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, São 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
2020 Stone Talk, Rossi & Rossi, Hong Kong
2019 Lumenombra, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli, Turin, Italy
2019 Storie di Pietròfori 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, Genève, 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
2011 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
2010 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
2009 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
2006 Phi, Gió Marconi, Milan, Italy
2005 Elisa Sighicelli, Cohan and Leslie, New York, United States
2005 Sottovoce, Palazzo delle Papesse – Centro d’Arte Contemporanea, Siena, Italy
2004 Pitfall, Galerie Zürcher, Paris; Národní Muzeum, Prague, Czechia
2003 Elisa Sighicelli, Gagosian, London, United Kingdom
2003 Elisa Sighicelli, Fondation Salomon, Annecy, France
2002 Elisa Sighicelli, Cohan Leslie & Browne, New York, United States
2001 Frost, Gagosian, Los Angeles, United States
2001 Frost, Gió Marconi, Milan, Italy
2000 Santiago, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela; Centro de Fotografia, Universidad de Salamanca; Laure Genillard Gallery, London
2000 Nuits d’hôtel, Galerie Zürcher, Paris; L’Espal Centre Culturel, Le Mans; Théâtre Granit, Belfort, France
1999 Never Never Land, Galleria Carbone, Turin, Italy
1999 Restheaven, Ffotogallery, Cardiff, United Kingdom
1999 Not at Home, Gió 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
2024 Chez Paint it Black: un ristorante temporaneo immaginato da artisti, Paint it Black, Turin, Italy
2024 Check Mate(s) Oscar Murillo, organized by Kurimanzutto, Casa SP—Arte, São Paulo, Brazil
2024 June 21, Bortolami, New York, United States
2024 Expanded With, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy
2024 Narrative Obsession in the Post-Colonial Psyche, The 8th Floor, The Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation, New York, United States
2024 In the Now: Gender and Nation in Europe, Selections from the Sir Mark Fehrs Haukohl Photography Collection, Brooklyn Museum, New York, United States
2024 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
2023 Museo d’arte contemporanea, Turin, Italy
2023 Costruire nuove identità, Festival del Paesaggio, Capri, Italy
2022 Spettri: palinsesti della memoria, Madre, Naples, Italy
2022 Afterimage, MAXXI L’Aquila, L’Aquila, Italy
2022 Ri-connessioni. Natura e ambiente dall’800 al contemporaneo, Museo del Paesaggio, Verbania, Italy
2022 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
2021 Facts of Light, Cathouse Proper, New York, United States
2021 Painting in Person. The new collection of the Fondazione CRC, Complesso Monumentale San Francesco, Cuneo, Italy
2021 Una infinita bellezza. Paesaggio e ambiente in Italia dalla pittura romantica all’arte contemporanea, Reggia di Venaria Reale, Venaria, Italy
2021 MIRABILIA, Casa Italia, Tokyo Olympics, Tokyo, Japan
2021 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
2020 Viaggi da camera, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan, Italy
2019 Futuruins, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy
2019 Casa come me, Festival del Paesaggio, Capri, Italy
2018 100% Italia. Cent’anni di capolavori, MEF – Museo Ettore Fico, Turin, Italy
2018 Postcards, Festival del Paesaggio, Capri, Italy
2018 The Summer Show, Renata Fabbri arte contemporanea, Milan, Italy
2018 The Milky Way, Lia Rumma, Naples, Italy
2018 Work in progress, La collezione di San Patrignano, La Triennale di Milano; MAXXI, Roma, Italy
2018 Museo Riso, Palermo, Italy
2017 Intuition, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy
2017 Who’s Still Working on this Masterpiece?, The Loft, Brussels, Belgium
2015 Zoom. Fotografia italiana, Fondazione Remotti, Camogli, Italy
2015 Book for Architects, ETH – Institut für Geschichte und Theorie der Architektur, Zürich, Switzerland
2015 So Much More than the Sum of its Tropes, Norma Mangione, Turin, Italy
2014 De Rerum Natura, Studio La Città, Verona, Italy
2013 Wunderkammer. Arte, Natura, Meraviglia ieri e oggi, Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan, Italy
2013 Hannah Gieseler, Monika Goetz, Johanna Jaeger, Elisa Sighicelli, Schwarz Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
2013 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
2012 Set Up, Jousse Entreprise, Paris, France
2012 Punti di vista. Identità conflitti mutamenti, Galleria Nazionale, Cosenza, Italy
2012 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
2011 Alive She Cried, Galerie Zink, Berlin, Germany
2011 Ecstatic, Vivid, Birmingham, United Kingdom
2011 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
2010 XVII Rohkunstbau. Atlantis II Hidden Histories Imagined Identities, Schloss Marquardt, Potsdam, Germany
