for Collaboration in Dance/Set Design from the New York State Council on the Arts for performance pieces created by choreographer, Blondell Cummings. His dance sets have traveled throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia.

His paintings and prints are in museums, private, and corporate collections throughout the United States, Europe, and South Africa. His paintings have been exhibited in museums and galleries in solo and group shows. He had solo exhibitions at the Queens Museum, New York; the Reading Public Museum, Reading, Pennsylvania; the University of Maryland; Moravian College, Pennsylvania; Salisbury University, Maryland; and Museo Castello Aldobrandesco, Arcidosso, Italy.

Public and corporate collections of his work include The Library of Congress, The New York City Public Library, The Brooklyn Museum, the Estee Lauder Collection, the Walbro Corporation, Smith College, Prudential Insurance of America, and The American Telephone & Telegraph Corporation.

Major public commissions include a 9-foot by 49-foot entrance-way mural for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Ninth Street PATH Station in Manhattan sponsored by The Public Art Fund, New York City.

Articles and reviews on Giordano’s work including reproductions have appeared in The Baltimore Sun; Baltimore City Paper; Cover Magazine, New York City; The New York Times; The New Yorker; Arts Magazine; artspeak; ArtNews; American Artist; and Art in America.

Giordano has been a guest lecturer at the Reading Public Museum; Queens Museum; Pratt Institute; Maryland Institute College of Art; Cooper Union; the Walters Art Museum; the Creative Alliance, Baltimore, Maryland; and the International School for Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, Umbria, Italy.

He was the Director of Artists’ Certification, Director of Artists' Housing, and the Director of the City Gallery for the New York Department of Cultural Affairs, where he also served as the artist liaison from 1981-89. Previously, he was the Director of Public Service Employment for the Cultural Council Foundation, CETA Artists Project, New York City, from 1978 – 1981.

He currently lives in Baltimore, Maryland, where he is completing a series of paintings entitled “The Presence of Absence.”