MAURIZIO BONGIOVANNI
Lives and works between London and Milan
Selected Solo & Two Person Exhibitions
2019 Fiore Aperto Fiore Chiuso, Galleria Richter, Rome, IT
2019 Peacock's Eyes, Studio d'Arte Cannaviello, Milan, IT
2019 Ever Fallen, Metodo Milano Artist Run Space, Milan, IT
2019 Window Project, Federico Lugar Gallery, Spazio 22, Milan, IT
2017 The Original Face, Century Club, London, UK
2015 Goldfinch, Uluntu Bermondsey, London, UK
2014 CRISCO DISCO and The Totem Paintings, at Fondazione FUORI!, Turin, IT
2012 As We May Think, Galleria Uno+Uno, Milan, IT
2012 It makes me tense, MARS Milan Artist Run Space, Milan, IT
2011 IARB International Art Residency Beijing at Where Where Art Space, Beijing, IT
2009 Abstraction-Action, Studio d'Arte Cannaviello, Milan, IT
Group Exhibitions
2020 TO PAINT IS TO LOVE AGAIN Curated by Olivier Zahm, Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2019 I hope this finds you well, Eve Leibe Gallery, London, UK
2019 Selvatico, Atlante, curated by Massimiliano Fabbri, Ravenna, IT
2019 Comic Tendencies, Eve Leibe Gallery, London, UK
2019 LANDINA, Esperienza di pittura en plein air, curated by Lorenza Boisi, Villa Fumagalli, Laveno, IT
2019 Le conseguenze dell'errore, TRA Treviso Ricerca Arte, curated by Valerio Veneruso, Treviso, IT
2019 Forme uniche nella continuità dello spazio, Galleria Rizzuto, an idea by Luigi Presicce, Palermo, IT
2018 Be Water Again, Project Space Koraï, Curated by Panos Giannikopoulos & Theodoulos Polyviou, Nicosia, Cyprus, CY
2018 NOCCIOLINE, promoted by Yellow, Milan, IT
2018 Painters - Painting - Painters, MARS Milan Artist Run Space, Milan, IT
2017 NATURE MORTE, Contemporary Still Life, Guildhall Art Gallery, London, UK
2017 Studio Freud, B&G Studio di Psicoterapia, curated by Fabio Carnaghi, Milan, IT
2017 MADEINBRITALY, Drawings from Lightning, curated by Laura Santamaria, London, UK
2016 Hmm..., curated by Roberto Ekholm | EKCO, Hilbert Raum, Berlin, D
2015 Notre avenir est dans l'air, Antiquarium Alda Levi, curated by Fabio Carnaghi, Milan, IT
2015 L'ESPRIT DE L'ESCALIER, DIMORA ARTICA, curated by Alice Ginaldi, Milan, IT
2014 Prière de Toucher, MARS/Milan Artist Run Space, Milan, IT
2014 2000 Maniacs - The Big Instant Painting Show, curated by Andrea Bruciati and Lorenza Boisi, Art Verona, IT
2014 Storytelling, Summer Academy curated by Felix Gmelin and Carl Fredrik Harleman, Salzburg, A
2014 Upward Positive Leaders + Drawings from Lightnings, Kunstverein Neukolln, curated by Laura Santamaria, Berlin, DE
2013 La sequenza del fiore di carta, Incubatore, Sant'Elena, curatEed by Martina Cavallarin, Venice, IT
2012 Bianca feat. Mars, Galleria Bianca, Palermo, IT
2012 Anni' 10, INTERNO18, Cremona, IT
2012 Prize Francesco Fabbri, Villa Brandolini, Pieve di Soligo, curated by Carlo Sala, Treviso, IT
2012 Sulla Natura, Villa Rusconi, curated by Fabio Carnaghi, Milan, IT
2011 Gallery S.I.M., Reykjavik, IS
2011 Factory-Art Gallery, Berlin, DE
2010 Anni '10 Studio d'Arte Cannaviello, Milan, IT
2009 Stile Libero Italiano, Studio d'Arte Cannaviello, Milan, IT
2005 Seven "Everything goes to hell" curated by Maurizio Sciaccaluga, Certaldo, Florence, IT
