Lorenzo Modica
Roma, 1988
Roma, 1988
Education
2022 MFA, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London
2015 MA, Painting, 110 cum laude, Academy of Fine Arts, Rome
2012 BA, Painting, 110 cum laude, Academy of Fine Arts, Rome
Solo exhibitions
2024 Dritto e Rovescio, Fondazione Aldega, Amelia (TR)
2021 Hidden in Plain Sight, curated by Davide Ferri, Galleria Studio G7, Bologna
2021 This is a Fraud on The American Public, Il Crepaccio instagram show, curated by Caroline Corbetta
2021 Only Good People Don't Smell, Saints Maybe Smell Good, KH Lab, Rome
2018 B e C, curated by Sarah Linford, deconsecrated church of Santa Maria della Vittoria, Mantua
2018 What You Do Not Understand is What Really Belongs to You, Sentieri (Paths) - contemporary art festival, curated by Claudio Pieroni and Silvia Berdini, Amelia
2016 Il Cielo è di un azzurro cielo intenso, Galleria Arte e Pensieri, Rome
2015 13 Days, INEX Gallery, exhibition / thesis project, supervisor Cecilia Casorati, Belgrade, Serbia
Group exhibitions
2024 Great Expectations, curated by Giulia Gaibisso, SPAZIOMENSA, Rome
2024 Artefiera, Galleria Studio G7, Bologna
2023 Buona fortuna ribelli, Galleria Lunetta 11, Lunetta, Turin
2023 Miart, Galleria Studio G7, Milan
2022 Graduate Show, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London
2022 ArtVerona, Galleria Studio G7, Verona
2022 L’Invenzione della giovinezza, curated by Sarah Linford, smART Polo per L’Arte, Rome
2021 ArtVerona, finalist Galliani Prize, Galleria Studio G7, Verona
2021 The Castle of Crossed Destinies, curated by Giulio Verago, Dìnamo Gallery, Porto
2021 Prize Artefici del Nostro Tempo, collateral event of the Venice Biennale, Palazzo Bevilacqua la Masa, Venice
2021 Masterless Eye, curated by Gino Bosa, Yudik One, Brescia
2020 Via Farini in Residence Open Studio, curated by Giulio Verago and Patrizia Brusarosco, Via Farini, Milan
2020 Slade Runner, ASC gallery, London
2019 Spaceship/Dungeon/Zoo, organized by Alvaro Barrington, Peter Davies and Alastair Mackinven, Studio Alvaro Barrington, London
2018 Ieri Oggi Domani, organized by Professors Cecilia Casorati and Gabriele Simongini, Scuderie Aldobrandini, Frascati
2018 Fenêtre jaune cadmium, curated by Sarah Linford, Institut français Centre Saint Louis, Rome
2018 Now and Forward - Emerging Artists in Rome, curated by Shara Wasserman and Tiziana Musi, Temple University Rome Gallery of Art, Rome
2016 A> Rete Residency Exhibition, Galleria il Ponte, Florence
2016 A> Rete Residency restitution, curated by Alfredo Pirri, Donnini, Florence
2015 N/Home, curated by Francesca Lilli, Rome
2015 3 + 2, curated by Donatella Landi, Interno 14 - Italian Association of Architecture and Criticism, Rome
2015 Uscite di Emergenza, curated by Whart with the supervision of Cecilia Casorati, MACRO, Rome
2015 Myths. Students / Artists / Teachers. A process of exchange, curated by Maria Rosa Sossai and Miroslaw Balka, Pastficio Cerere Foundation, Rome
2014 Painting Exhibition, curated by Duccio Trombadori, Galleria Incontro d'Arte, Rome
2011 Patrizia Barlettani Award (finalist), Fabbriche del Vapore, Milan
2010 Painting show, Chamber of Deputies, Palazzi Chigi, Rome
Awards, residencies and workshops
2024 Combat Prize*, Livorno
2023 Nuovo Forno del Pane Outdoor Edition, curated by Lorenzo Balbi, Caterina Molteni, Sabrina Samorì and Giulia Pezzoli, MAMbo, Bologna
2022 Combat Prize (finalist), Livorno
2021 Prize Artefici del Nostro Tempo (winner for the photography category), collateral event of the Venice Biennale, Municipality of Venice, Venice
2021 The Fine Art Collective - Colart Residency Program, London
2020-21 September - February, VIR Viafarini-in-residence, Milan
2017 Hanji paper international workshop, Academy of Fine Arts of Rome
2016 A> Rete Residency, mentor Alfredo Pirri, Donnini, Florence
2016 A> Rete Residency, Galleria Il Ponte, Florence
