Luisa Lambri
Selected Biography
b. 1969, Como, Italy; lives and works in Milan, Italy
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2010
Being ThereHammer Museum, Los Angeles
2009
Galerie Paul Andriess, Amsterdam
Fundación RAC, Pontevedra, Spain
Luhring Augustine, New York
Gallery 32, The Embassy of Brazil, London
Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo
2008
Studio Guenzani, Milan
2007
Front Room: Luisa LambriBaltimore Museum of Art
Thomas Dane Gallery, London
2006
Forum 57: Luisa Lambri and Ernesto NetoCarnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo
Luhring Augustine, New Yor
Marc Foxx (West Gallery), Los Angeles
Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo
2005
Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam
Marc Foxx, Los Angele
Studio Guenzani, Milan
2004
LocationsThe Menil Collection, Houston
From Within
Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo
Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam
2003
Studio Guenzani, Milan
2002
Istituto Italiano di Cultura and Italian Heritage Culture Foundation, Los Angeles
Marc Foxx (West Gallery), Los Angeles
2001
International Artists’ Studio Programme in Sweden, Stockholm
Palazzo Re Rebaudengo, Guarene d’Alba, Italy
Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo
2000
Studio Guenzani, Milan
Fotogalleriet, Oslo
Kettle’s Yard, University of Cambridge
1999
Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius
Studio Barbieri, Venice
Institute of Visual Arts, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Selected Group Exhibitions
2010
DesireThe Blanton Museum of Art, Austin
Luisa Lambri, Hellen van Meene, Thomas Ruff
Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo
2009
Elements of PhotographyMuseum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Private Universes
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
Panorama da Arte Brasileira
Museum of Modern Art, São Paulo
Collecting History: Highlighting Recent Acquisitions
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Elements of Photography
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Painting the Glass House: Artists Revisit Modern Architecture
Mills College Art Museum, Oakland
2008
REMIX Inner Space: Photography from the CollectionAlbright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
Painting the Glass House: Artists revisit Modern Architecture
The Art & Architecture, Yale School of Architecture, New Haven
Building Pictures
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago
Made Up
Liverpool Biennial, Tate Liverpool, England
Italics: Arte Italiana tra Tradizione e Rivoluzione 1968-2008
Palazzo Grassi, Venice
Italics: Arte Italiana tra Tradizione e Rivoluzione 1968-2008
Palazzzo Grassi
International 08
Liverpool Biennial
Focus on Contemporary Italian Art
Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna, Italy
Once is Nothing
Brussels Biennial
Brasil: desFocos [o olho de fora]
Paço das Artes, São Paulo
Inside Architecture: Selections from the permanent collection
MOCA Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles
Brasil: desFocos (o olho de fora)
Paço das Artes, São Paulo
2007
Parts and the Whole, Fundacio Foto ColectaniaBarcelona, Spain
Camera con Vista. Arte e interni in Italia da 1900 al 2000
Palazzo Reale, Milano
It Starts From Here
De La Warr Pavillion, Bexhill on Sea, England
Pure
Sean Kelly Gallery, New York
Spectacular City
NRW - Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft, Düsseldorf
Brasil: desFocos [o olho de fora]
Centro Cultural Banco Do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro
A Proposal
De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea
MCA EXPOSED: Defining Moments in Photography, 1967-2007
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
'The Shapes of Space'
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
2006
cGuggenheim Pictures: A Conceptual PortfolioSolomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
'Light/Art: Mystic Crystal Revelation'
Santa Barbara Contempoarary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara
NRW Forum in Düsseldorf, Germany
'The Grand Promenade'
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens
cForum 57: Luisa Lambri and Ernesto Neto
Forum Gallery, The Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh
'Open House'
INHOTIM Centro de Arte Contemporanea, Minas Girais, Brazil
cLa terra e le nuvole. Fotografia italiana da Ghirri a oggi
Unicredit Private Banking, Milan
'Spectacular City'
Netherlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam
'Whisper Not! A Different Dimension of Seeing'
Huis Marseille, Foundation for Photography, Amsterdam
Spectacular City
Netherlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam
'Espaco Aberto/Espaco Fechado: sites for sculpture in modern Brasil'
Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
New Landscapes- Italienische Fotokunst Sammlung der UniCredit Group
HVB Kunst Palais, Munich, Germany
2005
'Some trees'Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, Germany
'La dolce crisi'
Villa Manin Centro d'Arte Contemporanea, Passariano Codroipo, Italy
'Bidibidobidiboo. Opere della Collezione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo per i dieci amni della Fondazione'
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
'SANAA'
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
'Selections from the Hara Museum's Permanent Collection'
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
'Romance (a novel)'
Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon
New Photography
Photo-London, Burlington Gardens, London
Generations of Art
Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como, Italy
'Vanishing Point'
Wexner Center for the Arts at the Belmont Buildings, Columbus, Ohio
Kunstsammlungen
Dresden, Germany
'Principles of Construction'
Kunsthalle Andratx, Mallorca, Spain
'The Fluidity of Time'
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
XIV Quadriennale di Roma
Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome
2004
'Fictions. Truth in Photography and Painting'Timothy Taylor Gallery, London
Artiste italiene nel ventesimo secolo
Palazzo Mediceo di Seravezza, Seravezza, Italy
Metamorph, 9. Biennale Internazionale di Architettura'
Venice
'Arti & Architetture, 1900-2000'
Palazzo Ducale, Genoa
Sistemi Idividuali
Museo Archeologico Provinciale, Potenza, Italy
'Fragmentos e souvenirs paulistanos, Vol. 1'
Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo
2003
Urban Utopias. Urban RealitiesMestna Galerlja, Nova Gorica, Slovenia
Elephant Juice (Sexo entre amigos)
Kurimanzutto @ Los Manantiales, Xochimilco, Mexico
Living Inside the Grid
New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
In faccia al mondo. Il ritratto contemporaneo nel medium fotografico. La produzione artistica dalla fine
Museo Villa Croce, Genoa, Italy
Imaziando espacios, recreando realidades
Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Dreams and Conflicts: The Viewer's Dictatorship, 50
Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte, Venice
Form Specific
Moderna Galerija / Museum of Modern Art, Ljuljana, Slovenia
Transparente
Museo Nazlonale della Arti del XXI Secolo, Rome
Summer
Marc Foxx, Los Angeles
Contemporanea
Santiago de Compostela, Spain
A Nova Geometria
Galeria Fortes Vilaca, São Paulo
Game Over
Grimm/Rosenfeld, Munich, Germany
Lei. Donne nelle collezioni italiane
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin
2002
The Secret of the Shadow - Light and Shadow in ArchitectureDeutches Architektur Museum, Frankfurt
Sleeping. Dreaming, Awakening
Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Japan
Final Projects
MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Schindler House, Los Angeles
Fictions: New Narratives in Contemporary Photography and Video
Rose Art Museum, Waltham, Massachuetts
Reverberator
Houldsworth Gallery, London
2001
Boom! Espresso: Arte oggi in ItaliaManifattura Tabacchi, Firenze
Dinamiche della vita e dell'arte
Museo d'Arte Modema e Contemporanea, Bergamo, Italy
Liminal/Minimal/Nominal: Architectural Traces
John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, England
Una storia dell'arte in Italia nel XX secolo. Cento opere della Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e di collezioni italiane
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Dinamiche della vita e dell'arte
Mueso d'Arte Modema e Contemporanea, Bergamo, Italy
Strategien. Fotokunst der 90er Jahre aus der Sammlung Sandretto Re Rebaudengo
Kiel, Germany
Magic and Loss: Contemporary Italian Video
Biennal of Moving Images, LUX Center Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, Lithuania
Playing amongst the Ruins
Royal College of Art Galleries, London
Mutamenti e analogie. Spazi contemporaries a Bolzano e altrove
Centro Culturale Trevi, Bolzano, Italy
Strategies against Architecture
Fondazione Teseco per l'Arte, Pisa
Self-Esteem
Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, Lithuania
The Escape
Tirana Biennale 1 , National Gallery, Tirana, Albania
Museion
Museo d'Arte Moderna, Bolzano, Italy
Milano Europa 2000
Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
Chain of Visions - Family Politics and Religion in the Last Generation of Italian Contemporary Art
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Playing amongst the Ruins
Royal College of Art Galleries, London
2000
Recent AcquisitionsPalazzo Re Rebaudengo, Guarene d'Alba. Italy
Contemporary Photography II: Anti-Memory
Yokohama Museum of Modern Art
Group Show
Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo, Japan
La Jeune Scene Artistique Italienne
Domain de Kerguehenec, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Blgnan, France
Waiting
Mjellby Art Center, Halmstadt, Denmark
Future Identities: Reflections from a Collection
Sala de Exposiciones del Canal de Isabel II, Madrid, Spain
1999
Sub-Continental ArchitectureNature Morte, New Delhi
Paesaggi invisibili
Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena
d'APERTutto
48 Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte, Venice
Clues
Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam
1998
GelD'Amelio, Terras, New York
Yesterday Begins Tomorrow: Ideals, Dreams and the Contemporary Awakening
Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Bard College, New York
1968 - 1998 Fotografia e Arte in Italia
Galleria Civica, Palazzo Santa Margherita, Modena, Italy
Spectacular Optical
Thread Waxing Space, New York
Le arti delta fotografia
Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Varese, Italy
1997
VertigoGalleria Emi Fontana, Milan
Camera
Art & Public, Geneva
Fotografia Storica e Contemporanea
Turin
Che cosa sono le nuvole?
Palazzo Re Rebaudengo, Gaurene d'Alba, Italy
Vertigo
Galleria Emi Fontana, Milan
Fotografia italiana per una collezione
Fondazione Italiana per la Fotografia, Museo della Fotografia Storica e Contemporanea, Turin
Romantica
VII Biennale Internazionale di Fotografia, Palazzo Bricherasio, Turin
1996
L'EvidenceCentre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
Passaggi. Fotografia nell'arte Contemporanea italiana
Fondazione Sandretto re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
Ultime Generazioni
XII Quadriennale d'Arte, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy
A Month on the Lake, Advanced Course in Visual Arts
ex chiesa di San Francesco, Como, Italy
Partito preso
Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy
Collections
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI Secolo, Rome
Huis Marseille Foundation for Photography, Amsterdam
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Colección Fundación Arco, Madrid
The Menil Collection, Houston
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo per l’Arte, Turin
Palm Springs Art Museum
Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome
The Jumex Collection, Mexico City
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Baltimore Museum of Art
Contemporary Art Center Inhotim, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Carnegie Museum of Arts, Pittsburgh
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
LaSalle Bank Photography Collection, Chicago
Benesse Art Site Naoshima, Japan
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
Awards
2008
ResidencyIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
2003
ResidencyColecção Teixeira de Freitas, Rio de Janeiro
2002
GrantMenil Collection at A.R.T., Tokyo
Residency
MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles
2000-2001
ResidencyInternational Artists' Studio Programme in Sweden, Stockholm
1999-2000
ResidencyCenter for Contemporary Art, Kitakyushu, Japan
Grant
Castello di Rivoli, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli, Turin
1999
Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte, Venice (award)Venice, Italy
Golden Lion