Andrea Galvani Biography
Andrea Galvani (born 1973, Italy) lives and works in New York and Mexico City. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach that often relies on scientific methodology, his conceptual research informs his use of photography, video, drawing, sculpture, sound, architectural installation and performance. Galvani has exhibited internationally, including at the Whitney Museum in New York; the 4th Moscow Biennial for Contemporary Art; the Biennial of Mediations, Poznań, Poland; 9th Nicaragua Contemporary Art Biennial; Art in General, New York; Aperture Foundation, New York; The Calder Foundation, New York; Pavilion - Center for Contemporary Art and Culture, Bucharest; Mart Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Trento; Macro Museum, Rome; GAMeC, Bergamo; De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam; Den Frie Center of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen; Sculpture Center, New York; among others. His work is part of important public and private collections in Europe, the Americas, Asia and Africa, including: the Permanent Collection at the Dallas Museum of Art, Texas; Deutsche Bank Collection, London; Artist Pension Trust, New York; the Contemporary Art Society, Aspen Collection, New York; the UniCredit Art Collection, Milan; the Permanent Collection of the United States Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC; the Mart Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Trento and Rovereto; the 500 Capp Street Foundation, San Francisco; and MAXXI National Museum of 21st Century Arts, Rome. He has been a visiting artist at New York University and has completed several artist residencies in New York, including the Location One International Artist Residency Program, the LMCC Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and the MIA Artist Space Program/Columbia University School of the Arts. In 2011 he received the New York Exposure Prize and was nominated for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize. In 2016 the Mart Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto presented Galvani's first mid-career retrospective in Europe. In 2017, his work was selected to represent the Deutsche Bank Collection at Frieze New York. Andrea Galvani (Mousse Publishing), a comprehensive monograph of over 10 years of work and research, was published in September 2018 and is distributed throughout the world. In 2018, he was awarded the prestigious Audemars Piguet Prize for ARCOmadrid 2019.
