Elisa Bertaglia (b. Rovigo, Italy, in 1983) is a painter and visual artist. She works and lives between Rovigo, Milan and New York.

EDUCATION

2009        Second Level Degree (MFA) in Painting, Academy of Fine Arts, Venice, Italy

2006        First Level Degree (BFA) in Painting, Academy of Fine Arts, Venice, Italy

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SELECTED SOLO SHOWS

2023

A Dance, SARAHCROWN New York, curated by Sarah Corona

Les Simulacres, Martina Corbetta Gallery, Giussano, Italy; curated by Rossella Farinotti

2022

Fastentuch, San Peter am Perlach, Augsburg, Germany; curated by Martin Ziegelmayr

2021

Hic sunt Dracones, The Yard, New York City, NY, USA; curated by Sarah Corona

2020

Hic sunt leones, Palazzo Madama, Turin, Italy; curated by ArtSite Fest, Domenico Maria Papa

2019       

Cendriers, Galerie MZ, Augsburg, Germany; curated by Martin Ziegelmayr, with a text by Carmen Roll

Concerto. Singing over the Bones, Martina’s Gallery, Giussano, Italy; curated by Rossella Farinotti

2016       

Out of the Blue, Officine dell’Immagine Gallery, Milan, Italy; curated by Matteo Galbiati

Brutal Imagination, Weber & Weber Gallery, Turin, Italy; curated by Stefano Suozzi

2015       

Bindwood, Banca Sistema, Milan, Italy; curated by Chiara Serri

2014       

Elisa Bertaglia, Galerie MZ, Augsburg, Germany; curated by Martin Ziegelmayr with a text by Carmen Roll

2011       

Alma Venus et Venatrix Diana, CSArt Gallery, Reggio Emilia, Italy; curated by Chiara Serri

2008       

Cosmicomiche, Caffè Livre, Modena, Italy; curated by Stefano Suozzi

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SELECTED GROUP SHOWS

2021

L'altra individualità, State of Venue, Milan, Italy; curated by Domenico Russo, Andrea Tinterri, Luca Zuccala

2020

Camino Contro Corrente Festival, Camino al Tagliamento, Italy; curated by Valentina Merzi, Riccardo Vaglini, Francesco Zorzini

Penelope’s GazeArtSIte Fest, Palazzina di Caccia di Stupinigi, Turin, Italy; curated by Domenico Maria Papa

2019

CAF - Nebula, CAF Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan; curated by Shinichi Nagasawa

Selvatico #14, Luigi Varoli Civic Museum, Cotignola, Italy; crated by Massimiliano Fabbri

On Paper, MACC, Museum of Contemporary Art, Calasecca, Italy; curated by Casa Falconieri

Cittadella dell’Arte, wall painting, permanent project for the City Archives, Milan, Italy; curated by Rosella Farinotti  

Binomi. Antico VS Contemporaneo, Palazzo Il Faro, Spilamberto, Italy; curated by Sergio Bianchi, Alessandro Mescoli

Assenza Presenza, Palazzo Malmignati, Lendinara, Italy; curated by Giorgia Bergantin

Be the Difference, Torre delle Grazie, Bassano del Grappa, Italy

2018

Oasi, Mac,n, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Monsummano Terme, Italy, curated by Paola Cassinelli

Ceramica Contemporanea. Nuovi Maestri, Castle of Levizzano Rangone, Levizzano, Italy; curated by Andrea Barillaro, Ilaria Dall’Olio, Alessandro Mescoli, Federica Sala

Rimini Drawing Biennial, Ala Nuova City Museum, Rimini, Italy; curated by Annamaria Bernucci

Romana Design District, Logos and Avant Toi spaces, Milan, Italy; curated by Arteam

2017       

Field of Vision – Art Stays Festival, FO.VI. Gallery, Ptuj, Slovenia; curated by Marika Vicari

Arteam Prize, Bonelli Lab Gallery, Canneto sull’Oglio, Italy

Biennale Giovani Monza, Villa Reale, Monza, Italy

Works on paper, Officine dell’Immagine Gallery, Milan, Italy

Sguardi, Weber & Weber Gallery, Turin, Italy

2016       

Arteam Prize, Palazzo del Monferrato, Alessandria, Italy

Join the Underground, Undercurrent Projects Gallery, New York, USA

Carte Sparse, Weber & Weber Gallery, Turin, Italy

Erranza. Del radicante e altri segni, Atipografia Gallery, Arzignano, Italy; curated by Petra Cason

