Marco Giordano
Born 1988, Turin, Italy; Lives and works in Glasgow, UK.
Education
| 2012 | Painting, Academy of Fine Arts, Venice |
Solo Exhibitions
| 2023 | ‘Un—Shaped Breath’, Galleria Umberto di Marino, Naples |
| 2022 | ‘Loop Pool’, Pinacoteca Agnelli , Turin |
| ‘Note Rotte Senza Filo’, Spazio De Dominicis, Turin (Curated by Sergey Kantsedal and Yuliya Say) | |
| 2020 | ‘To Disturb Somnolent Birds’, The Modern Institute, Aird's Lane Bricks Space |
| 2019 | ‘Goosebumps’, Villa Vertua Masolo, Milan (curated by Lisa Andreani) |
| ‘My Mouth in your Mind’, Frutta Gallery, Rome | |
| ‘Suono Nudo’, Tarsia, Naples (curated by Giulia Gregnanin) | |
| 2018 | ‘Conjunctive Tissue’, KaOz (Manifesta12 Collateral Event), Palermo (curated by Giulia Colletti) |
| ‘I’m Nobody! How Are You?’ (as part of Glasgow International 2018) | |
| ‘Conjunctive Tissue’, Lily Brooke, London (curated by Giulia Colletti) | |
| ‘Il Crepaccio: Marco Giordano’ (Instagram Show Curated by Caroline Corbetta) | |
| ‘Io sono nessuno! Tu come stai?’, Il Colorificio, Milan (as part of ArtVerona) | |
| 2017 | ‘Conjunctive Tissue’, Civic Room, Glasgow (curated by Giulia Colletti, as part of CIVIC ROOM Open) |
| ‘Pathetic Fallacy’, Il Colorificio, Milan | |
| ‘Self-fulfilling Ego’, Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh | |
| ‘CUTIS’, Glasgow Project Room, Glasgow | |
| 2016 | ‘Asnatureintended’, Frutta Gallery, Rome |
| ‘Marco Giordano/Gabriella Boyd’, House for an Art Lover, Glasgow (as part of Glasgow International 2016) | |
| 2015 | ‘It Felt It Was There’, Pyrenees South of France, Basque Country (Public Sculpture) |
| ‘Openitup’, VoidoidARCHIVE, Glasgow | |
| 2014 | ‘Marco Giordano & Justin Stephans’, GREEN IS GOLD, Copenhagen (curated by David Dale Gallery, as part of Artist Run Festival) |
| ‘To see un-seen’, The Briggait, Glasgow |
Group Exhibitions
| 2023 | ‘Che sarà sarà ’, Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation, Guarene |
| ‘THE NAKED WORD’, Centrale Fies, Dro | |
| 2022 | ‘The Tending of the Otherwise’, Biennale des Jeunes Créateurs de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée for Procida Italian Capital of Culture 2022 |
| ‘The Tending of the Otherwise’, Procida, Italy (curated by Alessandro Castiglioni e Simone Frangi) | |
| 2021 | ‘Wonderful!’, Museo Del Novecento, Firenze, Palazzo Vecchio - Sala d’Arme |
| ‘Ecophilia’, Museo Nazionale della Montagna, Torino | |
| ‘Fake News’, Fondation group EDF, Paris | |
| ‘School of Waters’, Mediterranea 19 Young Artists Biennale, San Marino (curated by A Natural Oasis? A Transnational Research Programme) | |
| 2020 | ‘Waves Between Us’, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Guarene (curated by Alison Karasyk, Camille Regli, Katie Simpson) |
| 2019 | ‘Savage’, Otto Zoo, Milan (curated by Self Pleasure Publishing) |
| ‘Teatrum Botanicum’, PAV- Parco Arte Vivente, Turin | |
| ‘FLASHING AND FLASHING!’, Il Colorificio, Milan | |
| ‘Living in imagination’, Galeria Wozownia, ToruÅ„ (curated by DobrosÅ‚awa Nowak) | |
| ‘Open Out’, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh | |
| 2018 | Frutta Gallery, Rome |
| ‘That's IT!’, MAMbo, Bologna (curated by Lorenzo Balbi) | |
| ‘Torre Maluttona’, Monitor Gallery, Rome | |
| ‘Oroscopio’, GALLLERIAPIÙ, Bologna (curated by Lisa Andreani, Davide Bertocchi, Mirko Canesi) | |
| 2017 | ‘Jacana’s frontal shield or frontal as shields are frontal’, THE WORKBENCH International, Milan (curated by Pietro Di Lecce) |
| ‘HO HO HO’, Frutta Gallery, Rome (a project by Alek O., Gabriele De Santis, Santo Tolone and Spring) | |
| ‘I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream For Ice Cream’, Fondazione Baruchello, Rome (curated by Clelia Colantonio) | |
| ‘THE GAP BETWEEN THE FRIDGE AND THE COOKER’, The Modern Institute, 3 Aird's Lane, Glasgow | |
| ‘Powerful Attraction’, Crownpoint, Glasgow | |
| 2015 | ‘Infinite Project Altered When Open’, David Dale Gallery, Glasgow |
| 2014 | ‘SAVORR XII The Undercroft, November 2014’, The Undercroft, Norwich (SAVORR) |
| ‘CaveRoom’, Bell Street, Glasgow (as part of Glasgow Open House 2014) | |
| 2013 | ‘Testosterone’, UnSmoke Systems Artspace, Pittsburgh |
Commissions
| 2015 | ‘It felt it was there’, Basque Country, France |
Awards
| 2021 | Wonderful Art Prize, Museo del Novecento, Firenze |
| 2018 | Premio i9, Independent Space, ArtVerona |
Residencies
| 2022 | Centrale Fies, Dro |
| 2018 | ‘Interdisciplinary Residency’, Hospitalfield Arts, Arbroath |
| ‘Thank You Very Much’, The Modern Institute, 3 Aird's Lane, Glasgow | |
| ‘Artistic Residences BoCs Art, Cosenza’ (curated by Giacinto Di Pietrantonio) | |
| 2017 | ‘Creative Lab Residency’, CCA, Glasgow |
| David Dale Gallery, Glasgow (with Thank You Very Much) |
Bibliography
Press
| 2023 | ‘Interruptive disfluency according to Marco Giordano’, Breaking Latest News, 31/10/2023 |
| Veronica Costanza Ward: ‘Interruptive disfluency according to Marco Giordano’, Il Sole 24 Ore, 30/10/2023 | |
| 2020 | Gallery sleepover: Bird sculptures to make you drowsy in Marco Giordano‘s new show, The Scotsman, 14/02/2020 |
Exhibition Reviews
| 2023 | Mario Francesco Simeone: ‘Language is a territory’, Exibart, 23/10/2023 |
| 2020 | Zheng, Elaine Y.J : ‘Marco Giordano: To Disturb Somnolent Birds’, this is tomorrow, 08/04/2020 |
| Messerschmidt, Sarah : Marco Giordano‘s Nocturnal Visions at The Modern Institute in Glasgow, Ocula, 13/03/2020 | |
| 2019 | ‘Marco Giordano "My Mouth in your Mind" at Frutta Rome’, Mousse, 15/11/2019 |
Publications
| 2020 | My Mouth in Your Mind, The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow |
| To Disturb Somnolent Birds, The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow | |
| 2019 | Self-fulfilling-ego, Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh |