Born

1961

La Spezia, Italy

Education

1980-1984

Accademia di Belle Arti, Carrara, Italy

1976-1980

College of Art, Carrara, Italy

Awards

2011

Premio PEA, Lerici

2005

Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant

Solo Exhibitions

2020

New Works, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA; exhibition catalog

2018

Drive In, Sheikh Abdullah Al Salem Cultural Center, Kuwait City, Kuwait

Contemporary Cluster, Roma

Casa Circondariale “Francesco di Cataldo”, San Vittore, Milano

Susan Street Fine Art, Solana Beach, CA

Drive In, Reggia Reale di Caserta, Caserta

2017

STREETLIGHTS, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA

Drive In, Reggia Reale di Caserta, Caserta, Italy

Drive In, Bocconi Art Gallery, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy

Drive In, Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA

Incandescent Chromophilia, GR Gallery, New York, NY

2016

Back Home, Brothers’ Art Gallery, Lugano

2015

Good Vibration, Gilmann Contemporary, Ketchum, ID

Autoreverse, Ferrarin Arte, Legnago

Good Vibration, Jörg Heitsch Galerie, München

Candyland, Frankfurter Westend Galerie, Frankfurt

2014

Up and Down, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA

Upside Down, Colossi Arte Contemporanea, Brescia

Jörg Heitsch Galerie, München

Up and Down, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA

2013

Rollercoaster, Progetto ELM, Milano

Candyland, Abba Fine Art, Miami, FL

Uli Lang Galerie, Biberach

2012

You make Me Feel Happy, Castello Monumentale, Rapallo

Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, IL

Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

2011

Patrizia Buonanno, Trento

MAAB, studio d'arte, Padova

Family Rooms, Gilman Contemporary, Ketchum, ID

Recent Paintings, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, California

2010

Grand Junction: Wall Paintings 1997-2010, Bakersfield Museum of Art, Bakersfield, CA

Talking, PoliArt Contemporary, Milan, Italy

All Around, Center of Modern and Contemporary Art, La Spezia, Italy and Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, California

2009

Galleria Arte 92, Milano

Cardelli & Fontana, Sarzana

Cerruti Arte, Genova

Frankfurter Westend Galerie, Frankfurt

2008

Galleria Colussa, Udine

Museum fur Konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt, Germany

Museum of Art of Torrance, Torrance, California

Patrizia Buonanno Arte Contemporanea, Trento

Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Munchen

One Post Street, San Francisco, California

2007

Nature Metropolitane, Poli Arte, Milano

New Paintings, Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Recent Paintings, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, California

Beautiful Morning, Scott White Contemporary Art, San Diego, California

2006

Border, Galleria Obraz, Milano

2005

Galleria Colussa, Udine

Every Sunday Afternoon, Wassermann Galerie, Munchen

Mestna Galerija, Nova Gorica, Slovenia

Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, California

2004

Recent Paintings, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, California

2003

Here, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, California

Marco Casentini, New Urban Art, Phoenix, Arizona

2002

Hotel Buenaventura, Wassermann Galerie, Munich, Germany

Galleria Colussa, Udine, Italy

Belsorriso, Klein Art Works, Chicago, Illinois

Not far from here, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, California

Non luoghi, Fondazione Bandera per l’arte, Busto Arsizio, Italy

2001-2

Diary, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, California

2001

Scott White Gallery, La Jolla, California

Frankfurter Westend Galerie, Frankfurt, Germany

Mediterranea, Monopoli Arte Contemporanea, Pavia, Italy

Opere recenti, Spazio Cesare da Sesto, Sesto Calende

2000

Appunti di viaggio, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, California

1999

California Junction, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, California

Citta, Galerie Wassermann, Munchen, Germany

1998

Urban Landscape, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, California

1997

Galleria Vanna Casati, Bergamo, Italy

Galeria Parikel, Luzern, Switzerland

1994

Universita degli Studi di Pavia, Italy

1992

Galerie Marianne Grob, Luzern, Switzerland

1985

Galerie Lehnert, Emmen, Switzerland

1983

Galerie Nanu, Luzern, Switzerland

Group Exhibitions

2020

30th Anniversary Exhibition, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA; exhibition catalog

