1946 Born in Florence. Lives and works between Rome, Miami and Castello Romitorio.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2006
"Cent´anni di solitudine – Illustrato da Sandro Chia", Telecom Progetto Italia, Milano
"Sandro Chia", Klaus Steinmetz Arte Moderna, San José, Costa Rica
2005
"D´oro e d´argento", Pietrasanta, Italy
Galleria Astuni, Pietrasanta, Italy
Contini Art Gallery, Venice, Italy
2004
"Sandro Chia", Galleria d´Arte Contini, Cortina d´Ampezzo
"Pompa Magna", Centro Cultural Ourense, Ourense, Spagna
"Litania a Colori", Tuscan Sun Festival, Chiesa di S. Agostino, Cortona
"Sandro Chia", Villa Bohm, Neustadt am der Weinstrasse, Germania
"Viandante Naufrago", Galleria Boxart, Verona
"Sandro e/o Sandro", Galleria Tega, Milano
2003
"Divano a Mare", Spazio Bisazza, Milano
"Sandro Chia", Galleria Tega, Milano
"Affido al disegno...", Temple University, Roma
2002
"Miti e Leggende", Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Firenze
"Sandro Chia", Galerie Vidal Saint Phalle, Paris
2001
"Sandro Chia", Galerie Enrico Navarra, Paris
Magazzini D´Arte Moderna, Roma
2000
Galleria Civica D´Arte Contemporanea, Trento Italy
Museo di Ravenna, Italy
Velge e Noirhomme, Brussels
1999
Tony Shafrazzi Gallery, New York
Magazzini D´Arte Contemporanea, Roma
1998
Pepperdine University, Weismann Foundation, Malibu, California
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
Lutz Gallery, Germany
1997
"Sandro Chia: opere scelte 1975–1996", Magazzini del Sale Palazzo Pubblico, Siena.
Galeria Civica, Siena
Palazzo Sforzesco, Milan
M.O.M.A., Boca Raton, Florida
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg
Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo
"Sandro Chia", Arengario di Palazzo Reale, Milan
1996
"Sandro Chia: New Paintings", Sidney
Janis Gallery, New York
"Sandro Chia: Recent work", Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
1995
"Elektra", Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg
"Sandro Chia", Academie de France, Villa Medici, Rome
1994
"Sandro Chia: Small Bronze Sculptures", Grand Salon, New York
"Sandro Chia: Neo Paintings", 65 Thompson Street, New York
"Sandro Chia", Waddington Galleries, London
1993
"Sandro Chia", Espace des Arts, Chalon sur Saône
Desert Museum of Art, Palm Springs
Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
Larry Gagosian/Leo Castelli, New York
1992
Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe
"Retrospective", Nationalgalerie, Berlin
"Works on Paper", Galerie Hilger, Vienna
1991
"Dipinti, Disegni, sculture", Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg
"Sandro Chia. Dipinti e titoli recenti", Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Florence
"Works on Paper", Kunstverein Sundern, Sundern
1990
Sabine Wachters Deurle Fine Arts, Deurle
Yoshimitsu Hijikata Gallery, Nagoya
Fondazione Mudima, Milan
Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris
1989
"Novanta spine al vento", Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna
ICC, Antwerp
Museo della Biennale, Venice
Museum Schloss Rheda, Wiedenbrück
Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico
Museum of Moterrey, Moterrey
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg
ACeT Corporation, Tokyo
Sperone Westwater Fischer, New York
Yoshimitsu Hijikata Gallery, Nagoya
1988
"Sandro Chia Oeuvres recents", Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris
"Sandro Chia", former church of San Nicolò, XXI Festival dei Due Mondi, Spoleto
Sperone Westwater Fischer, New York
1987
"Five Poems for Five Works on Paper and One Sculpture", Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo
Mario Diacono, Boston
Sperone Westwater Fischer, New York
Galleria Gian Enzo Sperone, Rome
Fischer Fine Art, London
1986
Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo
Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld
1985
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zürich
Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg
1984
Staatliche Kunsthalle, Berlin
"Sandro Chia Peintures 1976–1983", Musée d´Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt
The Mezzanine Gallery, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Kunstverein für Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf
Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo
Schellmann und Klüser, Munich
Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris
Sima, Venice
Galerie Ascan Crone, Hamburg
James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles
"Venator Intrepidus", Galleria Mazzoli, Modena
1983–84
"Sandro Chia Bilder, 1973–1983", Kestner Gesellschaft, Hanover
1983
"Sandro Chia", Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Mario Diacono, Rome
