CV
b. Italy, 1988
living and working in Milano
Education
Goldsmiths, University of London, MFA Fine Art. London, UK, 2014-2016
Università degli Studi di Parma, BA in Artistic, Theatre, Cinema and New Media Heritage Studies. Parma, Italy, 2007-2011
Solo and Two-person Exhibitions
And A Thousand Spirits Stray: Simone Monsi & Marta Riniker-Radich, One Gee In Fog, Geneva, 2019
New Blabs on Clouds and Planes, curated by UNA, Spazio Leonardo, Milano, 2018
Hyper-faded Ordinary Life. Lucia Cristiani and Simone Monsi, curated by Carlo Sala, TRA Treviso Ricerca Arte, Treviso, 2018
Spero Che Questo Trasloco Sia L'ultimo, UNA, Piacenza, 2017
Like Mops on the Beach, Green Ray, London, 2016
Selected Group Exhibitions
Image Stream, curated by Sara Benaglia and Mauro Zanchi, BACO, Bergamo, 2021
Parcour, curated by UNA, Spazio Leonardo, Leonardo Assicurazioni - Agenzia Generali Milano Liberazione, Milano, 2020
Metafotografia. Dentro e oltre il medium nell'arte contemporanea, curated by Sara Benaglia and Mauro Zanchi, BACO, Bergamo, 2019
Argo. La fotografia italiana emergente, curated by Carlo Sala, Photo Open Up - Festival Internazionale di Fotografia, Cattedrale Ex Macello, Padova, 2019
Ducato Prize, curated by Michele Cristella, Palazzo del Podestà, Castell'Arquato, 2019
Pendaison de Crémaillère, CampoBase, Torino, 2019
La veranda e il periscopio, Luogo_e, Bergamo, 2018
Colore semprevivo – Premio Città di Treviglio 2018, curated by Sara Fontana, Museo Civico Ernesto e Teresa Della Torre & Spazio Sanpaolo Invest, Treviglio, 2018
Refresh02 – #LAYERS. Contemporary Art in the Digital Era, curated by Fabio Paris, produced by Link Art Center and organised by iMAL, La Raffinerie, Brussels, 2018
You Can Meet Me Anywhere, curated by Thea Lazăr and Lorena Cocioni, Aici Acolo Pop Up Gallery, Cluj-Napoca, 2017
Premio Francesco Fabbri per le Arti Contemporanee, curated by Carlo Sala, Villa Brandolini, Pieve di Soligo, 2017
Deposito d’Arte Italiana Presente, curated by Ilaria Bonacossa and Vittoria Martini, Artissima, Torino, 2017
Utopias are more or less fascistic, curated by Roxane Bovet, Nicolas Krupp, Basel, 2017
Premio Combat Prize, Museo Civico G. Fattori & Fortezza Vecchia, Livorno, 2017
Refresh01 – #LAYERS, curated by Fabio Paris, Spazio Contemporanea, Brescia, 2016
Cyphoria, curated by Domenico Quaranta, 16a Quadriennale d'arte Altri tempi, altri miti, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Roma, 2016
We're Having a Great Time ☺︎, curated by ::MK-DOS::, ROCKELMANN &, Berlin, 2016
MFA Fine Art Degree Show, Goldsmiths, London, 2016
I don't wanna curate anymore, I just wanna accumulate content, not curated by Angels Miralda, Chalton Gallery, London, 2016
Magic Hour, Area 51, London & #6PMEU, Link Art Center, Brescia, 2015
MFA Fine Art Interim Show, Goldsmiths, London, 2015
Projects, Commissions and Curatorial
Simone Monsi X Milano Art Guide | Instagram Takeover, Milano Art Guide, 2020
The Colouring Book, curated by Rossella Farinotti and Gianmaria Biancuzzi, Milano Art Guide, 2020
Piemonte – Land of Perfection, Artissima, Torino, 2018
Regione Piemonte – Istituto del Vermouth di Torino at Bocuse d'Or, Oval Lingotto, Torino, 2018
Piemonte Pavilion – Regione Piemonte in collab. with Artissima, 52nd Vinitaly, Verona, 2018
Cosmos Carl feat. Simone Monsi, cosmoscarl.com, 2016
Binoculars Hands Emoji, Window & Logo commission, Green Ray, London, 2016
Feeling The Walls, Instagram Weekend Project 2.0, The Breeder, Athens, 2015
Cali Gold Rush, Lucie Fontaine, Milan, 2014
GIF Wrapping, netartnet.net, 2013
Selected Awards
Ducato Prize (shortlisted), Castell'Arquato, Italy, 2019
Premio Città di Treviglio 2018 – Concorso Giovani Talenti (shortlisted), Treviglio, Italy, 2018
