Sandro Chia

Florence • 1946

Sandro Chia has studied at the Istituto d’Arte and then at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence where he graduated in 1969. After graduation, he has travelled extensively in India, Turkey and throughout Europe before settling in Rome in 1970.
During the 1970’s he began to exhibit in Rome and Europe, gradually moving away from conceptual works towards a more figurative style of painting. Between September 1980 and August 1981 he received a scholarship from the city of Monchengladbach in Germany where he moved to work for a year. The following year he moved to New York City, where he will remain for over two decades, with frequent trips back to Montalcino, near Siena in Italy.
He has been part of the Italian “Transavanguardia” movement, exhibiting in many of the most important museums and galleries of the world. He has exhibited at the Biennale of Paris and San Paolo and three times at the Venice Biennale. His work has been part of internationally acclaimed museum group shows. Amongst his most important personal shows are exhibitions at the Stedelijk Museum of Amsterdam (1983), the Metropolitan Museum of New York (1984), the National Galerie of Berlin (1984, 1992), the Museum of Modern Art of Paris (1984); the Museums of Dusseldorf (1984), Antwerp (1989), Mexico City (1989); Palazzo Medici Riccardi in Florence (1991); the Museums of Karlsruhe (1992), Palm Springs (1993), Villa Medici in Rome (1995); Palazzo Reale in Milan (1997), the Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida (1997), the Galleria Civica of Siena (1997), the Galleria Civica in Trento (2000), the Museo d’Arte of Ravenna (2000); Palazzo Pitti and the Museo Archeologico Nazionale of Florence (2002); and most recently the Duomo of St. Agostino in Pietrasanta (2005) and Galleria Nazionale di Arte Moderna of Rome (GNAM) (2010).
In 2011 a retrospective was held at Foro Boario in Modena and at the MIC, Museo della Ceramica of Faenza.
In 2012 a retrospective of 'Transavanguardia' was held at 'Palazzo Reale' in Milan and his solo exhibition at Galleria Biasutti in Turin.
Between 2012 and 2015 solo shows of his paintings, drawings and sculptures have been held at Villa Manin in Padova, Steven Harvey Fine Arts in NYC, Hillsboro Fine Art Dublin, Hangaram Art Museum in Seoul and DeLand Museum in Florida.
In 2003, the Italian State acquired three important works of his for the permanent collection of the Italian Senate at Palazzo Madama, and in 2005 two monumental sculptures were acquired by the Province of Rome and placed in front of its headquarters in Via IV Novembre, Rome.
In 2014 the city of of Livorno ha commissioned him a monumental bronze sculpture to be placed at the newly restored square where the 'Centro di Ricerca Sant'Anna' has its headquarters.
Today he lives between Miami, Rome and his Castello Romitorio wine-making estate in Montalcino, where he also follows the production of prestigious wines, amongst which the world-famous Brunello wine that won several world famous awards in 2010 and 2015 as 'best red wine in the world' (Wine Challenge London 2010 and 2015).

Lives and works beetween Montalcino, Roma and Miami

GALLERY EXHIBITIONS

1995

Prima bella mostra italiana - with Enzo Cucchi
Mazzoli Gallery, Modena

1984

Venator Intrepidus
Mazzoli Gallery, Modena

1982

Scultura andata, scultura storna - with Enzo Cucchi
Mazzoli Gallery, Modena

1981

Tesoro - Chia, Clemente, Cucchi, De Maria, Paladino
Mazzoli Gallery, Modena

1978

Tre o quattro artisti secchi - with Enzo Cucchi
Mazzoli Gallery, Modena

SOLO EXHIBITIONS - Selection

2017

Sandro Chia, Marc Straus Gallery, New York, USA

2016

I think I therefore paint, Jerome Zodo Art Gallery, London, UK
Sandro Chia, Klaus Steinmetz Contemporary Art, San José, Costa Rica
Il Viandante, CIAC Centro Italiano Arte Contemporanea, curated by Italo Tomassoni, Foligno, Italy

