Born in Catania, Italy

Lives and works in London 

Education

2000 – 2002 Goldsmiths University, London, MA Fine Art

1996 – 1999 Central St Martins college of Art & Design, London, BA Fine Art

Awards and Residencies

2013 Wysing Arts Centre, Bourn, Cambridge, UK

2012 Artist in residence, Belvedere and Augarten Contemporary, Vienna, Austria 

2003 ACAVA First Base award

Solo Exhibitions

(C) denotes that a catalogue was published in conjunction with the exhibition.

2024 In The Sharp Gust of Love, Maureen Paley Studio M, London

2021 Glee, Ridley Road Project Space, London

2020/2021 - Vauxhall Ever Green, Hudson Yards, New York

2017 RE-MASTER, Beaconsfield Gallery, London

Vorrei Regnare, Palazzo Vigo, Riposto (CT), Italy

2016 solo presentation SP Arte Sao Paulo, Brazil

2015 As Unreal as Everything Else, Museo Civico, Castelbuono, Palermo, Italy  (C)

2014/2015  Abdomen, Fonti, Naples

2013 The Foreigners Stand Still, Fondazione Giuliani, Rome (C) 

2011 Year of The Corn, China Art Objects, Los Angeles

Entrano il Coro e gli Attori, Galleria Fonti, Naples

La Kunsthalle Mulhouse, Mulhouse, France, (C) 

2009 Maureen Paley, London

Art Statements, Art Basel, Basel

2008 So this song kills fascists, Art Now, Tate Britain, London

China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles 

2007 Violenza D’Avanguardia, Fonti, Naples 

Live in Pankow, REC., Berlin

2006 Maureen Paley, London

Imperial, Bureau, Manchester

2004 Ha Loo Sin Nation, Lawrence O’Hana Gallery, London

2003 Christiane, Shoreditch Electricity Showrooms, London (site specific sound installation)

Group Exhibitions (selection) (C) denotes that a catalogue was published in conjunction with the exhibition.

2023 MELTDOWN, Ridley Road Project Space, London

2021 Intermezzo Strumentale, Fonti, Naples

2019-2020 Pushing paper: Contemporary Drawing from 1970 to now, British Museum, London; Glynn Vivian Gallery, Swansea (travelling) (C)

2019 ME TWO, Opere dalla collezione di Ernesto Esposito, Museo Ettore Fico, Turin, Italy 

2018 Bumped Bodies; Works from the Iself Collection, Whitechapel Gallery, London

2017 Collections on display: Rituals, Migros Museum, Zurich

The map is more interesting than the territory, Hamburg Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany

Colloquio Mitico, Fonti, Naples, Italy

2015 Sweet Sixteen, China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles

2014 The influence of furniture on love, Wysing Arts centre, Bourn, Cambridge, UK 

Portrait of the artist as a young (wo)man, Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli, Italy 

Annals of the twenty ninth century, Wysing Arts Centre, Bourn, Cambridge,UK 

2013 Girls Can Tell, GAK, Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen, Germany (C)

new work, Sprovieri, London

Cara Domani, works from the Ernesto Esposito collection, Mambo, Museo d’arte Moderna di Bologna, Italy

Cosmic Laughter, timewave zero, then what?, Ursula Blickle Stiftung Kraichtal-Unteröwisheim, Germany (C)

2012 History I never lived through (Indirect Witness), Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli, Italy 

Utopia Gesamtkunstwerk, 21er Haus, Vienna, Austria (C)

2010 Le Dernier Roman Du Monde, Supportico Lopez, Berlin, Germany

No New Thing Under The Sun, Royal Academy of Art, London

Performative Attitudes, Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus, Switzerland, (C) SI-Sindrome Italiana, Magasin – Centre National d’Art Contemporain,Grenoble, France

2009 Compass in Hand: Selections from the Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawing Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York, (C) 

The Object of The Attack, David Roberts Art Foundation, London

2008 2008-1999, China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles

Archeology of Mind, touring exhibition: Malmö Art Museum, Malmö, Sweden; Kuntsi, Museum for Contemporary Art, Vasa, Finland.

Italia Italie Italien Italy Waochy, Museo Arcos, Benevento.

Wunderkammer: A Century of Curiosities, Museum of Modern Art, New York 

Yours Mine Ours, University of Essex, Colchester.

2007 Salon Nouveau, Engholm Engelhorn Galerie, Vienna. 

REC.OLLECTION, REC, Berlin.

Nueva Dimension, Hats/Plus, London.

2006 While Interwoven Echoes Drip into a Hybrid Body, migros museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich (C)

Beck’s Futures, touring exhibition: ICA, London, CCA (off site), Glasgow, Arnolfini (off site), Bristol, (C).

Figure of the Player, The Paradox of the actor, Collection Lambert En Avignon, France.

2005 Prague Biennial 2, Karlin Hall.

2004 The Black Album, Maureen Paley, London

Contrapop, Vamiali’s , Athens, November 2003 Kick it till it breaks, VTO Gallery, London

Pretty Little Things , The Ship, London Bootleg, Spitalfields Market, London

Sound and Vision, Royal Festival Hall, London

2001 Penny Dreadfuls, VTO Gallery, London 

Unchaperoned, Aroma Project Space, Berlin

2000 Self Service, 5 Years Gallery, London 

1998 Glossy, Milch Gallery, London

Exhibitionists Festival, Institute of Contemporary Art, London