Curriculum Vitae

 

SOLO SHOWS

2018
– “Manfredi Beninati. Se questo è un sabato”, Galleria Poggiali, Milan, Italy
– “Manfredi Beninati. L’Epos”, Site-specific installation, Palermo Italy

2017
– “Manfredi Beninati. Paintings”, Galleria Poggiali, Florence, Italy

2016
– “Manfredi Beninati”, Museo civico di Castelbuono, Italy
– “Manfredi Beninati”, Galleria Poggiali, Florence, Italy
– “Manfredi Beninati”, Poggiali e Forconi, Pietrasanta, Italy

2014
– “Manfredi Beninati. Nature is a Theater”, Miniature Museum, Beijing, China
– “Manfredi Beninati. Christmas is… a world of art”, Joyce Gallery, Hong Kong

2013
– “Manfredi Beninati. Il sei novembre del duemilatrentanove”, Galleria Lorcan O’Neill, Rome, Italy

2011
– “Manfredi Beninati”, Cura Project Space, Rome, Italy
– “Manfredi Beninati. Le voci di dentro” FPAC, Palermo, Italy

2010
– “Manfredi Beninati. Dicembre 2039”, Max Wigram Gallery, London, UK

2009
– “Manfredi Beninati. Rearranging the Landscapes around”, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2008
– “Manfredi Beninati. La natura morta”, Max Wigram Gallery, London, UK

2007
– “Manfredi Beninati. La lettera “f””, American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy
– “Manfredi Beninati. Flavio and Palermo (in the summer)”, James Cohan Gallery, New York, USA
– “A Flavio”, Museo Laboratorio, Città Sant’Angelo (PE), Italy

2006
– “Manfredi Beninati”, Galeria Braga Menendez, Buenos Aires, Argentina

2005
– “Manfredi Beninati. Rescued works”, Galleria Lorcan O’Neill, Rome, Italy
– “Manfredi Beninati. Drawing cabinet”, FPAC, Palermo, Italy
– “Manfredi Beninati. New Paintings”, James Cohan Gallery, New York, USA

2003
– “Manfredi Beninati”, Galleria Lorcan O’Neill, Rome, Italy

 

GROUP SHOWS

2023
– “A Life in Art: The Mallin Collection”, Sotheby’s, New York, USA
– “I Vostri Mostri”, AFB, Palermo, Italy

2022
– “Arte in Nuvola”, Palazzo dei Congressi, Rome, Italy

2019
– “Casa come me”, Festival del paesaggio, Capri, Italy

2018
– “Contemporary Curated”, Sotheby’s, London, UK

2017
– “The Tour of Molodva in 7 days”, Mobile Biennale, Bucharest, Romania/Chisinau, Moldova
– “Fragments from nowherland”, Galerie Utopia/ Kunsthochschule, Kassel, Germany

2016
– “Anni Zero. 2016”, Gallery of Art – Temple University, Rome, Italy
– “La torre di Babele”, Ex Fabbrica Lucchesi/Pecci Museum, Prato, Italy
– “Contemporary Curated – The Erdem Moralioglu’s choise”, Sotheby’s, London, UK
– “Imagine”, Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy
– “Dall’oggi al domani. 24 ore nell’arte contemporanea”, MACRO, Rome, Italy
– “Storie e opere”, Fondazione Malvina Menegaz, Campobasso, Italy

2015
– “Logo: Beninati, Cucchi, Saccardi”, Galleria Poggiali e Forconi, Florence, Italy

2013
– “Artisti nello spazio – Da Lucio Fontana a oggi: gli ambienti nell’arte italiana”, Fondazione Rocco Guglielmo, Catanzaro, Italy
– “Outrageous Fortune”, Touring Exhibition, Focal Point Gallery, Southend on Sea/ Hayward Gallery, London, UK
– “Party with us. Ten years after”, FPAC, Palermo, Italy

2012
– “Double Take”, 2nd Mardin Bienali, Mardin, Turkey
– “Reactivation”, 9th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai, China
– “Come una bestia feroce”, Bonelli, Mantova, Italy

2011
– “A Rock and a Hard Place”, 3rd Thessaloniki Biennale, Thessaloniki, Greece
– “When in Rome”, ICI Los Angeles and Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA
– “Outrageous Fortune”, Touring Exhibition, Focal Point Gallery, Southend on Sea, UK
– “Vanitas!”, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA
– “Archive Fever”, Open Care, Milano, Italy
– “Premio Maretti”, Museo Pecci, Prato, Italy
– “Accademia. Stanze. Persone.”, American Academy in Rome, Italy

2010
– “PPS”, Riso – Museo Arte Contemporanea di Sicilia, Palermo, Italy
– “Argianas, Beninati, Bradley, Buchler, Hugonnier, Hulusi, White”, Max Wigram Gallery, London, UK
– “Memento”, La Giarina, Verona, Italy
– “I can’t feel my face”, Royal T art space, Los Angeles, USA

