Lorenzo Oggiano
Photography, Video, New Media, Installations, Assemblages
Bio
Lorenzo Oggiano (1964, Padova - Italy) works in photography, video, new media, installations, assemblages.
He has a Master's Degree in Visual Arts, University of Bologna / D.A.M.S. (Department of Art, Music and Performing
Arts) with a final thesis on the relationship between arts and new technologies: “Contemporary arts and technological
interaction: the bodies of mutation.”
Since the early nineties Lorenzo Oggiano is engaged in an artistic and theoretical research concerning the biological,
sensorial and cognitive mutations induced by technologies and the aesthetic and communicative potentiality of new
media tools.
His work has been shown internationally in solo and group exhibitions at several museums, galleries, art festivals and
public places, including: Bio·Fiction Science Art Film Festival, Naturhistorisches Museum / Bellaria Cinema, Vienna,
Austria [2014] - ‘Zielona Ścieżka / Natura-Sztuka-Technologia’, WRO Art Center, Wroclaw, Poland [2014] - Design
Beyond Making, Protein / 18 Hewett Street, London, U.K. [2013] - Drift: Synthesis, Toronto, Canada [2013] - ImagemContato. Mostra de Imagem em Movimento, Sao Paulo, Brazil [2012] - Caratteri Ereditari e Mutazioni Genetiche,
MAN_Museo d’Arte Provincia di Nuoro, Nuoro, Italy [2012] - Videoformes on Tour, Espace Beaujon, Paris, France,
The Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, U.S.A., Hors D’Oeuvre, Shangai, China [2010] - Eter(n)otopìe, Fotografia
Europea Reggio Emilia, Italy [Solo, 2009] -Tecnobiologìe, Traffic Gallery, Bergamo, Italy [Solo, 2009] - Italian
Experimental Cinema, Cinemazzurro, Ancona, Italy [2009] - Palinsesti, S. V. Tagliamento, Italy [2009] - QuasiObjects B/W, Rebecca Container Gallery, Genova, Italy [Solo, 2008] - Selected Video Works, Museo Nazionale del
Cinema, Torino, Italy [Solo - 2008] - Quasi-Objects, Traffic Gallery, Bergamo, Italy [Solo, 2008] - BIFF, Songzhuang
Art Center, Beijing, China [2008] - De Rerum Digitalis, Fortezza da Basso, Firenze, Italy [2008] - Quasi-Objects 20042007, Digital Media Valencia, La Nau, Valencia, Spain [2008] - Cartes Flux³, Cartes Centre of Art and Technology,
Espoon, Finland [2008] - Videoformes, Prix de la Crèation Vidèo, Clermont-Ferrand, France [2008] - Selected Video
Works, Dissonanze 7, Palazzo dei Congressi, Rome, Italy [Solo, 2007] - Optica, International Videoart Festival, Gijon,
Spain [2007] - Athens Video Art Festival, Technopolis, Athens, Greece [2007] - Videominuto PopTV, New Italian
Wave + One Minute Suite, Centro Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy [2007] - WRO07, International Media Art Biennale, National
Museum / WRO Art Center, Wroclav, Poland [2007] - Festival Némo, Le Cube, Issy-les- Moulineaux, France [2007] Directors Lounge, Berlin, Germany [2007] - CYNETart06, Kunsthaus Dresden, Germany [2006] - ArtTechMedia,
Arco06, Madrid / Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid / CCCB, Barcelona + other venues, Spain
[2006] - Hybridation / Heredite I. Le cinéma expérimental contemporain et les nouvelles technologies selon Johanna
Vaude, Cinémathèque Française, Paris, France [2006] - Interferenze, 'Naturalis Electronica', S. Martino V. Caudina
(AV), Italy [2006] - Living Culture. A look at the relationship between biotechnology and artistic practices, Eyebeam,
New York, U.S.A [2006] - Images Contre nature, Lices, Marseille, France [2006] - Darklight Film Festival, Filmbase,
Dublin, Ireland [2006] - Figures of Motion, Schloss Plüschow, Germany [2006] - Electrofringe New media Arts Festival
, Playhouse Theatre, Newcastle, Australia [2005] - European Media Art Festival, Lagerhalle, Osnabrück, Germany
[2005] - Today in Paradise. Genetics & Art, Röda Sten, Gotheborg, Sweden [2005] - International Videoart, Galerìa
Rosa Santos, València, Spain [2004] - Australian International Festival of Photography, Global Gallery Exhibition
Centre, Sydney, Australia [2004] - Immedia03, School of Art and Design, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI,
U.S.A. [2003].
Lorenzo Oggianoʼs work can be found in public and private collections in Italy and abroad.
He currently lives and works in Sassari (Italy).
English version. Last update: October 2014