2019

Geometric Heat, GR Gallery, New York

Summer Show, Frankfurter Westend Galerie, Frankfurt

Summer Group, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA

50 anni dall’allunaggio, Colossi Arte Contemporanea, Brescia

Werstand & Gefuehl, Frankfurter Westend Galerie, Frankfurt

Highlights, Jörg Heitsch Galerie, München

2018

Spring Show, Bluerider ART Gallery, Hong Kong

Spectrum, Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, TN

Skulpturale, Jörg Heitsch Galerie, München

Fantastic 4, Bluerider ART Gallery, Taipei

Divenire Pittura, PoliArt, Rovereto

2017

Corona Unger Galerie, Bremen

Progetto ELM, Milano

Highlights, Jörg Heitsch Galerie at MUC airport Terminal 2, München

Black and White, Armanda Gori Arte, Pietrasanta

Summer Show, GR Gallery, New York

2016 The White Gallery, PoliArt, Milano

Summer Show, GR Gallery, New York

Jörg Heitsch Galerie, München

Specchio Italia, Frankfurter Westend Galerie, Frankfurt

Donazioni 2.0, CAMeC, La Spezia

Jorrit Torquist e altre Geometrie del Colore, Pieve di Soligo

Impatto Generazionale, Armanda Gori Arte, Pietrasanta

The Sharper Perception, GR Gallery, New York

2015

PoliArt, Rovereto

Corona Unger Galerie, Bremen

10 Years of TAM, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA

2014

Active Color: Works by Marco Casentini and Lewis deSoto, One Post Street, San Francisco, CA

Accrochage zum Jahreswechsel, Corona Unger Galerie, Bremen

MUSE-E Museum, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio, La Spezia

Michelangelo Heute, Frankfurter Westend Galerie, Frankfurt

Sommerimpressionen III, Corona Unger Galerie, Bremen

rosso giallo blu, Frankfurter Westend Galerie, Frankfurt

Rosso contemporaneo, Armanda Gori Arte Pietrasanta

Puri segni, Galleria Peccolo, Livorno

Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, IL

The Italian Wave, IAGA Gallery, Cluj Napoca

2013

PoliArt, Rovereto Il filo rosso, Leo Galleries, Monza

Il filo rosso, Leo Galleries, Monza

Magnifici anni, Art 1307, Napoli

European Kinetic Visual Art & Italian Art Now, Sixty29 Contemporary, Culver City, CA

Ausklang und Jahreswechsel, Corona Unger Galerie , Bremen

Oggettualia, PoliArt Contemporary, Milano

2012

Bel Natale, Al Battente, Ascoli Piceno

Into the white, Spazio Bigli, Milano

Constructive Spirit, Gilman Contemporary, Ketchum, ID

WOP, Fabbri Contemporary, Milano

40th Anniversary Exhibition, Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago

Gallery of Murska Sobota, Murska Sobota, Slovenia

Ten Art Gallery, Milano

Lolly Pop, Galerie 208, Marco Casentini and Matteo Negri, Paris

Spring Call, Spazio Bigli, Milano

Costellazioni, Cardelli & Fontana, Sarzana

Color Balance, Melissa Morgan Fine Art, Palm Desert, CA

2011

Padiglone Italia 54ma Esposizione Internazionale della Biennale di Venezia- Sezione Liguria, Palazzo della Meridiana, Genoa

Bocconi Art Gallery, Milan

Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, IL

Cardelli & Fontana, Sarzana, Italy

Spazio Bigli, Milan

2010

Patrizia Buonanno Arte Contemporanea, Trent

Red l'opera al rosso, Cerruti Arte, Genoa

Melissa Morgan Fine Art, Palm Desert, CA

Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, IL

Obraz 10, Galleria Obraz, Milan

2009

Giorni Felici, Casa Testori, Novate Milanese

Cerruti Arte, Genova

Scott White Contemporary Art, San Diego, California

Galleria Arte 92, Milano

California, Light and Space, Melissa Morgan Fine Art, Palm Desert, California

To Move, Nuovo Centro Direzionale Interporto, Trento

Cardelli & Fontana, Sarzana

Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

2008

Scott White Contemporary Art, San Diego, California

Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

Robert Dress Galerie, Hannover

Confronto. Klaus Mehrkens + amici, Museo Civico Ernesto e Teresa Della Torre, Treviglio

