About Giusy Lauriola
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Education
2018 - 2019
Pencil Art Scuola Illustrazione Umberto
1996 - 1998
San Giacomo Art and Craft Rome
1982 - 1987
University La Sapienza of Rome
Awards
2021
Premio Arbiter Fata Verde
2020
Premio Lupa
2020
Honorable Mention, from Circle Foundation for the Arts
2015
Museo Pier Maria Rossi- premio arte contemporanea
2007
Premio Celeste
Upcoming events
Event: Time spent loving
Dates: 12 Apr 2025 - 30 Sep 2025
23 international and multigenerational artists at the SyArt Gallery in Sorrento: an exhibition that invites reflection on the creative act as an ethical tension in the present.
Love for what one does in the "here and now"—this is the premise that drives the project.
In a context where culture increasingly seems to be reduced to rhetorical declarations, the participating artists offer a tangible and multifaceted testimony, working with awareness across the realms of form, vision, and narrative.
The exhibition thus takes shape as a shared exploration of the value of time spent in artistic practice, understood not as an escape or retreat, but as an expressive and critical act.
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Event: ‘ESSE, 3’persona, femminile, plurale’.
Dates: 14 May 2025 - 3 Jun 2025
Hanno preso parte dieci artiste: Simona Bonetti, Yuriko Damiani, Angelina Emme, EPVS, Giusy Lauriola, Micaela Legnaioli, Angelica Romeo, Barbara Salvucci, Lorena Tiberi (Mani), Anita Vigl.
È una mostra tutta al femminile, una collettiva di importanti artiste del panorama nazionale ed internazionale che, utilizzando media diversi – dalla scultura alla pittura, al disegno, all’intarsio e alla fotografia – ci restituiscono il genio e l’operosità del mondo femminile.
Un’operosità legata al loro impegno e alla loro dedizione nel lavoro, nel sociale, nel sostegno degli altri tanto nella sfera personale e domestica, quanto nelle sfera lavorativa e sociale.
Ogni opera rievoca la volontà di ascolto, la capacità di creare ambienti armoniosi, la caparbietà nella cura degli altri, l’amore per il prossimo e l’infinita bellezza che solo l’animo femminile riesce a espandere attorno a sé.
Event: Svanire
Dates: 10 May 2025 - 6 Jun 2025
Svanire, La Vaccheria di Roma Capitale (a cura di Carlo Ercoli)
Circa una trentina le opere in mostra suddivise tra formati imponenti e piccoli formati, in acrilico, smalto e resina, il segno distintivo dell’artista, dove il colore e i contrasti creano un gioco di chiari e scuri nelle tele dalle quali sbocciano elementi floreali policromi, più o meno accentuati. Da sempre la natura, è considerata parte essenziale della nostra esistenza, Giusy Lauriola ci invita, con le sue opere, a ristabilire con essa un legame armonioso.
Il dialogo tra fluidità e architettura compositiva si manifesta nell’interazione tra resina, acrilico e smalto. Questo confronto materico genera un dualismo tra forze opposte, che si fondono per dare vita a dimensioni sospese e immateriali
Event: Linea sottile
Dates: 4 Jul 2024 - 30 Sep 2024
At Palazzo Marziale, a Sorrentine residence dating back to the 1400s, the souls of artists Giusy Lauriola, Marina Falco, and Vittorio Iavazzo meet, resulting in a refined and evolved artistic exploration. The suspended atmospheres of the Roman artist Lauriola trace fields of color skillfully modulated by resin, returning infinite perimeters and undefined places in which the liquid matter suggests an indistinct time in which to move the step. Action is decisive in the research of the artist Falco, , a place to which she punctually returns. The environment of origin remains central to her poetics, and the action in her works is accomplished quickly. A universal flicker of life is perceived in the landscapes created in oil, her beloved hydrangeas, and the leaden skies that announce a sudden change. Iavazzo shapes form into stable bodies that occupy space with confidence and composure, in a renewed balance.
Event: Presentazione del Diario di Guido Levi
Dates: 10 Jan 2024 - 30 Jan 2024
Presentazione del Diario di Guido Levi in occasione della Giornata della Memoria, Istituto Italiano di cultura, Tokyo, Giappone (a cura di Manuela De Leonardis)
Event: IL CIELO IN UNA STANZA
Dates: 1 Sep 2023 - 3 Sep 2023
Presentation of Lauriola's works of recent years, whose artistic production comes to life from a careful contemplation on the surrounding reality, a deep reflection without filters or prejudices, beyond good and evil, beyond male and female, in that limbo between conscious and unconscious that has often led her to ask questions about the enigmas and distortions of the world, in order to try to always capture and bring out the positive aspects that surround her.
This path of research has turned into a painting technique that is developed through the laying down of different layers of color, material and resin and the relationship with the sign stroke. Each layer is like a mantra that leads her to the achievement of empathy with the longed-for, dreamed real.
There are three main strands that the artist has developed in recent years, "Dialogue with Nature," "Feelings and Suspended Atmospheres."
Event: “Human Nature“, International Meeting of Contemporary art
Dates: 10 Jun 2023 - 15 Oct 2023
Every seven years a cycle comes to a close, made up of shared experiences in which an update is presented, a status quo on the artistic experience of contemporary authors working at an international level.
The new location stimulates an unprecedented dialogue with the place, with a visual journey between painting, sculpture and installations. Nature manifests itself through the experiential leitmotif of artists living their own time, in an attempt to decode it they strengthen the conversation with Mother Nature, translating thoughts and reflections into a polyform content.
