Born 1976 in Enna, Italy

Teaching activity

2021 – present
Sculpture, NABA – Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, Rome

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2026
La polvere ci mostra che la luce esiste, Repetto Gallery, Lugano (CH)

2024
Arcobaleno di Notte, Villa Mondolfo, Como (Italy)

2022
Frangiflutti, Galleria Magazzino, Rome (Italy)

2021
Qualche uccello si perde nel cielo, Litografia Bulla, Rome (Italy)

2020
Il silenzio non m’inganna, Siegfried Contemporary, London (United Kingdom)

2018
La Chaire des choses (Une rose et quatre vents), Espace arts plastiques Madeleine Lambert, Vénissieux (France), curated by Xavier Jullien and Marc Bembekoff
La Chaire des choses (Dans la poussière, les abeilles et le pétrole font la lumière), La Halle des Bouchers Contemporary Art Centre, Vienne (France), curated by Xavier Jullien and Marc Bembekoff
Marango, Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, New York University, New York (USA), curated by Vittorio Calabrese (C)

2016
Quaranta, Galleria Magazzino, Rome (Italy)

2014
Primavera Piangiamore, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (France), MODULES – Fondation Pierre Bergé – Yves Saint Laurent, curated by Daria de Beauvois

2013
Tutto il vento che c’è, Galleria Civica Giovanni Segantini, Arco (Italy), in collaboration with Museo dell’Alto Garda and MART, Rovereto (Italy), curated by Federico Mazzonelli, Denis Isaia, Federica Caciolli (C)

2011
Tutto il vento che c’è, GAMeC – Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo (Italy) (C)
Testimone di fatti ordinari, Galleria Magazzino, Rome (Italy)

2010
Quando il fuori di adesso era dentro e il dentro era fuori, Fondazione Brodbeck, Catania (Italy), in collaboration with Palazzo Riso – Museum of Contemporary Art, Palermo (Italy)

2008
Luogo Comune, double solo exhibition with Stanislao Di Giugno, Galleria Tiziana Di Caro, Salerno (Italy)

2007
Una questione privata, Magazzino d’Arte Moderna, Rome (Italy)

2006
Sfidando la verità con la gravità, Galleria Paolo Bonzano, Rome (Italy)

2005
L’osso è sacro, Istituto Angelo Mai, Rome (Italy), curated by Marianna Vecellio (C)

2003
InFrantumi, Rialto Santambrogio, Rome (Italy), site-specific installation

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025

The Gorgeous Nothings. Flowers at Chatsworth, curated by Allegra Pesenti, Chatsworth, Bakewell (UK)
Art & Nature: Inside Out, Villa Arconati, Bollate (Italy), curated by Diana Segantini
Esse Potest – Compresenze (Im)possibili, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan (Italy), curated by the Pastoral Centre and the Department of Art History (C)
Il canto della terra, Repetto Gallery, Lugano (Switzerland), curated by Paolo Repetto
East and West: From Shanghai to Rome, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome (Italy), curated by Gabriele Simongini and Zhang Xiaoling
Tra il mito e il sacro, Museo Bilotti, Rome (Italy)

2024

Le tentazioni di Apollo, PRAC – Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea, Ponzano Romano (Italy), curated by Graziano Menolascina (C)

2023

U.N.A. – United Nations of Artists – “Vitrei non Triviali Tirocini”, Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea, Trevi (Italy)
Spazio Treccani Arte, Palazzo Mattei di Paganica, Rome (Italy), curated by Iacopo Ceni
Fare Notte, ETworks Studio, Rome (Italy), curated by Roberto Lacarbonara
Fabriano Contemporanea #1 – Intrecci, City of Fabriano (Italy) (C)
Panorama XIX, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome (Italy)
Viaggio in Italia XXI – Lo sguardo sull’altro, Italian Cultural Institute, Berlin (Germany) (C)

2022

Sur le motif, Espace arts plastiques Madeleine-Lambert, Vénissieux (France)
The Italians, Margulies Collection, Miami (USA)