2015       

Come sopra, così sotto, Loppis OpenLab Gallery, Parma, Italy; curated by Chiara Serri

Accenni | Allusions, Relais Rione Ponte, Rome, Italy; curated by Studio Pivot, in collaboration with Flavia Lo Chiatto

Arteam Prize, Officina delle Zattere, Venice, Italy

Our Generations, XVIII Penne Biennial, Penne, Italy; curated by Martina Lolli and Antonio Zimarino

Iconologia Onirica, La Linea Gallery, Montalcino, Italy; curated by Isabella Vitale

Bocconi amari, MAM Museum, Gazoldo, Italy; curated by Francesca Baboni, Gianfranco Ferlisi and Stefano Taddei

Summer Gallery Day, ESKFF at MANA Contemporary, Jersey City, USA

Nest, Martina’s Gallery, Seregno, Italy; curated by Chiara Serri and Arianna Beretta

Imago, Loft Gallery, Corigliano Calabro, Italy; curated by Niccolò Bonechi

A.R.T., Sant’Andrea della Zirada Church, Venice, Italy; curated by Andrea Del Guercio, in collaboration with Banca Sistema and Chriestie’s

We love Sleep, Duomo Subway Exhibition Space, Milan, Italy; curated by Simona Bartolena and Cesare Casiraghi

Autonomie del disegno, Quam Gallery, Scicli, Italy; curated by Emanuela Alfano

2014       

La linea concreta, Loft Gallery, Corigliano Calabro, Italy; curated by Angela Trimboli.

Plateau Project, Progetto Borca and Dolomiti Contemporanee, former ENI Village, Borca di Cadore, Italy; curated by Gianluca D’Incà Levis

Let’s make like a tree, Studio Cloud 4, Bologna, Italy; curated by Stefano W. Pasquini

Three, Villa Tiepolo, Albarella, Italy; curated by Stefano Suozzi

Mantegna Cercasi, Casa del Mantegna, Mantua, Italy; curated by Francesca Baboni and Stefano Taddei

The Detachment, Palazzo Principi, Correggio, Italy; curated by Francesca Baboni and Stefano Taddei

Linguaggi Figurati, Officina delle Arti, Reggio Emilia, Italy; curated by Rossella Lombardozzi

Fondazione Museo del Parque, Iglesia de los Angeles, El Milagro, Argentina; curated by Daniele Crippa

2013       

Iside Contemporanea, Arcos Museum, Benevento, Italy; curated by Ferdinando Creta

Atti Vandalici, Camino Contro Corrente Festival, Camino al Tagliamento, Italy; curated by Francesco Zorzini and Riccardo Vaglini

Luci Sorgenti 6, Palazzo Santi, Cascia, Italy; curated by Miriam Montani

Sharing Islands, Palazzo della Gran Guardia, Rovigo, Italy; curated by Sara Breviglieri

Oceans: under skin of the sea, HB55, Berlin, Germany

Sedimentazioni, Villa Angeli, Adria, Italy

Ruote d’artista, Palazzo Ducale, Lucca, Italy; curated by Mauro Lovi

Rivers of A.I.R., Pescheria Nuova, Rovigo, Italy; curated by Tobia Donà and Beatrice Buscaroli

Let’s Make Like a Tree. And Leaves, Dolomiti Contemporanee, Nuovo Spazio Museum, Casso, Italy; curated by Gianluca D’Incà Levis

Combat Prize, Fattori Museum, Livorno, Italy

Art Night - Atelier F., Academy of Fine Arts, Venice, Italy; curated by Carlo Di Raco

RezArte Estate, RezArte Gallery, Reggio Emilia, Italy; curated by Lia Bedogni

Più in alto e più lontano, Villa Rubini Folador, Merlana, Italy; curated by Michela Lupieri and R.A.V.E.

Luci sorgenti 5, Palazzo Santi, Cascia, Italy; curated by Miriam Montani

Orientalmente, Mossini Gallery, Mantova, Italy

Con la bestia nel cuore, Francesca Sensi Gallery, Colle Val D’Elsa, Italy; curated by Marcella Fragapane

Eclettica, RezArte Gallery, Reggio Emilia, Italy; curated by Edoardo Di Mauro

2012

E l’uomo non è una felce, Dolomiti Contemporanee / Next, Taibon Agordino, Italy; curated by Gianluca D’Incà Levis

Ricomincio da te, Teatro Nuovo Giovanni da Udine, Udine, Italy; curated by Paolo Toffolutti

2011

State of the Arts, 54° Venice Biennial. Academies Pavillion, Tese di San Cristoforo - Arsenale, Venice; Italy

