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​Rä di Martino
 
b.1975, Rome.
Lives and works in Rome, Italy.


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Rä di Martino deals principally with our perception of reality and fiction, drawing attention to the absurdity of representing either. The artist’s background in theatre and her passion for film emerge not just in her videos, but in photographic and installation work. Sets, actors and props are used variously to pick apart subjects as diverse as human relationships, cinematographic traditions, the theatre of war, and the fabrication of history.

Di Martino studied in London where she graduated with an MFA at the Slade School of Art. She won a fellowship at Columbia University, spending a few years in New York, before moving back to Italy. Her practice explores the passage of time, as well as the discrepancies that differentiate epic narratives from lived experiences. Her works are characterised by a tension between pathos and a certain detachment: a disconnectedness that interrupts the synchronicity binding image and text. 

Recent and upcoming projects include: Kant Can’t Can-Can, Fondazione Giuliani, Roma (Italy, current); Electric Whispers, Fotografia Europea, Reggio Emilia (Italy, upcoming); Kant Can't, Pinacoteca Provinciale di Provenza (Italy, 2024), PLAY IT AGAIN, Forte Belvedere - Museo Novecento, Florence (Italy), Premio Acacia, Museo Del 900, Milan (Italy), Isolitudine, Fondazione Merz, Turin (Italy), curated by Laura Barreca, and What a Wonderful World, MAXXI, Rome (Italy). Di Martino is currently developing her second-feature film, recently awarded the A Fabrica Award at the 35th Marseilles International Film Festival (2024).

Her work has been shown in numerous institutions including Tate Modern (London); MoMA PS1 (NY); Palazzo Grassi (Venice); GAM and Fondazione Sandretto (Turin); MACRO and MAXXI (Rome); Museion (Bolzano); MCA (Chicago); Magasin (Grenoble); PAC and HangarBicocca (Milan). She has participated to a large number of film festivals: Locarno Film Festival; VIPER Basel; Transmediale.04; New York Underground Film Festival; Kasseler Dokfest; Torino Film Festival and Venice Film Festival, where she won, in 2014, the SIAE Award and Gillo Pontecorvo Award and a Nastro d’Argento with the medium length documentary The Show MAS Go On (2014).

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For her most recent solo exhibition with the gallery please click here.

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Rä di Martino, Afterall (A Space Mambo), 2019, HD double channel video installation, 12 min (still)
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Rä di Martino, Poor Poor Jerry, 2017, Single channel projection, full HD 1920 x 1080, audio stereo, colour, 6'18'' (still)
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Rä di Martino, Play, 2022, Light stand, paper, led, colour gel, Installation view of solo show ‘Play it again’, 2022, Forte Belvedere, Florence
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Rä di Martino, Controfigura, 2016, Feature Film , 75 minutes (still)
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Rä di Martino, Installation view of solo show ‘All of his steps were sentiments, all of his teeth were ideas’, 2023, Copperfield, London
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Rä di Martino, Authentic #30, 2014, photographic, 71 x 52.5 cm including white border and white wood grain frame, Carbon pigment print on cotton paper, watercolour
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Rä di Martino, The Picture of Ourselves, 2013, HD video, 3 min (still)
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Rä di Martino, Là dove muore, canta #3, 2022-2023, Archival pigment prints, gold leaf, 52 x 39 cm
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Rä di Martino, Authentic #dummy tank 3, 2014, Wood, Dimensions variable
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Rä di Martino, Installation view at Fondazione Merz. Photo credit: F. Nicoletti
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Rä di Martino, Moonbird, 2022, Video opera live 50’

Solo Exhibitions
2025

Electric Whispers, Beirut Art Center, Beirut (upcoming)
Electric Whispers, Fotografia Europea, Reggio Emilia (upcoming)
​Kant Can’t Can-Can, Fondazione Giuliani, Roma (current)


