Biografy
The culture of space and civil commitment are two facets of a single artistic path that come together elaborating a spiritual vision of art: Maria Dompè was born in Fermo on March 4, 1959, after the Liceo Artistico (artistic high school) she graduated in 1982 in sculpture having attended the courses of P. Fazzini and E. Greco, at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome.
During the 1980’s she participated in competitions in which she often received prizes: the competition of the Accademie d’Italia (1981, first prize); the national competition of the Accademia di Belle Arti of Frosinone (1982, first prize); Province of Rome (1984, second prize).
In 1985 she was invited by Filiberto Menna to the group exhibition “Esprit de Gèometrie,” at the Roman gallery Il Carpine. In 1989 she had her first solo show at the Il Millennio gallery in Rome, which was followed by individual exhibitions set up at the Spazio Temporaneo gallery in Milan (1991), at the Isola in Rome (both in 1992 Le Terme and in 1993 Donne della Bosnia), at the Alberto Peola gallery in Turin Ridotti in stracci (1995) and at the Museo Laboratorio d’Arte Contemporanea of La Sapienza University in Rome with Don’t forget Mururoa (1997) an immersive, sound and olfactory intervention. In the 1999 solo exhibition Alle donne di Nakiri, Maria Dompè confronted the internal and external spaces of the Japanese Cultural Institute in Rome. Also in 1999, the artist held a solo exhibition at the Contemporary Sculpture Center in Tokyo. In the year 2000, a solo exhibition at the Grossetti Arte Contemporanea gallery in Milan, with Daily Spiritual life: Milan. In 2007, at Il Segno gallery in Rome, with a tribute to the writer and explorer Ella Maillart, creating a vision of landscapes of the soul.
An understanding between the site and its history, in a kind of intimate conversation between the space and the artist: “incursions in space,” is how Dompè defines the transformations of the environment where the work is born for the place and with the pre-chosen place. The first was Hymnen (1989) for the exhibition “Visioni di Hymnen” in the Sala Presse of the Lingotto in Turin, conceived for the music of K. Stockhausen, in which the scenography vocation found full realization in the theatrical performance staged by the company Settimo Voltaire.
This was followed by many other “incursions in space” made in a time span from 1989 to the present, documented by specific publications. We recall in Florence the exhibition “Interni d’Artista” (Virtute e conoscenza, Palazzo Budini Gattai, 1991); the two editions of “Etica all’Arte” (Funda Tracta, Palazzo dei Consoli in Gubbio and Domos de Janas, Museum Citadel of Cagliari, 1991); in Todi “Arte in Scena,” (Summa Cavea, Nido dell’Aquila,1991).
Space, understood as place, possesses a verb; Maria Dompè has in her instinct the dialectic to interact with it. It is the case, for example, of the first permanent installation, made in 1990, at the Waldhof Museum in Bielefeld (Germany 1990), merges with the peculiar history of the place, together with the celebration of the fall of the Berlin Wall; it is also the case of Umi-no-Kanata-he (1991) a permanent work made in Japan. From her Japanese sojourn Maria Dompè drew inspiration for the exhibition “Giappone-Italia: Giovani Generazioni” at the National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome (1992), creating Camminando lungo il Kibune River, involving the entire environment of the “Cosenza” wing of the same National Gallery of Modern Art.
Maria Dompè’s artistic message evolves further toward social engagement. The artist’s sensibility is enriched with altruism, with social and moral implications. Testimony to this are the works produced for artistic events, including: Donne della Bosnia (Rome,1993) a raw denunciation of the horrors of war (this work represents the artist’s first experience of sensory involvement that imposes on the viewer an active participation of the senses); the controversial installation Aberrazione, made for the “Campaign against Racism of the Municipality of Rome” (1993); or collective initiatives such as the “V Biennale d’Arte Sacra” in Teramo with the permanent work 1992 Falcone-Borsellino; the “XXIII Premio Suzzara” with the permanent work C’era una volta l’Accademia dei Gergofili, (1993); the exhibition “Que bien resistes! ” (Arezzo,1994) with the incursion Fermateli! created in the inner courtyard of the Civic Library: a message of universal oneness, against the martyrdom of religious warfare where steles and tombstones, with Christian, Jewish, Islamic symbols, co-exist together.
In 1995/96 Maria Dompè; created the permanent installation of important dimensions, Insula, winning the ” Concorso Nazionale di Edificazione di un’Opera Monumentale ” at the Nuova Casa Circondariale of Viterbo.
