Viola Arduini (b.1987, Italy)
Viola Arduini is an Italian artist and educator currently basedin Albuquerque, New Mexico. In her work, she investigates the relationshipsformed by humans, nature, and technology. Her interdisciplinary work encompassphotography, poetry, installation, and sound, creating connections with biology and mythology.
Arduini received a Bachelor of Arts from NABANew Academy of Fine Arts, Milano, Italy in 2010 and a Master of Arts inDocumentary Photography from University of South Wales, Newport, UK in 2015.She has recently received a Master of Fine Arts in Art & Ecology from theUniversity of New Mexico. Her work has been included in group exhibitions inthe US and Europe. She received numerous grants and scholarships, as theMaryann Evans Scholarship for Graduate Students in Art Studio, the AndrewMellon Foundation for Art & Ecology Fellowship and Research Grant from theCulture and Animal Foundation.
Arduini is currently Education and OutreachCoordinator for 516 ARTS in Albuquerque, NM.
Solo and Two-artists Exhibitions
2020
[AC]2 Gallery, two-artists exhibition with lauraCarlson, Albuquerque NM (Catalogue)
Charm, UCLA ArtSci Gallery, Los Angeles, CA [*POSTPONED FOR COVID-19]
2019
Ananke, Sanitary Tortilla Factory,Albuquerque NM (Catalogue)
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020
Earthstyle Concerns - Art & Ecology at UNM, Visual Art Gallery, Santa Fe Community College, NM [*POSTPONED FOR COVID-19]
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
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
2017
LandArts of the American West, John Sommers Gallery, Albuquerque, NM (Catalogue)
The Art 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; Festival di Fotografia Contemporanea, Gonzaga, Italy; F4,Pieve di Soligno, Italy]
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
Residencies:
2020 Nextlook Residency, The Clarice Smith Performing Center,University of Maryland, MD
2016 ShuffleProject Art Residency Final Show, 4Bid Gallery, Amsterdam, Holland
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 and publications
Catalog, Viola Arduini, Amy Hulshoff, and David Parsons, ANANKE,self-published, 2019
Article, Clarke Condé, ArtMagnified: Nina’s Story Ananke by Viola Arduini, Alibi V.28 NO.15, 2019
Article, AmyHulshoff and Viola Arduini, Artist Spotlight, Hemisphere: VisualCultures of the Americas issue XI, Fall 2018
Article,Viola Arduini, The Pedagogy of Place: Artistic Narratives for theAnthropocene, Digimag issue 77, Winter 2017
Artist book, Viola Arduini, ItsFeathers Shine, self-published, 2015
Lectures and workshops
2020
Keynote Lecture for Vision 20/20, Falmouth University, UK
2019
Lecture/Presentation,Art in the Anthropocene, Trinity College, Dublin, IR
Artist Talk
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, Animal perception and photography: new lights, University of Cumbria, Carlisle,United Kingdom
Collections
Museum of Southwestern Biology, Albuquerque, NM
Chippendale Studio, Milan, IT