2024
Kant Can't, Pinacoteca Provinciale di Provenza, curated by Lorenzo Benedetti, Italy 

2023
Play, Platea Palazzo Galeano, Lodi
All of his steps were sentiments, all of his teeth were ideas, Copperfield, London, UK
 
2022
Isolitudine, ZACentrale, Palermo
Là dove muore, canta; Carmelo Bene’s archive, Lecce & Torre Matta, Otranto, Italy 
Play it again, Forte Belvedere, Florence, Italy
Le città di Bolo, Galleria Valentina Bonomo, Rome, Italy

2020
Allunati, Monica De Cardenas Gallery, Milan, Italy
L’eccezione, Lio Capital Art Prize, Milan, Italy 

2019
Rä di Martino, Museo del ‘900, Florence, Italy
Pilgrimage, Fondazione Volume!, Rome, Italy
L’eccezione, Museo del Novecento, Florence, Italy
Afterall, Mattatoio, Rome, Italy
 
2018
Poor Poor Jerry, Copperfield Gallery, London, UK
Valentina Bonomo Gallery, Rome, Italy
Premio Acacia 2018, Museo del ‘900, Milan, Italy

Focus, Lo schermo dell’arte, Florence, Italy
Poor Poor Jerry, Musia, Rome, Italy
 
2017
The Day He Swims Thru Marrakech, Galleria Monica De Cardenas, Milan, Italy
Rä di Martino, Monica de Cardenas Gallery, Milan, Italy
Rä di Martino, Marselleria, Milan, Italy
 
2015
The Picture of Ourselves, Art Pod, Adelaide, Australia 
Certo è ch’io nacqui, Istituto Nazionale della Grafica, Rome, Italy
On Making a Circle to Swim Under Water, Collicaligreggi Gallery, Catania, Italy
Staging the Screen: Fatma Bucak & Rä di Martino, The Ryder, London, UK 

 
2014
Rä di Martino, Museion, Bolzano, Italy
Rä di Martino, MAXX Project, Sierre, Switzerland
Marilyn, Galleria Il Capricorno, Venice, Italy
Authentic News Of Invisible Things, Copperfield Gallery, London, UK
Authentic News Of Invisible Things, Museion, Bolzano, Italy
Authentic News Of Invisible Things, nctm per l’arte, Milan, Italy


2013
Rä di Martino – Nedim Kufi, Sumarria-Lunn, London, UK

2012
Rä di Martino - Greater Torino, Fondazione Sandretto, Turin, Italy
 
2011
La controfigura – The Stand-In, Monitor Gallery, Rome, Italy
 
2010
Artscape, Vartaj Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania

2009
The Night Walker and Other Works, CAV, Coimbra, Portugal
August 2008, Monitor Gallery, Rome, Italy
Espace Doll, Les Urbaines Festival, Lausanne, Switzerland

2008
The Night Walker, Maze Gallery, Turin, Italy

2006
La camera, MACRO, Rome, Italy

2005
The Dancing Kid, Monitor Gallery, Rome, Italy
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2003
Monitor Gallery, Rome, Italy 



Group Exhibitions
2024

Scenes from a Marriage, WEST, The Hague
No Time for Prophecies, Maxxi, Roma
Stranger Than Fiction, West Space, Victoria, Australia
The Animal that Therefore I am, Festival del Paesaggio, Anacapri Travellers Mirror Cities, VIU, San Servolo Venezia
Passeggiate romane, Maxxi, Roma 


2023
Art and Human Rights, Palais des Nations, Geneve
Perchè questo è un tempo duro, Circolo, Milano
Untitled (Radical Objecthood), Artvisor, Londra, curated by Piero Tomassoni
30 YEARS, Monica De Cardenas, Milano

