SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018 Death&Birth, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY
2017 Love, Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy (catalogue)
2016 Territories, Frieze Art Fair, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY
A Matter of Life, RLWindow, Ryan Lee Gallery, New York, NY
2014-15 Drawing, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY
Waterfall, installation for the façade of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA
Everyone, Studio Eos, Rome, Italy
2012 Coming and Going, Peter Blum Chelsea, New York, NY
2010 Luisa Rabbia, Fundación PROA, Buenos Aires, Argentina, curated by Beatrice Merz (catalogue)
You Were Here. You Were There, Galerie Charlotte Moser, Genève, Switzerland
2009 Luisa Rabbia: Travels with Isabella. Travel Scrapbooks 1883/2008, Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venezia, Italy
In viaggio sotto lo stesso cielo, Fondazione Merz, Torino, Italy, curated by Beatrice Merz
2008 Travels with Isabella. Travel Scrapbooks 1883/2008, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA,
curated by Pieranna Cavalchini (catalogue)
2007 Yesterdaytodaytomorrow, Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston, MA
Together, Galleria Rossana Ciocca, Milano, Italy
Luisa Rabbia, Massimo Audiello Gallery, New York, NY
2006 Luisa Rabbia, Marta Cervera Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2005 ISLANDS, GAMeC Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea Raffaele de Grada, San Gimignano, Italy,
curated by Achille Bonito Oliva (catalogue)
Special Project Arte all'Arte X, Associazione Continua, San Gimignano, Italy
Anywhere Out of the World, Galleria Giorgio Persano, Torino, Italy (catalogue)
2004 The last Resort: Luisa Rabbia - David Krippendorff, Massimo Audiello Gallery, New York, NY
2003 La Sala degli Specchi, Fondazione Palazzo Bricherasio, Torino, Italy
A Matter of Life, Galleria Rossana Ciocca, Milano, Italy
2002 Luisa Rabbia, Massimo Audiello Gallery, New York, NY
1999 Luisa Rabbia, Galleria Rossana Ciocca, Milano, Italy
A Pillow to talk to Yourself, Torino Galleria Rossana Ciocca, Artissima Art Fair, Torino, Italy, curated by
Francesco Bernardelli in collaboration with Castello di Rivoli and GAM (catalogue)
1998 Luisa Rabbia, Perugi Arte Contemporanea, Padova, Italy
1997 Nuovi rumori di fondo, Galleria Rossana Ciocca, Milano, Italy
1995 Proposte X: Ansie Luisa Rabbia - Daniele Galliano, Galleria San Filippo, Torino, Italy,
curated by Riccardo Passoni (catalogue)
Luisa Rabbia, Studio d'Arte Recalcati, Torino, Italy, curated by Marco Noire
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020 L’opera aperta (The Open Work), curated by Eva Brioschi, Arte Fiera, Bologna, Italy
2019 Collective Memory: A Contemporary Film Series, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA
2018 1Ensemble, Cathouse Proper, Brooklyn, NY
Artist Books by CANOPO EDITIONS, Jason McCoy Gallery, New York, NY
Manifesta 12, Palazzo Drago, Palermo, Italy
L’altro sguardo. Fotografie Italiane 1965-2018., Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Roma, Italy
2017 In Conversation, IUCA+D Gallery, Columbus, Indiana, curated by Stephanie Buhmann
2016 L'umano paesaggio da Guido Reni a Kiki Smith, Biennale del Disegno, Museo della Citta’, Rimini, Italy
A Weed is a Plant Out of Place, Lismore Castle, Co. Waterford, Ireland, curated by Allegra Pesenti (catalogue)
Lifting the Veil, Rosenfeld Porcini Gallery, London
In Conversation, Macy Art Gallery, Columbia University, NY, curated by Stephanie Buhmann
A Matter of Life, RL Window, Ryan Lee Gallery, New York, NY
