Turin, Italy, 1968.
Lives and works in Turin
EDUCATION
BA in Sculpture – Kingston University, London, United Kingdom
1997
MA in Sculpture – The Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London, United Kingdom
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025
Vitroepifanie, Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan, Italy
2024
Ruptura da Trama, Galeria Leme, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2023
Petits Rats, Rossi & Rossi, Hong Kong
2022
As Above, So Below, GAM – Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Milan, Italy
2020
Carla Accardi and Elisa Sighicelli, 55 Walker Street, a collaborative space of Bortolami, kaufmann repetto, and Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, United States
Stone Talk, Rossi & Rossi, Hong Kong
2019
Lumenombra, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli, Turin, Italy
Storie di Pietrofori e Rasomanti, Museo Pignatelli, Naples, Italy
2018
Come d’acqua, Libreria delle donne, Milan, Italy
2017
Doppio sogno, Palazzo Madama – Museo Civico d’Arte Antica, Turin, Italy
2016
Elisa Sighicelli, Mars, Milan, Italy
2015
Elisa Sighicelli, Sala d’aspetto, Milan, Italy
2014
Elisa Sighicelli, MOT International, London, United Kingdom
2013
Elisa Sighicelli, Gagosian, Geneve, Switzerland
2012
Returning the Gaze, Un Po d’arte, Turin, Italy
2011
Elisa Sighicelli, Artist Videos 2005-2010, screening, MAMbo – Museo d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy
Masso erratico, Eco e Narciso, screening at GAM – Galleria Civica D’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin, Italy
2010
The Party is Over, Gagosian, New York, United States
Imaginary Time, Meteorite in Giardino 3, Fondazione Merz at the Planetarium, Turin, Italy
2009
Always the Sun, Ospedale Regina Margherita, in collaboration with Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
Elisa Sighicelli, Seomi & Tuus Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2008
Elisa Sighicelli, Flinders University City Gallery, Adelaide Bank Festival of Arts, Adelaide, Australia
2007
Elisa Sighicelli, GAM – Galleria Civica D’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin, Italy
2006
The River Suite, Gagosian, London, United Kingdom
Phi, Gio Marconi, Milan, Italy
2005
Elisa Sighicelli, Cohan and Leslie, New York, United States
Sottovoce, Palazzo delle Papesse – Centro d’Arte Contemporanea, Siena, Italy
2004
Pitfall, Galerie Zurcher, Paris; Narodni Muzeum, Prague, Czechia
2003
Elisa Sighicelli, Gagosian, London, United Kingdom
Elisa Sighicelli, Fondation Salomon, Annecy, France
2002
Elisa Sighicelli, Cohan Leslie & Browne, New York, United States
2001
Frost, Gagosian, Los Angeles, United States
Frost, Gio Marconi, Milan, Italy
2000
Santiago, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela; Centro de Fotografia, Universidad de Salamanca; Laure Genillard Gallery, London
Nuits d’hotel, Galerie Zurcher, Paris; L’Espal Centre Culturel, Le Mans; Theatre Granit, Belfort, France
1999
Never Never Land, Galleria Carbone, Turin, Italy
Restheaven, Ffotogallery, Cardiff, United Kingdom
Not at Home, Gio Marconi, Milan, Italy
1998
Without world, Laure Genillard Gallery, London, United Kingdom
1996
Arrache-coeur, Galleria Carbone, Turin, Italy
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
Beyond These Walls, AkzoNobel Art Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2024
Inside, Fondazione Giorgio Griffa, Turin, Italy
Chez Paint it Black: un ristorante temporaneo immaginato da artisti, Paint it Black, Turin, Italy
Check Mate(s) Oscar Murillo, organized by Kurimanzutto, Casa SP-Arte, Sao Paulo, Brazil
June 21, Bortolami, New York, United States
Expanded With, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy
Narrative Obsession in the Post-Colonial Psyche, The 8th Floor, The Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation, New York, United States
In the Now: Gender and Nation in Europe, Selections from the Sir Mark Fehrs Haukohl Photography Collection, Brooklyn Museum, New York, United States
Italia 70 – I Nuovi Mostri, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan, Italy
2023
Sensing Painting: Works from the art collection of the Fondazione CRC, Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli, Italy
Museo d’arte contemporanea, Turin, Italy
