Born in Brescia, Italy. Lives in New York. BFA Academy of Fine Arts, Venice. MA S.U.N.Y. Albany. MFA School of Visual Arts, NY.
Selected One-Person Exhibitions
2023 Space Doubt – Day 12: Spacewalk, Maus Contemporary, Birmingham, AL (catalog).
2022 Astrodoubt and the Quarantine Chronicles (An Introduction), Curated by John Hanhardt, Cristin Tierney Gallery, New York (digital catalogue).
2020 Picture: Present (An episode from "Astrodoubt and The Quarantine Chronicles" in 12 scenes),The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC. (Digital Intersections).
2012 Remember Me: Luca Buvoli’s Meta-Futurism, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea.
2009 Instant Before Incident, Susan Inglett Gallery, New York.
Monument to Movement, Kaaitheater, Brussels, Belgium.
Velocity Zero, Estorick Collection, London, UK (brochure).
2007 A Very Beautiful Day After Tomorrow (Un Bellissimo Dopodomani), ICA Philadelphia, PA (brochure).
2006 Infinitely Definite, Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX.
2003 Adapting One’s Senses to High Altitude Flying, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC (catalogue).
Flying Preparatory Exercises, Glassell School of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX. (catalogue).
Flight Simulation Laboratory, Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX.
Dov’é La Vittoria? (Where is the Victory?), Galleria Autori Cambi, Rome, Italy (catalogue).
2002 Flying: Practical Training for Intermediates, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, OR (catalogue).
Artforum, Berlin Art Fair (presented by Art and Idea, Mexico City-Berlin), Berlin, Germany.
2001 Inside and Outside Time: Finally Revealed!, Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA (Video Gallery).
Around, Around, and Away, (in collaboration with composer Jeffrey Lependorf), Queens Museum of Art, NY (Wall Work, Panorama, and Unisphere) (brochure).
2000 Flying: Practical Training for Beginners, Austin Museum of Art, TX.
Flying: Practical Training for Beginners, M.I.T. List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA (catalogue).
1999 Will He Ultimately Escape?..., John Weber Gallery, New York.
Poster & Comics, Corraini Arte Contemporanea, Mantua, Italy.
Inside and Outside Time: The Real Story, part of Mythopoeia: Projects by Matthew Barney, Luca Buvoli, and Matthew Ritchie, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, OH (catalogue).
1997 Wherever You Are Not, John Weber Gallery, New York.
A Night Like Any Other, Galleria Emi Fontana, Milan, Italy.
Not-a-Superhero, I presume, Temporanea, Caffe’ Florian, Venice, Italy (catalogue).
1996 Silent Sight, Arizona State University Museum (Experimental Gallery), Tempe, AZ .
Behind the Mask, Santa Monica Museum of Art (Focus Gallery), CA (brochure).
A Spectacular Non-Event, Acme, Santa Monica, CA.
1995 Not-a-Superhero: Inside and Outside Time…, The Clocktower Gallery/PS 1 Museum, New York (short term installation).
Not-a-Superhero no. 9: It’s Your Fault!, Galerie Hafemann, Wiesbaden, Germany.
Transformed!, John Weber Gallery (Project Room), New York.
The Origin of Not-a-Superhero, AC Project Room, New York (catalogue).
1994 Not-a-Superhero: It’s Time for… Eternity, Food House, Santa Monica, CA (catalogue).
Not-a-Superhero, Galleria Autori Messa, Rome, Italy.
1993 Not-a-Superhero: The Return of Dr. Logos, Galleria Loft, Valdagno (Vicenza), Italy (catalogue).
1989 Galleria Meta, Bolzano, Italy (catalogue).
1988 Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation, Venice, Italy (catalogue).
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023-24 Fabriano Contemporanea, #1 Intrecci, Palazzo del Podestá and Loggiato, Fabriano, Italy (curated by Chiara Zampetti Egidi)(catalog).
2023 After “The Wild”: Contemporary Art from the Barnett and Annalee Newman Foundation Collection, Jewish Museum, New York (curated by Kelly Taxter, with Shira Backer).
2022-23 (oh, shyness), Buk-Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea, (c-curated by Min Yoo, Beom Kim, and Luca Buvoli)(catalogue).
2022 Positions Berlin, Tempelhof Airport, Berlin (presented by Maus Contemporary).
2020 Reactional Aesthetics: Art of the 1990s from the Robert J. Shiffler Collection & Archive. Clay Street Press Gallery, Cincinnati, OH (curated by Volatile [redux]).