2015 E’TUTTO VERO, Fondazione Merz, Torino, Italy, curated by Francesco Bonami
In Conversation, Shirley Fiterman Art Center, New York, curated by Stephanie Buhmann
SELF: Portraits of Artists in Their Absence, National Academy Museum & School, New York,
curated by Filippo Fossati
2014 Traces, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY
Résonance(s), Maison Particulière, Brussels, Belgium, curated by Collezione Maramotti
For The Love of Agnes and Barney Cathouse FUNeral, Brooklyn, NY
2013 Visiting Faculty 2013-14, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
2012 Magic Moments: The Screen and the Eye-9 Artists 9 Projections, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA
Paper Band, Jason McCoy Gallery, New York, NY
4 Films, Peter Blum Chelsea, New York, NY
Tecnica Mista: Come è fatta l’arte del Novecento, Museo del Novecento, Milano, Italy
Points of View: Twenty Years of Artists-in-Residence, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA
2011 LANY, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Mario Diacono
Tra Arte e Design. Vivere e Pensare in Carta e Cartone, Museo Diocesano, Milano, Italy
2010 Cosa fa la mia anima mentre sto lavorando? Opere d'arte contemporanea nella collezione Consolandi, MAGA,
Museo Arte Gallarate, curated by Francesca Pasini and Angela Vettese (catalogue)
A vos Papiers, Galerie Charlotte Moser, Genève, Switzerland
Heads or Tails, Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, NY
2009 Wondering where the Ducks went, Galleria Tiziana di Caro, Salerno, Italy
Hopes and Doubts, Fondazione Mario Merz, Torino, Italy, curated by Costantino D'Orazio
2008 Hopes and Doubts, The Dome, Beirut, Lebanon, curated by Costantino D'Orazio
XIII Biennale Internazionale. Nient'altro che scultura. Nothing but Sculpture. Le nuove statue, Centro Arti Plastiche
Internazionali e Contemporaneo, Carrara, curated by Francesco Poli
15 Quadriennale di Roma, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Roma, curated by Chiara Bertola, Lorenzo Canova,
Bruno Corà, Daniela Lancioni and Claudio Spadoni
2007 Apocalittici e integrati, MAXXI Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI secolo, Roma, Italy,
curated by Paolo Colombo (catalogue)
2006 Italy made in Art: Now, Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China, curated by Achille Bonito Oliva
Capolavoro, Palazzo Primavera, Centro per l'arte contemporanea, Terni, curated by Angelo Capasso (catalogue)
Fresco Bosco Padula, Certosa di Padula, Padula, curated by Achille Bonito Oliva
2005 Il bianco e altro e comunque arte, Palazzo Cavour, Torino, Italy, curated by Achille Bonito Oliva (catalogue)
The Berkus Collection, Atkinson Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA, curated by Dane Goodman
2004 Arte all'Arte IX: Special Project, Il riposo del tempo, Associaone Continua, San Gimignano, Italy,
curated by Achille Bonito Oliva and James Putnam (catalogue)
2003 Makeover, Massimo Audiello Gallery, New York, NY
2002 Artomi at 9W, Paul Rodgers 9W Gallery, New York, NY
Ballpoint, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
Keep your Distance, GSIS Museum ng Sining, Pasay City, Malaysia
Next-Art 20 musei scelgono l'arte di domani, Fortino Sant' Antonio, Bari, Italy,
curated by Ludovico Pratesi Sala Murat (catalogue)
Assab One, Ex Gea, Milano, Italy, curated by Laura Garbarino and Roberto Pinto
Amor Vacui, curated by Milovan Farronato and Laura Garbarino; Open Space, Milano, Italy catalogue)
2001 La GAM costruisce il suo futuro, GAM Galleria di Arte Moderna, Torino, Italy (catalogue)
The Viewing Room Gallery, New York, NY