2009
– “Heaven”, 2nd Athens Biennale 2009, Athens, Greece
– “Collaudi”, Italian Pavilion, 53 Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
– “The Tree”, James Cohan Gallery, Shanghai, China
– “No more than a point of view”, Prague Biennial, Prague, Czech Republic
– “Escaping the dead ends”, Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul, Turkey
– “Obsession: Contemporary art from the Lodeveans collection”, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
– “Atsushi Fukui, Gert&Uwe Tobias, Manfredi Beninati, Masaya Yoshimura”, TKG Editions Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan

2008
– “Made Up”, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK
– “Sand”, Parrish Museum, Southampton (NY), USA
– “15th Rome Quadriennale”, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy
– “Imaginary Realities …”, Max Wigram Gallery, London,UK
– “Dream Therapy”, Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts, New York, USA
– “Passed as present”, York Art Gallery, York, UK

2007
– “Summer Show”, James Cohan Gallery, New York, USA
– “Arte italiana 1968-2007. Pittura”, Palazzo Reale, Milano, Italy
– “The end begins”, The Hospital, London, UK
– “Detour”, The Art Directors Club, New York, USA
– “Open Studios”, American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy

2006
– “Negotiating reality”, Victoria H. Myhren Gallery, University of Denver, Denver, USA
– “C’era una volta un re…”, Arcos Museo, Benevento, Italy
– “Figuring the landscape”, Contemporary Art Galleries, Storrs (Ct), USA

2005
– “Altmejd, Beninati, Everberg et Margolis”, Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France
– “12 painters”, Galleria In Arco, AB+, Turin, Italy
– Padiglione Venezia at Giardini, 51 Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy

2004
– “Between the lines”, James Cohan Gallery, New York, USA
– “Expander”, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
– “Summer show”, Galleria Lorcan O’Neill, Rome, Italy
– “Wall Paper”, GAMeC, Bergamo, Italy

2003
– “Dirty pictures”, The Approach Gallery, London, UK
– “Quadriennale di Roma-Anteprima”, Palazzo Reale, Naples, Italy
– “Roma 2003”, Galleria Pack, Milan, Italy
– “Le collezioni – Recenti acquisizioni”, MAXXI – Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI Secolo, Rome, Italy

 

SPECIAL PROJECTS

– “Camillofonìe”, music videos (w/ Camillo Amalfi), 2013-ongoing
– “How to see colours in black&white”, Film, 72 minutes ca., 2020
“L’Epos – The movie”, Film, 95 minutes ca., 2018
– “Manfredi Beninati. L’Epos”, interactive installation, 2018
– “Trionfi”, Tarot Cards Deck, Nero Publications, 2017
– “The Milky Way 3”, Gio Marconi, Milan, 2016
– “Elephant parade”, Milan, 2011
– “Outrageous fortune”, Focal point and Southbank, UK, 2011
– “Root for trees” project, New York, 2009/2010
– “Dress for Another Magazine”, New York, 2007
– “Moleskine’s Detour exhibition”, New York, 2007
– “My chair”, London, 2000

 

AWARDS

– Inside-Out Art Museum, Beijing, 2013
– Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellowship, 2010
– Rome Prize, American Academy in Rome, 2006
– Audience award – Italian pavilion, 51 Venice biennale, 2005
– Darc Prize for young Italian art, 2004

 

COLLECTIONS

– BAT/Peter Stuyvesant Collection, Amsterdam, Netherlands
– CAP Art Collection, Boston, USA
– Civitella Ranieri Foundation, Umbertide, Italy/New York, USA
– David Collins Foundation, London, UK
– Fondazione Menegaz, Castelbasso, Italy

– Haidian Museum, Beijing, China
– Lodeveans Collection, London, UK
– Logan Collection, Denver, USA
– MAXXI – Museo Arti XXI Secolo, Rome, Italy
– UBS Art Collection, London, UK
– Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK, New York, USA

 

TALKS / LECTURES

– Accademia di Belle Arti, Florence, Italy, 2016
– “I martedi critici: Manfredi Beninati”, MACRO – Museo di Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy, 2015
– I.O.A. Museum, Beijing, China, 2013
– Civitella Ranieri, Umbertide, Italy, 2012
– Accademia di Belle Arti, Palermo, Italy, 2012
– “Big House”, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK, 2008

 

CURATORIAL

– “I Vostri Mostri”, 2023
– “FUTURITMO”, 2019

– “Di amore e di violenza”, 2017
– “IT”, 2016
– “Mentre il leopardo sbrana l’antilope Okapi”, 2015
– “Tofano/Bonaventura”, 2015
– “Io disegno”, 2014
– “Car.Pe.Pia.Ve”, 2013