Vittoria Chierici is a painter originally from Bologna, she lives and works in Eastport, Maine. In the 1980s, she participated in important groups of young artists, whose works culminated in the exhibition Examples of New Italian Art at the Riverside Studios in London in 1989. In the same year, Vittoria Chierici was nominated to represent Italy at the international exhibition in Tokyo, 7 Artists. In the late 1990s, Chierici began work on a new mixed media project on the historical theme of the Battle of Anghiari, based on a lost mural by Leonardo Da Vinci. A large painting of the same subject, Anghiari Verde, is also permanently exhibited at the Humanities Initiative, New York University. Since 2004, Chierici has begun a series of collaborations with American artists working in different art forms: choreographer Liz Gerring, composer Eve Beglarian. In 2010, Chierici participated in the project No Soul for Sale, organized by the art gallery Lucie Fontaine at the Tate Modern Gallery in London. In 2011, Chierici commissioned violinist and composer Ana Milosavljevic to write the music for her latest video project, Luci in the Sky, directed by director Yuko Takebe. Vittoria Chierici’s paintings and video installations have been exhibited in galleries and museums in Italy and abroad.
In 2012, Chierici was invited to participate in the group exhibition Estate, organized by Lucie Fontaine at the Marianne Boesky gallery in New York.
In 2012, Vittoria Chierici created the project Sailing away to Paint the Sea, based on a journey on a cargo ship from Holland to Cleveland, Ohio. In 2021, she presented the project The Philosophers’ Clothes at the Rossi&Rossi gallery in Hong Kong, with which she collaborates and with which she exhibited at Art Basel Hong Kong and at TEFAF in Maastrichtm and at Arte Fiera 2025 in Bologna.
She has returned to Skagaströnd after ten years to improve upon ideas and techniques in painting the Arctic light.
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