2004 "Il volume delle labbra" curated by Luciano Inga Pin, Galleria Luciano Inga Pin, Milan, IT
Fellowships / Stipends
2014 Internationale Sommerakademie fur Bildende Kunst Salzburg, A
2013 Fellowship at Fundacion Valparaiso, SP
2012 GAI – Association for the Young Italian Artists Circuit – MOVIN’UP, IT
2012 The Visual Artist's Full Fellowship Award from Marin Community Foundation, The Vermont Studio Center, Vermont, USA
2012 Fellowship at La Napoule Art Foundation / Clews Center for the Arts, Fellowship, Cote d'Azur, FR
2000-2002 Full Fellowship, The Fabrizio Ferri school, Università dell'Immagine, Fondazione Industria, Milan, IT
Residencies / Workshops
2019 Fondazione Lac o Le Mon, Painting Symposium curated by Luigi Presicce, Lecce, IT
2019 Landina, Pittura di Paesaggi, Laveno Mombello, IT
2018 Fondazione Lac o Le Mon, Painting Symposium curated by Luigi Presicce and Laura Perrone, Lecce, IT
2014 Fondazione Spinola Banna per l'Arte, visiting professors Liliana Moro / Mario Airò, Poirino, Turin, IT
2013 Fondazione Spinola Banna per l'Arte, visiting professor Doug Ashford, Poirino, Turin, IT
2013 Fundacion Valparaiso, Mojacar Playa, Almeria, SP
2012 The Vermont Studio Center, Vermont, USA
2012 La Napoule Art Foundation / Clews Center for the Arts, Cote d'Azur, FR
2011 SIM Samband Islenskra Myndlistarmanna, Reykjavik, IS
2011 IARB International Art Residency Beijing, CHN
2000 Centro T.A.M. Foundation Arnaldo Pomodoro, Fellowship, Pesaro/Urbino, IT
Awards
2014 Finalist, Castel Sant'Elmo, Naples, IT
2012 Finalist, Prize Francesco Fabbri, Pieve di Soligo, Treviso. IT
2012 Finalist, Arte Rugabella, Villa Rusconi, Castano Primo, Milan, IT
2004 Winner, National Award Canon young photographer, Milan, IT
Curatorial projects
2014 Soggettività opere luoghi, CORRADO LEVI for FUOR! Artisti artist run space at Fondazione Sandro Penna, Turin
2013 Fuori! Artisti / 33 artisti celebrano la rivista Sodoma, Fondazione Sandro Penna, Turin (cat.)
Public talks
2014 SODOMA 30 ANNI DOPO, Salone internazionale del Libro di Torino with Enzo Cucco Gianni Farinetti, Angelo Pezzana
2014 "L'arte da parte", talk a cura di Associazione Edge, Milan
2013 Fuori! Artisti, Conversation with Arturo Schwarz about Art and Homosexuality, Fondazione Sandro Penna, Turin
2013 "Archivio Queer Italia" Independents ArtVerona curated by Giulia Casalini, conversation with Francesco Urbano Ragazzi, Verona
2013 Scatolabianca BLACK MATCH with Paola Angelini e Martina Cavallarin, Milan
Recent Publications / Press/ Articles / interview links
Artribune, n42 - 2018, Dagli Atomi ai bit & ritorno: Il glitch analogico
Queen&Country Magazine, 'An Artist's Life" by James Wilkinson, February 2018
L'UOMO VOGUE, A Vision for the people, May/June 2014 n. 451
The Pinch Journal, volume 34 issue 1, Spring 2014
The House of Peroni, “ Meet the digital painter searching for the essential” Interview by Laura Havlin, 2014
Verde que te quiero verde. Ultrafilosofia online published on April 2013. Interview by Fabio Carnaghi
Nature Morte: Contemporary Artists Reinvigorate the Still Life Tradition, by Michael Petry, published by Thames & Hudson (2013).