2010 Urban Origami, PM Gallery & House, London, United Kingdom
2010 Entre glace et neige, Centre Saint-Bénin, Aosta, Italy
2010 Cosa fa la mia anima mentre sto lavorando?, MAGA – Museo d’Arte Gallarate, Gallarate, Italy
2009 Collaudi, Padiglione Italia, 53° Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte, La Biennale di Venice, Venice, Italy
2009 Il cielo in una stanza, GC.AC – Galleria Comunale d’Arte, Monfalcone, Italy
2009 Baker’s Dozen Café, Gallery Project, London, United Kingdom
2009 Art Video Lounge: Video Arte Italiana in Pescheria, Centro Arti Visive Pescheria, Pesaro, Italy
2009 Laure Genillard Gallery in Rome: Another Air, Alessandra Bonomo, Roma, Italy
2009 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
2008 Focus on Contemporary Italian Art, MAMbo – Museo d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy
2008 Mediterraneo 2008, Perna Foundation, Ravello, Italy
2008 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
2007 Isobar, Fieldgate Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2007 Apocalittici e integrati, MAXXI – Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome, Italy
2007 Poi piovve dentro a l’alta fantasia, Museo Marino Marini, Florence, Italy
2007 Albedo: A New Perspective in Italian Moving Images, XII International Media Art Biennale WRO 07, Wrocław, Poland
2007 Teatro Junghans, Venice, Italy
2007 GC.AC – Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea, Monfalcone, Italy
2007 Italy 1980 – 2007, Vietnam Museum of Fine Arts, Hanoi, Vietnam
2007 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
2006 New Landscapes Italian Art Photography, HVB Kunst Palais, Munich, Germany
2006 Destino Santiago, Instituto Cervantes, Sofia, Bulgaria
2006 VideoREPORT ITALIA: 04_05, GC.AC – Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea, Monfalcone, Italy
2005 Barrocos y Neobarrocos, DA2 – Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca, Spain
2005 BYO: Bring your Own, MAN – Museo d’Arte Provincia di Nuoro, Nuoro, Italy
2005 Guardami, percezione del video, Palazzo delle Papesse Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena, Italy
2005 Aperto per lavori in corso, PAC – Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
2005 Italian Camera, Isola di San Servolo, Venice, Italy
2005 No Code, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
2005 La miniatura dal settecento al video d’artista, Arte al Castello, Fondazione Torino Musei, Turin, Italy
2005 Agony and the Ecstacy, FACT – Foundation for Art and Creative Technology, Liverpool, United Kingdom
2005 The Mind is a Horse Part 2, Bloomberg Space, London, United Kingdom
2005 XIV Quadriennale d’arte, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy
2004 De leur temps, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tourcoing, France
2004 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
2003 Liquid Sea, MCA – Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, Australia
2003 Imago, GC.AC – Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea, Monfalcone, Italy
2003 Up Close and Personal, Nottingham Castle Museum, Nottingham, United Kingdom
2003 Le opere e i giorni, Certosa di San Lorenzo, Padula, Italy
2003 Void, Yokohama Portside Gallery, Yokohama, Japan
2003 Faiseurs d’histoires, Galerie du Théâtre National de Bretagne, Rennes, France
2003 Secrets in the Light of Day, Galeria André 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
2001 La GAM costruisce il suo futuro, GAM – Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin, Italy
2001 Wattage and Friendship, Mullerdechiara, Berlin, Germany
2001 Tell it as it is, Diehl Vorderwuelbecke, Berlin, Germany
2000 Out of Place, The Lowry, Manchester, United Kingdom
2000 Residual Property, Portfolio Gallery, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
2000 Futurama, Centro Pecci, Prato, Italy
2000 Images: Italian Art from 1942 to the Present, European Central Bank, Frankfurt, Germany
2000 Le pratiche della percezione, Galleria Civica d’Arte Contemporanea, Trento, Italy
2000 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
1999 XIII Quadriennale d’arte, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy
1999 Word Enough to Save a Life, Word Enough to Take a Life, Dilston Grove, London, United Kingdom
1999 Privacy, Project United, Kreuzlingen, Switzerland
1998 Close to Home, U.F.F. Galeria, Budapest, Hungary
1998 Instruments of Deceit, Gasworks, London, United Kingdom
1998 Sightings: New Photographic Art, ICA – Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, United Kingdom
1998 Winter Sale, Trade Apartment, London, United Kingdom
1997 VIII Biennale dei Giovani Artisti dell’Europa e del Mediterraneo, Turin, Italy
1997 Proposte XII: Ghosts of Reality, Galleria di San Filippo, Turin, Italy
1997 Italians, 30 Underwood St, London, United Kingdom