Andrea Galvani (b. 1973, Italy) lives and works in New York and Mexico City. Adopting a cross-disciplinary approach that often draws upon scientific methodology, Galvani’s conceptual research informs his use of photography, video, drawing, sculpture, sound, architectural installation, and performance. Investigating relationships between fragility and monumentality, temporality and continuity, visibility and invisibility, Galvani’s practice often draws upon the multiplicity of language, institutional collaboration, and collective action. His vast and immersive body of work extends our perspective from individual to collective, personal to planetary and beyond—contextualizing human experience within geological time, cosmic change, and social transformation.
Galvani has exhibited internationally, including at the Whitney Museum, New York; the 23rd Triennale di Milano; the 4th Moscow Biennial for Contemporary Art; the Mediations Biennial, Poznań, Poland; 9th Biennial of Contemporary Art of Nicaragua; Art in General, New York; Aperture Foundation, New York; The Calder Foundation, New York; Liljevalchs Konstall / the Nobel Prize Museum, Stockholm; Pavilion - Center for Contemporary Art and Culture, Bucharest; Mart Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Trento; Macro Museum, Rome; GAMeC, Bergamo; De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam; Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen; Sculpture Center, New York; among others. His work is part of major public and private collections in Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Africa, including: the Permanent Collection at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta; the Dallas Museum of Art, Texas; Deutsche Bank Collection, London; Fundación la Caixa, Madrid; Schloss Kummerow Museum of Contemporary Photography, Kummerow, Germany; Colección SOLO, Madrid; Artist Pension Trust, New York; Banca Generali, Milan; the Contemporary Art Society, Aspen Collection, New York; the UniCredit Art Collection, Milan; the Permanent Collection of the United States Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC; the Mart Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto; the 500 Capp Street Foundation, San Francisco; and MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts, Rome. He was a visiting artist at New York University, and has completed several artist residencies in New York, including Location One International Artist Residency Program, the LMCC Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and the MIA Artist Space Program/Columbia University School of the Arts. In 2011, he received the New York Exposure Prize and was nominated for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize. In 2016, the Mart Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto presented Galvani's first mid-career retrospective in Europe. In 2017, his work was selected to represent the Deutsche Bank Collection at Frieze New York. Andrea Galvani (Mousse Publishing), a comprehensive monograph of over 10 years of work and research, was published September 2018 and is distributed worldwide. In 2019, he was awarded the prestigious Audemars Piguet Prize. In 2020, the artist presented a monumental solo show and 4-month long durational performance at the Mattatoio Roma / MACRO Testaccio. In 2022, the artist was invited to present a site-specific installation commission at the 23rd Triennale di Milano International Exhibition Unknown Unknowns: An Introduction to Mystery, curated by Ersilia Vaudo Scarpetta.