Keep your Distance, Le Crédac, Centre d'Art, Ivry-Sur-Seine, France; Moris Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Random Access Memory, DUMBO Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Silvia Rocciolo
2000 Where are all the People?, De Chiara/Stewart Gallery, New York, NY
Sui Generis, curated by Alessandro Riva, PAC, Padiglione d' Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
Fabulaefabularum, Trans Hudson Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Ombretta Agrò
NA.TO, Gale Gates Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Ombretta Agrò
1999 Biennale dei Giovani Artisti del Mediterraneo, Ex mattatoio, Roma, Italy (catalogue)
Alter ego, Italian exponent in Bangkok, Silpakorn Art Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand,
curated by A. Somporn Rodboon (catalogue)
1998 Gate 4, Galerie Clark, Montreal, Canada
Now Boarding, Galerie Oeil de Poisson, Québec, Canada
Bello Impossibile, Associazione Viafarini, Milano, Italy, curated by Alessandra Galasso
1997 Studi Aperti, Docks Dora, Torino, Italy, curated by Beatrice Merz and Maria Centonze
In fuga, PAC, Padiglione di Arte Contemporanea, Ferrara, Italy, curated by Riccardo Passoni (catalogue)
1996 Modernità Progetto 2000, Young Artists International Competition, Ex Lanificio Bona, Carignano, Italy (catalogue)
Fotografia, curated by Marco Noire, Studio d'Arte Recalcati, Torino, Italy
F4: Fantastic Four, Galerie des Arts Visuels, Université Laval, Québec, Canada
Autoritratti al femminile, Museo Ken Dami, Brescia
1994 Accumulazione, Galleria Marco Noire, S. Sebastiano, TO, Italy
Territori dell’immagine, Museo Ken Dami, Brescia, Italy (catalogue)
Chiamata alle arti, Arcate dei Murazzi, Torino, Italy, curated by Riccardo Passoni
Quaranta per quaranta, Galleria Eva Menzio, Torino and Galleria Continua, S.Gimignano, SI, Italy
1992 Soluzione di continuita’, Galleria Filippo Fossati, Torino, Italy
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2019 In the Company of Artists, Exhibition Catalogue, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA, 2019,
pgs. 200-205
2018 Pagliuca, Francesca. “Sally Ross and Luisa Rabbia. Dialogando at a Close Distance”, arteecritica (online), June 2018
Russo, Domenico. “Luisa Rabbia: Le costellazioni”, Juliet, April 2018
Gómez, Edward M.. “Luisa Rabbia’s Tiny Marks and Big Mysteries”, Hyperallergic (online), February 17, 2018
Cohen, David. “Featured item from THE LIST: Luisa Rabbia, opening Friday at Peter Blum”, artcritical (online),
February 6, 2018
Kotz, Genevieve. “NYC Gallery Scene – Highlights Through February 11, 2018”, Hamptons Art Hub (online),
February 6, 2018
Panicelli, Ida. “Reggio Emilia, Italy Reviews: Luisa Rabbia”, ARTFORUM, Janaury 2018
Servi, Paolo. “Mostre - Love di Luisa Rabbia a Reggio Emilia”, VilleGiardini (online), January 31, 2018
2017 Couvreur, Daniel. “Faire une place au génie féminin dans l'art”, Le Soir, Belgium, December 18, 2017
Vittoria Zuliani, Anna. “Silence and noise. Luisa Rabbia and Emma Hart in Reggio Emilia”, Artribune (online),
December 14, 2017
Lacava, Erika. “Maramotti Collection: a cutting-edge art collection”, Not Only Magazine (online),
December 12, 2017
Macrì, Teresa. “Face to face with the spectator”, il manifesto, December 12, 2017
Bottani, Silvia. “Luisa Rabbia, Una sinfonia universal”, Arte, Cairo Editore, Milano, December, 2017, pg. 126-130
Biolchini, Irene. “Luisa Rabbia and All the Complexity of Love”, Espoarte Contemporary Art Magazine (online),
November 27, 2017
Bottani, Silvia. “Love. Draw the painting”, doppiozero (online), November 4, 2017
Trincia, Daniela. “Luisa Rabbia – Love at the Maramotti Collection”, art a part of cult (ure) (online),
November 27, 2017