Regione Piemonte at 52nd Vinitaly in collab. with Artissima (winner), Torino - Verona, Italy, 2018
Premio Francesco Fabbri per le Arti Contemporanee (winner), Pieve di Soligo, Italy, 2017
CARIOCA KIDS Prize (special mention), Artissima, Torino, Italy, 2017
Speaking and Teaching
Guest lecturer with Armenia Studio at MA in Contemporary Art Markets, NABA, Milano, 2020
Metafotografia by M. Zanchi and S. Benaglia, Bookstore Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Roma, 2020
Visiting lecturer at Nuovi Media course, Biennio di Fotografia e Nuovi Media, Cfp Bauer, Milano, 2018
Hot Artists For Hot Times, Lecture at Multimedia Communication course, Department of New Technologies of Art, Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milano, 2018
MEDIASCAPES Roundtable, curated by Caterina Molteni, The Others Art Fair, Torino, 2017
Marcello Maloberti's assistant at BA Painting and Visual Arts, NABA, Milano, 2014
Selected Publications, Media and Press
The Colouring Book. 150 disegni di artisti contemporanei, by R. Farinotti & G. Biancuzzi, 24 ORE Cultura, Milano 2020
VISIONI #8 – Interview with Simone Monsi, by Mauro Zanchi, ATPdiary, 2020
Argo: siamo circondati dalle immagini. Alcune premesse sulla fotografia italiana emergente, by Carlo Sala, in Espoarte #107, Albissola Marina 2019
Metafotografia. Dentro e oltre il medium nell'arte contemporanea, Exhibition catalogue, Skinnerboox, Jesi 2019
Photo Open Up - Festival Internazionale di Fotografia, Exhibition catalogue, Padova 2019
Tramonti inquinati: intervista a Simone Monsi, by Sara Benaglia and Mauro Zanchi, La Balena Bianca, 2019
DucatoPrize 2019, Exhibition catalogue, Munari Design, Piacenza 2019
222 Emerging artists worth investing in / 2019, curated by Cesare Biasini Selvaggi, Exibart edizioni, Roma 2019
I (never) explain #12 – Simone Monsi, curated by Irene Sofia Comi, ATPdiary, 2018
Premio d'arte "Città di Treviglio" e Concorso Giovani Talenti 2018, Exhibition catalogue, Publi Paolini, Mantova 2018
New Blabs on Clouds and Planes, Exhibition catalogue, UNA galleria (Cur), Piacenza-Milano 2018
Simone Monsi: Capitolo finale, interview by Zizhuo Zhang, in VADA01 - Proxy Lovers, Link Editions, Brescia 2018
Quelle sculture di stoffa, by Silvia Bonomini, Cara Val Stirone #25, Parma 2018
132. SIMONE MONSI. Capitolo Finale, by Andrea Lerda, Platform Green.org, 2018
Simone Monsi. Continuare a porsi domande, interview on TalkingArt.it, 2018
Premio Francesco Fabbri per le Arti Contemporanee, Exhibition catalogue, Fondazione Francesco Fabbri Onlus, Pieve di Soligo 2017
Che bello mettersi seduti sopra un "tramonto", by Pietro Corvi, LIBERTÀ, Piacenza 2017
Premio Combat Prize 2017, Exhibition catalogue, Sillabe, Livorno 2017
Simone Monsi, la casualità che diventa ragione di vita, by Fabio Bianchi, LIBERTÀ, Piacenza 2017
Interview with Simone Monsi | Placentia Arte, by Marco Arrigoni, ATPdiary, 2017
Simone Monsi a Piacenza. La radicalità di quel che resta, by Ginevra Bria, Artribune.com, 2017
Dall'Archivio Viafarini. Intervista con Simone Monsi, by /77, Artribune.com, 2017
REFRESH01 - #LAYERS, Fabio Paris (Ed), Link Editions, Brescia 2016
Ultime da Viafarini DOCVA, curated by /77, Artribune #34, Roma 2016
16a Quadriennale d'arte - Altri tempi, altri miti, Exhibition catalogue, NERO, Roma 2016
Back to art school: Grayson Perry and Gillian Wearing meet tomorrow's stars, by H. Ellis-Petersen and N. Groves, The Guardian, London 2016
Fuzziest Innovators That Remembers a Time Before the iPhone, Alternative Art List, 2016
6PM Your Local Time Europe - The Book, Link Art Center (Ed), Link Editions, Brescia 2015
The Standard Model, Edited by N. Aarne, L. Lopez, A. Smythe, Hato Press, London 2015
♞ CALI GOLD RUSH, ATPdiary, 2014