2022
Eretici, Mart, Rovereto, Italy 
Isolitudine, Fondazione Merz, Turin, Italy, curated by Brizia Minerva and Luigi De Luca
Hersey. Art and Life, The Mart, Trento, Italy, curated by Denis Isaia
The Future Behind Us, Villa Arson, Nice, France
The Floating Collection, MAMbo, Bologna, Italy
Spectres: palimpsests of memory, Museo Madre, Naples, Italy
La’dove muore, canta, Museo Castromediano, Lecce, Italy
What a Wonderful World, MAXXI, Rome, Italy
A LOVER'S DISCOURSE: FRAGMENTS, Monica De Cardenas, Milan, Italy
Il video rende felici, Palazzo delle esposizioni, Rome, Italy

2021
Il sogno di Antonio, Fondazione Ratti, Como, Italy
Io dico Io, Galleria Nazionale di Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy
Simone Carella - Io poeto tu, Macro, Rome, Italy
Io poeto tu, MACRO, Rome, Italy
62nd edition of Premio Termoli (nominated artist), MACTE, Rome, Italy 
La Vita Nova, Museo di Scultura Antica Barracco, Rome, Italy
Around the World in 83 Minutes, Harabel, Tirana 

2020
Around the World in 128 minutes, Townsend, New York, USA
Swimming Pool – Troubled Waters, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
Metamorphoses Overdrive, KunstMuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland
Stardust: Convergence – 5 MOSTRE, American Academy in Rome, Italy
Insieme, mura aureliane, Roma, Italy
Wall Eyes, Looking at Italy and Africa, curated by Ilaria Bernardi, Fondazione Musica per Roma, Italy
Loneliness at the Time of Covid, Spatiu Intact, Cluj Napoca, Romania
Unstilled Life Artist Animations, Ron Mandos Gallery, Amsterdam, the Netherlands 


2019
Uncommon Nature, Blindside, Melbourne, Australia
Kronos e Kairos, Parco archeologico Palatino | Colosseo, Rome, Italy 


2018
100% Italia (International), Mastio della Cittadella, Torino, Italy
Arabesques, Terme Di Diocleziano, Rome, Italy
Please, Come Back, IVAM, Valencia, Spain 
 
2017
Please Come Back, Maxxi, Rome, Italy
Les Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Le Gaîté Lyrique, Paris, France
Controfigura, Mostra del Cinema di Venezia, Venice, Italy
 
2016
From Generation to Generation, Jewish Museum of Cont. Art, San Francisco, California, USA
XVI Quadriennale, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy
3rd Nanjing International Art Festival, Nanjing, China
High Line Channel 14, The High Line, New York, USA
Time and Detail, Ca’ Foscari, Venice, Italy
L’astronauta caduto, Galleria A+A, Venice, Italy

2015
Illuminati, Palazzo Mosca, Pesaro, Italy
Levitate, Quarter 21, Museum Quartier, Vienna, Austria
Avant-Noir, ICA Artists’ Film Biennal, London, UK
Delta ti - In tempo reale, Museo Carlo Bilotti, Rome, Italy
Reverse Inequality, Patrick Ebensperger Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Waiting for the Acciddent to Happen, Screen Space, Melbourne Concrete, The Tophane-i amire Arts Centeri, Istanbul, Turkey
Cosa vuoi che sia, Fondazione Remotti, Camogli, Italy
Le Point De Fuite De l’Histoire, Centre d’art et photographie, Lectoure Speculative Frictions, Deluge Contemporary, Victoria, Canada
Avant- Noir Vol.2, Artist Film Club, ICA, London, UK
Fashion as Social Energy, Palazzo Morando, Milan, Italy
Worlds in Collision, Samstag Museum, Adelaide International, Australia


Displacement, MAXXX Project, Sierre, Switzerland
Vaf Foundation Award, Schauwerk Sindelfingen and Stadtgalerie, Kiel Meraviglioso, Fondazione VOLUME, Rome, Italy

2014
71° Venice film Festival, Venice, Italy
Soleil Politique, Museion, Bozen, Italy