Russo, Domenico. “Return to Italy. Interview with Luisa Rabbia”, Artribune (online), October 23, 2017
2016 “Critics' Picks: A Weed is a Plant Out of Place”, ARTFORUM, September 2016
Buhmann, Stephanie, “New York Studio Conversations, Seventeen Women Talk About Art” The Green Box, Berlin,
March 2016
2014 Buhmann, Stephanie, “A Sense of Kinship: Luisa Rabbia,” Sculpture Magazine, June 2015
“Luisa Rabbia, ‘Drawing’,” Time Out New York, December 29
Marin, Alison, “Luisa Rabbia investigates human psyche at Midtown gallery show,” examiner.com, December 17
2013 “Luisa Rabbia with Stephanie Buhmann,” February 1
Ireland, Corydon, “Six artists, teaching and creating,” Harvard Gazette, September 10
2012 "A Dialogue: Katy Hamer with Luisa Rabbia,” eyes-towards-the-dove.com (online), October 1
Martin, Alison, "Luisa Rabbia's exhibition is 'Coming and Going' to Chelsea gallery", New York Examiner (online),
September 10
Johnson, Ken, "4 Films" The New York Times, June 7
Zimmer, Lori, "Passage of Time, Fragility of Memory,"Art Slant, May 13
2011 Vargas, Marta Luisa, "An interview with Luisa Rabbia," Vandal, College Station (TX), n. 2, December, pg. 86-95
Berardi, Francesca, "An Italian artist at Art Basel Miami Beach," America 24 (online), December
2010 Bertola, Chiara, Giorgio Guglielmino and Beatrice Merz, Luisa Rabbia: Traveling Under the Same Sky,
Hopefulmonster, Torino, Italy, June
Pasini, Francesca and Angela Vettese, Contemporary Artworks from the Consolandi Collection: Cosa fa la mia anima
mentre sto lavorando?, Mondadori Electa, Verona, Italy, p. 152
Tolve, Antonello, "Avventure Minime," in Miocinesia nell’arte di oggi, with text by G.
Dorfles, S. Zuliani, MMMAC Museo per i Materiali Minimi d’Arte Contemporanea, Salerno, Italy, p. 105
Bartorelli, Guido, I miei eroi, note su un decennio di arte da MTV a Youtube 1999-2009, Edizioni Cleup, Padovs,
Italy, p. 19, 36, 37, 45, 47, 119
2009 Cavalchini, Pieranna, "In the studio, Luisa Rabbia with Pieranna Cavalchini," Art in America, June - July 2009,
pp. 90-95
Harris, Susan, "Luisa Rabbia," in Instant Book, Italian Artist New York, Charta, Milano, Italy, May, pp. 102-3
2008 Merjian, Ara H., "Pick of the Month: Luisa Rabbia, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum,"ArtForum (on-line),
September
Cavalchini, Pieranna, "Blue Roots," in Luisa Rabbia: Travels with Isabella, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Charta,
Milano, Italy
Guglielmino, Giorgio, "Luisa Rabbia: When a bare tree is the only friend left,"in How to look at contemporary art
(...and like it), Umberto Allemandi & C., Torino, Italy, pp. 248-49
2007 Harris, Susan, "Luisa Rabbia at Massimo Audiello Gallery," Art in America, June
2006 Capasso, Angelo, Capolavoro, Tipolitografia INAIL, Milano, Italy, May, pp. 95-97
2005 Bonito Oliva, Achille, "Occupazione di suolo, lo sguardo allagato e talvolta negato," in Luisa Rabbia, Galleria
Persano, Hopefulmonster, Torino, Italy, November
Drake, Cathryn, "Luisa Rabbia," ArtForum, October
Oliva, Achille Bonito, Il bianco e altro e comunque arte, Palazzo Cavour, Torino, Italy, Umberto Allemandi & C.,
October
Bonito Oliva, Achille, "Forme del tempo inferiore," in Luisa Rabbia. Islands, GAMe Raffaele de Grada, San
Gimignano, Titivillus Edizioni, San Miniato, Italy, September
2004 Oliva, Achille Bonito, "I diari dei curatori," in Arte all’Arte X, Associazione Arte Continua, San Gimignano, Edizioni
Gli Ori, Prato, Italy, September, pp. 26-27, 38, 178, 187
2002 Schwabsky, Barry, Drafts of water, Edizioni Canopo, Prato, Italy, October
Pratesi, Ludovico, Pietro Marino and Livia Semerari, NEXT ART, 20 Musei scelgono l’arte di domani, Laterza,
Bari, Italy
