Luisa Lambri
Selected Biography
b. 1969, Como, Italy; lives and works in Milan, Italy
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2010
Thomas Dane Gallery, London
Being There
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
2009
Galerie Paul Andriess, Amsterdam
Luhring Augustine, New York
Fundación RAC, Pontevedra, Spain
Gallery 32, The Embassy of Brazil, London
Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo
2008
Studio Guenzani, Milan
2007
Thomas Dane Gallery, London
Front Room: Luisa Lambri
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore
2006
Luhring Augustine, New York
Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo
Forum 57: Luisa Lambri and Ernesto Neto
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo
Marc Foxx (West Gallery), Los Angeles
2005
Marc Foxx, Los Angeles
Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam
Studio Guenzani, Milan
2004
Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam
From Within
Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo
Locations
The Menil Collection, Houston
2003
Studio Guenzani, Milan
2002
Marc Foxx (West Gallery), Los Angeles
Istituto Italiano di Cultura and Italian Heritage Culture Foundation, Los Angeles
2001
Rice Gallery by G2, Tokyo
Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo
Palazzo Re Rebaudengo, Guarene d’Alba, Italy
International Artists’ Studio Programme in Sweden, Stockholm
2000
Fotogalleriet, Oslo
Studio Guenzani, Milan
Kettle’s Yard, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cambridge University
1999
Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius
Studio Barbieri, Venice
Institute of Visual Arts, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Selected Group Exhibitions
2010
Into the Belly of a DoveMuseo Tamayo, Mexico
The Library of Babel / In and Out of Place
176, Zabludowicz Collection, London
Luisa Lambri, Hellen van Meene, Thomas Ruff
Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo
El Gabinete Blanco
La Colecciòn Jumex, Mexico City
Desire
The Blanton Museum of Art, Austin
Twenty Five
Luhring Augustine, New York
Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
25 or 30 Years Gallery. Photography
Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam
People meet in Architecture
12th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice
Summer Loves
Huis Marseille, Museum fir Photography, Amsterdam
2009
Collecting History: Highlighting Recent AcquisitionsMuseum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Elements of Photography
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Private Universes
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
Panorama da Arte Brasileira
Museum of Modern Art, São Paulo
Painting the Glass House: Artists Revisit Modern Architecture
Mills College Art Museum, Oakland
Les enfants terribles
Fundaciòn/Colecciòn Jumex, Mexico
Italics: Italian Art between Tradition and Revolution, 1968-2008
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
2008
Focus on Contemporary Italian ArtMuseo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna, Italy
Made Up
Liverpool Biennial, Tate Liverpool
Brasil: desFocos (o olho de fora)
Paço das Artes, São Paulo
Building Pictures
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago
Painting the Glass House: Artists revisit Modern Architecture
The Art & Architecture, Yale School of Architecture, New Haven
Italics: Arte Italiana tra Tradizione e Rivoluzione 1968-2008
Palazzo Grassi, Venice
Inside Architecture: Selections from the permanent collection
MOCA Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles
REMIX Inner Space: Photography from the Collection
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
Once is Nothing
Brussels Biennial
Italics: Arte Italiana tra Tradizione e Rivoluzione 1968-2008
Palazzzo Grassi
2007
It Starts From HereDe La Warr Pavillion, Bexhill on Sea
Camera con Vista. Arte e interni in Italia da 1900 al 2000
Palazzo Reale, Milano
Spectacular City
NRW - Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft, Düsseldorf
MCA EXPOSED: Defining Moments in Photography, 1967-2007
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
The Shapes of Space
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Pure
Sean Kelly Gallery, New York
Brasil: desFocos [o olho de fora]
Centro Cultural Banco Do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro
Parts and the Whole, Fundacio Foto Colectania
Barcelona, Spain
2006
Whisper Not! A Different Dimension of SeeingHuis Marseille, Foundation for Photography, Amsterdam
La terra e le nuvole. Fotografia italiana da Ghirri a oggi
Unicredit Private Banking, Milan
The Grand Promenade
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens
New Landscapes- Italienische Fotokunst Sammlung der UniCredit Group
HVB Kunst Palais, Munich
Spectacular City
Netherlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam
Whisper Not! A Different Dimension of Seeing
Huis Marseille, Foundation for Photography, Amsterdam
Open House
INHOTIM Centro de Arte Contemporanea, Minas Girais, Brazil
Light/Art: Mystic Crystal Revelation
Santa Barbara Contempoarary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara
Guggenheim Pictures: A Conceptual Portfolio
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Espaco Aberto/Espaco Fechado: sites for sculpture in modern Brasil
Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
Forum 57: Luisa Lambri and Ernesto Neto
Forum Gallery, The Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh
2005
Bidibidobidiboo. Opere della Collezione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo per i dieci amni della FondazioneFondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
New Photography
Photo-London, Burlington Gardens, London
Selections from the Hara Museum's Permanent Collection
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
La dolce crisi
Villa Manin Centro d'Arte Contemporanea, Passariano Codroipo, Italy
Generations of Art
Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como, Italy
Some trees
Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, Germany
Vanishing Point
Wexner Center for the Arts at the Belmont Buildings, Columbus, Ohio
Kunstsammlungen
Dresden, Germany
SANAA
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
Principles of Construction
Kunsthalle Andratx, Mallorca
The Fluidity of Time
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Romance (a novel)
Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon
XIV Quadriennale di Roma
Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome
2004
Fragmentos e souvenirs paulistanos, Vol. 1Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo
Arti & Architetture, 1900-2000
Palazzo Ducale, Genoa
Fictions. Truth in Photography and Painting
Timothy Taylor Gallery, London
Metamorph, 9. Biennale Internazionale di Architettura
Venice
Artiste italiene nel ventesimo secolo
Palazzo Mediceo di Seravezza, Seravezza, Italy
Sistemi Idividuali
Museo Archeologico Provinciale, Potenza, Italy
2003
SummerMarc Foxx, Los Angeles
A Nova Geometria
Galeria Fortes Vilaca, São Paulo
Game Over
Grimm/Rosenfeld, Munich, Germany
In faccia al mondo. Il ritratto contemporaneo nel medium fotografico. La produzione artistica dalla fine degli anni '70 a oggi
Museo Villa Croce, Genoa, Italy
Form Specific
Moderna Galerija / Museum of Modern Art, Ljuljana, Slovenia
Trasparente
Museo Nazlonale della Arti del XXI Secolo, Rome
Dreams and Conflicts: The Viewer's Dictatorship, 50
Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte, Venice
Lei. Donne nelle collezioni italiane
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin
Living Inside the Grid
New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
Elephant Juice (Sexo entre amigos)
Kurimanzutto @ Los Manantiales, Xochimilco, Mexico
Imaxinando espacios, recreando realidades
Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Urban Utopias. Urban Realities
Mestna Galerlja, Nova Gorica, Slovenia
2002
Fictions: New Narratives in Contemporary Photography and VideoRose Art Museum, Waltham, Massachuetts
Final Projects
MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Schindler House, Los Angeles
Sleeping. Dreaming, Awakening
Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Japan
The Secret of the Shadow - Light and Shadow in Architecture
Deutches Architektur Museum, Frankfurt
Reverberator
Houldsworth Gallery, London
2001
Milano Europa 2000Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
Mutamenti e analogie. Spazi contemporaries a Bolzano e altrove
Centro Culturale Trevi, Bolzano, Italy
Playing amongst the Ruins
Royal College of Art Galleries, London
Magic and Loss: Contemporary Italian Video
Biennal of Moving Images, LUX Center Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, Lithuania
Museion
Museo d'Arte Moderna, Bolzano, Italy
Dinamiche della vita e dell'arte
Mueso d'Arte Modema e Contemporanea, Bergamo, Italy
Boom! Espresso: Arte oggi in Italia
Manifattura Tabacchi, Firenze
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
Self-Esteem
Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, Lithuania
The Escape
Tirana Biennale 1 , National Gallery, Tirana, Albania
Liminal/Minimal/Nominal: Architectural Traces
John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, England
Strategies against Architecture
Fondazione Teseco per l'Arte, Pisa
Strategien. Fotokunst der 90er Jahre aus der Sammlung Sandretto Re Rebaudengo
Kunsthalle, Kiel
Chain of Visions - Family Politics and Religion in the Last Generation of Italian Contemporary Art
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
2000
Group ShowGallery Koyanagi, Tokyo, Japan
Contemporary Photography II: Anti-Memory
Yokohama Museum of Modern Art
Future Identities: Reflections from a Collection
Sala de Exposiciones del Canal de Isabel II, Madrid, Spain
Recent Acquisitions
Palazzo Re Rebaudengo, Guarene d'Alba. Italy
La Jeune Scene Artistique Italienne
Domain de Kerguehenec, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Blgnan, France
Waiting
Mjellby Art Center, Halmstadt, Denmark
1999
Sub-Continental ArchitectureNature Morte, New Delhi
Clues
Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam
Paesaggi invisibili
Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena
d'APERTutto
48 Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte, Venice
1998
GelD'Amelio, Terras, New York
Yesterday Begins Tomorrow: Ideals, Dreams and the Contemporary Awakening
Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Bard College, New York
Spectacular Optical
Thread Waxing Space, New York
1968 - 1998 Fotografia e Arte in Italia
Galleria Civica, Palazzo Santa Margherita, Modena, Italy
Le arti delta fotografia
Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Varese, Italy
1997
Fotografia italiana per una collezioneFondazione Italiana per la Fotografia, Museo della Fotografia Storica e Contemporanea, Turin
Camera
Art & Public, Geneva
Palazzo Re Rebaudengo, Gaurene d'Alba, Italy
Vertigo
Galleria Emi Fontana, Milan
Romantica
VII Biennale Internazionale di Fotografia, Palazzo Bricherasio, Turin
Fotografia Storica e Contemporanea
Turin
1996
L'EvidenceCentre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
Partito preso
Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy
A Month on the Lake, Advanced Course in Visual Arts
ex chiesa di San Francesco, Como, Italy
Passaggi. Fotografia nell'arte Contemporanea italiana
Fondazione Sandretto re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
Ultime Generazioni
XII Quadriennale d'Arte, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy
Collections
Museo Tamayo Contemporaneo, Mexico City
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Huis Marseille Foundation for Photography, Amsterdam
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Colección Fundación Arco, Madrid
The Menil Collection, Houston
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo per l’Arte, Turin
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
Palm Springs Art Museum
Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome
The Jumex Collection, Mexico City
Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI Secolo, Rome
Benesse Art Site Naoshima, Japan
Carnegie Museum of Arts, Pittsburgh
Contemporary Art Center Inhotim, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Baltimore Museum of Art
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
LaSalle Bank Photography Collection, Chicago
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Awards
2008
ResidencyIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
2003
ResidencyColecção Teixeira de Freitas, Rio de Janeiro
2002
ResidencyMAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles
Grant
Menil Collection at A.R.T., Tokyo
2000-2001
ResidencyInternational Artists' Studio Programme in Sweden, Stockholm
1999-2000
ResidencyCenter for Contemporary Art, Kitakyushu, Japan
Grant