Maurizio Bongiovanni

Maurizio Bongiovanni (Tettnang, Germania, 24.02.1979) is a visual artist. Lives and works between Milan and Shanghai.
After a course of study related to the world of the image at the Academy for Digital Arts and Sciences of Siena, Riccardo Bauer of Milan and the University of the Image of Fabrizio Ferri, begin to participate in several artistic residencies wins three fellowships at Vermont Studio Center in America, La Napoule Art Foundation Clews Center for the Arts in France and the Fundacion Valparaiso in Spain getting a stipend by Italian prize GAI - Association for the young Italian Artists Circuit 2012.
Lately Bongiovanni has been invited to participate in the workshop by Doug Ashford, Mario Airò e Liliana Moro at the Fondazione Spinola Banna per l'Arte in Turin, and with Felix Gmalin at the Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts in Austria. His expressive research through the use of digital drawing, video and painting. In the 2013 with the Fondazione Fuori in Turin, decided to found an artist run space, called “FUORI! Artisti”, to support and spread the legacy of the Fondazione Sandro Penna and to continue to give importance to LGBT issues and to include strong relationships with other intellectual fields.
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Fellowships / Stipends
2014 Internationale Sommerakademie fur Blidende Kunst Salzburg, Austria
2013 Fellowship at Fundacion Valparaiso, Spain
2012 GAI – Association for the Young Italian Artists Circuit – MOVIN’UP
2012 The Visual Artist's Full Fellowship Award from Marin Community Foundation, The Vermont Studio Center, USA
2012 Fellowship at La Napoule Art Foundation / Clews Center for the Arts, Fellowship, Cote d'Azur, France
2000-2002 Full Fellowship, The Fabrizio Ferri school, Università dell'Immagine, Fondazione Industria, Milan, Italy

Residencies / Workshops
2014 Fondazione Spinola Banna per l'Arte, visiting professors Liliana Moro / Mario Airò, Poirino, Turin, Italy
2013 Fondazione Spinola Banna per l'Arte, visiting professor Doug Ashford, Poirino, Turin, Italy
2013 Fundacion Valparaiso, Mojacar Playa, Almeria, Spain
2012 The Vermont Studio Center, USA
2012 La Napoule Art Foundation / Clews Center for the Arts, Cote d'Azur, France
2011 SIM Samband Islenskra Myndlistarmanna, Reykjavik, Iceland
2011 IARB International Art Residency Beijing, China
2000 Centro T.A.M. Foundation Arnaldo Pomodoro, Fellowship, Pesaro/Urbino, Italy

Solo Exhibitions
2014 CRISCO DISCO and The Totem Paintings, curated by Alice Ginaldi at Fondazione FUORI!, Turin
2012 As We May Think, Galleria Uno+Uno, Milan, IT
2012 It makes me tense, MARS/Milan Artist Run Space, Milan, IT
2011 IARB International Art Residency Beijing at Where Where Art Space, Beijing, CN
2009 Abstraction-Action, Studio d'Arte Cannaviello, Milan, IT

Group Exhibitions
2014 Prière de Toucher, MARS/Milan Artist Run Space, Milan, IT
2014 2000 Maniacs, curated by Andrea Bruciati and Lorenza Boisi, Art Verona, IT
2014 Storytelling, Summer Academy curated by Felix Gmelin and Carl Fredrik Harleman, Salzburg, AT
2014 Upward Positive Leaders + Drawings from Lightnings, Kunstverein Neukolln, curated by Laura Santamaria, Berlin, DE
2013 La sequenza del fiore di carta, Incubatore, Sant'Elena, curated by Martina Cavallarin, Venezia, IT
2012 Bianca feat. Mars, Galleria Bianca, Palermo, IT
2012 Anni' 10, INTERNO18, Cremona, IT
2012 Prize Francesco Fabbri, Villa Brandolini, Pieve di Soligo, curated by Carlo Sala, Treviso, IT
2012 Sulla Natura, Villa Rusconi, curated by Fabio Carnaghi, Milan, IT
2011 Gallery S.I.M., Reykjavik, IS
2011 Factory-Art Gallery, Berlin, DE
2011 Nappe dell'Arsenale, Venice, IT
2010 A...