The indissoluble new relationship between artistic creativity and civil commitment is manifested in the works: Non immolate il bambino created in 1996 for the “XII Quadriennale” in Rome; Meditazione created for the cultural initiative of the Municipality of Rome: “Varcare la Soglia,” a permanent installation in 1997 at the Family House, run by Caritas, in Rome’s Villa Glori.
In 1998, she participated in “Lavori in corso 3” at the Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Rome, with a work that took its title from a quote from a book by the writer Tahar Ben Jelloun: “I am that other who crossed a country on a gangway that links two dreams“. In the same year, Maria Dompè created a kind of triptych dedicated to women on three different occasions. The first “incursion”: ” VIII Biennale d’Arte Sacra” in Teramo with the installation of Mother Teresa of Calcutta. The second: at the exhibition ” Scultura marchigiana dal dopoguerra a oggi (1945-1998) ” in the city of Ancona, where, inside the Mole Vanvitelliana, in the Lazzaretto courtyard, the artist placed a work dedicated to the young Tibetan nun Ngawang Sangdrol, sentenced by the Chinese justice system to 18 years in prison for having only verbally expressed dissent against the occupation of Tibet. The third environmental intervention: at the “9th Sculpture Biennale” in Carrara, dedicated to the former Kurdish deputy Leyla Zana, who was imprisoned in a maximum-security cell in Turkey for standing up for the Kurdish people against the repression of the Turkish government. The artistic work goes beyond mere sentimentality and becomes a message, a sensitive stimulus to reawaken a helpless and inhibited humanity.
A participation in the “IX Biennale d’Arte Sacra” in the year 2000, saw the creation of Shanti, a “hymn” to peace. Ideally dedicated to Tibetan nuns is Ani-la, an installation created for the 2000 edition of the “Giganti Arte Contemporanea” exhibition in the Imperial Forums in Rome. Also in the same year: Rome and Milan ideally united by a common message. Daily Spiritual Life: Rome, a “secret” work, created along a Roman boulevard over nine consecutive days, documented by an artist’s book and Daily Spiritual Life: Milan, where Maria Dompè; reinvented the restricted space, within the premises of the Grossetti gallery in Milan, interpreting the imaginary in a meditative dimension, involving the viewer in a sensory participation: sight, hearing with a musical diffusion, touch through a bodily contact in the sand, smell with an effluence of natural essences.
In 2001, on the occasion of the celebration of 27 gennaio: “Holocaust Remembrance Day,” Maria Dompè intervened on the churchyard and gate of the Neue Synagoge in Berlin with woven textiles and white roses as symbols of the victims of Jewish persecution. A participation re-enacted with a new incursion in space for the commemoration of 27 gennaio of the year 2002, at the Synagogue in Rome.
In Florence, in 2001, in the Baldassini-Tognozzi industrial space, Dompè created the work A Gao Xingjian dedicated to the Chinese Nobel Prize dissident. In the same year in Washington, DC, at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the artist realized the “incursion” Connecting Worlds for the Galapagos, an environmental condemnation, in a nation where the sensitivity towards the environment was modest.
In March 2003 the event Amina Lawal merits special attention realized in the Piazza Campidoglio of Rome. Invited by the City of Rome, Maria Dompè denounces the drama of the Nigerian woman condemned to the death penalty for adultery, with an environmental work with an extraordinary sensorial impact, a contribution to the liberty achieved by Amina Lawal.
In September 2003 another environmental denunciation: Gaia a walk for life – charter for environmental planetary urgencies, at Poggio Valicaia Park in the Chianti hills (Scandicci).
In the following year, 2 giugno 2004: Campo Fossoli, a message of brotherhood inside Campo Fossoli, a place designated as a sorting centre for deportation to German extermination camps during World War II. Also in 2004: Water Emergency two environmental incursions made in Valle Sella for Arte Sella, one inside the Malga Costa, while the other, permanent, outside on the Arte Sella route: the protagonist nature launches an appeal through the artist, on the water emergency of the planet.
