Laura Santamaria

1976, Monza, Italy

Artist who works internationally on commission to create works of art, wall drawings, paintings, sculptures, site specific project.

Working with public institutions, foundations, non-profit spaces
Private clients, corporates, collectors

Lecturer
Artist engaged in educational projects

Her practice which includes painting, installation, site specific projects and concerns with precarious states of impermanency of the matter through which she explores varied experimental processes. Her site-specific, sculptures and installations often present to the viewer a parallelism between the micro and macro cosmos thus reflecting on systems and processes of interconnectivity.

Her multidisciplinary practice has been exhibited internationally in museums and institutions as Whitechapel Gallery London (London Open, 2015) and MAC Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, A Coruña (14 en Positivo, 2019). Her work is represented in collections including: London Trade Art, Artphilein Foundation, and in Italy with a permanent installation at Fondazione Spinola Banna per l’Arte.

Her recent residencies include: Peripheral Memories curated by Current Corporate and IoDeposito, Udine (2023); V-I-R ViaFarini in residence, ...

2000 BA, Painting - Brera Academy of Fine Arts, Milano, Italy
1999 Sculpture - Loughborough University School of Art and Design,
Loughborough, England, United Kingdom

Exhibitions and projects include: Energy Shifts, solo show, Villa Clerici GASC Museo di Arte Sacra, Milano (2021), Trilogie des Loches, solo show Kunstverein Neukölln, Kunstraum t27, Berlin (2012). Peripheral Memories curated by Current Corporate and IoDeposito, Palazzo Manin, Udine (2023);Peripheral Memories group show, Palazzo Costanzi, Trieste (2021) Non-Gasoline Station, International Institute of Architecture, Lugano (2020) Cenere, Galleria Daniele Agostini, Lugano (2019); Assonances - Drawing Storage, Alliance Française, Bologna (2019); 14 en Positivo, MAC Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, A Coruña (2018); What Goes Around Comes to Art, Herrick Gallery London (2018); Open Studio, ViaFarini, Milano (2018) International Day of Light, Morgue Project Space, Chelsea College, London (2018); Drawings from Lightning, MADEINBRITALY, London (2017); Revolve:R, James Hockey and Foyer Galleries, UCA, Farnham (2017); R:R, Hours Gallery, Bristol (2017); The London Open, Whitechapel Gallery, London (2015); Praestigium, Contemporary Artists from Italy, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino - Fondazione Cini, Venezia (2015); Room&Book, ICA, London (2015); Upward Positive Leaders, Kunstverein Neukölln, Kunstraum t27, Berlin (2014); Focus On L...