Patrizio di Massimo’s early works were mainly executed in video, photography and performance. It was only in 2009 that he radically turned to the medium of painting. As a self-taught painter he created a very distinctive style. His paintings are shrouded in mystery and portray human beings in situations of violence, intimacy and abundance. di Massimo’s work is full of references to art history, popular culture and found images. di Massimo positions the spectator as a cautious voyeur as he depicts a decisive moment in these scenes. The uncertainty of what will happen next in his paintings triggers our imagination to make up our own narratives and gives meaning to the paintings.
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Born in 1983, Jesi, Italy
Lives and works in London, UK
MA Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK
Undergraduate Academy of Fine Arts of Brera, Milan, Italy
As Snug as a Bug in a Rug, rodolphe janssen, Brussels, Belgium
The Tale End of the Tale, T293, Rome, Italy
The Escalator Cycle, Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli, Italy
Close at Hand, François Ghebaly, Los Angeles, CA USA
Il tempo dello sguardo, Palazzo Ducale, Urbino, Italy
Patrizio di Massimo, Kura, at Fonderia Artistica Battaglia, Milan, Italy
Inside Me, ChertLüdde, Berlin, Germany
Bread and Circuses, rodolphe janssen, Brussels, Belgium
Patrizio Di Massimo, NICC, Brussels, Belgium
Nipson anomemata me monan opsin, Monteverde Gallery, Castiglioncello del Trinoro, Italy
Are Ere Ire, T293, Rome, Italy
Me, Mum, Mister, Mad’, Kunsthalle Lissabon, Lisbon, Portugal
Soft Corners Lining White, Rowing, London, UK
Monologue for two, (performance) Fiorucci Art Trust, London, UK
Inside Me (performance), Present Future, Artissima, Turin, Italy
The Lustfult Turk, Gasworks, London, UK
Monologue for two, MdP1, Milan, Italy
The Lustful Turk, Villa Medici, Rome, Italy
I want to live like this, T293, Rome, Italy
Buzzi’s Turandot (in the form of notes), (performance), Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Modus Operandi, White Fish Tank, Ancona, Italy
The Negus said: Give me the lion keep the stele!, Art 41 Basel, Art Statements, with T293, Switzerland
Col Sole in Fronte, T293, Naples, Italy
Patrizio di Massimo, Zilkha Auditorium1, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Lon don, UK
Italian Wave, Artissima 15, Turin, Italy
Tom of Finland Arts & Culture Festival, London, UK
Ben(i)Tornati, Fondazione CRC, Cuneo, Italy
Works from the collection, Sof:Art, Bologna, Italy
Pittura in persona. La nuova Collezione della Fondazione CRC, Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli, Italy
Kathmandu Triennale, curated by Cosmin Costinas, Kathmandu, Nepal
ITALICS, curated by Vincenzo de Bellis, Procida, Italy
The Sublime in Nature, curated by Daniel Malarkey, 24 Cork Street, London
Espressioni, Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli, Italy
Garden of Six Seasons, ParaSite Art Space, Hong Kong
shaking the habitual, Galeria Duarte Sequeira, Braga, Portugal
Portraits forever, Esapce Tajan, Paris, France
Ciò che vedo. Nuova figurazione in Italia, Galleria Civica di Trento, Italy
Via dell’Inferno, Galleria Spazia, Bologna, Italy
Übermauer, BAM - Biennale Arcipelago Mediterraneo, Palermo, Italy
Guten Morgen, Europa!, A tale of a Tub, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
IBRIDA, Castello di Perno, Monforte d’Alba, Italy
Nightfall, Mendes Wood DM, Brussels, Belgium
Total Anastrophes, Volcano Extravaganza, Stromboli, Italy
Take Me (I’m Yours), French Academy at Villa Medici, Rome, Italy
Signori prego si accomodino#3, Lia Pasqualino Noto, Casa Studio, Palermo, Italy
Somatechnics, Museion, Bolzano, Italy
Take Me (I’m Yours), Villa Medici, Rome, Italy
EVA international, Biennal of Visual Art, Limerick, Ireland
Total Anastrophes, DHAKA ART SUMMIT, Bangladesh
Through the looking Glass, Palazzo Capris, Turin, Italy
Guest, Ghost, Host, Serpentine Galleries, London, UK (performance)
Take Me (I’m Yours), Pirelli Hangar Bicocca, Milan, Italy
The Absent Artist, Netwerk, Aals, Belgium
Grim Tales, Cassina Projects, New York, NY USA
Storie e Opere, Fondazione Malvina Menegaz per le Arti e le Culture, Castelbasso, Italy
Sette Messaggeri, Marsèlleria, curated by Ilaria Marotta and Andrea Baccin, Milan, Italy
An ear, severed, listens, Chert Lüdde, Berlin , Germany
Ritiro, Lucie Fontaine’s Kayu, Indonesia
Artisti per Frescobaldi, Galleria d’Arte Moderna (GAM), Milan, Italy
Prediction, Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo, Brazil
Mundus Muliebris, CURA Basement, Rome, Italy
Give a man a mask and he will tell you the truth – Oscar Wilde, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium
Ennesima, Una mostra di sette mostre sull’arte Italiana, Triennale di Mila no, Milan, Italy
The Ultimate Vessel, Koppe Astner, Glasgow, Scotland
Impossible Love, Projektraum Viktor Bucher, Vienna, Austria
Movi(e)ing Museum, Aurora Museum, Shanghai, China
Signori prego si accomodino, Studio Casa Scatturin, Carlo Scarpa, Ven ice, Italy
I am here but you have gone, Fiorucci Art Trust, London, UK
Natural Beginners, La Rouvraie, Paris, France
Diamanti, Careof DOCVA, La Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan, Italy
GLITCH. Interferenze tra arte e cinema, PAC, Milan, Italy
Anatomy of Anxieties, Edouard Malingue Gallery, Hong Kong
Domesticity V, Lucie Fontaine’s Kayu, Bali, Indonesia
