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BORN:
Bologna, Italy
EDUCATION:
Accademia di
Belle Arti, Bologna,
Italy, 1990-1995
Bachelor Degree in Art History, Thesis: The Use
of Pastel Through the Centuries.
Liceo Artistico Statale, Bologna,
Italy, 1985-1990,
High School Diploma in Art (specializing in Architecture).
SELECTED AWARDS:
2011
John N. Lewis Memorial Award, 128th Annual Member's
Exhibition, Salmagundi Club, New York, US, November 20.
2011
1st Prize, City Life Exhibition, The
Salmagundi Club, New York, NY, US, July 28.
2011
2nd Prize,
Festival delle Arti, Bologna, Italy, July.
2011
Finalist, International Drawing Annual 6, Manifest
Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center, Cincinnati,
Ohio, US, February.
2010
Jane Peterson Memorial Award, 127th Annual Member's
Exhibition, Salmagundi Club, New York, US, November 22.
2010
Honorable
Mention, April Art Competition, Beginnings, Gallery 364,
Brooklyn, NY, US, April 29.
2010
1st SCNY Prize, First Annual Sylvia Glesmann
Floral Exhibition, Salmagundi Club, New
York, US, March 5th.
2008 Finalist, Profilo d’Arte, Banca Profilo
spa, Milan, Italy, July.
2006 Awarded,
Premio
artArt, First Edition, Bologna, Italy, April.
2005 Awarded,
1st
International Awards artArt – Giovani Artisti,
Bologna, Italy, March.
2004
Finalist,
Italian Web Awards 2004, Comune di Francavilla al mare, Chieti, Italy, August.
2004
Finalist,
Premio Web Italia 2004 - Excellent Website, Premio Donne Web, Lucca,
Italy, February.
2003
Finalist,
Premio Arte 2003, Giorgio Mondadori, Milan, Italy, September.
2002
Finalist,
Premio Arte 2002, Giorgio Mondadori, Milan, Italy, August.
1997 Awarded,
Photographic Contest La Strada, Bologna, Italy, April.
1985 1st Prize,
Premio
Culturale Panta Rei, Bologna, Quartiere
S. Ruffillo, Italy,
March.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2009
Laura
Fantini & Jeff Faerber: City Visions,
Object
Image Gallery,
Brooklyn, NY, US, March, 2-person show.
2007
Rendere Visibile l’Invisibile,
Spazio Arte RAS,
Ozzano
Emilia, Bologna, Italy, April,
Critical Commentary by F.
Falsetti.
2006
Bellezza e Vanitas, Bertolt Brecht, Milan,
Italy, May, Critical Commentary by Vera
Maria Carminati, Curated by Lorenzo Argentino.
2006
Intimita' Svelate: una nuova visione della natura morta,
Sala di Citta' - City Hall,
San Lazzaro, Bologna, June.
2005 Finanza & Futuro, Group Detusche
Bank, Bologna, Italy, May.
2004
Galleria Zenzero, Bertinoro, Forlì, Italy,
July.
2003
Galleria De' Marchi, Bologna, Italy,
March.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2011
Art Salon, De Luca Fine Art,
Toronto, Canada, December.
2011
128th Annual Member's Exhibition,
Salmagundi Club,
New York, NY, US, November.
2011
7° giornata del
contemporaneo, Circolo Artistico, Bologna, Italy,
October.
2011
69th Annual Exhibition, Audubon Artists,
New York, NY, September.
2011
City Life, Salmagundi Club, New York, NY,
US, July - August.
2011
Scenes from Abroad, Salmagundi Club, New York,
NY, US, June - July.
2011
Best of the Best, Special President's Exhibition: Watermedia
& Pastel,
Salmagundi Club,
New York, NY, US, March - April.
2011
2nd Annual Sylvia Glesmann Floral Exhibition,
Salmagundi Club,
New York, NY, US, March.
2011
Artist Choice, Gallery 364,
Brooklyn, NY, April.
2010 The Ridgewood
Art Institute,
Ridgewood, NJ, January.
2010
127th Annual Member's Exhibition,
Salmagundi Club,
New York, NY, US, November.
2010
6 giornata del contemporaneo,
Circolo Artistico,
Bologna, Italy, October.
2010 The
Noble Nocturne,
Salmagundi
Club, New York, NY, US, May - June.
2010
Beginnings, Gallery 364, Brooklyn, NY,
US, April.
2010
Art of the
City: In Memory of Ed Martin”, The Berkeley Carroll School,
Brooklyn, NY, US, April 17.