2015

Grafiche, a cura di Enzo di Martino, Villa Manini, Padova, Italy
Sandro Chia, Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
Paintings and Drawings, DeLand Museum, Florida, USA
Guerrieri, a cura di Daria Jorioz e Enzo di Martino, Centro San Benin, Aosta, Italy

2014

Works on paper, Steven Harvey Art Projects, New York, USA
New Paintings, Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin, Ireland

2013

Storie trascese di teatro latente, Galleria Comunale di arte contemporanea, Arezzo, Italy

2012

Enigma, Galleria Giampiero Biasutti, Torino, Italy
Andare Oltre, Galleria d'arte maggiore, Bologna, Italy
Sandro Chia, Art & Co Gallery, Milano, Italy

2011

Sandro Chia, Foro Boario, Galleria Civica di Modena, Italy
Ceramica vs Disegno: 1:0, Museo della Ceramica di Faenza, Italy

2010

Della Pittura, popolare e nobilissima Arte, GNAM, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy
Sandro Chia, curated by Maurizio Vanni, Triennale Bovisa, Milan, Italy
Joy and Sorrow of a Young Painter, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Joy and Sorrow of a Young Painter, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Berlin, Germany

2009

I Guerrieri, Scuola dei Mercanti, Campo Madonna dell' Orto, Venice, Italy
Campestre Romantico, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Tokyo, Japan
Della Pittura, Popolare e Nobilissima Arte, curated by Achille Bonito Oliva, Galleria Nazionale Arte Moderna (GNAM) Rome, Italy
Pittura e Poesia, Sandro Chia e Susan Stewart, Il Frantoio, Capalbio, Italy
The Magic of the Press - Opere Grafiche, Echo Italia Montreal 2009, curated by Camera di Commercio Italia, Montreal, Canada

2008

Talking Paintings, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague, Holland
Saints and Sinners, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, USA

2007

Gods and Heroes, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida,USA

2006

Cent’anni di solitudine – Illustrato da Sandro Chia, Telecom Progetto Italia, Milan, Italy
Sandro Chia, Klaus Steinmetz Contemporary Art, San José, Costa Rica
Gary Nader Fine Art, Miami, USA
Il Marmo e la celluloide, La Versiliana, Forte dei Marmi, Italy

2005

D'oro e d'argento, Pietrasanta, Italy
Galleria Astuni, Pietrasanta, Italy
Contini Art Gallery, Venice, Italy

2004

Sandro Chia, Galleria d’Arte Contini, Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy
Pompa Magna, Centro Cultural Ourense, Ourense, Spain
Litania a Colori, Tuscan Sun Festival, Chiesa di S. Agostino, Cortona, Italy
Sandro Chia, Villa Bohm, Neustadt am der Weinstrasse, Germany
Viandante Naufrago, Galleria Boxart, Verona, Italy
Sandro e/o Sandro, Galleria Tega, Milan, Italy

2003

Divano a Mare, Spazio Bisazza, Milan, Italy
Sandro Chia, Galleria Tega, Milan, Italy
Affido al disegno..., Temple University, Rome, Italy

2002

Miti e Leggende, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Florence, Italy
Sandro Chia, Galerie Vidal Saint Phalle, Pari, France

2001

Sandro Chia, Galerie Enrico Navarra, Paris, France
Magazzini D’Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy

2000

Galleria Civica D'Arte Contemporanea, Trento, Italy
Museo di Ravenna, Italy
Velge e Noirhomme, Brussels, Belgium

1999

Tony Shafrazzi Gallery, New York, USA
Magazzino D'Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy

1998

Pepperdine University, Weismann Foundation, Malibu, California, USA
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
Lutz Gallery, Germany

1997

Sandro Chia: opere scelte 1975-1996, Magazzini del Sale Palazzo Pubblico, Siena, Italy
Galleria Civica, Siena, Italy
Palazzo Sforzesco, Milan, Italy
M.O.M.A., Boca Raton, Florida, USA
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Germany
Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Sandro Chia, Arengario di Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy

1996

Sandro Chia: New Paintings, Sidney, Australia
Janis Gallery, New York, USA
Sandro Chia: Recent work, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France

1995

Elektra, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Germany
Sandro Chia, Academie de France, Villa Medici, Rome, Italy

1994

Sandro Chia: Small Bronze Sculptures, Grand Salon, New York, USA
Sandro Chia: Neo Paintings, 65 Thompson Street, New York, USA
Sandro Chia, Waddington Galleries, London, UK

1993

Sandro Chia, Espace des Arts, Chalon sur Saône, France
Desert Museum of Art, Palm Springs, USA
Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
Larry Gagosian/Leo Castelli, New York, USA

1992

Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany
Retrospective, Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany
Works on Paper, Galerie Hilger, Vienna, Austria

1991

Dipinti, Disegni, sculture, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Germany
Sandro Chia. Dipinti e titoli recenti, Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Florence, Italy
Works on Paper, Kunstverein Sundern, Sundern

1990

Sabine Wachters Deurle Fine Arts, Deurle
Yoshimitsu Hijikata Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
Fondazione Mudima, Milan, Italy
Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France

1989

Novanta spine al vento, Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, Austria
ICC, Antwerp
Museo della Biennale, Venice, Italy
Museum Schloss Rheda, Wiedenbrück, Germany
Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico
Museum of Moterrey, Moterrey, Mexico
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Germany
ACeT Corporation, Tokyo, Japan
Sperone Westwater Fischer, New York, USA
Yoshimitsu Hijikata Gallery, Nagoya, Japan

1988

Sandro Chia Oeuvres recents, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
Sandro Chia, former church of San Nicolò, XXI Festival dei Due Mondi, Spoleto, Italy
Sperone Westwater Fischer, New York, USA

1987

Five Poems for Five Works on Paper and One Sculpture, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Mario Diacono, Boston, USA
Sperone Westwater Fischer, New York, USA
Galleria Gian Enzo Sperone, Rome, Italy
Fischer Fine Art, London, UK

1986

Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany

1985

Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, USA
Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zürich, Switzerland
Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin, Germany
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Germany

1984

Staatliche Kunsthalle, Berlin, Germany
Sandro Chia Peintures 1976-1983, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt
The Mezzanine Gallery, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Kunstverein für Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Schellmann und Klüser, Munich, Germany
Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
Sima, Venice, Italy
Galerie Ascan Crone, Hamburg, Germany
James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Venator Intrepidus, Galleria Emilio Mazzoli, Modena, Italy

1983-84

Sandro Chia Bilder, 1973-1983, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hanover, Germany

1983

Sandro Chia, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland
Mario Diacono, Rome, Italy
Sandro Chia. Disegni, acquarelli, pastelli, tempere, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy
Leo Castelli, New York, USA
Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
Natalie Seroussi, Paris, France
Gallery Five, Stockholm, Sweden
Galerie Silvia Menzel, Berlin, Germany
Sandro Chia, Mönchengladbach Journal, Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany

1982

The James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Sperone Westwater, New York, USA

1981

Sandro Chia, Sperone Westwater Fischer, New York, USA
Bruno Bischofberger, Zürich, Switerland
Anthony d'Offay, London, UK

1980

Sandro Chia, Sperone Westwater Fischer, New York, USA
Art e Project, Amsterdam, Holland
Paul Maenz, Cologne, Germany

1979

Mario Diacono, Bologna, Italy
Paul Maenz, Cologne, Germany
Adulti non lasciatevi orinare in faccia dai più piccoli, Framart Studio, Naples, Italy
Galleria Gian Enzo Sperone, Rome, Italy

1978

Intorno a sé, Galleria Giuliana De Crescenzo, Rome, Italy
Per organi, Paul Maenz, Cologne, Germany
Galleria dell'Oca, Rome, Italy
Studio Antonio Tucci Russo, Turin, Italy