Artribune AGENDISSIMA TORINO 2013 - Fondazione Sandro Penna Torino, Italy
PIZZADIGITALE Fuori! Artisti 2013
Fuori! Artisti - Domus web notizie 2013
A Rush of Culture, Magazine, January 2012
Artribune. Una mostra Made in China. A Milano tetx by Marta Cereda, December - 2012
Il silenzio della Gioconda. Riflessioni sull'arte, by Lombardo Pippo, published by Con-Fine, Effimera 2012
Kritika online Maurizio Bongiovanni. As We May Think text by Emanuele Beluffi, November 20 - 2012
Espoarte online published on 2012 with titled: Maurizio Bongiovanni non è un pittore... "come potremmo pensare" by Igor Zanti
IDN International Designers Network – International Edition volume 18 n.5, 2011
Hi Fructose, New Contemporary Art Magazine
Con-fine 2010 n.20 Magazine
Abstraction-Action
Exibart by Caterina Misuraca 2009
Premio Celeste 2008
Commissions:
2011 Tee-shirt design for brand 55DSL Diesel. Part of the 10.55 Limited Edition Artist Series
Collections
Private collections in Italy, UK, Spain, USA, Canada, China, Lebanon and Switzerland
Lives and works between London and Milan
Selected Solo & Two Person Exhibitions
2019 Fiore Aperto Fiore Chiuso, Galleria Richter, Rome, IT
2019 Peacock's Eyes, Studio d'Arte Cannaviello, Milan, IT
2019 Ever Fallen, Metodo Milano Artist Run Space, Milan, IT
2019 Window Project, Federico Lugar Gallery, Spazio 22, Milan, IT
2017 The Original Face, Century Club, London, UK
2015 Goldfinch, Uluntu Bermondsey, London, UK
2014 CRISCO DISCO and The Totem Paintings, at Fondazione FUORI!, Turin, IT
2012 As We May Think, Galleria Uno+Uno, Milan, IT
2012 It makes me tense, MARS Milan Artist Run Space, Milan, IT
2011 IARB International Art Residency Beijing at Where Where Art Space, Beijing, IT
2009 Abstraction-Action, Studio d'Arte Cannaviello, Milan, IT
Group Exhibitions
2020 TO PAINT IS TO LOVE AGAIN Curated by Olivier Zahm, Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2019 I hope this finds you well, Eve Leibe Gallery, London, UK
2019 Selvatico, Atlante, curated by Massimiliano Fabbri, Ravenna, IT
2019 Comic Tendencies, Eve Leibe Gallery, London, UK
2019 LANDINA, Esperienza di pittura en plein air, curated by Lorenza Boisi, Villa Fumagalli, Laveno, IT
2019 Le conseguenze dell'errore, TRA Treviso Ricerca Arte, curated by Valerio Veneruso, Treviso, IT
2019 Forme uniche nella continuità dello spazio, Galleria Rizzuto, an idea by Luigi Presicce, Palermo, IT
2018 Be Water Again, Project Space Koraï, Curated by Panos Giannikopoulos & Theodoulos Polyviou, Nicosia, Cyprus, CY
2018 NOCCIOLINE, promoted by Yellow, Milan, IT
2018 Painters - Painting - Painters, MARS Milan Artist Run Space, Milan, IT
2017 NATURE MORTE, Contemporary Still Life, Guildhall Art Gallery, London, UK
2017 Studio Freud, B&G Studio di Psicoterapia, curated by Fabio Carnaghi, Milan, IT
2017 MADEINBRITALY, Drawings from Lightning, curated by Laura Santamaria, London, UK
2016 Hmm..., curated by Roberto Ekholm | EKCO, Hilbert Raum, Berlin, D
2015 Notre avenir est dans l'air, Antiquarium Alda Levi, curated by Fabio Carnaghi, Milan, IT
2015 L'ESPRIT DE L'ESCALIER, DIMORA ARTICA, curated by Alice Ginaldi, Milan, IT
2014 Prière de Toucher, MARS/Milan Artist Run Space, Milan, IT
2014 2000 Maniacs - The Big Instant Painting Show, curated by Andrea Bruciati and Lorenza Boisi, Art Verona, IT
2014 Storytelling, Summer Academy curated by Felix Gmelin and Carl Fredrik Harleman, Salzburg, A
2014 Upward Positive Leaders + Drawings from Lightnings, Kunstverein Neukolln, curated by Laura Santamaria, Berlin, DE
2013 La sequenza del fiore di carta, Incubatore, Sant'Elena, curatEed by Martina Cavallarin, Venice, IT
2012 Bianca feat. Mars, Galleria Bianca, Palermo, IT
2012 Anni' 10, INTERNO18, Cremona, IT
2012 Prize Francesco Fabbri, Villa Brandolini, Pieve di Soligo, curated by Carlo Sala, Treviso, IT
2012 Sulla Natura, Villa Rusconi, curated by Fabio Carnaghi, Milan, IT
2011 Gallery S.I.M., Reykjavik, IS
2011 Factory-Art Gallery, Berlin, DE
2010 Anni '10 Studio d'Arte Cannaviello, Milan, IT
2009 Stile Libero Italiano, Studio d'Arte Cannaviello, Milan, IT
2005 Seven "Everything goes to hell" curated by Maurizio Sciaccaluga, Certaldo, Florence, IT