2019 Beyond the Cape, Boca Raton Museum, Boca Raton, FL (curated by Kathleen Goncharov).
2016 Fireflies in the Night Take Wing, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, Athens, Grece (artistic director: Robert Storr, curated by Barbara London, Kalliopi Minioudaki, Francesca Pietropaolo).
2010 Third Thoughts, CCA Andtrax, Mallorca, Spain (curated by Barry Schwabsky and Carol Szymanski).
Catastrophe? Quelle Catastrophe!, Quebec City Biennial, Manif d’Art 5, Quebec City (curated by Sylvie Fortin) (catalogue).
Utopia Matters, façade and banner project, Deutsche Guggenheim Museum, Berlin, (curated by Vivien Greene).
2009 Modern Poets: Futurism and the New Manifesto, Gund Lobby, The Museum of Modern Art, New York (brochure).
2008 1st Polish Mediations Biennale, Poznan, Poland (curated by Yu Yeon Kim) (catalogue).
Inner and Outer Spaces, The Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA (curated by Dara Meyers-Kingsley) (brochure).
Fusion/Confusion, Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany (curated by Sabine Maria Schmidt) (catalogue).
2007 52. International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy (curated by Robert Storr) (catalogue).
2005 Art Creates Communities, Bohen Foundation, New York (curated by More Art).
2003 Paper Sculpture, The Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY, traveling to several museums and institutions in the U.S. (curated by Cabinet Magazine, ICI, and The Sculpture Center)(catalogue).
2002 Artist to Artist, A Decade of Art Program of the Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation, Ace Gallery, New York (catalogue).
2001 Animation, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY.
2000 The Living End, the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, CO (curated by Ingrid Schaffner) (catalogue).
DMZ_2000, U.N. Republic of Korea and Korean Cultural Services, New York (curated by Yu Yeon Kim).
Nonplusultra, FM Schwartz Galerie, Cologne, Germany (curated by Sabine Russ and Gregory Volk).
Greater New York, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY (curated in collaboration with The Museum of Modern Art, New York) (catalogue).
1999 2nd International Art Symposium ‘99, Fujino, Kanagawa, Japan.
1998 ‘98 Pusan International Contemporary Art Festival, Pusan, Korea (catalogue).
Close Encounters, Ottawa Art Gallery, Canada (curated by Sylvie Fortin).
1997 Transversions, 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, Johannesburg, South Africa (curated by Yu Yeon Kim) (catalogue).
Made in Italy, New Italian Videos, ICA, London, Great Britain (curated by Giovanna Amadasi and Paolo Colombo).
1995 Avant-Garde Walk a Venezia, Venice, Italy (curated by Marc Pottier) (catalogue).
1994 Selections Winter ‘94, The Drawing Center, New York.
1993 (oh, shyness), Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, Thread Waxing Space, and Sandra Gering Gallery, New York (catalogue).
La fabbrica estetica, Grand Palais, Paris, France, (catalogue).
Selected Awards
2016-17 Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship.
2011 Barnett and Annalee Newman Foundation Award/Grant.
2010 Guggenheim Fellowship.
2006 Creative Capital Foundation Grant.
2001 Pollock-Krasner Award.
2000 Harvestworks Artist-in-Residence Grant.
1999 New York State Council on the Arts, Film Production Grant.
1998 Jerome Foundation Media Arts Program Grant.
1997 New York Foundation for the Arts, Artist Fellowship (Drawing/Printmaking/Artists’ Books).
Mac Dowell Colony, Artists in Residence Program, Peterborough, NH.
1996-97 Yaddo Artists in Residence Program, Saratoga Springs, NY.
1995-96 Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation Studio Grant, New York.
1995 Art OMI International artists’ residence, Ghent, New York.
1992-93 P.S. 122 Project Space Grant, New York.
1988-89 Fulbright Scholarship for Fine Arts.
Selected Public Collections
The Museum of Modern Art, New York (Department of Painting and Sculpture).
The Jewish Museum, New York.
Guggenheim Museum, New York.
The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC.
Deutsche Guggenheim Museum, Berlin.
City of Venice, Italy.
SELECTED Public Commissions
2011-21 Permanent artwork commissioned for Roosevelt Station, Seattle Sound Transit, Seattle, Washington. Fabrication and installation in progress, to be completed in 2021.