1977

Galleria Fiorino, Genoa, Italy
Galleria Gian Enzo Sperone, Rome, Italy
Pupa. Preliminari per una mostra a Roma, Galleria La Salita, Rome, Italy

1976

Sandro Chia, Studio Antonio Tucci Russo, Turin, Italy
Due monelli guardano nell'imo un limone, Galleria La Salita, Rome, Italy
Ometto quando ti sentirai a tuo agio visto che sei a casa tua, Galleria La Salita, Rome, Italy

1975

Graziosa Girevole, Galleria Lucrezia Domizio, Pescara, Italy

1974

L'opera descrivibile, Galleria La Salita, Rome, Italy

1973

Autoritratto (with Notargiacomo), Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy

1972

Copia, Galleria La Salita, Rom, Italy

1971

L'ombra e il suo doppio, Galleria La Salita, Rome, Italy

GROUP EXHIBITIONS - Selection

2016

Works on Paper and Wood, HilgerBrot Kunsthalle, Wien, Austria

2015

Meraviglia, Sandro Chia and Enzo Cucchi, Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin, Ireland
La Divina Commedia, CIAC Centro Italiano Arte Contemporanea, Foligno, Italy

2013

About Ceramics, Otto Gallery, Bologna, Italy
Dislessica, Galleria Bianca, Palermo, Italy
Terra Italiana, Galleria d'arte maggiore, Bologna, Italy

2012

20 x Ettore Majorana, Palazzo Manganelli, Catania, Italy

2011

La Trasvanguardia Italiana, a cura di Achille Bonito Oliva, Palazzo Reale, Milano, Italy
7 opere per la Misericordia, Pio Monte della Misericordia, Napoli, Italy

2010

The 80's Revisited - Sammlung Bishofberger, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany

2009

Collaudi, a cura di Luca Beatrice e Beatrice Buscaroli, Padiglione Italia, 53ma Biennale di Venezia, Italy
Mitografie, Museo Carlo Bilotti, Rome, Italy

2008

Italics, curated by Francesco Bonami, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy

2007

Italy, Tendencies of Contemporary Research 1980-2007, MART, Rovereto, Italy
UNHCR - Arte Contemporanea per i Rifugiati, V edizione, Musei Capitolini, Rome, Italy
Luoghi d' Arte in Toscana, Giardini e Interni d' Artista, Museo Civico, Siena, Italy
Interni Romani, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome, Italy

2006

Gary Nader Fine Art, Miami, USA
Il Marmo e la Celluloide, La Versiliana, Forte dei Marmi, Italy

2005

Les Inventeurs de la Transavanguardia, Chateau de Villeneuve, Vence, France
Strade di Roma, Casa delle Letterature, Villa Poniatowski, Rome, Italy
Veritas, Studio d' Arte Raffaelli, Trento, Italy

2004

I Misteri di Roma, Galleria Nazionala d' Arte Moderna di Roma (GNAM), Rome, Italy
Regards, Galerie Artiscope, Bruxelles, Belgium

2003

Futuro Italiano, Parlamento Europeo, Bruxelles, Belgium
La Transavangarde, Centre de la Gravure et de l’Image Imprimée, La Louviere, Belgium
Il Nuovo Rit-ratto d’Europa, Academié Royale de Belgique, Bruxelles, Belgium
Prima Biennale Internazionale D’Arte di Pechino, China
La Transavanguardia Italiana, curated by Achille Bonito Oliva, Fondacion PROA Buenos Aires, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Santiago del Chile, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico
Le Opere e i Giorni, Certosa di Padula, Padula (SA), Italy
Seascapes in Confrontation, Beaufort 2003, Museum of Modern Art, Ostend, Belgium
Pictura Magistra Vitae, curated by Victoria Coen, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio in Bologna, Italy

2002

Transavanguardia, Castello di Rivoli, Torino, Italy
In Chartis Mevanie, Comune di Bevagna e Spoleto (PG), Italy

