ANDREA GALVANI
(Italy, 1973)
EDUCATION
Drawing from other disciplines and often assuming scientific methodologies, his
conceptual research informs his use of photography, video, drawing, and installation
witch cumulatively delve into phenomenological experiences to convey what the artist
describes as “architecture of the invisible”. Galvani’s work has been exhibited
internationally in Museums and Biennales. In 2011,he received the New York Exposure
Prize and recently was nominated for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize
2002 MFA in Visual Art from Bilbao University
1999 BFA in Sculpture from the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna
2013 Terrarium (curated by Sofia Mariscal) MARSO Gallery, Mexico City
2012 A few invisible sculptures, Meulensteen / Max Protetch Gallery, New York, NY
2011 Four Works (curated by Nora Lawrence) Aperture Foundation, New York, NY
2010 Lecture, (curated by Maria Rosa Sossai), Casa Musumeci Greco, Rome, Italy
A Cube, A Sphere and A Pyramid, (curated by Daniela Zangrando in collaboration with
Fondazione Claudio Buziol), Perarolo di Cadore, Belluno, Italy
2009 Higgs Ocean, Impulse Pulse Prize, The Ice Palace Miami Pulse Fair, Miami, FL
2008 La triade di Bichat III, (curated by Maria Rosa Sossai), Catelvecchio Museum, Verona,
Italy
2007 N -1, (curated by Anna Daneri), Galleria Artericambi, Verona, Italy
L’intelligenza del male, Circuit, Lausanne, Switzerland
2006 Andrea Galvani 2003-2006, (curated by Andrea Bruciati), GC.AC Galleria Comunale
d’Arte Contemporanea, Monfalcone, Italy
2005 Decostruzione di una montagna e la morte di un’immagine, (curated by Marinella
Paderni), Artopia, Milan, Italy
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS & PROJECTS
2012 The Skull Sessions, (Curated by Omar Lopez-Chahoud), Special project for Untiltled
Art Fair, Miami, FL.
The Unknow, (Curated by Tomasz Wendland, Denise Carvalho, Friedhelm Mennekes,
Fumio Nanjo), Mediations Biennale, Poznań, Poland.
Passé recomposé, Festival des Arts Visuels de Vevey, Switzerland
Uncommon ground, (Curated by Chris Littlewood), Flowers Gallery, London
Wanderings, (Curated by Cecilia Jurado and Alberto Borea)Y Gallery, New York, NY
The architecture of the invisible: Andrea Galvani and William Lamson (Text by Valentín
Roma), Tatiana Kourochkina Contemporary Art Project, Barcelona, Spain
“Oh, you mean cellophane and all that crap”, (Curated by Katherine Cohn, Victoria
Brooks, Kevin Barry and Gryphon Rower-Upjohn),
Calder Foundation Project, New York, NY
2011 Melancholy is not enough, (Curated by Niels Van Tomme), Pavilion Unicredit,
Center for Contemporary Art & Culture, Bucharest, Romania
Four minutes, thirty-three seconds, (Curated by Omar Lopez-Chahoud), LegalArt, Miami,
Florida
Rewriting Worlds, 4th Moscow Biennale Moscow of Contemporary Art (Curated by Peter
Weibel & Joseph Backstein) Artplay
Design Center and The TSUM Art Foundation, Moscow, USSR
The gentlemen of Verona | Experiments on the Contemporary in Italy, (Curated by Andrea
Bruciati), Contemporary and Modern art Museum of Palazzo Forti, Verona, Italy
Resemblance, Photography between reality and appearance, (Curated by Roberto
Maggiori and Italo Zannier) San Francisco Museum, Via Basilicius, San Marino. Organized
by the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of San Marino, Italy
Artmrkt Hamptons, Meulensteen Gallery, Bridgehampton Historical Society Grounds
Bridgehampton, NY
Camera Vivant, (curated by Kat Cohn, Abby Merrick, Jessica Gallucci and Jill Murphy),
Central Utah Art Project, Ephraim, UT
2010 THE PRIVATE MUSEUM. The passion for contemporary art in the collections in
Bergamo, (curated by Giacinto Di Pietrantonio and M.Cristina Rodeschini), GAMeC
Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo, Italy
Fragments From Nowhere: Marco Magnani Prize, (curated by Stefano Romano), Palazzo
Ducale, Sassari, Italy
Interrupted Landscapes, (curated by Sonia Dutton), Champion Contemporary, Austin, TX
Talent Prize, (curated by Patrizia Sandretto Rebaudengo, Luca Massimo Barbero, Eduardo
Cicelyn, Alberto Fiz, Anna Mattirolo, Ludovico Pratesi, Gianluca Winkler), Museo ex
Centrale Montemartini, Rome, Italy
Languages and Experimentations. Young Artists in a Contemporary Collection, (curated
by Giorgio Verzotti, text by Hans-Ulrich Obrist), Mart Museo di arte Moderna e
Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto, Italy
Invito a Palazzo: Selected Works from the Banca Popolare di Bergamo Permanent
Collection, (curated by Enrico De Pascale), Chiostro Santa Marta, Bergamo, Italy
The Only One / L’unico, (curated by Julia Trolp), Trieste Contemporanea, Studio
Tommaseo, Trieste, Italy
Uno sguardo senza peso, (curated by Daniela Capra), Palazzo Piazzoni Parravicini, Vittorio
Veneto, Italy
2009 The Last Session, (curated by Jan Van Woensel), Flemish Arts Center De Brakke
Grond, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Artissima 16: International Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Galleria Artericambi, Lingotto
Fiere, Turin, Italy
Videorama, (curated by Maria Rosa Sossai), ArtVerona, Verona, Italy / Italy
DUST JACKET Vol.1 Temporary geometry, (curated by Marco Antonini), 2009 Special
Armory Event, Italian Cultural Institute, New York, NY
PS: Parsing Spirituality,"(curated by Micaela Giovanotti), Affirmation Arts, New York, NY
2008 Italidea, (curated by Renato Miracco), Museum of Sant'Ildefonso, Mexico City,
Mexico
The Influence of Fish Tails on The Breaking Waves, (curated by Irina Zucca Alessandrelli),
Point B Special Projects, Brooklyn, NY
Italidea, (curated by Renato Miracco), Instituto Cultural Cabanas, Guadalajara, Mexico
Artissima 15: International Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Galleria
2007 Babylon, BAC! Barcelona International Contemporary Art Festival, Centro de Cultura
Contemporánea de Barcelona (CCCB), Spain Effetto Stalker, (curated by Helga Marsala),
Galleria dell’Arco, Palermo, Italy
Aletti Art Prize, Otto Gallery, ArtVerona, Verona, Italy
Artissima 14: International Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Galleria Artericambi, Turin,
Italy
2006 LOVELY DAZE ISSUE 3: Collection of Artists, (curated by Charwei Tsai), Whitney
Museum, New York, NY
Artissima 13: International Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Galleria Artericambi, Lingotto
Fiere, Turin, Italy
Visioni del Paradiso, (curated by Karin Frei and Domenico Lucchini), Swiss Institue of
Culture, Rome, Italy
2005 Ritorni d’immagine, The Flat / Villa Noris, Villa Fontana, Verona, Italy
On Air, (curated by Andrea Bruciati and Antonella Crippa), Festival Intercontemporanea
Ovada / Pescheria della Rocca, Lugo, Italy
Thin Line, (curated by Milovan Farronato, critical text by Daniela Lotta), via Farini, Milan,
Italy
2004 Small Treasures, (curated by Biagiotti Progetto Arte), Biagiotti Arte Contemporanea,
Florence, Italy
Me without you, (curated by Serena Becagli and Federica Mascagni), Biagiotti Arte
Contemporanea, Florence, Italy
On Air, (curated by Andrea Bruciati and Antonella Crippa), Kunst Meran inhaus der
Sparkasse, Merano / Centro d'Arte Contemporanea "Luigi Pecci" Prato
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 - present
2010 - present
SELECTED GRANTS AND RESIDENCIES
2010 Nominated, Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2011, London, UK
M.I.A. Artist Space Program/Columbia University School of the Arts. Brooklyn, NY
Finalist, Talent Prize, Rome, Italy
Winner, Exposure Grand Prize Award, Artists Wanted, New York, NY
Visiting Artist Program, New York University, New York, NY
2009 LMCC Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace Residency, New York,NY
Arctic Circle, International Research-Based Studio Program, New York, NY / Svalbard
Island, North Pole
Terzo Paesaggio, Visual Art Prize, New Permanent Collection of Contemporary
Photography, GAM, Gallarate, Italy
2008 Location One, International Artist Residency Program, New York, NY
Finalist, Aletti Prize, ArtVerona Fair, Verona, Italy
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Artist Pension Trust, New York, NY
Aspen Contemporary Art Collection, New York, NY
MART, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Collection AGI, Rovereto, Trento, Italy
MAXXI, National Museum of XXI Century Arts, Collection Claudia Gian Ferrari, Rome,Italy
GAM Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Permanent Collection, Gallarate, Italy
Unicredit Bank, New Young Collection, Milan, Italy
Aletti Bank, Collection of Contemporary Photography, Milan, Italy
UBI-Banca Popolare di Bergamo, Permanent Collection, Bergamo,Italy
Castelvecchio Musuem, Permanent Collection, Verona, Italy