Giulia Ricci
Born in Italy, 1976
Lives and works in London, UK
Education
2008-2009PGCE in Art and Design (14-19), part-time scheme for artists, The Institute of Education, London, UK
2005-2007MFA in Fine Art (Sculpture), The Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London, UK
1996-2003BA in Visual Arts / History of Art (part-time), University of Bologna, Italy
1995-1999BA in Fine Art (Painting), Academy of Fine Art of Bologna, Italy
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2021Alteration/Deviation, Bartha Contemporary, London, UK
2020Alteration/Deviation, Bartha Contemporary Showcase and Ocula (online)
2016Sarah Chilvers and Giulia Ricci, Bartha Contemporary, London, UK
2014The Grammar of Order, (collaboration with musician Tom Hopkins), The Tetley, Leeds, UK
2011Order / Disruption, Ring Here, London, UK
2011Connecting Threads, The Estorick Collection, London, UK
2004Total Recorder, Amste Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
2001RAM, Artestudio Sumithra, Ravenna, Italy
2001Finestre Prospettiche, Galleria Graffio, Bologna, Italy
2000Rarefazione di Gas Stellare, Galleria Graffio, Bologna, Italy
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023Analysis, Disruption, System, Stiftung Konzeptuelle Kunst, Soest, Germany
2023Lines of Empathy, curated by Giulia Ricci, Close ltd, Somerset, UK
2023Lines of Empathy, curated by Giulia Ricci, Patrick Heide Contemporary Art, London, UK
2023Boot, curated by Neil Zakiewicz, Platform A, Middlesborough, UK
2022Studio: Response 3, Saatchi Gallery, curated by Dominic Beattie, London, UK
2022Elements 2022, curated by Sara Choudhrey (online)
2022Expansion - Ways of Drawing, RaumX, London, UK
2022Boot, Terrace Gallery, curated by Neil Zakiewicz, London, UK
2021Summer Exhibition 2021, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
2021Drawing Biennial 2021, Drawing Room, London, UK
2021Note di Sguardi, public art project, Bologna, Cervia and Berlin (Italy/Germany)
2020Black White Gray, Cabinet, Emanuel von Baeyer, London (online)
2020Dear World Project, Stour Space, commissioned and curated by the Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, UCL, London, UK
2018Tactile Line, curated by Giulia Ricci, Bartha Contemporary, London, UK
2018Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2018, touring exhibition, various venues, UK
2018Intensity, The House of St Barnabas, curated by P. Carey-Kent, London, UK
2017Jerwood Drawing Prize 2017, Jerwood Space, London, touring exhibition, various venues, UK
2016The Edge of Printing, The Keeper's House, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
2016The Fold, Blyth Gallery, Imperial College, London, UK
2016Biennale der Zeichnung – Drawing Biennial, Kunstverein Eislingen, Eislingen, Germany
2016The Drawing Works, Camden Image Gallery, curated by Davina Thackara, London, UK
2015Jerwood Drawing Prize 2015, Jerwood Space, London, touring exhibition, various venues, UK
2015Disegni scelti dall'archivio – Drawings Storage 2012-15, Goethe Zentrum, Bologna, Italy
2015From Centre, curated by Saturation Point and Slate projects, Loud and Western Building, London, UK
2014Wunderkammer, Bartha Contemporary, London, UK
2014Eccentrico Musivo, MAR Museum of Contemporary Art of Ravenna, Italy
2014Crossing Lines, & Model Gallery, Leeds, UK
2013The Edge of Painting, curated by Tess Jaray, Piper Gallery, London, UK
2013O(Ax) = dO (Am) Equazione Impossibile, Galleria Ninapi, Ravenna, Italy
2013Milton Keynes Calling, Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes, UK
2013XX, Spazio Morris, Milan, Italy
2012Towards a New Abstraction, MACC, Calasetta Contemporary Art Museum, Italy
2012E Bianca, Museo Civico San Rocco, Fusignano, Italy
2012Wall Paper, installation for St. Luke's Community Centre, London, UK
2012MID AIR, end of residency show, The Grove, Middlesex University, London, UK
2012RE Open, Royal Society of Painters-Printmakers, Bankside Gallery, London, UK
2012Summer Exhibition 2012, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
2012London – Berlin, Anschlussel, Centre For Recent Drawing, London, UK
2011Ghosts of Gone Birds, The Rochelle School, London, UK
2011Surface Tension, Tokarska Gallery, London, UK
2011London – Berlin, Anschlussel, Fruehsorge Contemporary Drawings, Berlin, Germany
2011Jerwood Drawing Prize 2011, Jerwood Space, London, touring exhibition, various venues, UK
2011Pinta, (with Galeria Matilde Bensignor, Buenos Aires), Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London, UK
2011Summer Exhibition 2011, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
2011Creekside Open 2011 (selected by Dexter Dalwood), APT Gallery, London, UK
2010Satus, Spazio Morris, Milan, Italy
2010Jerwood Drawing Prize 2010, Jerwood Space, London, touring exhibition, various venues, UK
2010Ludlow Summer Exhibition, Ludlow College, Ludlow, UK
2010The Market Estate Project, curated by Tall Tales, London, UK
2009Outcasting (Season 12), online video and film project curated by Michael Cousin, UK
2009Amuse Bouche, The Two Jonnies' Project Space, London, UK
2008Salon08 Matt Roberts Arts, VINEspace, London, UK
2007MA/MFA Degree Show, The Slade School of Fine Art (UCL), London, UK
Awards, Commissions & Residencies
