Born in Bergamo in 1978, Mastrovito has lived in New York for years. In 2007 he won the New York Prize, awarded by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in 2012 the Moroso Prize and in 2016 the Ermanno Casoli Prize. His work has been exhibited in major national and international museums, from MAXXI in Rome to the Museo Novecento in Florence, from MART in Rovereto to the Museo Pecci in Prato, from BPS 22 in Charleroi to the Manchester Art Gallery, from MUDAC in Lausanne to the Laznia Center in Gdansk, from the Kunsthalle Osnabruck to the Belvedere 21 in Vienna, from the Museo del Novecento in Milan to the Gamec in Bergamo, to the Queens Museum, to the Magazzino Italian Art and to the Museum of Arts and Design in New York.
Selected solo exhibitions
2021
La Diseducazione al Reale, curated by Alberto Fiz, Galleria Michela Rizzo, Venezia
Strange Days, curated by Agnieszka Kulazinska, Laznia Center, Gdansk
Sous Rature, Wilde Gallery, Basel
La Legende Blanche, Abbaye de Fontevraud, Fontevraud
2020
Io Non Sono Leggenda, curated by Davide dall’Ombra, Museo del Novecento e del Contemporaneo di Palazzo Fabroni, Pistoia
I Am Not Legend, screenings: Magazzino Italian Art, Cold Spring NY; MUDAM, Luxembourg; Belvedere 21, Wien
2019
Very Bad Things, curated by Ilaria Bernardi, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Roma
Le Monde est Une Invention sans Futur, curated by Fanny Robin, Fondation Bullukian, Lione
Babel, curated by Elena Quarestani and Marco Sammicheli, Assab One, Milan (permanent installation)
Polvere di Stelle, curated by Contemporary Locus, permanent installation at Cappello d’Oro, Bergamo.
2018
Symphonie eines Jahrhunderts, curated by Julia Draganovic, Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche, Osnabruck
Le Jardin des Histoires du Monde, Galerie Art Bartschi & Cie, Geneva
NYsferatu – Symphony of a Century, curated by Alessandra Klimciuk, Fondazione Stelline, Milano.
NYsferatu – Symphony of a Century – Belvedere 21, Wien; GAMeC, Bergamo; Museo Novecento, Florence; Museo Salinas, Palermo; Fondazione Fabbrica del Cioccolato, Lugano; Innis Town Hall Theatre, Toronto; Norval Foundation, Cape Town; St. Ann’s Church – Bram Stoker Festival, Dublin
2017
NYsferatu – Symphony of a Century – produced by More Art; Queens Museum, Magazzino Italian Art, Central Park, Brooklyn Bridge Park, Sunset Park, Hudson River Park, Italian Cultural Center, Cantor Film Center, New York, MAXXI, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome
2016
Sette Opere di Misericordia, curated by Giuliano Zanchi, Museo Bernareggi, Bergamo
Vitriol, permanent installation for XVI Ermanno Casoli Prize at Angelini Srl, Ancona
2015
Les Etrangers, Galerie Art Bartschi & Cie, Geneva
Here the Dreamers Sleep, curated by Marco Bazzini and Eugenio Viola, Andersen Museum, Rome
N’importe où hors du monde (Three solo shows): Les amis du peuple, Centre pour l’art contemporain, Montelimar; Ration K, Chateau de Suze; The Unnamed Feeling, Chateau de Grignan, France
The Disparates, RLWindows at Ryan Lee Gallery, New York
2014
At The End Of The Line, curated by Stefano Raimondi and Sara Fumagalli, GAMeC, Bergamo
Kickstarting – Permanent Installation, Saint Joseph in Bushwick, Brooklyn NY
Neverending End: 100 last pages – Permanent Installation, Bergamo
Kickstarting #2 – Italian Cultural Institute, New York
Giovanni 19,30 – Permanent Installation, Johannes XXIII Church, Bergamo
2012
Ritratto dell’artista da giovane, Moroso Prize, New York
The Modern Prometheus, Galerie Guy Bartschi, Geneve
The Last Man, Analix Forever, Geneve
Fernando Bryce and Andrea Mastrovito, curated by Arnaud Fourrier, Pavillon Blanc, Colomiers (France)
2011
Le Cinque Giornate, curated by Alessandra Galasso, Museo del Novecento, Milan
Easy Come Easy Go, curated by Julia Draganovic, Casa Testori, Novate Milanese (MI)
Martyres, 1000eventi Gallery, Milan
A Sud del Cielo, Chiostro di San Lupo, Bergamo
I am dreaming of…, Sephora 5th Avenue, New York
2010
Velocità d’automobile + fiori, Italian Cultural Institute, New York
The Catcher in the Rye, BC Fine Arts Gallery, Fort Lauderdale (FL)
2009
Love is a four-letter word, Foley Gallery, New York
Climat Poetique, Hotel de Ville, Geneva
Pindemonte, Analix Forever, Geneva
La Bonne Nouvelle, Centre d’art Contemporain, Lacoux (Fr)
Enciclopedia dei fiori da giardino, Assab One – Ex GEA, Milano
2008
Black Bag – American Philosophy of Composition, Foley Gallery, New York
Project room – Pulse Fair, New York
Libraries are not made, they grow, Italian Academy at Columbia University, New York
9000 papillons, Dior Central, Paris
L’origine delle specie, Galleria Biagiotti Progetto Arte, Firenze
Nickelodeon, 1000eventi Gallery and Antonio Colombo Arte Contemporanea Milano
Le jour qui n’arrive jamais, Jerome Ladiray Gallery, Rouen
2007
Millionnaire, Analix Forever, Geneva
Solo Show, for Art Brussel, Palais des Exposition, Brussels
2006
In & Out of Life, Galleria 1000eventi and Antonio Colombo Arte Contemporanea, Milano
Post Modern, curated by A. Bruciati, GC.AC, Monfalcone (GO)
2005
Stefano Arienti & Andrea Mastrovito, Analix Forever, Geneva
Wild Beast Caged, Galleria Biagiotti Progetto Arte, Firenze
2003
Fear of the Dark, The Flat, Milano
Website: andreamastrovito.com