Naturalis Historia, Studio Trisorio, Naples
Viaggio in Italia XXI – Lo sguardo sull’altro, Museo Casa di Goethe, Rome (Italy), curated by Ludovico Pratesi
Art Crossing. Riattivare il Genius Loci, Casale di Santa Maria Nuova – Parco Archeologico dell’Appia Antica, Rome (Italy), curated by Ludovico Pratesi and Marco Bassan
Panorama Monopoli – ITALICS, Monopoli, (Italy), curated by Vincenzo de Bellis
Le songe d’Ulysse, Fondation Carmignac, Porqueroles, (France), curated by Francesco Stocchi

2021

Carta Coreana – Hanji, Museo Carlo Bilotti, Rome curated by Claudio Libero Pisano
Ajiar, Galerie Hubert Winter, curated by Mouna Mekouar, Wien
There Is No Place Like Home, curated by Giuliana Benassi, Via del Mandrione 334, Rome
Camera Picta, Galleria Civica, Trento, curated by Margherita de Pilati, Gabriele Lorenzoni and Federico Mazzonelli

2020


Transatlantico, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, US, curated by Edoardo Monti
Insieme, Mura Aureliane, Via di Porta Labicana, Rome, curated by Gianni Politi
What’s new? Collezione Giancarlo e Danna Olgiati, Lugano, CH curated by Danna Olgiati and Diego Cassina
A Sentimental Landscape. The invention of landscape after Goethe, Museo dell’Alto Garda, Riva del Garda (Trento)

2019


Luogo e Segni, Punta della Dogana – Pinault Collection, Venice, curated by Martin Bethenod and Mouna Mekouar
Nature is what we see, Collezione Giancarlo e Danna Olgiati, Lugano, CH, curated by Danna Olgiati and Diego Cassina
Ragione e Sentimento, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome

2018

tbt to be titled, turn back time, Galleria Magazzino, Rome (Italy)
Taxidermy, Piazza dei Quiriti 10, Rome (Italy), curated by Barbara Reggio and Leonardo Petrucci
Intermezzo, Villa Zito, Palermo (Italy), Video Art review curated by Agata Polizzi
La febbre, Palazzo Mazzarino, Palermo (Italy), curated by Vincenzo Schillaci (C)

2017

Da io a noi, curated by Anna Mattirolo, Palazzo del Quirinale, Rome

2016

Time is out of Joint, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome
Par Tibi Roma Nihil, Colle Palatino, Rome, curated by Raffaella Frascarelli
The Lasting – L’intervallo e la durata, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome curated by Saretto Cincinelli
Quai, Galleria Giovanni Bonelli, Milan, curated by Federico Mazzonelli
Cosa rimane, Ipercorpo 2016, Ex Centrale avicola Amadori,Forlì, curated by Davide Ferri
Not really really, Frédéric de Goldschmidt collection, curated by Frédéric de Goldschmidt and Agata Jastrząbek, Brussels
La pelle, Fondaco hosted by Officina, Brussels


2015

Wax, Galleria Francesco Pantaleone, Palermo
16° edition of Cairo Prize, Palazzo della Permanente, Milan
In che senso italiano? Bibo’s Place, Todi (Perugia)
Attorno ad una conchiglia vuota, as part of “You can take it with you” at Italian Institute of Culture, Paris
èdra- Tutta l’Italia è silenziosa, Real Academia Española and Polish Institute, Rome, curated by Davide Ferri
Ce l’ho / mi manca, Museo Mandralisca, Cefalù (Palermo), curated by Agata Polizzi
L’arte lungo il percorso della battaglia, Obelisco del cimitero militare polacco di Montecassino, Cassino (Frosinone) , curated by Claudio Libero Pisano
La scrittura degli echi, a project curated by NERO for “The Indipendent” at MAXXI, Rome
MILKREVOLUTION, American Academy in Rome. A group show compiled by CURA.


2014

There is no place like home, private house, Rome
Made in town, with Gianluca Malgeri, Atelier Made in Town, Paris
Meteorite in giardino, Palazzo Riso Museum of Contemporary Art, Palermo
Meteorite in Giardino (il meteorite in ambiente), Nuovo Spazio di Casso (Pordenone)
Meteorite in giardino, Fondazione Merz, Turin


2013

Sletto & Corso, 20th Sélest’art Biennale of Contemporary Art, Sélestat (France), curated by Marc Bembekoff and Julien Fronsacq
The Naturalists, La Foce, Castelluccio di Pienza (Siena), curated by Peter Benson Miller
Il fascino discreto dell’oggetto, Figura 2: natura morta, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome, curated by Cecilia Canziani e Ilaria Gianni


