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Tainted Lovers, curated by Samuele Piazza, OGR Torino (3 November – 10 December 2023)

Present Future, curated by Saim Demircan and Maurine Dietrich, w/ Vistamare, Artissima (2 – 5 November 2023)

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Vistamare, Milano / Pescara

Biography

Sara Enrico (1979, IT) lives in Torino.

She has exhibited her works in Italy and abroad, including: 59^th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia; Ausstellungsraum der Akademie der bildenden Künste in Wien; American Academy in Rome; Národní galerie Praha, Prague; Mart, Museo d’arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto; Centrale Fies Art Work Space, Dro; OFF Biennale Cairo, Cairo; Marsèlleria, New York; PAV Parco Arte Vivente, Torino; Biennale Internazionale Arte in Memoria, Sinagoga, Parco Archeologico di Ostia Antica (Roma); Les Instants Chavirès, Montreuil (Paris); Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino; Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como; and Galleria d’arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Torino, amongts others.

She is the recipient of the 2021 Fondazione Sviluppo e Crescita CRT Italian Fellow in Visual Arts at the American Academy in Rome and she gained Premio Michetti in 2020.
She received a production grant for Cantica21, in collaboration with MACTE, Termoli; in 2018 a grant from the IV edition of the Italian Council, a competition ideated by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Art and Architecture and Urban Peripheries (DGAAP) – the organ of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities.
In 2017 recipient of the New York Prize, with the support of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MAECI), the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism (MIBACT), the Italian Cultural Institute in New York and the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies ­ Columbia University, and in residence at International Studio & Curatorial Program in New York. In the same year, she won the Menabrea Art Prize.

Co-founder of Laboratorio del Dubbio, a series of residencies and a cross-disciplinary platform developed into seven chapters (Turin, 2016). She took part in Progetto Diogene, between 2008 and 2012, as an artistic self-identity group of people working together. Located in an old tram carriage in the middle of a roundabout of the public space of Turin, the project runs as an international residency program, talks, and events. She studied at the Academy of Fine Art in Turin and at the Istituto Spinelli in Florence, where she attended training in the restoration of ancient paintings and frescoes. She is a professor of Painting/Visual Arts at the Academy of Fine Art in Bergamo.