BIOGRAPHY
Born 1957 in Torre del Greco, Naples, Gabriele Di Matteo lives and works in Milan.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2015 Keitelman Gallery, Brussels / Performance, with Martín Giménez, Steve Piccolo, Gak Sato et Debora Hirsch, E Il Topo, Spazio Borgogno, Milan
2014 Keitelman Gallery, Brussels / Museo Pecci, Spazio Borgogno, Milan
2013 Musée d'Art Contemporain MAMCO, Geneva / Galleria Annarumma, Naples / E Il Topo, Frans Maserel Centrum, Masereeldijk, Belgium / Toute une vie, tous les élÉments, tous les documents, Arte Contemporanea, Milan
2012 Performance with Martín Giméve Piccolo E Il Topo, Printed Matter, New York
2011 Federco Luger, Milan
2009 Pepe Cobo & Cia, Madrid / Keitelman Gallery, Brussels / Art Unlimited Basel / Frac Bretagne et Centre Hospitalier de Cornouailles, Quimper (FR) / Federico Luger Gallery, Milan
2007 Annarumma 404, Milan
2005 Musée d'Art Modern and Contemporain (MAMCO), Configurations, Geneva / Musée d'Art Modern and Contemporain (MAMCO), Connexions, sÉrie Bonus, Geneva / FRAC Languedoc-Rousillon, Montellier, France / Musée PAB, Alés, France / Gallery 101, Ottowa, Canada
2004 Musée d'Art Modern and Contemporain (MAMCO) Geneva
2003 Antonio Colombo Arte Contemporanea, Milan / Galleria 404, Naples / FRAC Bretagne, Rennes (FR) / Le Grand Café, Saint-Nazaire (FR)
2002 Collège Marcel Duchamp, Châteauroux (FR) / FRAC Limoges, Limoges
2001 Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
2000 Vilma Gold Gallery, London / C/O Non-profit Gallery, Milan
1999 Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois Gallery, Paris
1998 Bibliothèque municipale de Lyon, FRAC Rhône-Alpes, Lyon
1996 Paolo Vitolo Gallery, Milan
1996 Placentia Gallery, Piacenza
1994 FRAC Languedoc-Roussillon, Galerie ESCA, Nimes
1993 FAC-SIMILE Gallery, Milan
1992 Espaj Pascual Lucas, Valencia
1992 Studio Graziano Vigato, Alessandria
1991 Fac-Simile Gallery, Milan
1989 Fac-Simile Gallery, Milan
1986 Galerie ESCA, Nimes
Selected Group Exhibitions
2013 P. Bonelli, Mantova / Nouvelles impressions de Raymond Roussel, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
2012 Carta Bianca. Museo Villa Croce, Genova
2011 ZKM, The Global Contemporary, Art Worlds After 1989, Karlsruhe / Il bel paese dell'arte. Gamec Bergamo
2010 Seconde Main, Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
2009 That's All Folks, Cultuurcentrum, Brugge / Là où je suis n'existe pas, MusÉe d'Art moderne et contemporain, Toulouse / Les Uns et les Autres — Le portrait dans tous ses états, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire de St-Briec
2008 Le Couloir des Miroirs, Art & Cinéma, FRAC Limousin, Limoges
2007 P2P-Échanges, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg
2006 Chauffe Marcel, L'imitation de Marcel Duchamp, Montpellier / MolÉculles particulières, Espace François-Auguste Ducros, Grignan, Frac Rhône-Alpes
2005 L'Humanité mise à nu et l'art en FRAC, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg / OK, OKAY Swiss Institute, New York / OK, OKAY Gray Art Gallery, New York / Quadriennale di Roma, Rome, Italy
2004 Welcome to Entropia, Centre national d'Art et du paysage, Vassivière, curated by Yannick Millloux / Utopia Station, Incursione Vesuviana, Napoli, curated by di Gigiotto Del Vecchio
2003 Une collection de Chefs-d'Œuvre, FRAC Limousine / Isola, Art project, Mamco, Geneva / La Pittura come concetto, Chiesa di S. Matteo, Lucca, curated by di L. Beatrice / Napoli Anno Zero, Castel Sant'Elmo, Napoli, curated by di G. Maraniello
2002 Rumors of War, Jacob Lawrence Foundation, Nex York, curated by F. Sirman
2001 Biennale di Tirana, Tirana / Il Dono Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, curated by G. Maraniello, A. Somaini, S. Risaliti / Ghosty Galleria 1000eventi, curated by Gigiotto Del Vecchio
2000 Hallucinating Love Foundation, Maze Art gallery, Torin curated by G. Del Vecchio / Fantapop, Fondazione Bevilacqua La masa, Venezia, curated by V.Baradel
1999 First Melburne International Biennal, Melbourne, curated by Jen Budney and Roberto Pinto / Un Jardin d'hiver, Bourg-en-Bresse, collection Frac Rhône-Alpes
1998 ART OMI, International Artist Residency Exhibition, Ghent, NY, curated by Franklin Sirmans / Subway, Milano, curated by Roberto Pinto / Due o tre cose che sò di loro, P.A.C. Milano, curated by Marco Meneguzzo
1997 Gamblers, Mediarte Caserta, curated by M. Sgroi / Il Punto, Galleria Continua, S. Gimignano curated by Elio Grazioli
1996 Photopeintres, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg / Procius, works in slides, selected by Emily Tsingou, London / Tradition & Innovation, Italian Art since 1945, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea, curated by Francesco Bonami
1995 APERTO 95, Out of order, Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna, curated by Roberto D'Aolio / Verso una grande collezione, Flash Art Museum, Trevi, curated by H.Kontova
1994 Procreation, Centre d'Art contemporain FRI-ART, Fribourg (CH) / Prima Linea, Flash Art Museum, Trevi, curated by Francescao Bonami
1991 Something is happening in Italy, Lia Rumma Gallery, Naples
1989 Premio Saatchi & Saatchi, Palazzo delle Stelline, Milano 1st Prize
Public Collections
MAMCO, Geneva
FRAC Bretagne
FRAC Languedoc-Roussillon
FRAC Limousin
FRAC Rhône-Alpes
Artothèque, Lyon
PAC, Milano
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