Glitch, PAC, Milan, Italy
Open Museum, Open City, MAXXI, Rome Premio Maretti, Havana, Cuba 
Act & Application, Lawrie Shabibi Gallery, Dubai, UAE
Concrete, Muma, Museum of Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Premio Cairo, Palazzo della Permanente, Milan, Italy
Noli me tangere, Biblioteca Civica, Verona, Italy

Premio Maretti, Havana, Cuba
Act & Application, Lawrie Shabibi Gallery, Dubai, UAE
Concrete, Muma, Museum of Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Premio Cairo, Palazzo della Permanente, Milan, Italy
Noli me tangere, Biblioteca Civica, Verona, Italy
Worlds in Collision, Samstag Museum, Adelaide International, Adelaide Displacement, MAXXX Project, Sierre, Switzerland

Vaf Foundation Award, Schauwerk Sindelfingen and Stadtgalerie, Kiel Meraviglioso, Fondazione VOLUME, Rome, Italy

2013
Ruins in Reverse, Tate Modern, London and MALI, Lima, Peru
Andata e Ricordo, Souvenir de Voyage, MART, Trento and Rovereto
Remainder, BWA SokòL Gallery of Contemporary Art, Nowy Sącz Kino der Kunst, Munich, Germany
Clueless, HDLU, Zagabria, Croatia
Mardin Biennale, Mardin, Turkey
 
2012
2nd Mardin Biennale, Mardin, Turkey
Lo sguardo espanso, Cinema d’artista 1912-2012, Fond. Guglielmo V, Catanzaro Mission Afterviews, Victoria theatre, San Francisco, USA
Fantasie fluttuanti, Torrione Passari, Molfetta, Italy
Re-generation, MACRO, Rome, Italy

Silence where things abandon themselves, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia

2011

When in Rome, IIC, Hammer Museum and LaxArt, Los Angeles, USA
Terre vulnerabili, Hangar Bicocca, Milan, Italy
Unità, New York, USA


2010
SI Sindrome Italiana, Magasin, Grenoble, France
VideoZone 5°, International Video Art Biennal, Tel Aviv, Israel
VideoReport, Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea, Monfalcone Linguaggi e Sperimentazioni, Mart, Rovereto, Italy
Visions in the Nunnery, Bow Arts Trust, London, UK
Person in Less, Fondazione Sandretto, Guarene, Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, Italy
Mal d’archive, Friche la belle de Mai and Italian Cultural Institute, Marseille, France
Clueless, Manifattura Tabacchi, Turin, Italy


2009 
Italics, MCA, Chicago, USA
Fuori Centro, Hangar Bicocca, Milan, Italy
Work in Space, Connaught House, Ballsbridge, Dublin, Ireland

Lumen, Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy
Eppur si muove, Fondazione Sandretto, Guarene, Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, Italy
Kunst Film Biennale, Cologne and Bonn, Germany 
Solo al buio, Mercati di Traiano, Rome, Italy
The Buffer Zone, American Academy in Rome, Italy
Financial District, ISCP Studios, New York, USA


2008
Manifesta7, Rovereto, Trento, Bolzano, Italy
Italics, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy
Worlds on Video, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy

How Soon Is Now?, Bronx Museum, New York, USA
Tarantula, Piazza Duomo, Fondazione Trussardi, Milan, Italy
XV Quadriennale, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy

Here Once Again, Loop Gallery e MOA, Seoul, South Korea
Hot Season, Stenersen Museum, Oslo, Norway
Here, Seaport Swing Space LMCC, New York, USA

2007
Senso Unico, MoMA PS1, New York, USA

Art Summer University, Tate Modern, London, UK
Off Screen, Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Film Program, Padiglione Sloveno, 52a La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
Carte Blanche, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York, USA
Dwelling Among the Elsewheres, Botkyrka Kohnstahlle, Stockholm, Sweden
The World Is Yours, Oliver Kamm5BE Gallery, New York, USA
TV Dinners, Lmak Projects, New York, USA