Garbarino, Laura and Milovan Farronato, "Luisa Rabbia: Un soffio di vita," in Amor Vacui, Comune di Milano
settore giovani, pp. 13, 14, 19, 32-35
2001 Gambari, Olga, "Una porta per Torino," in Torino incontra l’arte 2001, Torino, Italy, pp. 18-21
2000 Bartorelli, Guido and L. Fabbri, Art beat, Edizioni Castelvecchi Arte, Roma, Italy, p. 79
1999 Pasini, Francesca,"Tra la mente e il cuore, il cordone ombelicale," in Luisa Rabbia, Galleria Ciocca, Tipografia
Donizzetti, Milano, Italy
Rodboon, Somporn, "Notes on Alter Ego," in Alter Ego, Amaring printing and publishing, Bangkok, Thailand,
pp. 8, 33
Luisa Rabbia, Turin à Nice, GS Communication SAM, Direction de la culture de Nice, May, pp. 32-33
Visioni del futuro, Biennale dei Giovani Artisti del Mediterraneo, Castelvecchi Arte, Roma, Italy, p. 223
1998 Gallo, Francesco, "Luisa Rabbia," in Vola!, September, pp. 71-81
Montenero, Riccarda, Intorno a Thanatos, Edizioni d'Arti Fratelli Pozzo, Torino, Italy
Various Authors., Inattualità dell’arte, Officine Grafiche Visentin, Milano, Italy, April
Saccà, Lucilla, Primo incontro Dominico-Italiano d’Arte Contemporanea, Edizioni Stampa 3, Roma, Italy
1997 Passoni, Riccardo, In fuga, Cartografica Ferrara
1996 Conti, Tiziana, Modernità Progetto 2000, Electa, Milano, Italy
Fagioli, Laura and Rosetta Marzola, Arti visive concorso nazionale Giovani Artisti, Microart’s Edizioni, July
1995 Passoni, Riccardo, "Luisa Rabbia,"; in Proposte X: Ansie, Regione Piemonte, Torino, Italy
Cerritelli, Claudio, and Luisa Somaini, Giovane Arte Contemporanea. Terza Biennale, Fondazione Sartirana Art,
Edizioni Galli Thierry, Milano, Italy, March
1994 Beatrice, Luca., Cristiana Perrella and Guido Costa, Nuova scena - Artisti italiani degli anni novanta, Mondadori,
Milano, Italy
Merz, Beatrice and Francesco Poli, Torino anni ottanta, Unione Culturale Franco Antonicelli, Torino, Italy
Cavellini, Piero,"Luisa Rabbia," in Territori dell’immagine: il corpo, Edizioni Museo Ken Dami, Brescia, Italy,
September, pp. 15-17
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
2008 Permanent Installation: The Roots, Passage du secrets, La Maine, Cologny, Genève, Switzerland
2006 Permanent Installation: Augusto Subway Station, Metrò dell'Arte, Napoli, Italy
2005 Permanent Installation: Il riposo del Tempo, Medieval Fountains, San Gimignano, Italy
Collection GAMeC, Raffaele de Grada, San Gimignano, Italy
2002 Museo del Novecento, Milano, Italy
1998 GAM Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Torino, Italy
GRANTS / AWARDS / RESIDENCIES
2007 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Artist in Residence, Boston, MA
2002 Artist Residency at Artomi, New York, NY
2000-2001 Artist Residency at International Studio Program (ISCP), New York, NY
1999 Italian representant at THAI-EU Contemporary Art Project: Alter ego, Silpakorn Art Gallery, Bangkok , Thailand
1996 Modernità Progetto 2000 Grant, Young Artist International Competition, Palazzo Bricherasio, Torino, Italy
VISITING ARTIST AND LECTURES
2014 Artist Talk, VES, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
2013-2014 Visiting Lecturer on Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
2012 Magic Moments: The Screen and the Eye-9 Artists 9 Projections, in conversation with Pieranna Cavalchini, Isabella
Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA
2009 The Legacy of Arte Povera: Luisa Rabbia and Tacita Dean, Presentation and Film Screening, Tuft University,
Medford, MA
2008 Travels with Isabella, in conversation with Pieranna Cavalchini, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA
A Two-Part Process, in conversation with Fa Ventilato, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boson, MA