2012

Encore, Galleria Magazzino, Rome
Reality Show, Galleria Tiziana Di Caro, Salerno , curated by Stanislao Di Giugno
Re-Generation, MACRO, Rome, curated by Ilaria Gianni and Maria Alicata
Smeared with the Gold of the Opulent Sun, NOMAS Foundation, Rome, curated by Chris Sharp
Dormitorio Pubblico, Campoli Presti Gallery, London, curated by Marianna Vecellio
Valentini Contemporary, Palazzo Valentini, Rome, curated by Damiana Leoni


2011

Voglio soltanto essere amato, MAGA, Gallarate (Varese), curated by Gabi Scardi and Ruth Cats
When In Rome, Italian Institute of Culture, Los Angeles, curated by Luca Lo Pinto and Valerio Mannucci
Ente Comunale di Consumo, Galleria Nazionale di Cosenza, Cosenza, curated by Claudio Libero Pisano
Never talk to strangers, Edel Assanti Gallery, London, curated by Charlotte Artus


2010

Landscape and People of Sicily, Palazzo Riso Museum of Contemporary Art, Palermo curated by Giovanni Iovane
Italian Sculpture of the XXI century, Fondazione Pomodoro, Milan, curated by Marco Meneguzzo
Mutinity seemed a probability, Giuliani Foundation, Rome, curated by Adrienne Drake
Artist in residence show, Fondazione Pomodoro, Milan, curated by Angela Vettese and Milovan Farronato
Into the folds of the world, Foro Boario, Oristano, curated by Cristiana Collu


2009

The sky into a room, Galleria Comunale d’Arte Monfalcone, curated by Andrea Bruciati
Lum Prize, Bari, curated by Francesco Stocchi, Luca Cerizza and Antonella Marino
Let’s forget about today until tomorrow, Brown Space, Milan, curated by Marco Tagliafierro
Usine de Reve, 26cc, Rome, curated by Cecilia Casorati e Sabrina Vedovotto
Emerging Talents, Strozzina, Florence, curated by Andrea Bellini, Luca Cerizza, Caroline Corbetta, Andrea Lissoni, Paolo Parisi
Wintry, Magazzino, Rome


2008

Turin Triennale T2 | The 50 moons of Saturn, Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Rivoli (Turin), curated by Daniel Birnbaum
Out of Place, public project for parallel events of MANIFESTA 7, Trento, curated by Federico Mazzonelli
The Unfair Fair, Loto Desing, Rome, curated by Cecilia Canziani and Vincente Honore
Beware of The Wolf, American Academy in Rome, curated by Lorenzo Benedetti and Lexi Eberspacher
Contemporay art through posters, Palazzo Lantieri, Gorizia, curated by Lorenzo Benedetti
3500cm², Uqbar, Berlino, curated by Lorenzo Benedetti


2007

We Are All Outlaw In The Name Of Perù, Bar Perù, Rome, curated by José Cuervo
PAN HOST, Palazzo delle Arti, Naples, curated by Laura Barreca
IACCA, International Association of Corpotate Collections of Contemporary Art, Congress Centre Basel, Basel Art Fair, curated by di Cordula Von Keller
Inscriptions, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Guarene d’Alba (Turin), curated by Jimena Acosta
…ma come mai?, Galleria Paolo Bonzano, Rome


2006

Spinola Banna Foundation, Turin, curated by Gail Cocranne, Guido Costa and Mario Airò
3500cm², Assab One, Milan and American Academy in Rome, Rome, curated by Lorenzo Benedetti
Private, private house, Rome, curated by Benedetta di Loreto
1.60insurgentspace, Tirana, curated by Stefano Romano

Prizes and Residences

2015
Winner of the Cairo Prize, Palazzo della Permanente, Milan (Italy)

2010
Winner of the Global Art Programme, Khoj Studio, New Delhi (India), in collaboration with Artegiovane Torino/Milano (Italy), funded by the Lombardy Region

2008
Winner of Pagine Bianche d’Autore 2007/2008, Sicily Region (Italy)

2007
Winner of the Premio Passaporto, City of Turin (Italy) and DENA Foundation for Contemporary Art, Centre International d’Accueil et d’Échanges des Récollets, Paris (France)