Francesco
Bonami
Born in Florence in 1955, Francesco Bonami has lived and
worked in New York since 1987.
He is the curator of the 75th Whitney Museum of Amerian
Art Biennial (New York , February 25 – May 30 , 2010)
with Gary Carrion – Murayari.
He as been co-curator with Alison Gingeras of the inaugural
exhibition of the center of contemporary art of Punta della
Dogana and of the exhibition of Palazzo Grassi –Venice
in June 2009.
He has previously worked with François Pinault in
2008 as he curated the exhibition Italics: Italian Art
between Tradition and Revolution, 1968-2008, co-organized
by Palazzo Grassi and the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA)
at Chicago, presented first in Venice and then in Chicago
from November 14, 2009 to February 14, 2010.
Francesco Bonami is the Artistic Director of the Fondazione
Sandretto Re Rebaudengo per l’Arte
in Turin, and of the Fondazione Pitti Immagine Discovery
in Florence and he is also in charge of the artistic direction
of ENEL Contemporanea, a series of public commissions in
Italian cities. From 1999 to 2008, Francesco Bonami was
the Manilow Senior Curator of the Museum of Contemporary
Art, Chicago (MCA) and from 2004 to 2008, he was the Artistic
Director of the Centro d’Arte Contemporanea Villa
Manin in Passariano (Udine). In 2003, he was the Director
of the 50th Biennale of Arts, in Venice.
His most recent exhibitions include a worldwide retrospective
of Jeff Koons (2008) and a first anthology of Rudolf Stingel
(2007), both for the MCA, Chicago.
He is the Contemporary Art Editor for the magazine Domus
and the curator of the book series
Supercontemporanea by Electa. His editorials appear
regularly on Il Riformista, Vanity Fair Italia, Panorama
First, La Gazzetta dello Sport, Il Corriere della Sera Firenze.
He is a contributor for other English- language publications
such as The New York Times Magazine and Artforum.
Francesco Bonami is also the author of books on contemporary
art, including “Echoes:
Contemporary Art at the Age of Endless Conclusion”
published by Monacelli Press in 1996, “Cream”
and Maurizio Cattelan’s monograph both edited
by Phaidon in 1998 and 1999 and “Lo potevo Fare
Anch’io” by Mondadori. He wrote his first
novel “Lezioni di Fumo” published by
Marsilio Editore in 2005. He recently published his book
“Irrazionalpopolare” with Luca Mastroantonio
edited by Einaudi and another book with Mondadori “Dopotutto
non è brutto.”
Latest
news
Francesco Bonami has been recently awarded a Chevalier de
la Legion d`Honneur, the most prestigious recognition of
the Republic of France conferred by President Nicolas Sarkozy.
With our thanks to the Italian Cultural Institute of New
York for providing the press release