2010 First
Annual Sylvia Glesmann Floral Exhibition,
Salmagundi
Club, New York, NY, US, March.
2009
101st Annual Thumb Box Exhibition, Salmagundi Club, New York, NY,
US, December.
2009
8th Anniversary Show,
Object
Image Gallery,
Brooklyn, NY, US,
February.
2008
Ricerche,
Spazio Arte, Napoli, Italy, October - November
2008
Profilo d'Arte - Premio di pittura per
giovani artisti emergenti,
Museo della Permanente, Milan, Italy,
Galleria San Federico,
2008
Torino - Palazzo Poncarali, Brescia -
Palazzo Sacrati,
Reggio Emilia,
Palazzo Nagliati,
Ferrara - Banca Profilo, Rome.
2008
October - November.
2008
Getting Around,
Object
Image Gallery,
Brooklyn, NY, US,
September - October.
2008 Flower,
Object
Image Gallery,
Brooklyn, NY, US,
March - April.
2008
Holiday
Art Show,
Object
Image Gallery,
Brooklyn, NY, US,
December 2007 to January 2008.
2007
Images of
Coney Island,
Object
Image Gallery,
Brooklyn, NY, US,
November.
2007
Glimpses of New York ,
Object
Image Gallery,
Brooklyn, NY, US,
July.
2007
Crossings II: Images of New York Bridges ,
Object Image Gallery,
Brooklyn, NY, US,
March.
2007
Holiday Art
Show, Object Image Gallery,
Brooklyn, NY, US,
December 2006 - January 2007.
2006
Not From Around Here, Object Image Gallery,
Brooklyn, NY, US,
June.
2006
Premio artArt., artArt - Eventi d'arte,
Bologna, Italy, March - April.
2006
20x20,
Galleria De' Marchi,
Bologna, Italy, January.
2005
Sentinels: Water Towers of New York,
Object Image
Gallery,
Brooklyn, NY, US,
December.
2005
Sala dell'Annunziata, Imola, Italy,
September.
2005 Object Image Gallery,
Brooklyn, NY, US, August.
2005
Object Image Gallery,
Brooklyn, NY, US, June - July.
2005
MaMA Gallery,
Bologna, Italy, June.
2005
Natura Morta, Seconda
Ed. -
Giovani Artisti,
Terza Ed, artArt - Eventi d'arte,
Bologna, Italy, March - April.
2005
20x20,
Galleria De' Marchi,
Bologna, Italy,
January.
2004
Holiday Art Show,
Object Image
Gallery,
Brooklyn, NY, US,
December.
2004
Object Image Gallery,
Brooklyn, NY, US, June.
2004
20x20,
Galleria De' Marchi,
Bologna, Italy,
January.
2003 City Hall,
S. Lazzaro di Savena, Bologna, Italy,
October
2003
Proposte - Nuovi
artisti, nuove opere, nuove scelte,
Galleria Forni,
Bologna, Italy,
September - October.
2003
Galleria del Circolo Artistico,
Bologna, Italy, June.
2003
Arte e Motori
2003,
Castello Estense,
Ferrara, Italy,
May.
2003
20x20,
Galleria De' Marchi,
Bologna, Italy,
December 2002 - January 2003.
2002
Galleria Malatestiana, Rimini, Italy,
February.
2002
Cafe Oggi,
McLean, Virginia, US, November 2001 to January
2002.
2001
Galleria Malatestiana,
Rimini, Italy, November.
2001
Papp Gallery,
Soho, New York, NY, US, October.
1998 City Hall, S. Lazzaro di
Savena, Bologna, Italy, August.
1996
Artisti di S. Lazzaro in Mostra,
Galleria Molducci, S. Lazzaro di Savena,
Bologna, Italy, May.
1996
Quadri di piccolo
formato,
Galleria Molducci,
S. Lazzaro di Savena, Bologna,
Italy, March.
1995
End & Over,
International Fair
of Bologna, Italy,
curated by A. Baccilieri and M.R. Bentini,
June.
1994
Galleria Barozzi, Vignola, Modena, Italy,
May.
1993 City Hall, S. Lazzaro di
Savena, Bologna, Italy, August.
1993
Galleria Barozzi, Vignola, Modena, Italy,
June.
1993
Galleria Punto Arte, Modena, Italy, April.
1993
Galleria Barozzi,
Vignola, Modena, Italy,
May.
LECTURES, TEACHING
AND JURIES:
2011
Awards Juror, Artist Choice, Gallery 364, Brooklyn, NY,
US, February 3.