"Sandro Chia. Disegni, acquarelli, pastelli, tempere", Palazzo Grassi, Venice
Leo Castelli, New York
Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris
Natalie Seroussi, Paris
Gallery Five, Stockholm
Galerie Silvia Menzel, Berlin
"Sandro Chia, Mönchengladbach Journal", Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach
1982
The James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles
Sperone Westwater, New York
1981
"Sandro Chia", Sperone Westwater Fischer, New York
Bruno Bischofberger, Zürich
Anthony d´Offay, London
1980
"Sandro Chia", Sperone Westwater Fischer, New York
Art e Project, Amsterdam
Paul Maenz, Cologne
1979
Mario Diacono, Bologna
Paul Maenz, Cologne
"Adulti non lasciatevi orinare in faccia dai più piccoli", Framart Studio, Naples
Galleria Gian Enzo Sperone, Rome
1978
"Intorno a sé", Galleria Giuliana De Crescenzo, Rome
"Per organi", Paul Maenz, Cologne
Galleria dell´Oca, Rome
Studio Antonio Tucci Russo, Turin
1977
Galleria Fiorino, Genoa
Galleria Gian Enzo Sperone, Rome
"Pupa. Preliminari per una mostra a Roma", Galleria La Salita, Rome
1976
"Sandro Chia", Studio Antonio Tucci Russo, Turin
"Due monelli guardano nell´imo un limone", Galleria La Salita, Rome
"Ometto quando ti sentirai a tuo agio visto che sei a casa tua", Galleria La Salita, Rome
1975
"Graziosa Girevole", Galleria Lucrezia Domizio, Pescara
1974
"L´opera descrivibile", Galleria La Salita, Rome
1973
"Autoritratto(with Notargiacomo)", Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome
1972
"Copia", Galleria La Salita, Rome
1971
"L´ombra e il suo doppio", Galleria La Salita, Rome
Selected Group Exhibitions
2003
“Futuro Italiano”, Parlamento Europeo, Bruxelles
“La Transavangarde”, Centre de la Gravure et de l´Image Imprimée, La Louviere, Belgio
“Il Nuovo Rit–ratto d´Europa”, Academié Royale de Belgique, Bruxelles
Prima Biennale Internazionale D´Arte di Pechino, Cina
“La Transavanguardia Italiana”, Fondacion PROA Buenos Aires, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Santiago del Chile, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico, curated by Achille Bonito Oliva
“Le Opere e i Giorni”, Certosa di Padula, Padula (SA), Italy
“Seascapes in Confrontation”, Beaufort 2003, Museum of Modern Art, Ostend , Belgio
“Pictura Magistra Vitae”, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio in Bologna, curated by Victoria Coen
2002
“Transavanguardia”, Castello di Rivoli, Torino
“In Chartis Mevanie”, Comune di Bevagna e Spoleto (PG), Italy
2000
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1999
Tony Shafrazzi Gallery, New York
1997
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac
1996
Pablo Picasso: Ein zeitgenossischer Dialog", Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg e Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
1995
"Die Muse?", Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg e Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
1994
"Chia, De Maria, Paladino", Galleria Cardi, Milan
"New Prints by Contemporary Masters", Salama–Caro Gallery, London
1993
"Chia, Clemente, Paladino, Salvo: Works on Paper", Galerie Delta, Rotterdam
"Utopia. Arte Italiana 1950–1993", Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg e Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
1992–93
"Transavanguardia: Chia, Clemente, Cucci, De Maria, Paladino: Works from 1977–90", Gian Ferrari Arte Contemporanea, Milan
1992
Ho–Am Museum, Seoul
1991
"Festival of Salzburg", with Arnulf Rainer and Roy Lichtenstein, Salzburg
1990
"Sperone Westwater Group Exhibition", ARCO ´90 Art Fair, Madrid
"Number One 1990", Galeria Dau al Set, Barcelona
"Artists for Amnesty", Blum Helman Gallery and Germans van Eck Gallery, New York
"Group Exhibition", Galerie Enrico Navarra, Paris
"Tra Mito e Stereotipo", Galleria INARCO, Turin
"Dreams of Artists´ Furniture", "121" Art Galley, Antwerp
"Lo Zingaro Blu", Galleria Pieroni, Rome
"Pharmakon ´90", Nippon Convention Center, Chiba
1989
"Italian Art", Royal Academy of Arts, London
"S. Chia/E. Cucci", Akira Ikeda Gallery, Nagoya
"1979–1989 American, Italian, Mexican Art from the Collection of Francesco Pellizzi", Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham
Sperone Westwater, New York
"Wiener Diwan–Sigmund Freud–Heute", Museum des 20 Jahrhunderts, Vienna
"Meta–Menphis", Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice
1988
"Dal ritorno all´ordine al richiamo della pittura. Continuità figurativa nella pittura italiana 1920–1987", Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo (traveling)
"Le scuole romane sviluppi e continuità", Palazzo Forti, Galleria d´Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Verona
"XLIII Biennale di Venezia", Venice