2010 Vector HH, permanent artwork for Hobby Airport, commissioned by the City of Houston, Texas.
2004 The Big Wave, permanent artwork for elementary school PS 253, Queens, Percent for the Art Program, Department of Cultural Affairs, New York City Board of Education.
SELECTED MUSEUM/INSTITUTION COMMISSIONS
2023 Flags and Flipbook (Astrodoubt Floating in Gravitational Waves), Cittá di Fabriano, Italy.
2020 Picture: Present (An episode from "Astrodoubt and The Quarantine Chronicles" in 12 scenes), The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC. (Digital Intersections).
2010 Utopia Matters, large façade site-specific work and banner project, and flipbook with sculptural case edition. Commissioned by the Deutsche Guggenheim Museum, Berlin.
2010 When I Was Worrying – Mural, latex paint and gouache on walls and cut-out paper. Commissioned by CCA Gallery, Andratx, Mallorca, Spain, for the group exhibition Third Thoughts.
2010 Concept Car Contrails, resin, metal, and latex paint on walls. Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH.
2009 Velocity Zero – Mural, latex paint and gouache on walls and cut-out paper. Commissioned by the Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, London, UK, for the one of the two solo exhibitions in Futurism 100!
2008 Instant Before Incident (Ave Machina), large sculptural installation for the exhibition Inner and Outer Spaces. Commissioned by The Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA.
2008 Pavillion “Velocitá Zero”, large sculptural installation for the exhibition Fusion/Confusion. MDF, masonite, paint, monitor showing the animated video Velocitá Zero (2007, DVD, 11 minutes, color, sound). Shown with four Propaganda Posters hanging on painted wall. Commissioned by the Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany.
2007 A Very Beautiful Day After Tomorrow (Un Bellissimo Dopodomani), large sculptural installation including suspended and wall resin and steel sculptures, glass and marble mosaic, and five video animations installed in five different rooms at the entrance of the Arsenale. Commissioned by the 52nd International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy, with the International Council of the Museum of Modern Art and the Toby Lewis Philanthropic Fund for the Cleveland Jewish Foundation Federation.
2007 A Very Beautiful Day After Tomorrow (Un Bellissimo Dopodomani), large sculptural installation including suspended and wall resin and steel sculptures, and one video animation. Commissioned by the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA.
2003 Vector Blue, large installation including suspended and wall resin and steel sculptures for solo exhibition Flying Preparatory Exercises. Commissioned by The Glassell School of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX.
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Muir-Harmony, Teasel, and Luca Buvoli, Space Doubt – Day 12: Spacewalk, book/catalog of the exhibition, Maus Contemporary, Birmingham, AL, 2023. Artist’s book conceived and designed by Luca Buvoli.
Yoo, Mionkyung, and Kiyoung Park, (oh, shyness), Catalogue of the exhibition, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea, 2023.
Jung, Sanghyuk, [English translation from Korean original]“An Artwork Inside a Museum Locker?,” Chosunilbo (December 22, 2022), Print and web. https://www.chosun.com/culture-life/art-gallery/2022/12/22/6X6R5GYINNEQ5LKJDDMLIOTBUE/
Motta, Lucrezia, "10 Cultural Events To Visit This November," Citizen Femme (November 2, 2022). Web. https://citizen-femme.com/2022/11/02/monthly-cultural-hot-list-november-2022/
Nolte, Michaela, "Sprechende Hüte," Der Tagesspiele – Kunst & Markt (September 17, 2022), Berlin: 25. Print.
Padavic-Callaghan, Karmela, “Luca Buvoli’s Art Explores COVID Spacetime,” Symmetry, FermiLab/SLAC (May 31, 2022). https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/luca-buvolis-art-explores-covid-spacetime
Morgan, Robert C., "Luca Buvoli: Astrodoubt and the Quarantine Chronicles,” The Brooklyn Rail, March 2022, New York: 89-90.
Hanhardt, John G., Luca Buvoli: Astrodoubt and the Quarantine Chronicles (An Introduction), Catalogue of the exhibition, Cristin Tierney Gallery, New York, 2022 (digital).
Buvoli, Luca, Out of (This) Time: Notes from “Astrodoubt and the Quarantine Chronicles,” The Brooklyn Rail, New York, September 2021: 64-65. Print.
Heller, Steven, “Comics Artist Leaves Planet Pandemic for Better World,” The Daily Heller, Print.mag, April 19, 2021. Web.
Levin, Kim, "Not-a-Superhero?" in "Elsewhere," BookLocker.com Inc., St. Petersburg, Florida, 2020: 149-153. Print.
