Biography - Galerie Francesca Pia

1993	born in Houston, Texas, USA
2022 2016	Maumaus Independent Study Program, Lisbon BFA, School of Visual Arts, New York

Lives and works in Santarém, Portugal

Solo Exhibitions (selection)

2025	Federico Vavassori, not opposed to tossing bricks into the quotidian, your honour, Milan
2024	Lumiar Cité, Maumaus, Preenchendo Vazios, Lisboa
2022	Galerie Francesca Pia, Zurich Neuer Essener Kunstverein, Cordyceps Gaud Adversary, Essen Project Native Informant, Tinted Spirit, London
2021	Performance Space New York, Blood Type, New York Manual Arts, to prop and ignore, Los Angeles Galeria Madragoa, value order [gentrify.pt], Lisbon
2020	International Waters, Recoil, with Cudelice Brazelton IV, New York Project Native Informant, Owe Deed, One Deep, London
2019	The Studio Museum in Harlem, FUNCTION, New York JTG Detroit Project, ARS JUS PAX, Detroit
2018	Soft Opening, Humane Alternatives, London

Special Projects (selection)

2023	Salone del Mobile, Bal D'Afrique by Dozie Kanu, presentation for Byredo, Milan
2022	Bourse de Commerce, Pinault Collection, Safe House – Scenography for the Standing on the Corner Art Ensemble, Paris

Group Exhibitions (selection)

2025	Race Imboden Company, Fondazione Sozzani, Exhibition 01, Paris Kölnischer Kunstverein, Supermöbel, Cologne
2024	Federico Vavassori, Ganz klein, Milan Nina Johnson, Residual Energies, curated by Camille Okhio, Miami Fondation Beyeler, Sommerausstellung, Riehen Kölnischer Kunstverein, Hoi Köln, Teil 3: Albtraum Malerei, Cologne D R E I, Our Porcelain Thoughts, Cologne
2023	Galerie Barbara Weiss, Mimesis, Berlin Kölnischer Kunstverein, Hoi Köln, Teil 2: Im Bauch der Maschine, Cologne Kölnischer Kunstverein, Hoi Köln, Teil 1: Begrüssung des Raumes, Cologne LUMA Westbau, Hans-Ulrich Obrist Archive – Chapter 1: Édouard Glissant, curated by Hans-Ulrich Obrist and Arthur Fouray, Zurich Project Native Informant, PNI@10, London Maruani Mercier, Tales for a Stranger, Zaventem Quinn Harrelson Gallery, P-O-T-B-O-I-L-E-R-S, Los Angeles C-mine, Enzo Mari, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Genk Oregon Center for Contemporary Art, The shape of memory, Portland
2022	SFMOMA, Conversation Pieces: Contemporary Furniture in Dialogue, San Francisco ADZ Gallery, What is it Like to be a Bat?, Lisbon Public Art Fund, Black Atlantic, New York
2020	Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Crack Up – Crack Down, Warsaw Project Native Informant, Group Show, London Triennale di Milano, Enzo Mari, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Milan
2019	180 The Strand, Transformer: A Rebirth of Wonder, London The Biennial of Graphic Arts, MGLC, Crack Up – Crack Down, Ljubljana
2017	New Galerie, Early Works, organized by 89+ and Google Arts & Culture, Paris Lever House, Midtown, organized by Salon 94 and Maccarone Gallery, New York
2016	95 Avenue B, Clear Eyes, New York SVA Gallery 21st St, In Cylinder, New York

Screenings (selection)

2020	Maysles Documentary Center, Excerpts from ARS JUS PAX, 2019, New York

Awards

2021
2018

Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation's "Catalogs for Young Artists"
Hublot Design Prize