Nicola Samori Biography
Nicola Samorì was born in Forlì in 1977 and graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna in 2004. He is a multifaceted artist who expresses himself through painting and sculpture, placing experimentation and the search for new expressive forms.
Over the years, Samorì has questioned the traditional forms of Western art, working on the pictorial surface. In 2010, he began the first "peelings" of the pigment, a process that evolved into several exhibitions between 2011 and 2013, including “Baroque”, LARM gallery in Copenhagen.
In 2014 he held personal and collective exhibitions in important museums in Italy and abroad, such as the Schauwerk in Sindelfingen, the MAC in Lissone, the Kunsthalle in Kiel and Palazzo Chiericati in Vicenza. In 2015 he was selected for the 56th Venice Biennale and participated in the “Codice Italia” project.
Between 2016 and 2017 he exhibited in important Italian and German galleries, also participating in group exhibitions at the MOCAK in Krakow and the Stelline Foundation in Milan. In 2019 he held his first solo exhibition in Asia at the Yu-Hsiu Museum of Art, Caotun (Nantou, Taiwan), he set up the “Black Square” project in Naples. His solo exhibition “In abyss” was exhibited at the Galerie EIGEN + ART in Berlin.
In November 2019 he inaugurated the personal exhibition dedicated to the figure of Saint Lucia at the Mart Museum in Rovereto, which represents one of the guiding images of his artistic production in recent years.