Storr, Robert, and Luca Buvoli, Interviste sull’arte, edited by Francesca Pietropaolo, Il Saggiatore, Milan, Italy, 2019: 93-110. Print.
Sai, Elisa, “A Very Beautiful Day After Tomorrow: Luca Buvoli and the Legacy of Futurism.” In Adamowicz, Elza, and Simona Storchi, ed. Back to the Futurists: The avant-garde and its legacy. Manchester University Press, 2013. 284-297. Print.
Jin, Jung-yoon, “Residues of the Future from Failure in the Past,” Public Art, 73 (October 2012). Seoul: 88-95. Print.
Merjian, Ara. “’Those ars all bellical’: Luca Buvoli’s Velocity Zero (2007-2009) and a post/modernist poetics of aphasia.” Word & Image: A Journal of Verbal/Visual Enquiry 28.2 (April-June 2012): 101-116. Print.
Zanoletti, Margherita. “Marinetti and Buvoli: A Translation Studies Approach to Italian Art and Culture.” In Arancibia, Pamela, et al., ed. Shaping an Identity: Adapting, Rewriting and Remaking Italian Literature. Ottawa: Legas, 2012. 175-191. Print.
Warner, Marina. “Thought Experiments: Flight Before Flight.” Stranger Magic. London: Chatto and Windus, 2011. Print. 356.
Lorenzo Alcalá, May. La esquiva huella del Futurismo en el Rio de la Plata. Buenos Aires, Argentina: Patricia Rizzo Editora, 2009. Print.
Ross, Nadia. “Un instant avant la catastrophe.” Le Soleil 1 5 May 2010. Print.
Hillings, Valerie. “Faster Than the Speed of Light.” Deutsche+Guggenheim Magazine (winter 2010): 18-19. Print.
Hirsh, Faye. “Luca Buvoli–Susan Inglett.” Art in America 97.6 (June-July 2009): 193-4. Print.
Palmieri, Jessica, and Luca Buvoli. “What’s left of the Future, An interview with Luca Buvoli.” May 2009. Web. <http://www.italianfuturism.org/2009/05/luca-buvoli/>. Web.
Salsbury, Britany. “Critics’ Picks: Luca Buvoli.” Artforum, March 2009. Web. <http://artforum.com/picks/id=22238%26view=print>. Web.
Scott, Andrea. “Luca Buvoli.” The New Yorker 16 March 2009: 2. Print.
Poggi, Christine, and Luca Buvoli. “A Very Beautiful Day After Tomorrow.” Modern Painters 21.1 (Feb. 2009): 56-59. Print.
Schlegel, Jeff. “36 Hours – Pittsburgh.” New York Times 6 July 2008: TR10. Print.
Barliant, Claire. “Venice–52 Venice Biennale.” Modern Painters 19.7 (Sept. 2007): 99. Print.
Schjeldahl, Peter. "Big Ideas–The Venice Biennale." The New Yorker 25 June 2007: 100-101. Print.
Rubinstein, Raphael. “Watching the Skies.” Art in America 92.10 (Nov. 2004): 152. Print.
Bellini, Andrea. “Luca Buvoli: Learning to Fly.” Flash Art (Italian Edition) 243 (Dec-Jan. 2004): 100-103. Print.
Yablonsky, Linda. “Leaping Dialectics in a Single Bound.” The New York Times 2 Nov. 2003: AR24. Print.
Bellini, Andrea. “Rome: Luca Buvoli, Autori Cambi.” Flash Art International 36 (Oct. 2003): 126. Print.
Princenthal, Nancy. "Artist's Book Beat." Art on Paper 5.6 (July-Aug. 2001): 70. Print.
Schwabsky, Barry. "Drawing in Time: Reflections on Animation by Artists." Art on Paper 5.4 (Mar-Apr. 2001): 36-41. Print.
Williams, Gregory. "Luca Buvoli: John Weber Gallery, New York." Frieze 51 (Mar-Apr. 2000): 112. Print.
Schwabsky, Barry. “The Accidental Superhero.” World Art 20 (summer 1999): 24-27. Print.
Volk, Gregory. “Luca Buvoli at John Weber.” Art in America 86.1 (Jan. 1998): 97–98. Print.
Cameron, Dan. "Critical Edge. Son of 'Scatter.'" Art and Auction 16.5 (Dec. 1993): 52–56. Print.
Liebmann, Lisa. “Goings on About Town: Art.” The New Yorker 27 Jan. 1992: 10. Print.