Costruire nuove identita, Festival del Paesaggio, Capri, Italy
2022
Spettri: palinsesti della memoria, Madre, Naples, Italy
Afterimage, MAXXI L’Aquila, L’Aquila, Italy
Ri-connessioni. Natura e ambiente dall’800 al contemporaneo, Museo del Paesaggio, Verbania, Italy
Joy, Joy, Joy On the Pepperside of Suprainfinit, Wonnerth Dejaco, Vienna, Austria
2021
In the Now: Gender and Nation in Europe, Selections from the Sir Mark Fehrs Haukohl Photography Collection, LACMA, Los Angeles, United States
Facts of Light, Cathouse Proper, New York, United States
Painting in Person. The new collection of the Fondazione CRC, Complesso Monumentale San Francesco, Cuneo, Italy
Una infinita bellezza. Paesaggio e ambiente in Italia dalla pittura romantica all’arte contemporanea, Reggia di Venaria Reale, Venaria, Italy
MIRABILIA, Casa Italia, Tokyo Olympics, Tokyo, Japan
Arte e Natura, Museo Carlo Bilotti, Roma, Italy
2020
The Looking Glass and Behind it, MISP – Museum of 20th-21st Century Art, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Viaggi da camera, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan, Italy
2019
Futuruins, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy
Casa come me, Festival del Paesaggio, Capri, Italy
2018
100% Italia. Cent’anni di capolavori, MEF – Museo Ettore Fico, Turin, Italy
Postcards, Festival del Paesaggio, Capri, Italy
The Summer Show, Renata Fabbri arte contemporanea, Milan, Italy
The Milky Way, Lia Rumma, Naples, Italy
Work in progress, La collezione di San Patrignano, La Triennale di Milano; MAXXI, Roma, Italy
Museo Riso, Palermo, Italy
2017
Intuition, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy
Who’s Still Working on this Masterpiece?, The Loft, Brussels, Belgium
2015
Zoom. Fotografia italiana, Fondazione Remotti, Camogli, Italy
Book for Architects, ETH – Institut fur Geschichte und Theorie der Architektur, Zurich, Switzerland
So Much More than the Sum of its Tropes, Norma Mangione, Turin, Italy
2014
De Rerum Natura, Studio La Citta, Verona, Italy
2013
Wunderkammer. Arte, Natura, Meraviglia ieri e oggi, Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan, Italy
Hannah Gieseler, Monika Goetz, Johanna Jaeger, Elisa Sighicelli, Schwarz Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
Autoritratti. Iscrizioni al Femminile nell’Arte Contemporanea Italiana, MAMbo – Museo d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy
2012
Marking Time, MCA – Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, Australia
Set Up, Jousse Entreprise, Paris, France
Punti di vista. Identita conflitti mutamenti, Galleria Nazionale, Cosenza, Italy
Silences Where Things Abandon Themselves, MSU – Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia
2011
Ceci n’est pas du Cinema, Castello di Rivoli with Museo Nazionale del Cinema, Turin, Italy
Alive She Cried, Galerie Zink, Berlin, Germany
Ecstatic, Vivid, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Lo sguardo persistente, GAM – Galleria Civica D’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin, Italy
2010
VideoREPORT ITALIA: 08_09, GC.AC – Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea, Monfalcone, Italy
XVII Rohkunstbau. Atlantis II Hidden Histories Imagined Identities, Schloss Marquardt, Potsdam, Germany
Urban Origami, PM Gallery & House, London, United Kingdom
Entre glace et neige, Centre Saint-Benin, Aosta, Italy
Cosa fa la mia anima mentre sto lavorando?, MAGA – Museo d’Arte Gallarate, Gallarate, Italy
2009
Collaudi, Padiglione Italia, 53a Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte, La Biennale di Venice, Venice, Italy
Il cielo in una stanza, GC.AC – Galleria Comunale d’Arte, Monfalcone, Italy
Baker’s Dozen Cafe, Gallery Project, London, United Kingdom
Art Video Lounge: Video Arte Italiana in Pescheria, Centro Arti Visive Pescheria, Pesaro, Italy
Laure Genillard Gallery in Rome: Another Air, Alessandra Bonomo, Roma, Italy
Index 2, C4 Bunker, Centro Cultura del Contemporaneo, Caldogno, Italy
2008
Women to Watch 2008, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C., United States
Focus on Contemporary Italian Art, MAMbo – Museo d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy
Mediterraneo 2008, Perna Foundation, Ravello, Italy
Video.it 9: L’oggetto del design nell’ambiente, Accademia Albertina, Turin, Italy
2007
Camera con vista. Arte e interni in Italia 1900-2000, Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy
Isobar, Fieldgate Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Apocalittici e integrati, MAXXI – Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome, Italy
Poi piovve dentro a l’alta fantasia, Museo Marino Marini, Florence, Italy
Albedo: A New Perspective in Italian Moving Images, XII International Media Art Biennale WRO 07, Wroclaw, Poland
Teatro Junghans, Venice, Italy
GC.AC – Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea, Monfalcone, Italy
Italy 1980 – 2007, Vietnam Museum of Fine Arts, Hanoi, Vietnam
Le luci dell’arte: cinque artisti illuminano la Roma sotterranea, Case Romane San Paolo alla Regola, Rome, Italy
2006
Young Italian Artists at the Turn of the Millenium, Galleria Continua, Beijing, China
New Landscapes Italian Art Photography, HVB Kunst Palais, Munich, Germany
Destino Santiago, Instituto Cervantes, Sofia, Bulgaria
VideoREPORT ITALIA: 04_05, GC.AC – Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea, Monfalcone, Italy
2005
Barrocos y Neobarrocos, DA2 – Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca, Spain
BYO: Bring your Own, MAN – Museo d’Arte Provincia di Nuoro, Nuoro, Italy
Guardami, percezione del video, Palazzo delle Papesse Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena, Italy
Aperto per lavori in corso, PAC – Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
Italian Camera, Isola di San Servolo, Venice, Italy
No Code, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
La miniatura dal settecento al video d’artista, Arte al Castello, Fondazione Torino Musei, Turin, Italy
Agony and the Ecstacy, FACT – Foundation for Art and Creative Technology, Liverpool, United Kingdom
The Mind is a Horse Part 2, Bloomberg Space, London, United Kingdom
XIV Quadriennale d’arte, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy
2004
De leur temps, Musee des Beaux-Arts, Tourcoing, France
Expo 21: Strategies of Display, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham; Mead Gallery, Warwick Art Centre, Coventry, United Kingdom
2003
Montagna. Arte, scienza, mito, Mart – Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto, Italy
Liquid Sea, MCA – Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, Australia
Imago, GC.AC – Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea, Monfalcone, Italy
Up Close and Personal, Nottingham Castle Museum, Nottingham, United Kingdom
Le opere e i giorni, Certosa di San Lorenzo, Padula, Italy
Void, Yokohama Portside Gallery, Yokohama, Japan
Faiseurs d’histoires, Galerie du Theatre National de Bretagne, Rennes, France
Secrets in the Light of Day, Galeria Andre Viana, Porto, Portugal
2002
De Gustibus, Palazzo delle Papesse – Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena, Italy
2001
No World Without You, Reflections of Identity in New British Art, The Hertzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Israel
La GAM costruisce il suo futuro, GAM – Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin, Italy
Wattage and Friendship, Mullerdechiara, Berlin, Germany
Tell it as it is, Diehl Vorderwuelbecke, Berlin, Germany
2000
Out of Place, The Lowry, Manchester, United Kingdom
Residual Property, Portfolio Gallery, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Futurama, Centro Pecci, Prato, Italy
Images: Italian Art from 1942 to the Present, European Central Bank, Frankfurt, Germany
Le pratiche della percezione, Galleria Civica d’Arte Contemporanea, Trento, Italy
Is There Anyone Home?, Gallery Westland Place, London, United Kingdom
1999
Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue, Casa Masaccio, San Giovanni Valdarno, Italy
XIII Quadriennale d’arte, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy
Word Enough to Save a Life, Word Enough to Take a Life, Dilston Grove, London, United Kingdom
Privacy, Project United, Kreuzlingen, Switzerland
1998
Close to Home, U.F.F. Galeria, Budapest, Hungary
Instruments of Deceit, Gasworks, London, United Kingdom
Sightings: New Photographic Art, ICA – Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, United Kingdom
Winter Sale, Trade Apartment, London, United Kingdom
1997
VIII Biennale dei Giovani Artisti dell’Europa e del Mediterraneo, Turin, Italy
Proposte XII: Ghosts of Reality, Galleria di San Filippo, Turin, Italy
Italians, 30 Underwood St, London, United Kingdom