2006
Altered, Stitched and Gathered, MoMA PS1, New York, USA

Busan Biennale – CAFE2, Busan, South Korea
Setting The Scene, MACRO with Discoteca di Stato, Rome, Italy
Frame, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne, Australia

The Mind/Body Problem, Artists Space, New York, USA
Girato a Palermo, Kals’art, Palermo, Italy

2005
T1 Triennale Torino Tre Musei, Fondazione Sandretto, Turin, Italy

Follow Your Shadow, Premio Furla, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy
Tracce di un seminario, Via Farini, Milan, Italy

2004
All Tomorrow’s Parties, The Yugoslav Biennal of Young Artists, Serbia
Surely We Will Be Confused, Fondazione Ratti, Como, Italy
VideoZone 2°, International VideoArt Biennal, Tel Aviv, Israel
Our Personal Vision, Futura Gallery, Praga, Czech Republic


2002
Beck’s Futures Student Film Award, ICA, London, UK

 


Collections
MoMA-PS1, New York, USA
Tate Modern, London, UK
MCA, Chicago, USA
Macro, Rome, Italy
Palazzo Grassi-Punta della Dogana, Venice, Italy
Artists Space, New York, USA
Museion, Bozen, Italy
Magasin, Grenoble, France
The Busan Biennial Manifesta, Busan, South Korea
Torino International Film Festival, Kino der Kunst, Munich, Viper Basel
Transmediale Berlin, Germany
MAXXI Museum, Rome, Italy
MACRO Museum, Rome, Italy
Museo 900, Milan, Italy
Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contem- poranea, Rome, Italy
Snaporazverein, Switzerland
Museo Novecento, Florence, Italy 
MADRE, Naples, Italy
VAF Stiftung, Frankfurt am Mein, Germany
GAM, Galleria Arte Moderna, Turin, Italy
Fondazione Arte/ CRT, Turin, Italy
Museo Castromediano di Lecce / Archivio Carmelo Bene
Collezione La Gaia, Busca, Italy
MEF, Museo E. Fico, Turin, Italy
Collezione Collezione Gino Viliani, Italy
Collezione Liguria, Italy
Collezione PLATEA, Palazzo Gaetani, Lodi, Italy
Collezione Sciarretta, Rome, Italy
Collezione famiglia Mauri, Milan, Italy
MiramArt Collection (Collezione Fustinoni), Santa Margherita Ligure, Italy
Collezione Remotti, Milan, Italy


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Screenings
2021
Copperfield, London, UK
 
2020
Afterall shown at Mattatoio, Rome, Italy
Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Zurich, Switzerland
 
2018
Venice Film festival, Venice, Italy
 
2014
The Show MAS Go On, the Venice International Film festival, Italy



Film and Video Festival
2022
Vive La France, Lecce, Italy
Avvistamenti, Bisceglie, Italy
FIFA, Montreal, Canada
Sudestival, Monopoli, Italy

2021
Festi- val Lo schermo dell’arte, Florence, Italy

2018
Festival Lo schermo dell’arte, Florence, Italy

2017
Mostra del Cinema di Venezia, Venice, Italy
Festival Lo Schermo dell’arte, Florence, Italy
Cortodorico, Ancona; Les rècontres international, Paris (France), Berlin (Germany)
Tirana Film Festival, Tirana, Albania

2016
Lo schermo dell’arte, Florence in collaboration with Palazzo Grassi-Punta della Dogana, Venice, Italy

2015
Subversive Film Festival, Zagabria; Visioni Italiane Film Festival, Bologna, Italy

2014
Salina Doc Festival, Salina, Italy
Attraversamenti, Ostuni, Italy
Experiments in Cinema Festival, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