The year 2005 saw the realization of the Tibet for freedom event at the American Academy in Rome. A message of freedom launched in favour of the Tibetan people who by drawing on their immense spiritual tradition manage to defend their ethnic and cultural identity with non-violent weapons. In the same year Maria Dompè creates the monument In memory of Alcide De Gasperi, winning a competition from the City of Rome. The statesman is remembered for his enlightening pro-European vision, underscored by his beloved green valleys of Trentino: “a verdant essence wrapped in quotations of his far-sighted thoughts.” Also, in 2005 a major event: Dalhousie Square made in India in the heart of the metropolis of Kolkata (Calcutta), at one of the sites designated by the World Monuments Fund for the preservation of world heritage. A denunciation of strong dimensional and chromatic impact, of the historical “memory” of a country and its ancient spirituality.
In 2007, An offering for the Burmese monks, at the Holy Stairs in Rome. In one of the most important places of Christianity, a symbolic gesture of solidarity with the Buddhist monks during the pacifist revolution in Burma. One month later, a portrait dedicated to Aung San Suu Kyi, a symbol of democracy that is denied in Burma, was created in the window of the Archivio Crispolti, Via Ripetta, 131 in Rome.
In 2008, Remember-hope-9/11 is the title evocative of a date etched in the collective memory: September 11, 2001, the terrorist attack on the Twin Towers in New York City, an incursion made in the industrial space of the “Giulio Barbieri” company.
On the occasion of the “public baptism” of the newly opened exhibition space in the former Elettrofonica in 2009 in Rome, the artist presented: Hay una diferencia entre estar vivo y sentirse vivo, a poetic, dreamlike and engaging tale of images.
In May 2009 in Calais an event was organized as a prelude to the opening of the new museum: Citè internationale de la Dentelle et de la Mode de Calais. An impressive environmental work, 85 kilometers of lace (dentelle), involving the entire museum complex and surrounding area. La mer-la dentelle, la dentelle-la mer is the title of the work in which the artistic message is encapsulated: to preserve a true cultural heritage of ancient tradition of the city of Calais, and together protect the sea as a valuable social and environmental resource.
In 2011 in Rome at the College of the Propagation of the Faith in Piazza di Spagna on the occasion of the beatification of Pope Wojtyla, the artist was invited to enhance the solemnity of the event with a work divided into two “incursions in space”: an external one of monumental dimensions on Bernini’s facade and an internal one involving Borromini’s Chapel of the Three Kings. A tribute of intense spiritual symbolism dedicated to Ioannes Paulus P.P. II.
For the 2011 edition of the Venice Biennale (Italian Pavilion, Arsenale), Dompè evokes Japanese memories by presenting a work dedicated to the strength and courage of the Japanese people. Japan Courage: a visionary and poetic image of a Japan in stark contrast to the chronicles of the March 2011 nuclear tragedy. An exhortation and incitement to rediscover in ancestral traditions, spirituality and determination, and the memory of the past in the relationship with nature.
The dialogue with the space was enriched with new permanent “green transformations” or reinterpretations of existing spaces: green areas, reshaped and planted. In 2006 in Rome Il giardino nel giardino by Luigi Muratori. In 2008/2009 Il giardino nel giardino: Scala Santa inside the Convent of the Passionist Fathers of the Holy Stairs in Rome, one of the most important sacred places for the Christian faith. In 2009/2011 Il giardino di Irene Brin: a major reinterpretation of an ancient garden, enriched by new sculptural incursions. In 2013/2014, the green work Il Giardino dell’Anima, an environmental proposal of terrain modelling, with new plantings, created in one of the outdoor gardens of the Galleria nazionale d’arte moderna e contemporanea in Rome.
In the period between 2015 and 2016, the municipality of Massa Marittima in Tuscany commissioned Dompè to carry out the landscape and functional redevelopment of an area recovered from the restoration of the ancient city walls. The artist creates an environmental work Sol omnibus lucet of remarkable aesthetic impact, representing a symbolic bridge between history and contemporaneity, a happy example, appreciated by the citizenry, of the osmosis between the landscape and the urban fabric.
In 2017, participating in the event “Il Cammino delle Certose”, Maria Dompè realizes a double artistic representation contained in a single landscape work: Altum Silentium. An environmental enhancement designed for an abandoned area of the imposing monastic complex of the Certosa di San Lorenzo in Padula. An intervention that changes over time and that has a double value: an ephemeral and a permanent one (after the green, environmental transformation).