2014 Myths. Students / Artists / Teachers. A process of exchange, mentor Miroslaw Balka, organized by the Polish Cultural Institute in Rome, residency in Warsaw and Rome
2013 Foundry Workshop, UGR, Granada, Spain
2011 Either Etching Workshop, Atelier Contrepoint, Paris
Teaching
2024 Artist’s Talk, MFA, RUFA, Rome
2022-ongoing John Cabot University, Studio Art Lecturer Professor (Drawing, Painting, 3D Practices, Color Theory), Rome
2023 Artist’s Talk / Guest Lecturer, University of Bologna, Department of Visual Arts
2023 Assistant / Tutor (Painting, Sculpture, Drawing), Academy of Fine Arts of Rome, Rome
2022 Crits at Camberwell College of Arts (UAL), Slade MA/MFA visiting Camberwell UG, London
2022 Workshop in L’Invenzione della giovinezza, curated by Sarah Linford, Smart Polo per L'Arte, Rome
2022 Guest tutor MFA, RUFA, Rome
2021 Assistant, UCL East Schools programme, Slade150 Printmaking school project, London
2020 Guest tutor MFA, RUFA, Rome
2019 Painting, Drawing, and Theater Practices Workshop in Mental Health, Villa Letizia / Villa Madre Chiara Ricci, Rome
2019 Castro crits, Rome
2018-2019 Assistant / Tutor (Painting, Paper Techniques), Academy of Fine Arts of Rome, Rome
2018 Artist’s Talk, Tyler-Temple University - MFA program, Rome
2018 Monotype Workshop, State Institute of Art "Giulio Romano", Mantua
2018 Monotype Workshop, Scuole Dell'Infanzia Comunali Strozzi Valenti, Mantua
2018 Painting, Drawing Workshop in Mental Health, Santa Maria della Pietà, Rome
2017-2018 Assistant / Tutor (Painting, Paper Techniques), Academy of Fine Arts of Rome, Rome
2016-2017 Assistant / Tutor (Painting, Drawing), Academy of Fine Arts of Rome, Rome
Bibliography
2024 Enrico Camprini, Different Negation. Notes on the Painting of Lorenzo Modica, text in the catalog, Dritto e Rovescio, Published by the Aldega Foundation, Amelia
2024 Marco Scotti, Doing Things Together. Bologna, between community and spaces of freedom, Quaderni d’arte italiana #5, La Quadriennale di Roma, Rome
2023 Caterina Molteni, text in the catalog, Nuovo Forno del Pane Outdoor Edition, MAMbo, Bologna
2022 Leonardo Regano, presentation text of the artist’s book Peli Notevoli, Edizioni Esperidi, Lecce
2022 Combat Prize, (exhibition catalog), Municipality of Livorno, Livorno
2022 222 emerging artists to invest in / 2022, Published by Exibart, Rome
2021 Davide Ferri, text for the exhibition Hidden in Plain Sight, Galleria Studio G7, Bologna
2021 Enrico Camprini, At the threshold of the image. Franco Guerzoni and Lorenzo Modica on show in Bologna, Artribune (www.artribune.com)
2021 Ruggero Savinio, Arianna Paragallo, Beatrice Benella, Chiara Traversaro, self-published poster/leaflet for the exhibition Only Good People Don't Smell, Saints Maybe Smell Good, KH Lab, Rome
2021 Beatrice Benella Interview, KH Lab opens in Rome: starting with Lorenzo Modica, Exibart (www.exibart.com)
2021 Prize Artefici del Nostro Tempo, (exhibition catalogue), Published by the Municipality of Venice, Venice
2020 Sarah Linford, Devin Kovach, Force Fields. Rome and Contemporary Printmaking, edited by Sarah Linford and Devin Kovach, Temple University Press, Philadelphia and Palombi Editori, Rome
2018 Sarah Linford, Pia Candinas, Dorothea Dietrich, Donatella Saroli, for the catalogue B and C, or On Private Language, (Italian-English monographic catalogue), edited and with a text by Sarah Linford, Published by the Municipality of Mantua, Mantua
2018 B and C - Artist’s Book, Published by the Municipality of Mantua, Rome
2018 Ieri Oggi Domani, (exhibition catalogue), Published by the Academy of Fine Arts of Rome, Rome
2015 13 Days, (monographic exhibition catalogue), self-published, Belgrade
Collections
MAMbo, Bologna, IT
Aldega Collection, Amelia, IT
LZ Collection, Milan, IT
Soho House Art Collection
Private Collections in Italy, France, Austria, Denmark, Switzerland, United Kingdom and United States
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