1957 Born in Torre del Greco (NA), Italy
Lives and works between Naples and Milan, Italy
EDUCATION
Fine Arts Academy of Naples
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 – Riss(e), Armando della Vittoria. Varese, Italy
2019 – Blue Braque. Federico Luger (FL GALLERY), Milan
Annarumma Gallery Looking for the Monochrome, Naples
Performance E Il Toro. Thomas dane Gallery, Naples
2018 – Handel Street Project Land Art from My Balcony, London
2017 – Performance Waiting for Murphy with E IL TOPO, Lucca Art Fair
2016 – Performance Il libro perduto with E IL TOPO, Museo Madre, Naples
Performance A Risse 2016 tentarono di ritornare se stessi, Varese
2015 – Keitelman Gallery, Brussels
– Performance “ La moule fabuleuse with E IL TOPO. Spazio Borgogno, Milan
2014 – Keitelman Gallery, Brussels
– Museo Pecci, Spazio Borgogno, Milan
– Performance Jackson Pollock with Steve Piccolo, Museo pecci, Milan
– Performance Il Mostro & Il Topo with E IL TOPO, Itinerario Festival, Cesena
– Performance, & it will be in & Il Topo performance, after david Liver with E IL TOPO & IAIN BAXTER&. Galerie Nivet-Carzon, Paris
2013 – Musée d’Art Contemporain MAMCO, Geneve
Galleria Annarumma, Naples
Performance Bacio Rosso with E IL TOPO, Via Farini, Milan
2012 – Performance Rebirth with E IL TOPO at White Box, New York
Performance Rebirth 3 with E IL TOPO at Supportico Lopez, Berlin
Performance with E IL TOPO, Printed Matter, New York
2011 – Federco Luger, Milan
2009 – Pepe Cobo & Cia, Madrid
– Keitelman Gallery, Brussels
– Art Unlimited Basel
– Frac Bretagne et Centre Hospitalier de Cornoualle, Quimper (FR)
– Federico Luger Gallery, Milan
2007 – Annarumma 404, Milan
2005 – Musée d’Art Modern and Contemporain (MAMCO), Configurations, Genève
– Musée d’Art Modern and Contemporain (MAMCO), Connexions, série Bonus Genève
– FRAC Languedoc- Rousillon, Montellier, France
– Musée PAB, Alès, France
– Gallery 101, Ottowa, Canada
2004 – Musée d’Art Modern and Contemporain (MAMCO) Genève
2003 – Antonio Colombo Arte Contemporanea, Milan
– Galleria 404, Naples
– FRAC BRETAGNE, Rennes, France
– Le Grand Café, saint Nazaire, France
2002 – College Marcel Duchamp, Châteauroux, France
– FRAC LIMOGES, Limoges
2001 – Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
2000 – Vilma Gold Gallery, London
– C/O non-profit Gallery, Milan
1999 – Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois Gallery, Paris
1998 – Bibliothèque Municipale de Lyon, FRAC Rhône Alpes, Lyon
1996 – Paolo Vitolo gallery, Milan
1996 – PLACENTIA Gallery, Piacenza
1994 – FRAC LANGUEDOC-ROUSSILLON, Galerie ESCA, Nimes
1993 – FAC-SIMILE Gallery, Milan
1992 – Espaj Pascual Lucas, Valencia
1992 – Studio Graziano Vigato, Alessandria
1991 – FAC-SIMILE Gallery, Milan
1989 – FAC-SIMILE Gallery, Milan
1986 – Galerie ESCA, Nimes
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022- 42 Livres artists - Selections du Prix Bob Calle, Jan Michalski Foundation, Montricher, Switzerland
2022- Collection en mouvement - L'odyssée de l'espace, Moutier d'AhunFRAC-Artothèque Nouvelle Aquitai
2018 – 100% Italia, Torino
– The World’s Game: Fútboand Contemporary Art. Pérez Art Museum, Miami
2017 – Il Pittore e la Modella. Assab one, Milano
2016 – Naturalia et Artificialia. Eccentric Art & Research’s first exhibition. Milan
2015 – Les mondes inverses, BPS22, Charleroi
– Per-Formare, Museo Madre, Napoli
– Rewind, Museo del 900, Castel Sant’elmo, Napoli
2013 – P. Bonelli, Mantova
– NOUVELLES IMPRESSIONS DE RAYMOND ROUSSEL, Palais de Tokio, Paris
2012 – Carta Bianca. Museo Villa Croce, Genova