Between 2018 and 2019 an articulated project of in-depth cognitive analysis and, consequently, of accurate information, dealing with the migratory phenomenon and rigorously investigating this dramatically current reality. Dompè, in order to raise awareness and to promote and develop this project, has organized three artistic events, all with the same title: “my name is … il mio nome è… Conosci l’altro e la sua realtà.” The first in Rome at the MACRO Asilo in November 2018; the second in Naples at the Chiesa delle Donne della Certosa e Museo di San Martino (The Church of the Women of the Certosa and Museum of San Martino) in June 2019; the third in September 2019 at the municipality of Candela (FG) in a SPRAR (Immigration Support Agency) housed in an ancient Apulian farmhouse. Three events documented with books by the artist, gathered together in a box set.
In 2019 Maria Dompè returns to the Holy Stairs in Rome for an unrepeatable opportunity. She makes an offering to the spiritual energy that radiates intensely from this sacred place, Sursum corda! (Lifted hearts!) directly on the original marble steps, momentarily deprived of the ancient wooden protection.
In 2021, a particularly welcome occasion for the artist, a return to the Irene Brin Garden in Sasso di Bordighera, where she carried out a substantial landscape and artistic redevelopment in 2009. Invited for the celebrations of Dante Alighieri’s anniversary, an event organized by the FAI, Dompè creates an ephemeral incursion of great suggestive power.
Between 2022 and 2023 “Gli alberi sono lo sforzo infinito della Terra per parlare al Cielo in ascolto — Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven” (R. Tagore), an environmental rearrangement of an area of about 1,600 sq. meters at the Eschilo Sporting Village in Rome. An opportunity to reaffirm personal sensitivity to greenery, along with growing unease about the consequences of a neglected balance between humanity and Nature.
In 2024 participating in the “Eutopia” exhibition in Milan, Dompè created Hortus Idearum, a permanent intervention at the Sala Lanza of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan. The metaphor of a marble labyrinth occupies the wall of the room, indicating the spiritual sovereignty of a single path to the Center.
Finally, there remains to mention, the international fellowships the artist has won: 1991, The Japan Foundation and in 1996, The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and from the editorial point of view, the artist has published many special books (see the “Books of the Artist” page).
Curriculum Vitae
Maria Dompè was born in Fermo on 4 March 1959, lives and works in Rome. After the Art High School she graduated in Sculpture in 1982 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, (Professors: P. Fazzini and E. Greco).
– Events
2019 Lo sommo Ben… Giardino di Irene Brin, Sasso di Bordighera
2019 Sursum corda! (In alto i cuori!) Scala Santa, Rome
2019 my name is … il mio nome é … Know the other and their reality Masseria Torre Bianca, Candela (Fg)
2019 my name is … il mio nome é … Know the other and their reality Chiesa delle Donne Certosa e museo di S. Martino, Naples
2018 my name is … il mio nome è … Conosci l’altro e la sua realtà, MACRO Asilo, Rome
2013-2014 Il Giardino dell’Anima Gallery nazionale d’arte moderna di Rome
2011 Ioannes Paulus P.P. II Event for the beatification: 30 April – 1 May 2011, College of the Propagation of the Faith: facade by Bernini and Re Magi Chapel by Borromini
2009 La mer-la dentelle, la dentelle-la mer Evento per l’inaugurazione del nuovo Museo “Citè Internationale de la dentelle et de la mode de Calais”, Calais (Francia)
2009 Hay una diferencia entre estar vivo y sentirse vivo Evento per l’inaugurazione della nuova Gallery Ex Elettrofonica, Rome
2007 Aung San Suu Kyi Showcase Archivio Crispolti, Rome
2007 Un’offerta per i monaci birmani Holy Stairs, Rome
2005 Dalhousie Square Lal Dighi, Kolkata (Kolkata, India)
2005 Tibet for Freedom American Academy in Rome, Rome
