Gaia
Di Lorenzo
Gaia Di Lorenzo is an artist and educator based in Rome.
Her research revolves around collective behaviors and their role in self-identification processes.
Conceived as articulated and potentially misleading representations, her works demonstrate the impossibility of a synthesis and understanding of existing events and structures. Each work should be read as the product of a sedimentation of ideas, stories, references that do not summarize existence but rather recount its contradictions. In this respect, the variety of techniques employed such as casting, engraving and drawing, formally builds and conceptually expresses different levels of meaning.
Her works are part of numerous private and public collections such as Museum GAMeC in Bergamo. The installation Temmatemeneté produced for Boccata d'Arte was acquired by the Puglia Region and will remain permanently in the village.
In 2018 Gaia founded CASTRO, an experimental learning program based in Rome. Its programming is articulated on 3 independent tracks: the public program hosts a range of cultural events for and with everyone, the studio program provides development opportunities and workspace to fellowship-awarded artists and researchers and the academia program runs learning activities for students.
Gaia is a founding member and sits on the steering committee of ART WORKERS ITALIA, a contemporary art workers advocacy group in Italy. AWI collaborates with experts in the legal, fiscal, and administrative sectors, with research institutes and universities, with art and cultural institutions, to build ethical, contractual, and legal tools to protect art workers.
Both activities, that for CASTRO and AWI, reflect her interest in collective dynamics and the role of the artist in contemporary society.
Education
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2013-16 — BFA Goldsmiths University, London
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2012 — Foundation Slade, UCL London
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2010-13 — Literature and Philosophy Tor Vergata University, Rome
Workshops | Residencies
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2025 —Residency, Forma, London
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2021—Residency, Forma, London
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2019 — La Quadriennale | Workshop #Pittura
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2016 — Monster Chetwynd Masterclass, London
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2014 — John Stezaker Masterclass, London
Awards
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2025 — Winner, Club GAMeC , Bergamo
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2023 — Awardee Italian Council Research Grant, Ministry of Culture, Italy
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2017 — Finalist Menabrea Art Prize
Projects
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2020 - today — AWI, Italy
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2020 - 2023 — ROARK
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2018 - today — CASTRO, Rome
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2014 - 2015 — SHIFT, London
Selected exhibitions
Solo
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2025 — My Tongue in my Friend's Mouth with Francesca Pionati, Forma, London
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2024 — Offendicula, Kora, Castrignano dei Greci
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2022 — Persona, ADA Gallery, Rome
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2021— Una Boccata d'Arte curated by Bruno Barsanti, Elpis F. and Galleria Continua, Puglia
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2018 — Sitting Amongst, with Pietro Librizzi at Jupiter Woods, London
Group
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2026 — To be is to be in relation, Fondazione Giuliani, Rome, curated be Adrienne Drake, Ilaria Gianni and Pier Paolo Pancotto
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2022 — PANORAMA, ITALICS, Monopoli, curated by Vincenzo De Bellis
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2021 — MATERIA NOVA, curated by Massimo Mininni, Gallery of Modern Art, Rome
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2016 — Goldsmiths Degree Show, London
Gaia Di Lorenzo serves as Representative of the Minister of Culture on the Board of Directors of the Fondazione Michetti.
She has been invited by the Norwegian Embassy to represent Italy at Coast Contemporary, and by the British Council as a member of the committee for the UK–Italy 2020 Cultural Season.
Gaia has been on the nominating committee for the MAXXI Bulgari Prize 2022.
