“Natura Madre” event/conversation in collaboration with Anthony Lombardi and Giovanni Lauricella, Friday 23 October 2026.

The Vernissage of the Collective, in which I will participate with a painting, will be held on Monday 19 October 2026 at the Minima Gallery, via del Pellegrino 18.

LAURA GROSSO BIOGRAPHY

Laura Grosso is a painter. She lives and works in Rome's Nuovo Salario neighborhood.

Born in Bari in 1955, she moved to Rome in 1966. She began her professional training at the Liceo Artistico on Via Ripetta under the guidance of painter Marina Poggi. She continued her studies in the Painting course led by Alberto Ziveri at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, graduating with honors in 1978.

She devoted herself to the study of the figure in movement, drawing from life during rehearsals for Enzo Cosimi's first dance performances, and began her experience painting en plein air in the Tuscan countryside around Florence.

In 1990, she moved to Chicago, where she began her "Urban Views" series.

From 1998 to 2008, she worked on the "Views of Rome" series, whose paintings, exhibited at the Galleria Andrè on Via Giulia in Rome in numerous solo and group exhibitions, are held in private collections in Italy and abroad.

Since 2008, she has taught a select group of students, with whom she has dedicated herself to the study of still life.

Since 2011, after participating in the Chinese initiative "Italian Painters Paint Hangzhou," she returned to figurative compositions, immediately focusing on the historical theme of Bathers ("Humans").

Since 2014, she has collaborated with the "Plein Air Symposium" in various European locations, curated by Galerie Huber & Treff in Jena, Germany.

Since 2019, Angelo Zaccaria's "BaArt Gallery" has curated exhibitions of her works in Bari, her hometown.

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 Capodimonte Inland Waterways Navigation Museum

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, Il tempo ritrovato Gallery by Daniela Vaccher

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

Collaborations and Projects

2024 Illustrations and cover for the book "My Pinocchio" by Paolo Lunghi, a watercolor and 12 ink drawings.

2024 Participation of 15 paintings in an as-yet unreleased television series by Maria Sole Tognazzi.

2023 Participation in the "Plein Air Symposium" - Toutembourg (Germany) by Galerie Huber & Treff in Jena (Germany).

2022 Creation of the "Giuditta" project for a group of painters.

2018 Participation in the "Plein Air Symposium" - Toulouse (France) by Galerie Huber & Treff in Jena (Germany).

2014 Participation in the "Plein Air Symposium" Beit Jala (Palestine) by Galerie Huber & Treff in Jena (Germany).

2014 Cover of the book "The Ice Cream in the Pool Doesn't Melt" by Leonardo Altomano.

2013 Creation of the "AA VV Painting" project for a group of students. Rome, Casa delle Donne.

2012 Participation in the "Hangzhou in the Eyes of Italian Artists" project. Hangzhou, Museum of Contemporary Art.

Venice, Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation. Florence, Fortezza di Basso.

2010 Creation of the "Painters United for Painting" project for an international group of painters. Berlin, UNO Gallery. Rome, Virus Art Gallery.

2007 Creation of the "Painting Lectio Divina" educational project for a group of students. Laura Grosso's Painting Studio.

1994 Creation of the "Microscopic Thoughts" project. Home of collector and gallery owner Pino Casagrande.

1981 Creation of the "Il buio acceso" project, with artist Carlo Carfagni. Rome, Borghese Pavilion.

1981: Two paintings created for the posters of Enzo Cosimi's shows "Calore" and "Repertori d'amore." Rome, Borghese Pavilion. Rome, Piper Club.