Artist Thion

Franco La Russa (aka Thion) is an Italian multimedia artist and curator based in London. Initially inspired by Keith Haring and the American Pop artists with whom he shared the same interest in popular culture, Thion's work has evolved into a style that is purely his own. After studying Fine Art and Advertising and Graphic Design in Italy, he worked for several years as an Art Director an Illustrator for various agencies including Saatchi & Saatchi, McCann and Young & Rubican in Milan. He has since taken on a new digital medium and he is currently creating work that employs an iPad as a powerful tool that brings new possibilities to an established language and practice. Whether he chooses to draw in the traditional way directly on canvas or paper, drawings on an iPad, planning sculptures or whether he make short video installations, Thion's practice is a continuous integrated feedback loop, that remains open to the unexpected.

1989 - 1991 MA in Graphic Design and Advertisement
Ateneo Milan Italy
1983 - 1988 Degree in Fine Art at Paul Klee Genoa Italy

Latest exhibitions

2023
The Other Art Fair - 29th June - 2nd July
West Handyside Canopy, King’s Cross

Oh how Queer
Burgh House, Hampstead, London

2022
Following two years of planning, Kip Hotel London have unveiled their stunning Kip Wall: A Window To Hackney.
Working on the theme ‘Connection’, the eclectic murals curated by Talina Naviede, have been created by five UK artists and the result is truly a sight to behold.
Hackney Central, London

2021
Reverie (Daydream), Chrom.Art Gallery, London

Covers design for the collected volume ”Museum Discourse. A socio-cultural agent for change” and for the volume “Museum Discourse. Towards social Inclusiveness” - edited by Federico Sabatini

2018
The London Open 2018
My work displayed on a screen
Whitechapel Gallery London

Featured in the March edition of Wotisart? Magazine

Selected for the Artbox Project exhibition
New York

Finalists at the Emerald Winter Pride Awards 2018.
The House of St Barnabas, London

Featured on the cover of the Winter Issue of
Matador Review magazine

Il viaggio finora
Exhibition at cueB Gallery
London

2017
Selected for the online winter exhibition
"OUTRAGEOUS"

Featured in the December Issue of Average Art Magazine.

Shortlisted for Contemporary V...