2013
Alternative Film/Video, Belgrade, Serbia
Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Kassel, Germany
Dallas Video Festival, Dallas, Texas
5th Video Festival, Cairo, Egypt
Muslihat OK, 6th Jakarta International Video Festival, Jakarta, Indonesia 

2011
Stuttgart Filmwinter23, Stuttgart, Germany
International Rotterdam Film Festival, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Festival Videomedeja, Novi Sadi, Serbia
EMAF European Video Art Festival, Osnabrueck, Germany 

2010
Impakt Video Art Festival, Utrecht, the Netherlands
4th Video Festival, Cairo, Egypt
Signal & Noise Media Art Festival, Vancouver, Canada

2009
Antimatter Film Festival, Victoria, Canada
Fundada Artists’ Film Festival, Halifax, Canada
Festival Premio Sergio Amidei, Gorizia, Italy
Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Kassel, Germany

2008
Torino Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, Turin, Italy

2007
Media Art Festival Friesland, Leeuwarden, the Netherlands
Dallas Video Festival, Dallas, Texas
Unclassifiable, Malmö Film Festival, Malmö, Sweden
Pesaro Film Festival, Pesaro; Trieste Film Festival, Trieste, Italy

2006
Locarno Film Festival, Locarno, Italy
Viper Basel, Basel, Switzerland
DUMBO Film & Video Festival, Brooklyn, USA

2005
Kassel Video & Doc Festival, Kassel, Germany
Media Art Friesland, Friesland, Leeuwarden, the Netherlands
Rio De Ja- neiro Film Festival, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
New York Underground Film Festival, New York, USA

2005/2004
Impakt Video Art Festival, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Transmediale, Berlin, Germany
Sarajevo Film Festival, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Saint Petersburg Film Festival of Experimental Cinema, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Vila Do Conde Festival, Vila Do Conde, Portugal
Montreal Festival of New Ci- nema, Montreal, Canada
Aarhus Film Festival, Aarhus, Denmark
Island Film&Video Festival, London, UK
EMAF, European Video Art Festival, Osnabrueck, Germany

2003/2002
Torino Film Festival, Turin, Italy
Alternativa, Barcelona Independent Film Festival, Barcelona, Spain
Video Mundi Festival, Chicago, USA



Awards and Commission
2021
Premio Termoli, MACTE, Termoli

2020
Premio Lio Capital

2018/2019
Italian Council– Mibact

2018
Premio ACACIA
Nastro d’argento, (Mentioned Best Docu-Film)
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The Mibac, Italian Council
L’Eurimages Lab Award

2017/2016
3rd Nanjing International Art Festival, Nanjing, (Winner of the section Mixed Media Arts)

2016
Museo chiama Artista Award, Mibact and AMACI

2015
Nastro d’argento (Mentioned Best Docu-Film)

2014
Salina Doc Festival, Salina (Special Mention)
Premio SIAE
Premio Gillo Pontecorvo, Mostra del Cinema di Venezia, Venice
VAF Award, Dreieich; Premio Cairo, (Finalist)
Gillo Pontecorvo award
SIAE award
Nastro d’argento for best docu-film at the Venice International Film festival

2010
Premio Fondazione Ettore Fico

2008
Talent Prize, Fondazione Roma, Rome

2005
Premio Furla, Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice (Finalist)

2005/2004
Premio New York

2003
2° Premio Video-Art, Mart, Trento and Rovereto

2002
Development Award (16mm Film), FLAMIN, London.



Residencies
2021
Mahler&Lewitt Foundation, Spoleto, Italy
Prender-si cura; Mattatoio, Rome, Italy


2019
Prender-si Cura, Mattatoio, Rome, Italy

2018
Rome Prize, American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy

2008
AIM Artists in the Marketplace, Bronx Museum, New York, USA

2006
OMI International Artists’ Residency, Columbia County, Georgia, USA

2004
Corso Superiore di Arte Visiva, Fondazione Ratti, Como, Italy

2002
Prototipi, Fondazione Olivetti, Rome, Italy