2002 Guest Lecturer and Charity Exhibition, Scuole
Tambroni, Bologna, Italy, May 29-31.
2009
Colored Pencil workshop, Artisti in Fiera Parma 2002,
Parma, Italy, April 19.
1998
Guest Lecturer and Demo (studio visit), Università
Primo Levi, Bologna, Italy, November 24-26.
1992
Painting/Drawing Instructor, Centro Culturale, San
Lazzaro di Savena, Bologna, Italy, 1992-1993.
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY:
2011
Bay Ridge Eagle and Brooklyn Eagle, Love is…In the
Air and on The Walls at Gallery 364, Brooklyn, NY,
February 10.
2009
Brooklyn Daily Eagle, When Artists Choose
Favorites Bay Ridge Gallery Shows Them, Brooklyn, NY,
February 10.
2010
Best of Worldwide Charcoal, Pastel and Pencil Artists Volume
I, Kennedy Publishing, Williamsburg, VA, April.
2009
America Oggi, Taccuino, Norwood, NJ, March.
2009
Italian
Network, A New York City Vision, ovvero la citta’ nelle opere di Laura Fantini, Cultura italiana nel mondo.
2009
Celebrate New York 2009
with Big Apple Greeter, The Evening’s Program, New York, NY, US,
December 3.
2008
Celebrate New York 2008
with Big Apple Greeter, The Evening’s Program, New York, NY, US, November 19.
2008
Profilo d’Arte 2008,
Premio
di Pittura per Giovani Artisti Emergenti,
Federico Motta Editore srl, Milan, Italy,
2008
September,
(Pages 36, 89).
Art Journal, Laura Fantini,
Cityscape di New York, Art and Culture magazine, Bologna, Italy, March - April.
2007
Park Slope Courier,
Views of Coney Island today,
Brooklyn,
NY, US, November 9.
Celebrate New York 2007
with Big Apple Greeter,
The Evening’s Program, New
York, NY, US, November 7.
America Oggi,
Un po' di Bologna a N.Y.,
by Laura Caparrotti, Norwood, NJ,
July 8.
2007
Il Resto
del Carlino,
Il magico iperrealismo di fiori e strade,
Bologna, Italy, April 27.
2007 Il Resto del Carlino,
Laura Fantini,
La mia New York, By Morena Tosi, Bologna, Italy, March 18.
2007 Art Journal,
Laura Fantini, Rendere Visibile l’Invisibile, Art and Culture
magazine, Bologna, Italy, March - April.
2007
Monaco News, Le Club Diamant Rouge, Monaco
Government Tourist Office, New York, NY, US, April.
2006
Celebrate New York 2006
with Big Apple Greeter, The Evening’s Program, New York, NY, US, November.
2006 24 Seven,
You
Are Not From Around Here, Are You Boy?,
Arts, Dining
and Entertainment.
Brooklyn,
NY, US, June 5.
2006 Monaco News,
Le Club Diamant Rouge, Monaco Government Tourist Office, New
York, NY, US, November.
2006
Art Journal,
Sempre più New York per Laura Fantini,
Art and Culture magazine,
Bologna, Italy, March - April.
2005 Art Journal, Concorso per giovani
artisti, Art and Culture magazine, Bologna, Italy, May - June.
2005
Senza Titolo artisti
associati, catalogo n2, Critical
Commentary by Antonella Gasparato, Bologna, Italy,
May.
2005
Art Journal,
Laura Fantini, un’artista italiana a New York,
Art and Culture magazine,
Bologna, Italy, March - April.
2005
Art Journal,
Venti per venti, edizione record,
Art and Culture magazine,
Bologna, Italy, March - April.
2004 Caran d’Ache,
Published drawing on Caran d’Ache Art Gallery, www.carandache.ch, Geneva,
Switzerland, December.
2003 Il Resto del Carlino,
Il Castello luogo d'incontro per vetture d'epoca e arte,
Ferrara, Italy,
May 10.
2003
Gallery Bill, Profiling New York's Art Community,
ed. Katalin Papp, New York, NY, US, January - February.
2002 Praxis Artistica 2002,
Laura Fantini, Art
and Culture magazine, Rimini, Italy, February.
2001 Gallery Bill,
ed. Katalin Papp, New York, NY, US, No.2 November.
1998
M.E.I.N.
Published drawing on Melissa Etheridge Information Network website
and newsletter,
San Francisco, CA, US.
Il Resto del Carlino, L'arte in fiera promuove incontri,
Bologna, Italy,
July 28.
1996 Il Comune,
S. Lazzaro di Savena, Bologna, Italy, June 2.
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