The Marshall Frankel Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
"Fables and Fantasies, From the collection of Susan Kasen and Robert D. Summer", Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina
"City of Sale", National Academy of Design, Huntington Room, New York
1987
Ascan Crone, Hamburg
"Painting in Europe", Karl Pfefferle, Munich
"Tridente Due Roma 1987", Galleria Giuliana De Crescenzo, Rome
"The great drawing show", Michael Kohn, Los Angeles
"Art against AIDS", Sperone Westwater, New York
"The Re–emergent Figure–Seven Sculptors at the Storm King Art Center", The Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, New York
"Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Collection", Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
"Italie hors d´Italie", Musée des Beaux Arts, Nimes
"Watercolors plus", Nora Haime Gallery, New York
"Works on Paper", Galerie Bernd Kluser, Munich
"Disegno italiano del dopoguerra", Galleria Civica, Modena
"Relief and Sculpture", Akira Ikeda Gallery, Nagoya
Eugene Binder Gallery, Dallas
"Hommage a Leo Castelli", Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris
"International Art Show for the End of World Hunger", Minnesota Museum of Art, Saint Paul (touring)
1986
Anthony d´Offay Gallery, London
Galerie Zero, Stockholm
Eugene Binder Gallery, Dallas
Galerie Mustad, Molnycke
Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich
"XI Quadriennale di Roma", Rome
"Philadelphia Collects Art since 1940", Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
"International Art Show for the End of World Hunger", International Monetary Fund Visitor´s Center, Washington
"Focus on the Image", Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma, and touring
1985–86
"New Art from Italy", Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati; touring to Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha and Dade County Cultural Center, Miami
"A New Romanticism, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.; The Akron Art Museum, Akron
"An International Survey 13 Points of View", Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona
1985
Dracos Art Center, Athens
"7000 Eichen", Kunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen
"Anniottanta", "States of War", Galleria Comunale d´Arte Moderna, Bologna
"States of War", Seattle Art Museum, Seattle
"Selection from William J. Hokin Collection", Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Nicola Jacobs Gallery, London
"Drawings", Galerie Silvia Menzel, Berlin
"Ouverture", Castello di Rivoli, Turin
"Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart", Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg
1984–85
"Six in Bronze", The Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California; touring to The Brooklyn Museum, New York
"Dialog", Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon
1984
"SIx in Bronze", 1954 Gallery, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts
"The European Attack", Gallery Barbara Farber American Graffiti, Amsterdam
Galerie Léger, Malmö
"Totem", Bonnier Gallery, New York
"Modern Expressionists", Sidney Janis, New York
"Via New York", Musée d´Art Contemporain, Montreal
"Det Italienska Transavangardet", Stockholm Art Fair and Lunds Konsthall, Lund
"R.O.S.C. ´84", Guinness Hop Store, Dublin
Gallozzi–La Placa, New York
Galerie Thomas, Munich
Jeffrey Hoffeld, New York
Galerie France Antiope, Paris
"Arte allo specchio", Giardini, Biennale, Venice
Sperone Westwater, New York
"Portraits", Galerie Silvia Menzel, Berlin
"Drawings", Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris
"Contemporary Italian Masters", The Chicago Public Library Cultural Center, Chicago
"The Human Condition, Biennial III", San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
"Terrae Motus", Villa Campolieto, Naples
"Current Expression", Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco
"Artists choose Artists", CDS Gallery, New York
"An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture", Museum of Modern Art, New York
"XLI Biennale di Venezia", Venice
1983
"Tema Celeste", Museo Civico d´Arte Contemporanea, Gibellina
"New Art at the Tate Gallery", Tate Gallery, London
"New Italian Art", The New Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cleveland
"Trustees´ Choice", The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut
"Opere su carta", Centro d´arte contemporanea, Siracusa
"Sandro Chia, Francesco Clemente, Enzo Cucci: Bilder", Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld
"La Transavanguardia", Caja de Pensiones, Madrid
"Concetto–Imago: Generationswechsel in Italien", Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn
Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zürich
"Recent European Painting", The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
"Sculpture", Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
"Drawings/Photography", Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
"Bonjour Monsieur Manet", Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris
Emilio Mazzoli, Modena
Galerie Munro, Hamburg
"Ars 83 Helsinki", Ateneumin Taidemuseo, Helsinki
"Marathon ´83", International Running Center, New York
Bonnier Gallery, New York
"The First Show, Painting and Sculpture from Eight Collections", Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Anthony d´Offay Gallery, London
"Sakowitz Festival del Disegno italiano", Sakowitz, Houston
Galerie Thomas, Munich
"Expressive Malerei Nach Picasso", Galerie Beyeler, Basel
1982
"De la catastrophe", Centre d´Art Contemporain, Geneva
"Italian Art Now: An American Perspective", Exxon International Exhibition, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
"Documenta 7", Kassel
"The Pressure to Paint", Marlborough Gallery, New York
"Hommage to Leo Castelli", Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zürich
"Five Painters: Chia, Clemente, Kiefer, Salle, Schnabel", Anthony d´Offay Gallery, London
"Transavanguardia Italia/America", Galleria Civica, Modena
"Scultura andata, scultura storna", Galleria Emilio Mazzoli, Modena
"Avanguardia, transavanguardia 68–77", Mura Aureliane, Rome
"Zeitgeist", Internationale Kunstausstellung, Berlin
"Chia, Cucci, Lichtenstein, Twombly", Sperone Westwater Fischer, New York
"Mythe, Drame, Tragedie", Musée d´Art et d´Industrie, St–Etienne
Galleria Giuliana De Crescenzo, Rome
"Vision in Disbelief", IV Sydney Biennale, Sydney
1981
Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris
"Linne della ricerca artistica in Italia 1960/1980", Palazzo delle Espoziono, Rome
"Recent Acquisitions: Drawings", Museum of Modern Art, New York
"A New Spirit in Painting", The Royal Academy of Arts, London
"Westkunst heute", Rheinhallen der Kolner Messe, Cologne
"Sandro Chia, Francesco Clemente, Enzo Cucci, Carlo Mariani, Malcolm Morley, David Salle, Julian Schnabel (drawings)", Sperone Westwater Fischer, New York
"New York by Chia, Cucci, Disler, Penck (graphics)", Bernard Jacobson Ltd., Los Angeles
"New York", Anthony d´Offay Gallery, London
"Figures: Forms and Expressions", Albright–Knox Art Gallery, Cepa Gallery and Hallwalls, Buffalo, New York
"La memoria e l´inconscio", Studio La Torre Pistoia
"Tesoro", Emilio Mazzoli, Modena
"Aspects of Post–Modernism", The Squibb Gallery, Princeton, New Jersey
1980
"Die Enthauptete Hand, 100 Zeichnungen aus Italien (Chia, Clemente, Cucci, Paladino)", Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn; touring to Wolfsburg and Groningen
"Sandro Chia, Francesco Clemente, Enzo Cucci, Nicola De Maria, Mimmo Paladino", Francesco Masnata, Genoa
"Chia, Cucci, Merz, Calzolari", Gian Enzo Sperone, Turin
"Egonavigatio", Mannheimer Kunstverein, Mannheim
"La nuova immagine italiana", Loggetta lombardesca, Ravenna
"7 junge Kunstler aus Italien. Chia, Clemente, Cucci, De Maria, Ontani, Paladino, Tatafiore", Kunsthalle, Basel; touring to Essen and Amsterdam
"Prime opere", Galleria La Salita, Rome
"Après le classicisme", Musée d´Art et Industrie, St–Etienne
"Biennale di Venezia, Aperto 80", Venice
"Sandro Chia, Francesco Clemente, Enzo Cucci", Sperone Westwater Fischer, New York
1979
"Europa 79", Stuttgart
"Associazione dissociazione dissenzione dell´arte–L´Estetico e il selvaggio", Galleria Comunale, Modena
"XIII Rassegna Internazionale d´arte. Opere fatte ad arte", Palazzo di città, Acireale
"Le Stanze", Castello Colonna, Genazzano
"XV Biennale, Museu de Arte, São Paulo
1977
"10th Biennale de Paris", Musée d´Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
"S.Chia/G. Paolini/Salvo", Galleria Gian Enzo Sperone, Rome
"1957–1977 (manifesto on the occasion of 20 years of activity of the gallery)", Galleria La Salita, Rome
1976
A. Boetti, "Collo rotto braccia lunghe"; S. Chia, "Immobilità vari affetti"; F. Clemente, "Coppia di inganno"; V. Pisani, "Oriente occidente", Framart Studio, Naples
1975
"24h su 24h", Galleria l´Attico, Rome
"Boetti, Chia, Fabro, Pistoletto", Galleria La Salita, Rome
1974
"Chia, De Filippi, Kounellis, Mattiacci, Notargiacomo", Galleria La Salita, Rome
1973
Sandro Chia, "ex libris"; Feruccio De Filippi, "Narcisco"; Gianfranco Notargiacomo, "Ipotesi per una metrica", Galleria La Salita, Rome
"Sandro Chia, Gianfranco Notargiacomo", Galleria La Salita, Rome
1972
"Chia, De Filippi, Fabro, Pisani", Galleria La Salita, Rome
1971
"Burri...Colla...Chia...Scialoja...Sordini", Galleria La Salita, Rome