2004 "Il volume delle labbra" curated by Luciano Inga Pin, Galleria Luciano Inga Pin, Milan, IT
Fellowships / Stipends
2014 Internationale Sommerakademie fur Bildende Kunst Salzburg, A
2013 Fellowship at Fundacion Valparaiso, SP
2012 GAI – Association for the Young Italian Artists Circuit – MOVIN’UP, IT
2012 The Visual Artist's Full Fellowship Award from Marin Community Foundation, The Vermont Studio Center, Vermont, USA
2012 Fellowship at La Napoule Art Foundation / Clews Center for the Arts, Fellowship, Cote d'Azur, FR
2000-2002 Full Fellowship, The Fabrizio Ferri school, Università dell'Immagine, Fondazione Industria, Milan, IT
Residencies / Workshops
2019 Fondazione Lac o Le Mon, Painting Symposium curated by Luigi Presicce, Lecce, IT
2019 Landina, Pittura di Paesaggi, Laveno Mombello, IT
2018 Fondazione Lac o Le Mon, Painting Symposium curated by Luigi Presicce and Laura Perrone, Lecce, IT
2014 Fondazione Spinola Banna per l'Arte, visiting professors Liliana Moro / Mario Airò, Poirino, Turin, IT
2013 Fondazione Spinola Banna per l'Arte, visiting professor Doug Ashford, Poirino, Turin, IT
2013 Fundacion Valparaiso, Mojacar Playa, Almeria, SP
2012 The Vermont Studio Center, Vermont, USA
2012 La Napoule Art Foundation / Clews Center for the Arts, Cote d'Azur, FR
2011 SIM Samband Islenskra Myndlistarmanna, Reykjavik, IS
2011 IARB International Art Residency Beijing, CHN
2000 Centro T.A.M. Foundation Arnaldo Pomodoro, Fellowship, Pesaro/Urbino, IT
Awards
2014 Finalist, Castel Sant'Elmo, Naples, IT
2012 Finalist, Prize Francesco Fabbri, Pieve di Soligo, Treviso. IT
2012 Finalist, Arte Rugabella, Villa Rusconi, Castano Primo, Milan, IT
2004 Winner, National Award Canon young photographer, Milan, IT
Curatorial projects
2014 Soggettività opere luoghi, CORRADO LEVI for FUOR! Artisti artist run space at Fondazione Sandro Penna, Turin
2013 Fuori! Artisti / 33 artisti celebrano la rivista Sodoma, Fondazione Sandro Penna, Turin (cat.)
Public talks
2014 SODOMA 30 ANNI DOPO, Salone internazionale del Libro di Torino with Enzo Cucco Gianni Farinetti, Angelo Pezzana
2014 "L'arte da parte", talk a cura di Associazione Edge, Milan
2013 Fuori! Artisti, Conversation with Arturo Schwarz about Art and Homosexuality, Fondazione Sandro Penna, Turin
2013 "Archivio Queer Italia" Independents ArtVerona curated by Giulia Casalini, conversation with Francesco Urbano Ragazzi, Verona
2013 Scatolabianca BLACK MATCH with Paola Angelini e Martina Cavallarin, Milan
Recent Publications / Press/ Articles / interview links
Artribune, n42 - 2018, Dagli Atomi ai bit & ritorno: Il glitch analogico
Queen&Country Magazine, 'An Artist's Life" by James Wilkinson, February 2018
L'UOMO VOGUE, A Vision for the people, May/June 2014 n. 451
The Pinch Journal, volume 34 issue 1, Spring 2014
The House of Peroni, “ Meet the digital painter searching for the essential” Interview by Laura Havlin, 2014
Verde que te quiero verde. Ultrafilosofia online published on April 2013. Interview by Fabio Carnaghi
Nature Morte: Contemporary Artists Reinvigorate the Still Life Tradition, by Michael Petry, published by Thames & Hudson (2013).
Artribune AGENDISSIMA TORINO 2013 - Fondazione Sandro Penna Torino, Italy
PIZZADIGITALE Fuori! Artisti 2013
Fuori! Artisti - Domus web notizie 2013
A Rush of Culture, Magazine, January 2012
Artribune. Una mostra Made in China. A Milano tetx by Marta Cereda, December - 2012
Il silenzio della Gioconda. Riflessioni sull'arte, by Lombardo Pippo, published by Con-Fine, Effimera 2012
Kritika online Maurizio Bongiovanni. As We May Think text by Emanuele Beluffi, November 20 - 2012
Espoarte online published on 2012 with titled: Maurizio Bongiovanni non è un pittore... "come potremmo pensare" by Igor Zanti
IDN International Designers Network – International Edition volume 18 n.5, 2011
Hi Fructose, New Contemporary Art Magazine
Con-fine 2010 n.20 Magazine
Abstraction-Action
Exibart by Caterina Misuraca 2009
Premio Celeste 2008
Commissions:
2011 Tee-shirt design for brand 55DSL Diesel. Part of the 10.55 Limited Edition Artist Series
Collections
Private collections in Italy, UK, Spain, USA, Canada, China, Lebanon and Switzerland