2000

Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

1999

Tony Shafrazzi Gallery, New York, USA

1997

Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France

1996

Pablo Picasso: Ein zeitgenossischer Dialog, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg e Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France

1995

Die Muse?, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg e Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France

1994

Chia, De Maria, Paladino, Galleria Cardi, Milan, Italy
New Prints by Contemporary Masters, Salama-Caro Gallery, London, UK

1993

Chia, Clemente, Paladino, Salvo: Works on Paper, Galerie Delta, Rotterdam, Holland
Utopia. Arte Italiana 1950-1993, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg e Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France

1992-93

Transavanguardia: Chia, Clemente, Cucchi, De Maria, Paladino: Works from 1977-90, Gian Ferrari Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy

1992

Ho-Am Museum, Seoul, Corea

1991

Festival of Salzburg, with Arnulf Rainer and Roy Lichtenstein, Salzburg, Germany

1990

Sperone Westwater Group Exhibition, ARCO '90 Art Fair, Madrid, Spain
Number One 1990, Galeria Dau al Set, Barcelona, Spain
Artists for Amnesty, Blum Helman Gallery and Germans van Eck Gallery, New York, USA
Group Exhibition, Galerie Enrico Navarra, Paris, France
Tra Mito e Stereotipo, Galleria INARCO, Turin, Italy
Dreams of Artists' Furniture, "121" Art Galley, Antwerp, Holland
Lo Zingaro Blu, Galleria Pieroni, Rome, Italy
Pharmakon '90, Nippon Convention Center, Chiba, Japan

1989

Italian Art, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
S. Chia/E. Cucchi, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
1979-1989 American, Italian, Mexican Art from the Collection of Francesco Pellizzi, Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, UK
Sperone Westwater, New York, USA
Wiener Diwan-Sigmund Freud-Heute, Museum des 20 Jahrhunderts, Vienna, Austria
Meta-Menphis, Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice, Italy

1988

Dal ritorno all'ordine al richiamo della pittura. Continuità figurativa nella pittura italiana 1920-1987, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo (traveling), Norway
Le scuole romane sviluppi e continuità, Palazzo Forti, Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Verona, Italy
XLIII Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
The Marshall Frankel Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA
Fables and Fantasies, From the collection of Susan Kasen and Robert D. Summer, Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina, USA
City of Sale, National Academy of Design, Huntington Room, New York, USA

1987

Ascan Crone, Hamburg, Germany
Painting in Europe, Karl Pfefferle, Munich, Germany
Tridente Due Roma 1987, Galleria Giuliana De Crescenzo, Rome, Italy
The great drawing show, Michael Kohn, Los Angeles, USA
Art against AIDS, Sperone Westwater, New York, USA
The Re-emergent Figure-Seven Sculptors at the Storm King Art Center, The Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, New York, USA
Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Collection, Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, USA
Italie hors d'Italie, Musée des Beaux Arts, Nimes, France
Watercolors plus, Nora Haime Gallery, New York, USA
Works on Paper, Galerie Bernd Kluser, Munich, Germany
Disegno italiano del dopoguerra, Galleria Civica, Modena, Italy
Relief and Sculpture, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
Eugene Binder Gallery, Dallas, USA
Hommage a Leo Castelli, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
International Art Show for the End of World Hunger, Minnesota Museum of Art, Saint Paul (touring), USA

1986

Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, UK
Galerie Zero, Stockholm, Sweden
Eugene Binder Gallery, Dallas, USA
Galerie Mustad, Molnycke
Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany
XI Quadriennale di Roma, Rome, Italy
Philadelphia Collects Art since 1940, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, USA
International Art Show for the End of World Hunger, International Monetary Fund Visitor's Center, Washington, USA
Focus on the Image, Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma, and touring USA

1985-86

New Art from Italy, Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati; touring to Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha and Dade County Cultural Center, Miami, USA
A New Romanticism, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.; The Akron Art Museum, Akron
An International Survey 13 Points of View, Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizon, USA