2021Commission for book cover and artworks for Observables in non-perturbative quantum gravity, by Dr Marcus Reitz, PhD dissertation, Radbound University, Netherlands
2020Commission for a quilted wall hanging to be displayed permanently at the Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, UCL, London, UK
2019Commission for permanent large scale wall drawing and vinyl manifestations, The School of Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary University, with the assistance of Commission Projects, London, UK
2018Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2018, UK, shortlisted
2017Sugar Coated, large-scale permanent wall drawing, commissioned by Facebook Air Program, Facebook London Office (Rathbone Place), UK
2017Permanent commission for wall drawing and vinyl manifestations, private client, London, UK
2017Jerwood Drawing Prize 2017, shortlisted. Longlisted for the Evelyn Williams Trust Award, UK
2016All Connected, large-scale permanent wall drawing, commissioned by Facebook Air Program, Facebook London Office (Brock Street), UK
2015The Grammar of Orientation, large-scale permanent artwork, commissioned by Modus Operandi, on behalf of The Crown Estate, for Quadrant 2, 7Air Street, London W1, UK
2015Jerwood Drawing Prize 2015, UK, shortlisted
2014The Grammar of Order, installation created in collaboration with Tom Hopkins for The Tetley, Leeds, commissioned by Pavilion and Recon Festival, with the support of Arts Council England, UK
2013Commission for a series of prints, VITA apartments, The Chapel (Grade II listed building), Liverpool, UK
2012Artist in residence, Middlesex University and MoDA (Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture at Middlesex University), London, UK
2011Artist in residence, Middlesex University and MoDA (Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture at Middlesex University), London, UK
2011Jerwood Drawing Prize 2011, UK, shortlisted
2010Jerwood Drawing Prize 2010, UK, shortlisted
2010Artist in residence, The Estorick Collection, London, UK
2009Artist in residence/mentor, iGEM Project, UCL Department of Biochemical Engineering, London, UK
2009Artist in residence, The London Library, London, UK
2009Commission for wall painting, Cubitt Education Studio 2, London, UK
2007Duveen Travel Award to Iran and Turkey, awarded by The Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, UK
2006Research Images As Art competition, University College London, UK (awarded first prize)
2006AHRC grant (Professional Preparation Master's Scheme) awarded to complete MFA at the Slade, UK
2006Commission for the design of the annual Christmas card, The Slade School of Fine Art, UK
1999Socrates-Erasmus Scholarship for five months at Birmingham Institute of Art & Design, UK
Selected Bibliography
2022Lines of Empathy, self published book, Lines of Empathy Press, (ISBN 9781739190002), UK
2022Cover image for Scale, poems by Mina Gorji, Carcanet Press (ISBN 9781800172142), UK
2021N. Rudd, Contact Tracing - the haptic abstraction of Giulia Ricci, in monograph published by Bartha Contemporary, UK
2021Cover image for PhD dissertation by Dr Dirk Bruin, CLEA, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
2020Cover image for Art of Escape, poems by Mina Gorji, Carcanet Press (ISBN 978 1 78410 882 3), UK
2018Feature article and interview on Interalia Magazine, April 2018, UK
2017Work featured in De Correspondent, October 2017, Netherlands
2017Work featured in the book Open Form: Facebook Artist in Residence 2012-2017 (ISBN 9780996564243), San Francisco, USA
2017Work featured in Kwer - Magazin der Abstraktion, issue 3, Germany
2014C. Fisher, review of The Grammar of Order at The Tetley, Huffington Post UK, 6/10/14
2014Work featured in Drawing paper #7, UK
2014Interview on website SaturationPoint.org.uk
2014R. Senior review of Giulia Ricci's work in the exhibition Crossing Lines, Corridor8, Contemporary Art and Writing Journal, UK, February 2014
2013Work featured in Walk the Line: The art of Drawing, by Ana Ibarra and Marc Valli, Laurence King Publishing (ISBN 978 1 78067 110 9), distributed worldwide
2013Work featured in Ghosts of Gone Birds, by Chris Aldhous, Bloomsbury Publishing (ISBN 978 1 40818 746 3), UK
2011Giulia Ricci by Tess Jaray, The Art Section, online magazine, October 2011, USA
2011Chris Fite-Wassilak, review of work in the Jerwood Drawing Prize, blog.jerwoodvisualarts.org, October 2011
2011J. Lack, Giulia Ricci - Ring Here Gallery, feature article, The World of Interiors, October 2011
2011Work featured on The Culture Show, BBC2, review of Creekside Open 2011, June 2 2011
2010Cover feature of a-n Magazine, November 2010, UK
2007Image published in The Art of Research, UCL graduate handbook, UK
2004M. Brevi, Senza dramma: un'arte leggera che non offre verità, Arte (issue 386), Mondadori, Italy
2003Catalogue of art auction Young Art Arte Contemporanea, Porro&C., Milan, Italy
2003F. Cavallucci, Una partita a scacchi con Giulia Ricci, Arte (issue 332), Mondadori, Italy
2001A. Zanchetta, review of solo show at Arte Studio Sumithra, Juliet (102), Italy
2001R. Daolio, M.R. Bentini, Oltre i generi, in Accademia di Belle Arti, Bologna, Figure del '900 II, publication about the history and alumni of the Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna, LaLit, Italy