Luciana Livi

Italian contemporary artist Luciana Livi crafts a visual language where visions and reality seamlessly intertwine, exploring the delicate boundary between emotional nuances and sensuality. Deeply rooted in the exploration of memory, her artistic practice focuses on freezing selected images and personal experiences into poetic compositions, transforming fleeting emotions into timeless concepts.

Spanning expressionism, abstraction, and portraiture, her works frequently center on intense, reflective faces and figures that invite the viewer into a space of deep introspection. Believing that art must constantly travel between ideas and form—entirely free from the constraints of passing trends—she works with a rich variety of mediums including watercolor, charcoal, graphite, oil, and wax on canvas and paper.

Luciana Livi studied painting and restoration at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Bologna and the Accademia Cappiello in Florence. Based in Italy, she has extensively exhibited her paintings in solo and group exhibitions across Italy and Europe. Her artworks have gained international appreciation and reside in numerous private collections worldwide.

2023
Rassegna di libri d’artista VII edizione Milano Bookcity 2023 / Spazio Mantegna - Milano (IT)

2021
Galerie Sonia Monti - Parigi (FR)

2019
Il Signor Rosso, performance pittorico teatrale / Circolo Culturale il Grottino - Pesaro (IT)

2018
Geisha / Galleria Santa Croce - Cattolica (IT)
La Muta II / Atelier Via Branca 22 - Pesaro (IT)

2016
La Muta / Spazio Orti Giuli - Pesaro (IT)

2015
Lorenzo Lotto / Circolo Culturale L'8 - Pesaro (IT)

2006
O75 Mostre / Palazzo Gradari - Pesaro (IT)

2004
Il Pasto Nudo performance / Penthouse’s - Cattolica (IT)

2003
Diari Pericolosi / Zucca Arte Design - Pesaro (IT)

2001
Sedmica Italiijanske Kulture - Banja Luka (BA)
In Video / KIO Gallery - Budapest (HU)

2000
La Macchina pulsante, Brescia Music Art / Palazzo Bonoris - Brescia (IT)
Rave Rake, Artisti nelle Marche / Palazzo Perpenti - Fermo (IT)

1999
Atlante / Museo d’Arte contemporanea - Sassari (IT)

1998
Cortocircuito, Festival Europeo della comunicazione audiovisiva breve / Palazzo Reale - Napoli (IT)
Senzatitolo, International Festival - Trento (IT)
Hebron / Galleria Diecidue - Milano (IT)
Premio Marche / Mole Vanvitelliana - Ancona (IT)
Eccentrica / Rocca Sforzesca - Imola (IT)
Lady D / Trevi Flash Art Museum - Trevi (IT)
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