born arezzo 19**, italy
education
2024 MFA master of fine arts, royal college of art (career progression bursary)
2020 BA painting accademia di belle arti di perugia (chen ming bursary) + accademia di belle arti di roma (2015-20)
2010 PGcert new media IED istituto europeo di design, rome
2005 laurea magistrale/ MA hons communication, università degli studi di perugia
2003-2012 investigative journalist, video reporter / registered – ODG ordine dei giornalisti //
2013 start of cohabitation with bees + lepidoptera, ongoing // career shift into visual arts
residencies++ grants++ awards
resident artist proposition (fall 2024) / VO curations (2023) / ACAVA (2022) london //
sense residencies MABOS, museo d’arte del bosco della sila, catanzaro (september 2021) //
pilotenkueche international program, leipzig (april-june 2021) //
orange book 2022 / artrepreneur NY, award winner (2020) (2022), finalist printmaking section (2021) //
award winner 7th O.R.A. prize for the artistic research (ecce homo series) selected by curva pura (2018) //
13th arte laguna prize finalist &shortlisted /land art section (2018) //
premio nazionale antonio ranocchia / honourable mention (2017) //
collaborations ++ workshops ++
2025 pierre huyghe, the name announcer, 1+1 the relational years, curated nicolas bourriaud, associate curator eleonora farina, MAXXI museum, rome, october – ongoing, performer //
2017 aram bartholl, wannacry (weeping angels), 57th venice biennale, hyper pavilion, curated philippe riss-schmidt, produced by fabulous inc. may-september, performer //
2017 eliza soroga, women in agony, arsenal of venice, march, performer //
2017 andreco, parata della fine – the end of anthropocene era, curated by giada pellicari, centro per l’arte contemporanea luigi pecci, prato, february, performer //
2017-18 fondazione progetti beverly pepper, residency projects: opera pr1ma off/beverly feat. accademia di belle arti pietro vannucci – (january) restoration of ‘ascensione’ (2008) / beverly pepper tra todi e il mondo (novembre) curated massimo mattioli, sponsored by fondazione progetti beverly pepper, production and studio assistant //
2025 fondazione antonio ratti, sustainable architecture, self-construction workshop, led by saviana parodi e stefano mattei, villa sucota, como, september, hands-on volunteer //
2017-18 gruppo jobel, bottega arti creative, rome (FW) creative drawing & writing teacher, lecturer//
2017 IAF international author forum, italian project manager FUIS, palazzo ferrajoli, rome, speaker, testimonial: the costs of living and producing artworks for emerging artists //
public collections
MABOS, museo d’arte del bosco della sila, catanzaro //
procura della repubblica, palazzo martorelli orsini, spoleto //
site specific / *solo
2024 march/ june *in secret dens / riverside walk – us embassy, london + WAF wandsworth fringe art festival // project manager wandsworth council
2023 october prompt for credentials / VO curations, london //
2022 april-may genetica della forma / palazzo collicola arti visive, spoleto // curator davide silvioli
2022 november-january esercizio di decenza VOL 1+2 / chiesa madonna del pozzo / opus&light (november-january 2023) // curators valeria de siero, michela becchis
2021 october *di_stanza / il paesaggio futuro, rappresentazione immaginazione / IX castelnuovo fotografia, rome // curators michela becchis, manuela de leonibus, elisabetta portoghese
2021 september-ongoing oltre cenere/ MABOS museo d’arte del bosco della sila, permanent installation //
2021 june language gaps / galerie kub, leipzig // curator joanna glinkowska
2021 march MOP month of photography, reimagining hope / CPAC colorado photographic arts center, denver // curator samantha johnston
2019 june diversioni _ mariani pallante vicidomini zabo / centro della ricerca contemporanea luigi di sarro, rome // curator davide silvioli
2019 june-july *materia prima, curva pura + boccanera gallery / castello aliprandini laifenthurn, trento // curator michela becchis
2018 june-september *in buono stato / curva pura gallery, rome // curated river of trees
selected group shows
2024 may co-creating with nature / sustainLab RCA annual show, upper gulbenkian gallery, london // curators giada holland, zofia kierkus, yenah kim, hoi man lai, hee jo kang
2024 may interstitial collective, rituals of between and betwixt, safehouse, london // curatorship emma black elise oursa
2023 june iron collective, studio campo boario, rome // curators virginia ryan, mara predicatori, manuela de leonardis
2022 october-november contemporary abstract, hilliard gallery, kansas city // curator bob swearingin
2022 june-october i nuovi reperti brooke_laplante_zabo, MuST museo della scienza del comune di spoleto – spolia 5 BESTIARIO POST/ATOMICO //
2022 february fuorifuoco: angrisani tancredi tosti zabo, studio attilio quintili // curator davide silvioli
2021 june play deep play, pilotenkueche, leipzig // curator joanna glinkowska
2020 october IV international b-video art festival, khodynka gallery, moscow // curators natalia monakhova and andrey slaschilin
2020 may #tempofermo, 16civico, pescara (2020) // curator christian ciampoli, texts chiara scarlato
2019 november sciame project, presentetion, MACRO museum rome //
2019 august natura naturans / fonti padovani serafini zianni zabo / chiesa di san francesco in cortemilia, cuneo // curator valeria guglielmi supported municipality of cortemilia
2019 march-april 13th premio arte laguna, arsenale of venice //
2018 september-october F.U.T.U.R.A. 3018 performative arts festival / treviso // supported by rete dei festival di treviso, municipality of treviso, curated subsculture
2018 february-march brana_altri mondi, fuseum museo brajo fuso // curator andrea baffoni
2017 june-july mimmo paladino and the young artists / museo tattile omero, mole vanvitelliana, ancona / supported TACTUS contemporary, MIBAC ministero beni culturali, MIUR //
2016 july-november opera pr1ma / umbria terre musei, pinacoteca civica di spello / various curators, supported by sistema museo, accademia di belle arti di perugia //
available catalogues
premio combat prize 2025, edited by paolo batoni, edizioni sillabe // il problema ambientale nell’arte contemporanea, silvioli d., in: nuovo lessico critico, ecologia, a cura di prisca amoroso, castelvecchi editore, (2023) // genetica della forma, texts davide silvioli, valeria de siero, marco tonelli, kappabit edizioni, rome (2023) // arte e bosco, il secondo catalogo del MABOS, galileo editore, (2022), curator angelo gallo // orange book volume, artrepreneur NY publishing, new york (2022) // fuori fuoco: angrisani-tancredi-tosti-zabo, texts davide silvioli, freemocco ed. (2022) // iron collective, critical texts manuela de leonardis, mara predicatori, davide silvioli, emma tramontana, antonella cristina manni, freemocco edizioni (2022) // brana, omaggio a brajo fuso, curatorial texts andrea baffoni, fabrizio fabbri editore (2018) // CAM 54, ed. mondadori (2018) //
contact
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