2011 – ZKM, The Global Contemporary. Art Worlds After 1989, Karlsruhe
– Il bel paese dell’arte. Gamec Bergamo
2010 – Seconde Main, Musèe d’Art Moderne de la ville de Paris, Paris
2009 – That’s All Folks, Cultuurcentrum, Brugge
– Là où je suis n’existe pas, Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Toulouse
– Les Uns et les Autres – Le portrait dans tous ses états.Musée d’art et d’histoire de S.Briec
2008 – Le Couloir des Miroirs (Art &Cinéma), FRAC Limousin, Limoges
2007 – P2P-Échanges, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg
2006 – Chauffe Marcel ( L’imitation de Marcel Duchamp ), Montpellier
– Moléculles Particulières, Espase François-Auguste Ducros. Grignan, Frac Rhône Alpes
2005 – L’HUMANITÉ MISE À NU ET L’ART EN FRAC”, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg
– OK, OKAY Swiss Institute, New York
– OK, OKAY Gray Art Gallery, New York
– Quadriennale di Roma, Rome, Italy
2004 – Welcome to Entropia, Centre nationald’Art et du paysagge, Vassivière, curated by Yannick Millloux
– Utopia Station, Incursione Vesuviana, Napoli, curated by di Gigiotto Del Vecchio
2003 – Une collection de Chefs-d’oeuvre, FRAC Limousine
– Isola (art) project”, Mamco, Genève
– La Pittura come concetto, Chiesa di S. Matteo, Lucca, curated by di L. Beatrice
– Napoli Anno Zero, Castel Sant’Elmo, Napoli, curated by di G. Maraniello
2002 – Rumors of war, Jacob Lawrence Foundation, Nex York, curated by F. Sirman
2001 – Biennale di Tirana, Tirana
– Il Dono Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, curated by G. Maraniello, A. Somaini, S. Risaliti
– Ghosty Galleria 1000eventi, curated by Gigiotto Del Vecchio
2000 – Hallucinating Love Foundation , Maze Art gallery, Torin curated by G. Del Vecchio
– Fantapop, Fondazione Bevilacqua La masa, Venezia, curated by V.Baradel
1999 – First Melburne International Biennal, Melburne, curated by Jen Budney and Roberto Pinto
– Un jardin d’ hiver, Bourg-en-Bresse, collection Frac Rhône-Alpes
1998 – ART OMI, International Artist Residency Exhibition; Ghent, NY.cuarted by Franklin Sirmans
– Subway, Milano, curated by Roberto Pinto
– due o tre cose che sò di loro, P.A.C. Milano, curated by Marco Meneguzzo
1997 – Gamblers, Mediarte Caserta, curated by M. Sgroi
– Il Punto, Galleria Continua, S. Gimignano curated by Elio Grazioli
1996 – Photopeintres, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg
– Procius, works in slides, selected by Emily Tsingou, London
– Tradition & Innovation, Italian Art since 1945, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea curated by Francesco Bonami
1995 – APERTO 95 out of order, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, curated by Roberto D’Aolio
– Verso una grande collezione, Flash Art Museum, Trevi curated by H.Kontova
1994 – Procreation, Centre d’Art contemporain FRI-ART, Fribourg (CH)
– Prima Linea, Flash Art Museum, Trevi,curated by Francescao Bonami
1991 – Something is happening in Italy, Lia Rumma Gallery, Naples
1989 – Premio Saatchi & Saatchi, Palazzo delle Stelline, Milano 1° Prize
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Museo MADRE, Napoli
BPS 22, Charlerroi, Belgio
Museo del 900, Castel sant’Elmo, Napoli
MAMCO, Genève (www.mamco.ch/artistes_fichiers/D/dimatteo2.html) (www.mamco.ch/artistes_fichiers/D/dimatteo.html)
FRAC Bretagne ( www.fracbretagne.fr/collection.html )
FRAC Languedoc-Roussillon (http://frac-lr.videomuseum.fr/Navigart/index.php?db=fraclr&qs=1&Itemid=156 )
FRAC Limousin (www.fraclimousin.fr/content/view/27/60/ )
FRAC Rhône-Alpes
ARTOTHÈQUE, Lyon www.bm-lyon.fr/decouvrir/collections/dimatteo.htm
PAC, Milano