Tra storia e memoria, Sotterranei di Rocca Costanza, Pesaro, Italy
Don’t You Know Who I Am? – Art after Identity Politics, M HKA, Antwerp, Belgium
Ritratto dell’artista da giovane, Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli, Italy
Camel Blues, Kinman, London, UK
Little Messages for Modern Shut-Ins, Aran Cravey, Los Angeles, USA
A Venus do Ébano, Museu de Arte do Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
From script to reading to exhibition to performance to print, Rowing, London, UK
Le Ragioni della Pittura. Esiti e prospettive di un medium, Fondazione Malvina Menegaz per le Arti e le Culture, Castelbasso, Italy
Souvenir, organized by Lucie Fontaine, Galerie Perrotin, Paris, France
The 338 Hour Cineclub, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
De Puristes et de Fauves, Shanaynay, Paris, France
It May Be That Beauty Has Strengthened Our Resolve, Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong
A House of Leaves. Third Movement, David Roberts Art Foundation, London
D’après Giorgio, Fondazione Giorgio e Isa de Chirico, Rome, Italy
Man among the ruins’, TEOR/èTICA, San José, USA
Fuoriclasse, GAM, Milan, Italy
La storia che non ho vissuto (testimone indiretto), Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli, Italy
Estate, Marianne Boensky Gallery, New York, USA
Prospettive Italiane, Palazzo Borghese, Roma, Italy
Maison Opera, La Commun, Bac Batiment, Geneva, Switzerland
Rituals without myth, Royal College of Art, London, UK
Premio Italia 2012, Maxxi, Rome, Italy
Essere Italiano, Musei Civici di Palazzo Buonaccorsi, Macerata, Italy
One caption hides another, Betansalon, Paris, France
Hantologie des colonies, Kiasma International, Paris, France
Ceci n’est pas du cinema, Castello di Rivoli e Museo Nazionale del cine ma, Torino, Italy
Para/Site Open 2011, ParaSite, Hong Kong
Il Bel Paese dell’Arte, Gamec, Bergamo, Italy
Alighiero e Boetti day, Teatro Regio, Torino, Italy
Prague Biennale 5, Prague, Czech Republic
Tous cannibales, Me Collectors Room, Berlin, Germany
Tous cannibales, Mason Rouge, Paris, France
Talenti emergenti, Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze, Italy
Matter of action, O’Artoteca, Milan, Italy
Italian Video Today: Social and Individual Identity, Crane Arts, Philadel phia, USA
See reason, Stedelijk Bureau Museum of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Se vuoi che questa storia continui…, Neon Campobase, Bologna, Italy
More Pricks than Kicks, David Roberts Art Foundation, London, UK
SI – Sindrome Italiana, Magasin, Grenoble, France
VideoReport Italia 2008/2009, Galleria Civica di Monfalcone, Monfal cone, Italy
Evading Customs, Le Dictateur, Milan, Italy
Let us compare with mythologies, Witte de With, Rotterdam, Netherlands
You, We + Ablo, Rotonda della Besana, Milan, Italy
Low Decò, FAI Villa Necchi Campiglio, Milan, Italy
21×21: 21 artisti per il 21° secolo, Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation, Turin, Italy
A Performance Cycle, Nomas Foundation, Rome, Italy
Art in the auditiorium, Foundation Proa, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Tristes Tropiques, The Barber Shop and Novo Museo Tropical, Lisbon, Portugal
Tutta la memoria del mondo, Gam, Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin, Italy
Disegni Europei, Galleria OREDARIA Arti, Rome, Italy
Hypnotic Show, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, France
Hypnotic Show, Kunstverein, Amsterdam, Netherlands
The object of the attack, David Roberts Art Foundation, London, UK
Art in the Auditorium, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Berga mo
Degree Show, Slade School of Art, London, UK
Playlist, Neon campobase, Bologna, Italy
Video!, Henie Onstad Art Centre, Hovikodden, Norway
Eppur si muove, Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation, Guarene, Italy
Desiring Necessities, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, UK
Documents, Fondazione Spinola Banna per l’arte, Turin, Italy
Senza rete, Complesso di S. Spirito in Sassia, Rome, Italy
…Cast the first stone, Chert Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Flux capacitator, Extraspazio Gallery, Rome, Italy
The Interim Show, Slade Research Centre, Woburn Square, UK
One of this things is not like the other things, Unosunove, Rome, Italy
The shortest short story ever written…, Form Content Project Space, London, UK
I desired what you were, I need what you are, Maze Gallery, Turin, Italy
Salon Primo, Museo della Permanente, Milan, Italy
Arrivederci e grazie, Viafarini, Milan, Italy
More Pricks Than Kicks, David Roberts Art Foundation, London, UK
Selected as finalist for Artisti per Frescobaldi, Italy
Selected as a finalist for Premio Italia 2012, MAXXI, Rome, Italy
Artegiovane, Turin and Milan, special mention, Italy
Stipendium Kunstzeitraum, Munich, Germany
De Ateliers, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Sommerakademie, Centre Paul Klee, Bern, Germany
Fondazione Banna Spinola per l’Arte, Banna di Poirino, Italy
Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli, Italy
The Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
David Roberts Art Foundation, London, UK
Fiorucci Art Trust, London, UK
Lewben Art Foundation, Vilnius, Lithuania
Malvina Menegaz Foundation for Arts and Culture, Castelbasso, Italy
Italian Embassy in London, UK
Jiménez - Colon Collection, Ponce, Puerto Rico
Collezione Giuseppe Iannaccone, Milan, Italy