Francesca Romana Pinzari was born in Perth, (Australia) and lives and works in Rome

She works with installation, video, performance, painting  and sculpture 

The main themes of her research are identity, culture and nature

Concepts such as domestic violence, diversity and cultural roots are addressed with a performative approach that leads the artist to also create sculptural, pictorial or installation artifacts of different nature depending on the exhibition project.

She finds many of the materials while walking in the woods such as thorny shrubs, cicadas exoskeletons, snake skins or porcupine quills.

In her installations and drawings made of horsehair and her own intertwined hair the relationship with the body and the organic becomes immediate, while in the creation of crystals the slow and laborious alchemical ritual that she carries out alone in her laboratory is not visible but it can be guessed by the precious and unusual material that covers her sculptures.

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Studies: Degree with honors at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome in 2001 Residency at SVA in New York for sculpture, installation and New Media, 2011

Selected solo shows:

• 2024
• Fall in love with yourself and there is always a reason 
• 2 performances for Biblioteca Paroniana, Rieti
• 2023
• Tutto è uno, uno è tutto, Gilda Contemporary Art Gallery in Milan 
• Spells, Curva Pura Gallery, Rome curated by Nicoletta Provenzano
• 2020
• Casa Spina, Casa vuota, Rome curated by Francesco Paolo del Re and Sabino de Nichilo
• 2018
• Ouroboros, Riccardo Costantini Contemporary, Torino 
• Geometrie celesti Caserma Archeologica, Sansepolcro
• 2017
• SuperNatural, Gilda Contemporary Gallery, Milan curated by Cristina Gilda Artese 
• 2016
  The first time we kissed, 67 Gallery, Ludlow street,New York 
• 2015
  Memorie Apocrife, Mondrian Suite, Rome, curated by Lori Adragna
  Passione Residuale, Int 14 AIAC associazione Italiana di Architettura e Critica, curated by Francesco Paolo Del Re 
• 2014
  Nostalgia dell’Umano, BuOrg Gallery, Bari, Curated by Francesco Paolo del Re and Sabino De Nichilo
  Cavalli, Gallery Zak, Siena curated by Gaia Pasi 
• 2013
  Soul Preservation, Sponge living space, Pergola (PU) curated by Francesco Paolo del Re
  L’albero della memoria, Sponge living space, Pergola (PU) curated by Stefano Verri
  2009
  I ain’t superstitious installation and performance , Arte Moderna e Contemporanea dell’Associazione Dimore Storiche Italiane, Le Torri di Bagnara (Perugia) curated by Luce Monachesi 
• 2008
• M+F la complementarietà degli opposti Gallery 091 Artsinergy, Palermo curated by Gianluca Marziani
  Invisibile/Indelebile Gallery 196, Rome, curated by Micol Di Veroli 2007
  Communications affair for Teramo cittá aperta al mondo, Sala espositiva comunale, Teramo, curated by Alberto Melarangelo
  2006
  Paper Boundaries, a The Sydney Artworld Gallery, Sydney curated by Paula Lowndes
  Paper boundaries at Villa Celimontana Jazz festival, Rome
  2005
  Paper Boundaries, , Gadfly Gallery, Perth Australia , curated by Joy Legge
  Paper Boundaries, Gallery 196 – Rome, curated by Lea Mattarella
  
  

