BERNARDO SICILIANO
BIO
Bernardo Siciliano was born in Rome 1969, son of the Italian writer, playwright, literary critic and intellectual Enzo Siciliano. The artist grew up in an exciting cultural environment, interacting with the big Italian artists of the time who surrounded him. His approach to the painting practice started early in his childhood and continued expanding throughout the years, exploring and absorbing different pictorial trends. Siciliano’s work holds the precious teachings of the old masters: the descriptive use of the light visible in Caravaggio paintings, Cezanne sharp paintbrush, Lucian Freud’s pale skin subjects, Rotkho and Gustave Caillebotte visual language.
His adoptive city, New York, is the source of his unceasing inspiration; his works represent people and places as part of the artist’s everyday life, each subject is depicted with strong realism, intimacy and humanity.
Siciliano has exhibited internationally in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago Rome and Milano in both solo and group exhibitions. In 1998 he was the winner of the XXXII Prix International d’Art Contemporain, Montecarlo. In 2001 he was the recipient of the Premio Cairo Communication, Milano, Italy and in 1995, the Premio Suzzara, Montova
as well as the XXII Premio Sulmona, l’Acquila, Italy. His work is housed in numerous public and private collections.
Siciliano lives and works in New York, where he is professor at the New York Academy of Art.
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1969
Born in Rome in
present
The artist lives and works in New York, New York.
Solo Shows
2016
Panick Attack – M77 Gallery, Milan IT
2015
Panick Attack – Aicon Gallery, New York USA
2013
The Tennis Player – Open House, New York USA
2010
Bernardo Siciliano – Forum Gallery, New York USA Nude City – MACRO Testaccio La Pelanda, Rome IT
2006
Chinatown – Fondazione Durini, Milan IT
Chinatown - Liu Hai Su Art Museum-Shanghai CHINA New Paintings - Forum
Gallery, New York USA Jet-lag - Chiostro del Bramante, Rome ITJet-lag -Palazzo della Ragione, Milan IT
2004
Studio Forni, Milan IT
2003
Forum Gallery, New York USA
2002
Forum Gallery, Los Angeles IT
2001
Galleria d’arte Il Gabbiano, Rome IT
Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Los Angeles USA Studio Forni – Milan IT
Ann Nathan Gallery – Chicago USA
1999
Urban Views, Forum Gallery. New York IT Galleria d’Arte il Gabbiano, Rome IT
1996
Galleria d’Arte il Gabbiano, Arte Fiera Bologna IT
1993
Ritratti, Galleria Appiani Arte Trentadue, Milan IT
1991
Galleria d’Arte il Gabbiano, Rome IT
1986
Galleria Carlo Virgilio, Rome IT
Group Exhibitions
2013
Singular Vision, Forum Gallery, New York USA
2012
4 Way Street, Palazzo Te, Mantova ITuila, IT
2011
L’Arte non è cosa nostra, 54a Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte della Biennale di Venezia, IT
209
Summer Selections, Forum Gallery, New York, USA
No Landscape-la sparizione del paesaggio, Fondazione Bandera per l’Arte, Busto Arsizio, Varese, IT
2007
The Contemporary Landscape, Forum Gallery, New York, USA
La Nuova Figurazione Italiana - to be continued..., Fabbrica Borroni, Bollate, Milan, IT
2004, 2003
Contemporary Landscape, Forum Gallery, New York, USA
Italian Factory, La Nuova Scena Artistica Italiana, Santa Maria della Pieta, Venice, IT
Italian Factory, La Nuova Scena Artistica Italiana, Parlamento Europeo Strasburg, FR
Italian Factory, La Nuova Scena Artistica Italiana, Palazzo della Promotrice delle
Belle Arti, Turin, IT New York Collection 2003-2004, Albright Knox Museum, Buffalo, New York, USA
2002, 2001, 2000
Figurazione, Studio Forni, Milan, IT
Wandering Europeans, Gallria Forni, Bologna, IT
Sui Generis, Pac, Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan, IT
1999
Absolute-Biennial Art Invitational, Los Angeles, USA
Emergenti, Galleria Forni, Bologna, IT
Sulla Pittura. Artisti Italiani sotto I 40 anni, Palazzo Sarcinelli, Conegliano Veneto, Treviso, IT
1998
Da Fattori a Burri, Palazzo Sarcinelli, Conegliano Veneto, Treviso, ITIl Nuovo Ritratto In Italia, Spazio Consolo, Milan, IT
1997, 1996
Le Proposte del Gabbiano, Galleria Il Gabbiano, Rome, IT
La Nuova Figurazione In Italia, La Posteria, Milan, IT
21a Quadriennale Italia 1950-1990: Ultime Generazioni, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, IT
L’Altra Arte, Palazzo Barberini, Rome, IT
Opere Su Carta On Paper, Galleria d’Arte Il Gabbiano, Rome, IT
Senza Confini, Galleria Forni, Bologna, IT
Under 30, Galleria d’Arte Il Gabbiano, Rome, IT
Arte Sotto Il Sole-Lungo Il Fiume d’Estate, Lungo Tevere della Vittoria, Rome, IT
1995,1994
Omaggio ai primi 100 anni del cinema, Galleria d’Arte Il Gabbiano, Rome, IT
Paesaggi Italiani, Palazzo degli Affari, Firenze, IT
Capolavori Contemporanei, Rocca di Umbertide, Perugia, IT
1993
Giovani Artisti VI, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, IT
Arte Per Immagini, Appiani Arte Trentadue, Milan, IT
FIAC-Foire Internationale d’Art Contemporain, Galleria d’Arte Il Gabbiano, Paris,FR
1992
Primipiani e Lontananze, Galleria de’Serpenti, Rome, IT CIAE, Galleria d’Arte il Gabbiano, Chicago, USA
1991
CIAE, Galleria d’Arte il Gabbiano, Chicago, USA
Awards
2001
Premio Cairo Communication, Milan, IT
1998
XXXII Prix International d’Art Contemporain, Montecarlo, FR
1995
Premio Suzzara, Mantova XXII Premio Sulmona, l’Acq