Born in Brescia, Italy. Lives in New York. BFA Academy of Fine Arts, Venice. MA S.U.N.Y. Albany. MFA School of Visual Arts, NY.
Selected One-Person Exhibitions
2023 Space Doubt – Day 12: Spacewalk, Maus Contemporary, Birmingham, AL (catalog).
2022 Astrodoubt and the Quarantine Chronicles (An Introduction), Curated by John Hanhardt, Cristin Tierney Gallery, New York (digital catalogue).
2020 Picture: Present (An episode from "Astrodoubt and The Quarantine Chronicles" in 12 scenes),The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC. (Digital Intersections).
2012 Remember Me: Luca Buvoli’s Meta-Futurism, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea.
2009 Instant Before Incident, Susan Inglett Gallery, New York.
Monument to Movement, Kaaitheater, Brussels, Belgium.
Velocity Zero, Estorick Collection, London, UK (brochure).
2007 A Very Beautiful Day After Tomorrow (Un Bellissimo Dopodomani), ICA Philadelphia, PA (brochure).
2006 Infinitely Definite, Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX.
2003 Adapting One’s Senses to High Altitude Flying, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC (catalogue).
Flying Preparatory Exercises, Glassell School of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX. (catalogue).
Flight Simulation Laboratory, Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX.
Dov’é La Vittoria? (Where is the Victory?), Galleria Autori Cambi, Rome, Italy (catalogue).
2002 Flying: Practical Training for Intermediates, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, OR (catalogue).
Artforum, Berlin Art Fair (presented by Art and Idea, Mexico City-Berlin), Berlin, Germany.
2001 Inside and Outside Time: Finally Revealed!, Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA (Video Gallery).
Around, Around, and Away, (in collaboration with composer Jeffrey Lependorf), Queens Museum of Art, NY (Wall Work, Panorama, and Unisphere) (brochure).
2000 Flying: Practical Training for Beginners, Austin Museum of Art, TX.
Flying: Practical Training for Beginners, M.I.T. List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA (catalogue).
1999 Will He Ultimately Escape?..., John Weber Gallery, New York.
Poster & Comics, Corraini Arte Contemporanea, Mantua, Italy.
Inside and Outside Time: The Real Story, part of Mythopoeia: Projects by Matthew Barney, Luca Buvoli, and Matthew Ritchie, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, OH (catalogue).
1997 Wherever You Are Not, John Weber Gallery, New York.
A Night Like Any Other, Galleria Emi Fontana, Milan, Italy.
Not-a-Superhero, I presume, Temporanea, Caffe’ Florian, Venice, Italy (catalogue).
1996 Silent Sight, Arizona State University Museum (Experimental Gallery), Tempe, AZ .
Behind the Mask, Santa Monica Museum of Art (Focus Gallery), CA (brochure).
A Spectacular Non-Event, Acme, Santa Monica, CA.
1995 Not-a-Superhero: Inside and Outside Time…, The Clocktower Gallery/PS 1 Museum, New York (short term installation).
Not-a-Superhero no. 9: It’s Your Fault!, Galerie Hafemann, Wiesbaden, Germany.
Transformed!, John Weber Gallery (Project Room), New York.
The Origin of Not-a-Superhero, AC Project Room, New York (catalogue).
1994 Not-a-Superhero: It’s Time for… Eternity, Food House, Santa Monica, CA (catalogue).
Not-a-Superhero, Galleria Autori Messa, Rome, Italy.
1993 Not-a-Superhero: The Return of Dr. Logos, Galleria Loft, Valdagno (Vicenza), Italy (catalogue).
1989 Galleria Meta, Bolzano, Italy (catalogue).
1988 Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation, Venice, Italy (catalogue).
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023-24 Fabriano Contemporanea, #1 Intrecci, Palazzo del Podestá and Loggiato, Fabriano, Italy (curated by Chiara Zampetti Egidi)(catalog).
2023 After “The Wild”: Contemporary Art from the Barnett and Annalee Newman Foundation Collection, Jewish Museum, New York (curated by Kelly Taxter, with Shira Backer).
2022-23 (oh, shyness), Buk-Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea, (c-curated by Min Yoo, Beom Kim, and Luca Buvoli)(catalogue).
2022 Positions Berlin, Tempelhof Airport, Berlin (presented by Maus Contemporary).
2020 Reactional Aesthetics: Art of the 1990s from the Robert J. Shiffler Collection & Archive. Clay Street Press Gallery, Cincinnati, OH (curated by Volatile [redux]).