1985

Dracos Art Center, Athens, Greece
7000 Eichen, Kunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
Anniottanta, States of War, Galleria Comunale d'Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy
States of War, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, USA
Selection from William J. Hokin Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA
Nicola Jacobs Gallery, London, UK
Drawings, Galerie Silvia Menzel, Berlin, Germany
Ouverture, Castello di Rivoli, Torino, Italy
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Germany

1984-85

Six in Bronze, The Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California; touring to The Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA
Dialog, Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal

1984

Six in Bronze, 1954 Gallery, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA
The European Attack, Gallery Barbara Farber American Graffiti, Amsterdam, Holland
Galerie Léger, Malmö, Sweden
Totem, Bonnier Gallery, New York, USA
Modern Expressionists, Sidney Janis, New York, USA
Via New York, Musée d'Art Contemporain, Montreal, Canada
Det Italienska Transavangardet, Stockholm Art Fair and Lunds Konsthall, Lund, Sweden
R.O.S.C. '84, Guinness Hop Store, Dublin, Ireland
Gallozzi-La Placa, New York, USA
Galerie Thomas, Munich, Germany
Jeffrey Hoffeld, New York, USA
Galerie France Antiope, Paris, France
Arte allo specchio, Giardini, Biennale, Venice, Italy
Sperone Westwater, New York, USA
Portraits, Galerie Silvia Menzel, Berlin, Germany
Drawings, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
Contemporary Italian Masters, The Chicago Public Library Cultural Center, Chicago, USA
The Human Condition, Biennial III, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
Terrae Motus, Villa Campolieto, Naples, Italy
Current Expression, Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Artists choose Artists, CDS Gallery, New York, USA
An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
XLI Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy

1983

Tema Celeste, Museo Civico d'Arte Contemporanea, Gibellina, Italy
New Art at the Tate Gallery, Tate Gallery, London, UK
New Italian Art, The New Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, USA
Trustees' Choice, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut, USA
Opere su carta, Centro d'arte contemporanea, Siracusa, Italy
Sandro Chia, Francesco Clemente, Enzo Cucchi: Bilder, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
La Transavanguardia, Caja de Pensiones, Madrid, Spain
Concetto-Imago: Generationswechsel in Italien, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany
Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zürich, Switzerland
Recent European Painting, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
Sculpture, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, USA
Drawings/Photography, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, USA
Bonjour Monsieur Manet, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, France
Emilio Mazzoli, Modena, Italy
Galerie Munro, Hamburg, Germany
Ars 83 Helsinki, Ateneumin Taidemuseo, Helsinki, Finland
Marathon '83, International Running Center, New York, USA
Bonnier Gallery, New York, USA
The First Show, Painting and Sculpture from Eight Collections, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, UK
Sakowitz Festival del Disegno italiano, Sakowitz, Houston, USA
Galerie Thomas, Munich, Germany
Expressive Malerei Nach Picasso, Galerie Beyeler, Base, Switzerland

1982

De la catastrophe, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switerland
Italian Art Now: An American Perspective, Exxon International Exhibition, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
Documenta 7, Kassel, Germany
The Pressure to Paint, Marlborough Gallery, New York, USA
Hommage to Leo Castelli, Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zürich, Switerland
Five Painters: Chia, Clemente, Kiefer, Salle, Schnabel, Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, UK
Transavanguardia Italia/America, Galleria Civica, Modena, Italy
Scultura andata, scultura storna, Galleria Emilio Mazzoli, Modena, Italy
Avanguardia, transavanguardia 68-77, Mura Aureliane, Rome, Italy
Zeitgeist, Internationale Kunstausstellung, Berlin, Germany
Chia, Cucchi, Lichtenstein, Twombly, Sperone Westwater Fischer, New York, USA
Mythe, Drame, Tragedie, Musée d'Art et d'Industrie, St-Etienne, France
Galleria Giuliana De Crescenzo, Rome, Italy
Vision in Disbelief, IV Sydney Biennale, Sydney, Australia

