LAURA GROSSO BIOGRAPHY
Laura Grosso lives and works in Rome as a painter. Many of her paintings have been collected together in private collections in Italy and abroad.
Born in Bari in 1955, she moved to Rome in 1966. Her professional training began at the art high school in Via Ripetta under the guidance of the painter Marina Poggi.
While still a student, she made her debut as a painter in April 1975 with a solo exhibition in the premises of the Sporting Club Teatro Margherita in Bari, exhibiting tempera on paper and canvas.
She continued her studies in the Painting course led by Alberto Ziveri at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, where she graduated with honors in 1978.
Since 1980, she has perfected her study of the figure by drawing from life during rehearsals for Enzo Cosimi's dance-theater shows.
In 1985, she began her experience of painting en plein air in the Tuscan countryside around Florence, then in Chicago and finally in Rome.
From 1998 to 2008 the series of “Vedute Urbane Romane” was presented in various solo and group exhibitions by the Galleria di Silvie Andrè in Rome.
Since the early 2000s she has returned to the figure, initially using the theme of bathers, the series “Umani”.
Since 2019 the Baart Gallery of Bari has represented her in Italy.
Collaborations
1981 Creation of two paintings for the shows by Enzo Cosimi “Calore” and “Repertori d’amore”
1981 Creation of the project “Il buio acceso”, with Carlo Carfagni. Rome, Padiglione Borghese
1994 Creation of the project “Pensieri Microscopici”. House of the collector and gallery owner Pino Casagrande.
2007 Creation of the project “Pittura lectio divina”. Painting studio of Laura Grosso
2010 Creation of the project “Pittori Uniti per la Pittura”. Berlin, UNO Gallery. Rome, Virus Art Gallery.
2012 Participation in the project "Marco Polo, the Silk Road". Venice, Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation. Hangzhou, municipal museum.
2013 Creation of the project "AA VV Pittura”. Rome, Casa delle Donne
2014 Cover for the book “Il gelato in piscina non si scioglie” by Leonardo Altomano
2014 Participation in the project “Plein Air Symposium" Beit Jala, Palestine
2018 Participation in the project “Plein Air Symposium" Toulouse, France
2022 Creation of the project “Giuditta”
2023 Participation in the project “Plein Air Symposium" Toutembourg, Germany
2024 Illustrations and cover of the book “Il mio Pinocchio” by Paolo Lunghi, 12 ink drawings and a watercolor
Solo exhibitions
2025
“Giuditta. (Subversive) Icon of a Woman” Rome, Cabaret Voltaire Gallery
2024
“That’s a Party” Bari, BaArt Gallery
2022
“Umani” Rome, Mons Art Stage
2019
"Essere Umani" Bari, BaArt Gallery
Bari, Eranos Studio
2018
Rome, Virus Art Gallery
2017
Bolsena, Scuderie Farnesiane of the Museum of Navigation of the Inland Waterways of Capodimonte Bolsena
2016
Rome, Tricoli della Pietra
2015
Rome, Studio G.Di Vita
2013
Rome, Defrag
Rome, Openstudio
Rome, Teatro stabile del Giallo
2012
Rome, S.T.S. Claretta Carotenuto
Rome, Cassia Theater
2011
Spoleto, Albornoz Palace Hotel
2010
Rome, Daniela Vaccher's Il tempo ritrovato Gallery
2009
Rome, VirtuAule Studio English language
Rome, Andrè Gallery
2007
Rome, Andrè Gallery
2005
Chicago, Finestra Art Space
Rome, Andrè Gallery
2001
Rome, Andrè Gallery.
1998
Rome, Andrè Gallery
Rome, S. Rita Hall.
1996
Chicago, Eastwick Art Gallery
1994
Rome, Pino Casagrande
1990
Chicago, Abel Joseph Gallery
1979
Rome, “Caffè Colosseo”
1975
Bari, Sporting Club Teatro Petruzzelli
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