2019 Beyond the Cape, Boca Raton Museum, Boca Raton, FL (curated by Kathleen Goncharov).
2016 Fireflies in the Night Take Wing, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, Athens, Grece (artistic director: Robert Storr, curated by Barbara London, Kalliopi Minioudaki, Francesca Pietropaolo).
2010 Third Thoughts, CCA Andtrax, Mallorca, Spain (curated by Barry Schwabsky and Carol Szymanski).
Catastrophe? Quelle Catastrophe!, Quebec City Biennial, Manif d’Art 5, Quebec City (curated by Sylvie Fortin) (catalogue).
Utopia Matters, façade and banner project, Deutsche Guggenheim Museum, Berlin, (curated by Vivien Greene).
2009 Modern Poets: Futurism and the New Manifesto, Gund Lobby, The Museum of Modern Art, New York (brochure).
2008 1st Polish Mediations Biennale, Poznan, Poland (curated by Yu Yeon Kim) (catalogue).
Inner and Outer Spaces, The Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA (curated by Dara Meyers-Kingsley) (brochure).
Fusion/Confusion, Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany (curated by Sabine Maria Schmidt) (catalogue).
2007 52. International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy (curated by Robert Storr) (catalogue).
2005 Art Creates Communities, Bohen Foundation, New York (curated by More Art).
2003 Paper Sculpture, The Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY, traveling to several museums and institutions in the U.S. (curated by Cabinet Magazine, ICI, and The Sculpture Center)(catalogue).
2002 Artist to Artist, A Decade of Art Program of the Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation, Ace Gallery, New York (catalogue).
2001 Animation, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY.
2000 The Living End, the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, CO (curated by Ingrid Schaffner) (catalogue).
DMZ_2000, U.N. Republic of Korea and Korean Cultural Services, New York (curated by Yu Yeon Kim).
Nonplusultra, FM Schwartz Galerie, Cologne, Germany (curated by Sabine Russ and Gregory Volk).
Greater New York, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY (curated in collaboration with The Museum of Modern Art, New York) (catalogue).
1999 2nd International Art Symposium ‘99, Fujino, Kanagawa, Japan.
1998 ‘98 Pusan International Contemporary Art Festival, Pusan, Korea (catalogue).
Close Encounters, Ottawa Art Gallery, Canada (curated by Sylvie Fortin).
1997 Transversions, 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, Johannesburg, South Africa (curated by Yu Yeon Kim) (catalogue).
Made in Italy, New Italian Videos, ICA, London, Great Britain (curated by Giovanna Amadasi and Paolo Colombo).
1995 Avant-Garde Walk a Venezia, Venice, Italy (curated by Marc Pottier) (catalogue).
1994 Selections Winter ‘94, The Drawing Center, New York.
1993 (oh, shyness), Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, Thread Waxing Space, and Sandra Gering Gallery, New York (catalogue).
La fabbrica estetica, Grand Palais, Paris, France, (catalogue).
Selected Awards
2016-17 Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship.
2011 Barnett and Annalee Newman Foundation Award/Grant.
2010 Guggenheim Fellowship.
2006 Creative Capital Foundation Grant.
2001 Pollock-Krasner Award.
2000 Harvestworks Artist-in-Residence Grant.
1999 New York State Council on the Arts, Film Production Grant.
1998 Jerome Foundation Media Arts Program Grant.
1997 New York Foundation for the Arts, Artist Fellowship (Drawing/Printmaking/Artists’ Books).
Mac Dowell Colony, Artists in Residence Program, Peterborough, NH.
1996-97 Yaddo Artists in Residence Program, Saratoga Springs, NY.
1995-96 Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation Studio Grant, New York.
1995 Art OMI International artists’ residence, Ghent, New York.
1992-93 P.S. 122 Project Space Grant, New York.
1988-89 Fulbright Scholarship for Fine Arts.
Selected Public Collections
The Museum of Modern Art, New York (Department of Painting and Sculpture).
The Jewish Museum, New York.
Guggenheim Museum, New York.
The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC.
Deutsche Guggenheim Museum, Berlin.
City of Venice, Italy.
SELECTED Public Commissions
2011-21 Permanent artwork commissioned for Roosevelt Station, Seattle Sound Transit, Seattle, Washington. Fabrication and installation in progress, to be completed in 2021.