2004 Water emergency Malga Costa, Val di Sella, Arte Sella
2004 2 giugno: Campo Fossoli, Carpi
2003 Amina Lawal Piazza del Campidoglio, (City Hall), Rome
2002 27 january Sinagoge Rome
2001 27 january Neue Sinagoge Berlin
– Permanent environmental intervention
2024 Hortus Idearum Sala Lanza, Centro Pastorale, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan (committenza privata)
2023 “Trees are the Earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening Heaven” R. Tagore Eschilo Sporting Village, Rome (committenza privata)
2017 Altum Silentium Certosa di San Lorenzo, Padula (committenza pubblica)
2015-2016 Sol Omnibus Lucet Comune di Massa Marittima (committenza pubblica)
2011 Il giardino di Irene Brin Sasso di Bordighera (committenza privata)
2008-2009 Il giardino nel giardino: Scala Santa Convent of the Passionist Fathers, Holy Stairs, Rome
2006 Il giardino nel giardino: Luigi Muratori Casa Luigi Muratori, Rome (committenza privata)
2005 Monument in memory of Alcide De Gasperi Via delle Fornaci, Department of “Beni Culturali”, Rome, Italy
2004-2005 Water emergency Val di Sella, Arte Sella, Itinerario Arte Sella (committenza privata)
2003 Gaia a walk for life – charter for environmental planetary urgiences Parco di Poggio Valicaia, Comune di Scandicci (committenza pubblica)
1997 Meditazione Villa Glori, Rome (committenza pubblica)
1992-1996 Insula Nuova Casa Circondariale di Viterbo (committenza pubblica)
1995 Suffragium Soprintendenza per il Patrimonio Storico, Artistico e Demoetnoantropologico, Castello Cinquecentesco, L’Aquila ( committenza pubblica, acquisita nel 2007)
1993 C’era una volta l’Accademia dei Georgofili Torre Civica, Suzzara (committenza pubblica)
1992 Falcone, Borsellino Santuario S. Gabriele, Teramo (committenza pubblica)
1991 Umi-no-Kanata-he Fujimi-Kogen Nagano-Ken, Japan (committenza pubblica)
1990 “1990” Museo Waldhof Bielefeld, Germania (committenza pubblica)
– Personal Exhibitions
2007 Gallery Il Segno, Rome
2000 Gallery Grossetti Arte Contemporanea, Milan
1999 Contemporary Sculpture Center, Tokyo
1999 Japanese Cultural Institute of Rome (The Japan Foundation)
1997 The Laboratory Museum of Contemporary University of Rome, La Sapienza
1995 Gallery Alberto Peola, Turin
1993 A.R.G.A.M. Gallery L’Isola, Rome
1992 Gallery L’Isola, Rome
1991 Gallery Spazio Temporaneo, Milan
1989 Gallery Il Millennio, Rome
– Collective Exhibitions
2024 Eutopia Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan
2023 Lungo i sentieri di Lea Museo Emilio Greco, Sabaudia
2017 Il cammino delle Certose Certosa di San Lorenzo, Padula
2011 54° Esposizione della Biennale di Venezia Padiglione Italy, Arsenale, Venice
2011 Passato – Presente Dialoghi d’Abruzzo Castello Colonna, Genazzano, Rome
2008 IV Biennale Internazionale d’Arte di Ferrara Spazio Industriale, Azienda “Giulio Barbieri”
2005 Paesaggi domestici V. Corsini, M. Dompè, Under Studio, Rome
2004 Rome collezione arte contemporanea Italiana da collezione pubbliche e private American Academy in Rome
2004 Nove scultori Italiani Gallery Il segno, Rome
2004 Rome punto uno PICI Gallery Seoul, Tokyo Design Center Gotanda, Kuchu Teien Tembodai, Sky Gallery Osaka
2002 La seduzione della materia Spazio Oberdan, Palazzo Isimbardi, Milan
2002 Terror is our common enemy Sinagoge, Rome
2001 La scultura Italiana del XX secolo Museum of Art Yokohama (Japan), City Museum of Art Kagoshima (Japan), The Museum of Modern Art Ibaraki (Japan), Museum of Contemporary Art, Sapporo (Japan), Art Museum Shimane (Japan)
2001 Connecting Worlds The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington DC
2001 Arte-Architettura-Città – Forum progetti ed altro – Idee per la sistemazione di P.zza Augusto Imperatore a Rome Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome
2001 Area di Transito Exhibition Area Baldassini-Tognozzi, Osmannoro, Florence
2000 BNL: Una Banca per l’arte oltre il mecenatismo Chiostro del Bramante, Rome
2000 “Giganti” Contemporary Art in Fori Imperiali Scavi dei Fori Imperiali, Rome
2000 IX Biennale d’Arte Sacra Contemporanea Fondazione Stauros Italyna, San Gabriele Teramo
