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Corrado Zeni was born in 1967 in Genoa, where he lives and works. His career begins in the 1996, in the following years as well as numerous solo and group exhibitions, he was among the finalists of Premio Cairo (2003), in the same year solo exhibitions were held at galleries Guidi&Schoen in Genoa and Ronchini in Terni. In 2004 he participated in the Anteprima della XIV Quadriennale in Rome and has exhibited at Mart in Rovereto, as well as on the occasion of his solo exhibitions at Galerie Voss in Düsseldorf and Galleria d’Arte Moderna in San Marino. In 2005 he was among the finalists for Premio Maretti and Premio Fabbri, and has presented a new series of works in a solo exhibition at d’Ac Galleria Comunale d’ Arte Contemporanea in Ciampino. In 2006 he participated in the exhibition La Donna Oggetto at Castello Sforzesco in Vigevano and Human Art at Galleria Comunale di Catania. He participated in the show Nuovi Pittori della Realtà at Pac in Milan (2007) and was among the artists invited to the exhibition Linee all’orrizzonte at Galleria d’Arte Moderna in Genoa. In the same year he was among the finalists of Premio Michetti. Between 2008 and 2010, he presented four solo exhibitions among which I still have a long way at Ronchini and Familiar Strangers in Genoa. In 2009 he began working on sculpture creating a series of public installations, for the Museum of Palazzo Bianco in Genoa and the spaces of Macro Future in Rome. In 2010 the solo show Babel dedicated entirely to sculpture was held at Guidi&Schoen and in 2013 Generation Why took place at Galerie Voss; in 2008 the editor Gli Ori has published a retrospective monograph that retraces his work since 1999. Over the years he has participated in the most important international art fairs including Art Brussels (Be), Art Cologne (D), Arco Madrid (Es), Art Moscow (Ru), Artefiera (En).