2010 Vector HH, permanent artwork for Hobby Airport, commissioned by the City of Houston, Texas.
2004 The Big Wave, permanent artwork for elementary school PS 253, Queens, Percent for the Art Program, Department of Cultural Affairs, New York City Board of Education.
SELECTED MUSEUM/INSTITUTION COMMISSIONS
2023 Flags and Flipbook (Astrodoubt Floating in Gravitational Waves), Cittá di Fabriano, Italy.
2020 Picture: Present (An episode from "Astrodoubt and The Quarantine Chronicles" in 12 scenes), The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC. (Digital Intersections).
2010 Utopia Matters, large façade site-specific work and banner project, and flipbook with sculptural case edition. Commissioned by the Deutsche Guggenheim Museum, Berlin.
2010 When I Was Worrying – Mural, latex paint and gouache on walls and cut-out paper. Commissioned by CCA Gallery, Andratx, Mallorca, Spain, for the group exhibition Third Thoughts.
2010 Concept Car Contrails, resin, metal, and latex paint on walls. Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH.
2009 Velocity Zero – Mural, latex paint and gouache on walls and cut-out paper. Commissioned by the Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, London, UK, for the one of the two solo exhibitions in Futurism 100!
2008 Instant Before Incident (Ave Machina), large sculptural installation for the exhibition Inner and Outer Spaces. Commissioned by The Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA.
2008 Pavillion “Velocitá Zero”, large sculptural installation for the exhibition Fusion/Confusion. MDF, masonite, paint, monitor showing the animated video Velocitá Zero (2007, DVD, 11 minutes, color, sound). Shown with four Propaganda Posters hanging on painted wall. Commissioned by the Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany.
2007 A Very Beautiful Day After Tomorrow (Un Bellissimo Dopodomani), large sculptural installation including suspended and wall resin and steel sculptures, glass and marble mosaic, and five video animations installed in five different rooms at the entrance of the Arsenale. Commissioned by the 52nd International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy, with the International Council of the Museum of Modern Art and the Toby Lewis Philanthropic Fund for the Cleveland Jewish Foundation Federation.
2007 A Very Beautiful Day After Tomorrow (Un Bellissimo Dopodomani), large sculptural installation including suspended and wall resin and steel sculptures, and one video animation. Commissioned by the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA.
2003 Vector Blue, large installation including suspended and wall resin and steel sculptures for solo exhibition Flying Preparatory Exercises. Commissioned by The Glassell School of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX.
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Muir-Harmony, Teasel, and Luca Buvoli, Space Doubt – Day 12: Spacewalk, book/catalog of the exhibition, Maus Contemporary, Birmingham, AL, 2023. Artist’s book conceived and designed by Luca Buvoli.
Yoo, Mionkyung, and Kiyoung Park, (oh, shyness), Catalogue of the exhibition, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea, 2023.
Jung, Sanghyuk, [English translation from Korean original]“An Artwork Inside a Museum Locker?,” Chosunilbo (December 22, 2022), Print and web. https://www.chosun.com/culture-life/art-gallery/2022/12/22/6X6R5GYINNEQ5LKJDDMLIOTBUE/
Motta, Lucrezia, "10 Cultural Events To Visit This November," Citizen Femme (November 2, 2022). Web. https://citizen-femme.com/2022/11/02/monthly-cultural-hot-list-november-2022/
Nolte, Michaela, "Sprechende Hüte," Der Tagesspiele – Kunst & Markt (September 17, 2022), Berlin: 25. Print.
Padavic-Callaghan, Karmela, “Luca Buvoli’s Art Explores COVID Spacetime,” Symmetry, FermiLab/SLAC (May 31, 2022). https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/luca-buvolis-art-explores-covid-spacetime
Morgan, Robert C., "Luca Buvoli: Astrodoubt and the Quarantine Chronicles,” The Brooklyn Rail, March 2022, New York: 89-90.
Hanhardt, John G., Luca Buvoli: Astrodoubt and the Quarantine Chronicles (An Introduction), Catalogue of the exhibition, Cristin Tierney Gallery, New York, 2022 (digital).
Buvoli, Luca, Out of (This) Time: Notes from “Astrodoubt and the Quarantine Chronicles,” The Brooklyn Rail, New York, September 2021: 64-65. Print.
Heller, Steven, “Comics Artist Leaves Planet Pandemic for Better World,” The Daily Heller, Print.mag, April 19, 2021. Web.
Levin, Kim, "Not-a-Superhero?" in "Elsewhere," BookLocker.com Inc., St. Petersburg, Florida, 2020: 149-153. Print.
