Viola Arduini (b.1987, Italy)
Viola Arduini is an Italian artist and educator currently based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. In her work, she investigates the relationships formed by humans, animals, and technology.
Arduini received a Bachelor of Arts from NABA New Academy of Fine Arts, Milano, Italy in 2010 and a Master of Arts in Documentary Photography from University of South Wales, Newport, UK in 2015. She has recently received a Master of Fine Arts in Art & Ecology from the University of New Mexico. Her work has been included in group exhibitions in the US and Europe, including Santa Fe Art Institute (NM), Ffotogallery in Cardiff (UK), and VIII Edition of Centrale Fotografia (IT). She received numerous grants and scholarships, as the Maryann Evans Scholarship for Graduate Students in Art Studio, the Andrew Mellon Foundation for Art & Ecology Fellowship and Research Grant from the Culture and Animal Foundation.
Arduini is currently Education and Outreach Coordinator for 516 ARTS and part-time faculty in the Art Department at the University of New Mexico.
SoloExhibitions
2019
Ananke, Sanitary Tortilla Factory,Albuquerque NM (Catalogue)
SelectedGroup Exhibitions
2019
UNM Juried Graduate Exhibition: UNM Art Dept 90th Anniversary, Art Annex, Albuquerque NM
It Sounds Like a RiverLeaping and Falling; It Sounds Like a Body falling Apart, John Sommers Gallery, Albuquerque NM
Deep Time Lab with NinaElder, UNM Art Museum, AlbuquerqueNM
Yuma Art Symposium Student Show,Yuma Art Center, Yuma AZ
2018
Digital Disobedience – The Algorithm as saboteur, CFA Downtown, Albuquerque NM
group show curated by Amy Traylor and Cat Hulshoff
The Greater Chaco Silent Art Auction and Benefit, Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa FeNM
Who Are Those Invisible Clouds,Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe NM
This Beautiful Earth, PopejoyHall, Albuquerque, NM (videoprojection in collaboration with Kaitlin Bryson and Nicholas Jacobsen)
2017
LandArts of the American West, John Sommers Gallery, Albuquerque, NM (Catalogue)
SFAI140,Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM (video projection and performative reading in collaboration with Issy Arnold, Paul Ross, and MikalaSterling)
TheArt Chapter - Milano ArtBook Fair, Base,Milano, IT
BURST,Capodilucca Creative Hub, Bologna, IT
2016
At First Sight,CFA Downtown, Albuquerque, NM
ChippendaleStudio - Dummy photobook travelling exhibition
CentraleFotografia, Fano, Italy;
Festivaldi Fotografia Contemporanea, Gonzaga, Italy;
F4,Pieve di Soligno, Italy
Comfort-zoo, ShuffleProject Art Residency Final Show, 4Bid Gallery, Amsterdam, Holland
2015
Visualising theAnimal travelling exhibition
CarlislePhoto Festival, United Kingdom
DurhamBotanic Garden, Durham, United Kingdom
2014
Seventeen SecondsMA Group Show, Ffotogallery, Cardiff, United Kingdom
2013
UnseenBristol, Parlour Showrooms, Bristol, United Kingdom
Grants &Awards
2018-19 Exception Visual ArtistScholar Sanitary Tortilla Factory
2018-19 Ralph W.Douglass Scholarship Endowment
2018 Andrew MellonFoundation for Art & Ecology Fellowship
2018 MaryannEvans Scholarship for Graduate Students in Art Studio
2017-18 ClydeA. & Elizabeth R. Hill Endowed Scholarship
2017 UNM Office ofGraduate Studies Doctoral Conference Presentation Award
2017 Culture and AnimalFoundation Grant for Research
2016 Shuffle Projectresidency, 4Bid Gallery, Amsterdam, Holland (January)
2015 AnthrozoologyConference Student Bursary Award
2006-10 Regione LombardiaScholarships for College Education
Press andpublications
Article, Amy Hulshoff and Viola Arduini, Artist Spotlight,Hemisphere: Visual Cultures of the Americas issue XI, Fall 2018
Article, Viola Arduini, The Pedagogy of Place: ArtisticNarratives for the Anthropocene, Digimag issue 77, Winter 2017, pages 26-35http://www.digicult.it/wp-content/uploads/digimag77.pdf
Images credits, Stile Italiano magazine, several issues,2012
Images credits, Milan Architecture Guide 1945-2015: Thearchitecture of Milan from the postwar period until today in 100 selectedbuildings, Hoepli, 2015
Lectures andworkshops
2018
Lecture/Presentation,Hemisphere symposium, CFA Downtown,Albuquerque, NM
Lecture/Presentation,Embodied Entanglements, This Beautiful Earth, University of NewMexico, Albuquerque, NM
2017
Lecture/Presentation,The Human and the Other, visual technology between science and art,Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY
2015
Lecture/Presentation,Animal perception and photography: new lights, University ofExeter, Exeter, United Kingdom
Lecture/Presentation, Animalperception and photography: new lights, University of Cumbria, Carlisle,United Kingdom