DC pulse/two, Dolomiti Contemporanee, Sass Muss, Sospirolo, Italy; curated by Gianluca D’Incà Levis

Art Stays Festival, FO.VI. Gallery, Ptuj, Slovenia; curated by Marika Vicari

Vertigo, Pescheria Nuova, Rovigo, Italy; curated by Chiara Serri

Art Night, Academy of Fine Arts, Venice, Italy; curated by Carlo Di Raco

Sulla mia pelle, Le Terre del Brenta Museum, Mira, Italy

Corpo Ex/Posto, National Academy of Fine Arts, Sofia, Bulgaria; curated by A. Balletti and V. Kolev

Contemporaneamente, Costantino Piazza Gallery, Albinea, Italy

2010       

Concert for Bruno Maderna, in collaboration with Riccardo Vaglini, Music University, Venice, Italy

Corpo Ex/Posto, Magazzino del Sale 3, Venice, Italy; curated by A. Balletti and V. Kolev

In/Carne, Cominelli Foundation, Cisano di San Felice del Benaco, Italy; curated by Edoardo Di Mauro

Corpo Ex/Posto, Cominelli Foundation, Cisano di San Felice del Benaco, Italy; curated by A. Balletti and V. Kolev

Atelier F, Forte Marghera, Venice, Italy; curated by Carlo Di Raco

Workshop, Magazzino del Sale N°3, Venice, Italy; curated by I. D’Agostino, C. Di Raco and D. M. Papa

Arte Scienza e Scuola, Guggenheim Museum, Venice, Italy; curated by Aldo Grazzi

Il posto delle fragole, Palazzo Frisacco, Tolmezzo, Italy; curated by Cora Chiavedale and Paolo Zamolo

Di-Segni, Traghetto Gallery, Rome, Italy

93ma Collettiva Bevilacqua La Masa, Galleries of San Marco, Venice, Italy

2009       

Atelier F - Nuove Figure 3, Venice, Italy; curated by Carlo Di Raco

F. Magazzino N°35 di Forte Marghera, Venice, Italy

Graphic Biennial, Monsummano Terme, Pistoia, Italy

Nuovi orizzonti in laguna, Borges Cultural Center, Buenos Aires, Argentina; curated by I. D’Agostino

2008

Atelier F, Academy of Fine Arts, Venice, Italy; curated by Carlo Di Raco

2007       

Atelier F, Academy of Fine Arts, Venice, Italy; curated by Carlo Di Raco

A ruota libera, Forte Marghera, Venice, Italy; curated by Riccardo Caldura and Carlo Di Raco

2006       

Atelier F, Academy of Fine Arts, Venice, curated by Carlo Di Raco

Pitture, Public Library, Crespino, Italy

Festival d’Istria, Buje, Croatia

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AWARDS

2021

Arte Laguna Prize, Venice, Italy

Exibart Prize

2017       

Arteam Prize, Canneto sull’Oglio, Italy

2016       

Arteam Prize – Officine Saffi Artist Residency Award, Milan, Italy

2015       

Arteam Prize – Officine dell’Immagine Award, Milan, Italy

Casa Falconieri SetUp Prize, Cagliari, Italy

2014       

Pattern Award, Charleston, USA

2013       

Orientalmente, MantegnaCercasi, Mantua, Italy

Combat Prize, Livorno, Italy

2009

93° Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice, Italy

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COLLECTIONS

The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY

Eileen S. Kamisky Family Foundation, Jersey City, USA

Museum of Contemporary Art, Penne, Italy

Banca Sistema, Padua, Italy

Museo del Parque Foundation, Iglesia de los Angeles, El Milagro, Argentina

Cominelli Foundation, Cisano di San Felice del Benaco, Italy

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ARTIST RESIDENCIES

2023

Residency Unlimited, Brooklyn, New York

2017

Officine Saffi, Officine Saffi Gallery, Milan, Italy

2016

ESKFF Residency Program, MANA Contemporary, Jersey City, USA

Atipografia, curated by Petra Cason and Elena Dal Molin, Arzignano, Italy

2015

Casa Falconieri, Serdiana, Italy

2014       

Progetto Borca Artist Residency - E ultimo venne il Bosco, Former ENI Village, Borca di Cadore, Italy; curated by

Dolomiti Contemporanee and Gianluca D’Incà Levis

2013       

Dolomiti Contemporanee - Let’s make like a tree. And leaves, Nuovo Spazio, Casso, Italy; curated by Dolomiti Contemporanee and Gianluca D’Incà Levis