Storr, Robert, and Luca Buvoli, Interviste sull’arte, edited by Francesca Pietropaolo, Il Saggiatore, Milan, Italy, 2019: 93-110. Print.
Sai, Elisa, “A Very Beautiful Day After Tomorrow: Luca Buvoli and the Legacy of Futurism.” In Adamowicz, Elza, and Simona Storchi, ed. Back to the Futurists: The avant-garde and its legacy. Manchester University Press, 2013. 284-297. Print.
Jin, Jung-yoon, “Residues of the Future from Failure in the Past,” Public Art, 73 (October 2012). Seoul: 88-95. Print.
Merjian, Ara. “’Those ars all bellical’: Luca Buvoli’s Velocity Zero (2007-2009) and a post/modernist poetics of aphasia.” Word & Image: A Journal of Verbal/Visual Enquiry 28.2 (April-June 2012): 101-116. Print.
Zanoletti, Margherita. “Marinetti and Buvoli: A Translation Studies Approach to Italian Art and Culture.” In Arancibia, Pamela, et al., ed. Shaping an Identity: Adapting, Rewriting and Remaking Italian Literature. Ottawa: Legas, 2012. 175-191. Print.
Warner, Marina. “Thought Experiments: Flight Before Flight.” Stranger Magic. London: Chatto and Windus, 2011. Print. 356.
Lorenzo Alcalá, May. La esquiva huella del Futurismo en el Rio de la Plata. Buenos Aires, Argentina: Patricia Rizzo Editora, 2009. Print.
Ross, Nadia. “Un instant avant la catastrophe.” Le Soleil 1 5 May 2010. Print.
Hillings, Valerie. “Faster Than the Speed of Light.” Deutsche+Guggenheim Magazine (winter 2010): 18-19. Print.
Hirsh, Faye. “Luca Buvoli–Susan Inglett.” Art in America 97.6 (June-July 2009): 193-4. Print.
Palmieri, Jessica, and Luca Buvoli. “What’s left of the Future, An interview with Luca Buvoli.” May 2009. Web. <http://www.italianfuturism.org/2009/05/luca-buvoli/>. Web.
Salsbury, Britany. “Critics’ Picks: Luca Buvoli.” Artforum, March 2009. Web. <http://artforum.com/picks/id=22238%26view=print>. Web.
Scott, Andrea. “Luca Buvoli.” The New Yorker 16 March 2009: 2. Print.
Poggi, Christine, and Luca Buvoli. “A Very Beautiful Day After Tomorrow.” Modern Painters 21.1 (Feb. 2009): 56-59. Print.
Schlegel, Jeff. “36 Hours – Pittsburgh.” New York Times 6 July 2008: TR10. Print.
Barliant, Claire. “Venice–52 Venice Biennale.” Modern Painters 19.7 (Sept. 2007): 99. Print.
Schjeldahl, Peter. "Big Ideas–The Venice Biennale." The New Yorker 25 June 2007: 100-101. Print.
Rubinstein, Raphael. “Watching the Skies.” Art in America 92.10 (Nov. 2004): 152. Print.
Bellini, Andrea. “Luca Buvoli: Learning to Fly.” Flash Art (Italian Edition) 243 (Dec-Jan. 2004): 100-103. Print.
Yablonsky, Linda. “Leaping Dialectics in a Single Bound.” The New York Times 2 Nov. 2003: AR24. Print.
Bellini, Andrea. “Rome: Luca Buvoli, Autori Cambi.” Flash Art International 36 (Oct. 2003): 126. Print.
Princenthal, Nancy. "Artist's Book Beat." Art on Paper 5.6 (July-Aug. 2001): 70. Print.
Schwabsky, Barry. "Drawing in Time: Reflections on Animation by Artists." Art on Paper 5.4 (Mar-Apr. 2001): 36-41. Print.
Williams, Gregory. "Luca Buvoli: John Weber Gallery, New York." Frieze 51 (Mar-Apr. 2000): 112. Print.
Schwabsky, Barry. “The Accidental Superhero.” World Art 20 (summer 1999): 24-27. Print.
Volk, Gregory. “Luca Buvoli at John Weber.” Art in America 86.1 (Jan. 1998): 97–98. Print.
Cameron, Dan. "Critical Edge. Son of 'Scatter.'" Art and Auction 16.5 (Dec. 1993): 52–56. Print.
Liebmann, Lisa. “Goings on About Town: Art.” The New Yorker 27 Jan. 1992: 10. Print.