Aesthetics of the New Millennium, Mesta Galerija Nova Gorica

Cardelli & Fontana, Sarzana       

Auguri Ad Arte, MART, Rovereto

2007

Gallery Artists, Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

Grand Opening Celebration, Gilman Contemporary, Ketchum, Idaho

Lo stato dell’arte, Galleria Obraz, Milano

Modernism Today, LAX Airport, Los Angeles, California

Remix, One Post Street, San Francisco, California

2006

Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

I could do that: Contemporary Art and the Audience, Brea Art Gallery, Brea, California

2005

Quadri per un’esposizione, Centro Culturale di Milano, Milano

Nero Italiano, Nextam Partners, Milano

Accrochage, Frankfurter Westend Galerie, Frankfurt

Paint on Metal, Tucson Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Tucson, Arizona

Illusion Irritation, Wassermann Galerie, Munchen

2004

Museum for Konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt, Germany

Summer Group Exhibition, Scott White Contemporary Art, San Diego, California

Surfin’ Hermosa 2004, Gallery C, Hermosa Beach, California

20th Anniversary Exhibition, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, California

2003

Recent Works by Marco Casentini, Teo González & Ed Moses, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, California

Black/White, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, California

Saks Fifth Avenue, Beverly Hills, California

2002

Holiday Group Show, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, California

Group Show, Scott White Contemporary Art, Telluride, Colorado

Real Abstraction: No Metaphors,No Apologies, Suburban Fine Art Center, Highland Park, Illinois

Aspetti contemporanei dell’arte concreta, Civico Museo di Arte Contemporanea, Calasetta, Italy

Terrain: Literal to Metaphysical, Scott White Contemporary Art, Telluride, Colorado

Contemporary Abstraction, Klein Art Works, Chicago, Illinois

“Astrazione Punto Zero”: Spazio “O”, Milan, Italy

Cascina Roma, San Donato Milanese, Milan, Italy

Palazzo Piacentini, San Benedetto del Tronto, Italy

2001

Holiday Group Show, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, California

Brian Gross Fine Art: Gallery Artists, Shasta College Art Gallery, Redding, California

Oomph, Klein Art Works, Chicago, Illinois

2000

Antologia del paesaggio, Monopoli Arte Contemporanea, Pavia, Italy

Holiday Group Show, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, California

Summer Exposition, SOMA Gallery, La Jolla, California

1999

Arte Fiera Bologna, Lorenzelli Arte, Germany

Holiday Group Show, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, California

Art Cologne, Galerie Wassermann, Munich, Germany

Structural Elements: Views of Architecture and Architectural Elements, Transamerica Pyramid Lobby Gallery, San Francisco, California

1998

Casentini, Linnenbrink, Munch, Galerie Wassermann, Munich, Germany

Holiday Group Show, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, California

Magna Carta, Libreria Presenza, Sesto S. Giovanni, Italy

Corrispondenze, Lorenzelli Arte, Milan, Italy

Arte Fiera Bologna, Lorenzelli Arte, Milan, Italy

1997

MAPP, Museo d’Arte Paolo Pini, Milan, Italy

La Visibilita, Carceri di Sant’Armbrogio, Fermentino, Italy

La Collezione, Civica Raccolta del Disegno, Palazzo Ceon, Salo, Italy

L’enigma del tempo, Museo Nuova Era, Bari Galleria II Gabbiano, La Spezia, Italy

Alternative, Palazzo Cicogna, Busto Arsizio, Italy

Apriscatole, Galleria Communale, Bovisio Masciago, Italy

Libretto Digitale, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Firenze

1996

Apriscatole, Galleria Aquifante, Busto Arsizio, Italy

Premio di pittura Citta di Bordighera, Centro Polivalente, Bordighera, Italy

Living Art Gallery, Milan, Italy

Libretto Digitale, Museo Nuova Era, Bari, Italy

1995

Non Plus Ultra, Lorenzelli Arte, Milan, Italy

Art & Tabac, Ostertabac Museum, Wien and RAI Congrescentre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Libretto Digitale, Galleria Il Gabbiano, La Spezia; Galleria Il Vicolo, Genova; Forni di S.