2000 New acquisitions Gallery Comunale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea ex Stabilimento Birra Peroni, Rome
1998 IX Biennale Internazionale di scultura Città di Carrara, Scultura, Architettura, Carrara
1998 Scultura marchigiana dal dopoguerra ad oggi, (1945-1998) Mole Vanvitelliana, Ancona
1998 VIII Biennale d’Arte Sacra, Tracce del sacro nel Ventesimo Secolo Fondazione Stauros Italiana, San Gabriele, Teramo
1998 Arte Contemporanea, “Lavori in corso” Gallery Comunale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea ex Stabilimento Birra Peroni, Rome
1998 D. Benati, M. Dompè Gallery L’Isola, Trento; Arte in scena, Rome
1997 Varcare la soglia, “Mostra di scultura contemporanea” Comune di Rome, Villa Glori, Rome
1996 XII Quadriennale, Ultime generazioni Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome
1996 L’arte è donna Gallery Banchi Nuovi, Rome
1996 Cartemonete Gallery Giulia, Rome
1995 Tre scultori per tre pittori Gallery L’Isola, Rome
1995 Fax Art- la velocità dell’arte Roof Garden Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome
1995 Preserviamoci Dakota, Rome
1995 A.R.G.A.M. 1995 – Tre critici trenta artisti Gallery L’Isola, Rome
1994 Que bien resistes! Sala Sant’Ignazio, Biblioteca Città di Arezzo, Arezzo
1994 Lo spazio della scultura Cinecittà Due, Rome
1994 Premio Internazionale di Scultura Gioia Lazzerini, Church of Saint Augustine, Pietrasanta
1993 XXXIII Premio Suzzara Gallery Civica d’Arte Contemporanea, Suzzara
1993 Campagna contro il razzismo City Hall Rome, Piazza San Pantaleo, Rome
1992 Japan-Italy, Giovani generazioni Gallery Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Japanese Institute of Culture, Rome
1992 V Biennale d’Arte Sacra, Beata Passion Sanctuary of Saint Gabriel, Teramo
1992 Tridente Sette Mediterranea Gallery L’Isola, Rome
1992 Primi piani e lontananze Gallery de’ Serpenti, Rome
1991 Excursus per i ragazzi dell’olivo Sala Uno, Rome
1991 Artae Circolo degli Artisti, Rome
1991 Arte in scena Nido dell’Aquila, Todi – 2° Gallery L’Isola, Rome
1991 Etica all’Arte Palazzo dei Consoli, Gubbio – 2° Cittadella dei Musei, Cagliari
1991 Interni d’Artista Palazzo Budini Gattai, Florence
1990 La pietra svelata. II Biennale 1988-90 Arte, architettura, design Church of Saint Dominic, Aquila
1990 Artibus ‘90 Museo Waldhof Bielefeld (Germany)
1990 Interni d’artista Convent of the Servants of Mary, Monteciccardo, Pesaro
1990 Le Muse inquietanti Museo Civico, Rende
1989-1990 Premio Avezzano 89-90 City Hall, Avezzano
1989 Idiomi della scultura contemporanea 2, Sommacampagna
1989 Lavori in corso Gallery Il Campo, Rome
1989 Visioni di Hymnen Sala Presse, Lingotto, Turin
1989 Arte a Rome 1980-89 – Nuove situazioni ed emergenza Gallery Rondanini, Rome
1988 Rome Arte Oggi Break Club, Rome
1988 Giovani Artisti a Rome ex Borsa in Campo Boario, Rome
1987 Rizoma: radici nel contemporaneo Villa Comunale, Naples
1987 Tre materie Centro di Sarro, Rome
1987 Giovane Pittura e Scultura Gallery Giulia, Rome
1987 Under 35 Fiera di Bologna
1986 Forme nel verde Gallery Il Carpine, Rome
1985 Esprit de Geometrie Gallery Il Carpine, Rome
– Awards received
2015 Competition “The paths of art: Art and Nature” La Maddelena Archipelago National Park Authority”
2005 Competition of the Sovraintendenza Capitolina for the realization of the monument of Alcide De Gasperi
1996 Grant from the Pollock Krasner Foundation Inc. N.Y.C.
1994 Industrial Social Building Contest, Lazio, Nuova Casa Circondariale di Viterbo (State Penitentiary), for the realization of a monumental sculpture, (45 x 28 x 6 meters)
1994 Premio Internazionale di scultura Gioia Lazzerini – II° premio Pietrasanta
1993 XXXIII Premio Suzzara – Special mention
1991 Ken, Fujimi Kogen, invited to create a permanent work Japan
1991 Borsa di studio Japan Foundation Japan
1984 “Premio Bernini”- II° premio Province Rome
1982 National Competition of the Accademia di Belle Arti City of Frosinone, First Purchase Prize
1981 Competition Accademie d’Italia, First Purchase Prize