1981

Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
Linee della ricerca artistica in Italia 1960/1980, Palazzo delle Espozioni, Rome, Italy
Recent Acquisitions: Drawings, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
A New Spirit in Painting, The Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
Westkunst heute, Rheinhallen der Kolner Messe, Cologne, Germany
Sandro Chia, Francesco Clemente, Enzo Cucchi, Carlo Mariani, Malcolm Morley, David Salle, Julian Schnabel (drawings), Sperone Westwater Fischer, New York, USA
New York by Chia, Cucchi, Disler, Penck (graphics), Bernard Jacobson Ltd., Los Angeles, USA
New York, Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, UK
Figures: Forms and Expressions, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Cepa Gallery and Hallwalls, Buffalo, New York, USA
La memoria e l'inconscio, Studio La Torre Pistoia, Italy
Tesoro, Emilio Mazzoli, Modena, Italy
Aspects of Post-Modernism, The Squibb Gallery, Princeton, New Jersey, Italy

1980

Die Enthauptete Hand, 100 Zeichnungen aus Italien (Chia, Clemente, Cucchi, Paladino), Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn; touring to Wolfsburg and Groningen, Germany
Sandro Chia, Francesco Clemente, Enzo Cucchi, Nicola De Maria, Mimmo Paladino, Francesco Masnata, Genoa, Italy
Chia, Cucchi, Merz, Calzolari, Gian Enzo Sperone, Turin, Italy
Egonavigatio, Mannheimer Kunstverein, Mannheim, Germany
La nuova immagine italiana, Loggetta lombardesca, Ravenna, Italy
7 junge Kunstler aus Italien. Chia, Clemente, Cucchi, De Maria, Ontani, Paladino, Tatafiore, Kunsthalle, Basel; touring to Essen and Amsterdam
Prime opere, Galleria La Salita, Rome, Italy
Après le classicisme, Musée d'Art et Industrie, St-Etienne, France
Biennale di Venezia, Aperto 80", Venice, Italy
Sandro Chia, Francesco Clemente, Enzo Cucchi, Sperone Westwater Fischer, New York, USA

1979

Europa 79, Stuttgart, Germany
Associazione dissociazione dissenzione dell'arte-L'Estetico e il selvaggio, Galleria Comunale, Modena, Italy
XIII Rassegna Internazionale d'arte. Opere fatte ad arte, Palazzo di città, Acireale, Italy
Le Stanze, Castello Colonna, Genazzano, Italy
XV Biennale, Museu de Arte, São Paulo, Brazil

1977

10th Biennale de Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
S.Chia/G. Paolini/Salvo, Galleria Gian Enzo Sperone, Rome, Italy
1957-1977 (manifesto on the occasion of 20 years of activity of the gallery), Galleria La Salita, Rome, Italy

1976

A. Boetti, Collo rotto braccia lunghe; S. Chia, Immobilità vari affetti; F. Clemente, Coppia di inganno"; V. Pisani, Oriente occidente, Framart Studio, Naples, Italy

1975

24h su 24h, Galleria l'Attico, Rome, Italy
Boetti, Chia, Fabro, Pistoletto, Galleria La Salita, Rome, Italy

1974

Chia, De Filippi, Kounellis, Mattiacci, Notargiacomo, Galleria La Salita, Rome, Italy

1973

Sandro Chia, ex libris; Feruccio De Filippi, Narcisco; Gianfranco Notargiacomo, Ipotesi per una metrica, Galleria La Salita, Rome, Italy
Sandro Chia, Gianfranco Notargiacomo, Galleria La Salita, Rome, Italy

1972

Chia, De Filippi, Fabro, Pisani, Galleria La Salita, Rome, Italy

1971

Burri...Colla...Chia...Scialoja...Sordini, Galleria La Salita, Rome, Italy

Download CV

SELECTED WORKS

Melanconia, 2012
Oil on Canvas, 200 x 200 cm

Discussione su l'arte e la pittura, 1999
Oil on Canvas, 175 x 275 cm

Tano alchimista, 1999-2000
Oil on Canvas, 130 x 110 cm