Francesco, Portoferraio; Galleria dell’Incisione, Santa Croce sull’Arno, Italy

Casentini, Casiraghi, Geremia, Galleria Artopia Urso, Milan; Galleria Le Pietre, Arenzano, Italy

1994

Art & Tabac, Palazzo del Turismo, Riccione, Italy

1993

Art & Tabac, Scuderie di Palazzo Rupoli, Roma, Italy

1989

Wuthrich, Godel, Casentini, Snozzi, Galerie Led Line, Luzern, Switzerland

Campi, Casentini, Linari, Galleria Il Gabbiano, La Spezia, Italy

1988

Alta Stagione, Palazzo Comunale, Sarzana; Palazzo Brianco, Genova; Palazzo della Provincia, Savona; Ridotto Teatro Cavour, Imperia, Italy

1985

Kunstmarkt Emmen, Gemeinde Galerie Emmen, Emmenbrucke, Switzerland

Chiesa del Suffragio, Carrarra, Italy

Chiesa del Gonfalone, Fossano, Italy

Gruppo Idioma, Palazzo Berghini, Sarzana, Italy

1984

Gruppo Idioma, Pinacoteca Comunale, Vezzano Ligure Accademia di Belle Arti di Carrara, Italy

Ausstellungsraumen des Stadttheaters, Ingoldstadt, Austria

Expo Arte, Bari, Italy

1983

Kunstmarkt Emmen, Gemeinde Galerie Emmen, Emmenbrucke, Switzerland

Galleria Il Luogo di Gauss, Milan, Italy

Public Collections

Bakersfield Museum of Art, Bakersfield, CA

CAMeC, La Spezia, Italy

Casa Circondariale “Francesco di Cataldo”, San Vittore, Milano

Civica raccolta del Disegno, Salò, Italy

Fondazione Bandera per l'Arte, Busto Arsizio, Italy

Galleria d'arte Moderna, Sesto Calende, Italy

MAPP Museo d'arte Paolo Pini, Milan

Mestna Galerija Ljubliana, Solvenia

Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Calasetta, Italy

Museum für Konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt, Germany

Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA

Università Bocconi, Milano

Università degli Studi, Pavia, Italy

Università degli Studi della Campania, Santa Maria Capua Vetere

Private Collections

Belcaro Development, Valencia, CA

Boston Consulting Group, San Francisco, CA

Brown Rudnic, Washington, DC

Cancer Institute, Boston, MA

Cedar Sinai Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, CA

Digital Media Campus, Long Beach, CA

DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary, San Francisco, CA

Fleedwood, Munich

Fondazione Carispezia, La Spezia

Gary Lee Partners, Chicago, IL

Haarmann-Hemmelrath & Partner, Milan

Harris Bank Corporate Collection, Chicago, IL

Intuit Corporation, San Francisco, CA

Illy caffè, Trieste, Italy

Ken Stats, North Caldwell, NJ

Kilroy Realty Corporation, Los Angeles, CA

Marina Heights L.L.C., Beverly Hills, CA

Monitor Company, Munich

Museum Square Associates, Los Angeles, CA

Nextam Partners, Milan

Ocean Club Villas, Paradise Island, Bahamas

On Point Productions, San Rafael, CA

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, Menlo Park, CA

Ospedale Paolo Pini, MilanoRed Rock Hotel, Las Vegas, NV

Park Centro Stazione, La Spezia

Red Rock Hotel, Las Vegas, NV

Riviera Company, Tokyo

Scan, Los Angeles, CA

The Progressive Art Collection, Cleveland, OH

Thomas Properties Group, Los Angeles, CA

Vivendi, Los Angeles, CA

Waikoloa Hotel, Waikoloa, HI

Wellington Management Company, Boston, MA

Winston & Strawn, Los Angeles / San Francisco, CA