• Selected group shows:
  2024
• Femininenergy, Artosphaere Gallery, Puchenau, Austria
• 2023
• Connexxion, Art festival in Savona, Curated By Livia Savorelli 
• Archeologie del contemporaneo, Archeological Museum Priamar Fortress, curated by Livia Savorelli
• Supervisione, Palermo curated by Roberto Bilotti Ruggi d’Aragona
• Visibilia, Museum Villa Croce Genoa, curated by Isabella Puliafito
• 2022
• Visibilia, Museum Palazzo Ducale, Gubbio, curated by Isabella Puliafito
• The tilted body performance for Biennale Arcipelago Mediterraneo Curated by Lori Adragna, Palermo
• 2021
• Alem, Arte italiana in pandemia , Contemporary Art Museum of Sao Paulo in Brazil curated by  Teresa Emanuele and Nicola Ballario
• Della gentilezza e dell’audacia, palazzo granafei Nervegna, Brindisi curated by Ilaria Caravaglio and Valeria Gatti
• 2019
• Stella a otto punte Gilda contemporary art, curated by Cristina Gilda Artese
• 2018
• Superfici variabili, centro culturale fatebenefratelli valmadera curated by Cristina Gilda Artese
• Roma sogna, Teatro India,powered by Franco Losvizzero,  Rome
• Tempo Liberato,  museum  Palazzo della Penna, Perugia curated by Francesca Romana Pinzary and GMG Group
• 2017
• Transition of Energy,, K. H. Renlund Museum, Kokkola, Finland, curated by Lorella Scacco
  Transition of Energy, Maritime Contemporary Art Museum, Kotka Finland curated by Lorella Scacco 
• 2016
• Transition of Energy, Kajaani Contemporary Art Museum, Finland curated by Lorella Scacco
  Arteamcup, Palazzo Monferrato, Alessandria 2015
  Hubei region Art Festival, Hubei, China,
  #nuovicodici #aroomofherown Biennale di Soncino a Marco, Palazzo Stanga Trecco, Cremona curated by Milena Becci and Valeria Carnevali
  Transition of Energy Kunsthalle Bratislava, curated by Lorella Scacco
  Performance Night Galeria Miejska BWA Bydgoszcz, Poland
  2014
  Among Us, curated by Shara Wasserman, Olive Tjaden Gallery, Cornell University, Ithaca New York
  La grande Illusione, Temple Gallery, Rome a curated by Manuela De Leonardis
• Privata, Travelling show Mole Vanvitelliana di Ancona, Art Hotel Sorrento, Archivio di Stato Cosenza, curated by Federica Mariani
  2013
• IN Natura, Zack Gallery, Siena curated by Gaia Pasi
  XXX Fuorifestival, Pesaro curated by Stefano Verri
  Nonostante Tutto, curated by Raffaele Gavarro, Galleria Oltredimore, Bologna
  Censured, Visiva Roma curated by Ilaria Caravaglio and Giorgio de Finis
  Zaino in spalla, Atelier Giorgi, Turin curated by Sponge arte contemporanea and Rave residency
  Re birth day, MAAM, Metropoliz, citta’ meticcia a cura di Giorgio de Finis
  Sing Sweet Songs of Conviction travelling show at MC Gallery, New York and Mexico City curated by White Spider and Karen Huber
  Selezioni aeffettive, studio Angeletti, Rome, curated by Peter Benson Miller 
• 2012
  Catarifrangenze, curate by Achille Bonito Oliva and LUISS master of art at La Pelanda, MACRO Testaccio Museum, Rome
  Stipendy artist, project room 24h inside the show RE-Kollekt al Bethanien Museum, Berlin
  Portonaccio artisti in condominio, curator: Achille Bonito Oliva, ex magazzini di Portonaccio, Rome
  Sing Sweet Songs of Conviction: travelling show in 6 cities: – Shau Fenster Gallery, Berlin curator: Perennial Art,
  – Label 201, Rome curated by Laura Barreca, – Core@Nolias gallery, London curated by Enrico Centoze – MC Gallery, New York catalogue text by Julia Draganovich. 
• 2011
  Yes Foundation, performance session Curator: di Cecilia Freschini, Netherlands
  Voci dalla Periferia, Museum delle Mura, Rome, curator: Costantino D’Orazio
  Open studios at the SVA residency program, Chelsea, New York
• Short Video Show curator: Cecilia Freschini, Space A gallery, Kathmandu – Nepal
  Via Arimondi, curated by Shara Wasserman, Temple Gallery Rome
  2010
• ADD Festival, Video art Festival at Palazzo Incontro, Roma curator: Giorgia Terrinoni
  Celeste prize, finalist exhibition in Catania, Brodbeck Foundation, curators: Gabi Scardi and Giulia Draganovich
  Expectations, at The No Longer Empty @ The Invisible Dog Gallery in New York, curators: Manon Slome
  SPAZIO MONITOR Festarte, MACRO Future, La Pelanda, contemporary art museum in Rome 2008
  Italian Artist group Show curator: Giacomo Pellegrini, Casanova Hotel, Prague
  Bau A.U.S. arte utile socialmente, Como, curator: Viviana Siviero
  Premio Fenice et des artistes,– Hotel Impero, Trieste, cuator: G. Pellegrini 2007
  Superfici mai superficiali, curator: Gianluca Marziani, Pizzoli
  Premio Fenice et des artistes,– Hotel Fenice, Venice, curator: G Pellegrini
  Expotrastiendas – art fair, Buenos Aires
  2006
  Profilo d’arte travelling exhibition in the cities: Brescia, Reggio Emilia, Roma, Torino, Ferrara e Milano – catalogue ed. Munus
  Exhibition Comunicare Roma 2006, Auditorium della Concicliazione ,Rome – catalogue ed. Gangemi 2004
  DonnArte Santa Maria della Pietà Complex Rome
  scultura 2004 San Salvatore in Lauro Museums, Rome 2003
  Le periferie Romene al centro della trasformazione della città at the New Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome
  Orme traccianti, Public Library Federico Borromeo, Rome
  La Natività, at the Venanzo Crocetti Museum, Rome 1999
  “Cortili Aperti” curators: Ludovico Pratesi and Arnaldo Romani Brizzi, palazzo Borghese, Rome
  

Prizes and awards:

• Arteam cup 2017 special prize Caserma Archeologica Sansepolcro
• Arteamcup 2016 special prize Riccardo Costantini contemporary 
• 3 months residency prize in New York at the SVA, 2011
• Winner of the award Giovani Talenti 2011, sponsored by the administration of the city of Rome
• Selected for Expectation exhibition in New York 2010
  Finalist at Celeste Prize 2010
  Finalist at premio Fenice et des artistes 2007, Venezia
  Winner of the award Dipingéremo 2007, Sulmona
  Finalist at the award “profilo d’arte”2006 by Banca Profilo
  Winner of II prize Scultura 2004 by Pio Istituto Catel, Rome
  
  Teaching and workshop:
  
  2021 co-teacher Graphic Novel summer class at Binghamton University, New York 

• 2019-2020 Professor for artist’s life and market class for Cultural Heritage Managing Master at Link campus University Rome 
• 2014: Visiting critic at Cornell University in Rome Drawing Class
• 2013 : Murales ‘Only with you” realized with the community of Metropoliz citta’ meticcia at MAAM Museum dell’altro e dell’altrove, Rome