The exhibition is on view from June 10 to Oct. 15 at Villa Fiorentino,
Event: CHIUDI GLI OCCHI
Dates: 7 Jun 2023 - 24 Jun 2023
"The relationship between human being and nature," writes Carlo Ercoli in his critical text within the catalog, "is the focus on which Lauriola's latest production concentrates, finding completion in the canvases created for the site-specific exhibition at the Aranciera di San Sisto, a building constructed in 1926 to provide shelter for those plants most affected by winter temperatures. Right here in this strip of Rome charged with history, a dimension of temporal suspension is perceived. Such a protective atmosphere toward delicate plants, in a place where the bucolic idyll still shines embedded in the beating heart of the city, deeply inspired the artist."
Event: CHIUDI GLI OCCHI
Dates: 18 May 2023 - 26 May 2023
"The relationship between human being and nature," writes Carlo Ercoli in his critical text within the catalog, "is the focus on which Lauriola's latest production concentrates, finding completion in the canvases created for the site-specific exhibition at the Aranciera di San Sisto, a building constructed in 1926 to provide shelter for those plants most affected by winter temperatures. Right here in this strip of Rome charged with history, a dimension of temporal suspension is perceived. Such a protective atmosphere toward delicate plants, in a place where the bucolic idyll still shines embedded in the beating heart of the city, deeply inspired the artist."
Event: Da Cajeta a Circe con Ecce Domina Cajeta Art Action,
Dates: 12 Mar 2023 - 29 Apr 2023
Exhibition decicated to the myth of the Argonauts, Circe and her daughter Medea in love with Jason and Cajeta, Aeneas's nurse. Exhibition organized in the splendid setting of Gaeta specifically in the Pinacoteca Antonio Sapone is located high in the ancient part of the city
Event: Greetings from Athens
Dates: 5 Jun 2022 - 11 Jun 2022
Art residency at Domus Art Gallery Athens, Greece (curated by Manuela De Leonardis;
Event: Prendiamo il sentiero paludoso per arrivare alle nuvole,
Dates: 2 Mar 2022 - 31 May 2022
Let us take the swampy path to get to the clouds," seguw an introspective iter that stems from the evocation of a haiku. The very essence of Lauriola's work is condensed in this metaphorical phrase that alludes to the difficulties of an untrodden path, and to the final goal represented by detachment. Painting itself, for the artist, is always a meditative moment that places her in the presence of the deepest part of the ego
Event: Art is Over part of Art Days Napoli Campania
Dates: 16 Dec 2021 - 19 Dec 2021
The collective exhibition "Art is Over" of the SyArt gallery is part of the project extended to the galleries of Campania "Art Days - Naples and Campania" which will take place from 13 to 19 December with a series of side events and in which we have been included (the gallery will be part of the event of December 16)
Event: ARTE in NUVOLA
Dates: 18 Nov 2021 - 21 Nov 2021
Participation at the Rome ARTE in NUVOLA Contemporary Art Fair with the SpazioCima Gallery
Event: SyArt Sorrento International Festival
Dates: 16 Jul 2021 - 12 Sep 2021
Winner Arbiter Prize Fairy Green 2021 in the context of SyArt Sorrento Festival International Festival - Sorrento Villa Fiorentini -
Event: Guido Levi. Una storia piena di paure, di ansie e di storie quasi gialle 1942–1946
Dates: 10 Jul 2021 - 11 Jul 2021
Presentation at Capalbio Libri of the publishing project Guido Levi. A story full of fears, anxieties and almost yellow stories 1942-1946 (edited by Manuela De Leonardis) for which I did the illustrations
Event: Amabie La magica profezia dello Yokai
Dates: 12 May 2021 - 16 May 2021
SOLO EXHIBITION Amabie La magica profezia dello Yokai
Event: PERIMETRO INFINITO
Dates: 30 Sep 2020 - 30 Oct 2020
At SpazioCima on display from Wednesday, September 30 until Friday, October 30 the new solo exhibition of the artist
Event: Sixtysteps
Dates: 1 Dec 2019 - 19 Mar 2019
On Wednesday, December 19 in the Testaccio salon - in Piazza Santa Maria Liberatrice, 46 -, Sixtysteps by the artist Giusy Lauriola will be inaugurated, which will be open to the public until next March 19, 2019.
Event: About Dreams
Dates: 29 Oct 2019 - 5 Nov 2019
a cura di Carlo Ercoli
Event: Women InColors
Dates: 9 May 2019 - 30 Jun 2019
Domus Art Gallery presents on Thursday 9th May 2019, the “Women InColors” exhibition with the artworks of two artists: the Italian Giusy Lauriola and the Greek-Irish natassa Kaloti.
Event: Iosepha
Dates: 8 Mar 2018 - 22 Mar 2018
Sharp and decisive brushstrokes, blurred colors sometimes surreal, realistic subjects but never defined. The works of Giusy Lauriola
Event: Dodici
Dates: 16 Nov 2016 - 26 Jan 2017
TWELVE
Giusy Lauriola 2004-2016
curated by Ada Egidio
Headquarters Banca Generali
Via Bissolati - Rome
Event: Dreamland
Dates: 18 Mar 2016 - 18 Apr 2016
Dreamland - Domus Art Gallery – Atene – Grecia - (a cura di Glenda Lorenzani - catalogo)
Event: Fuori dal mondo
Dates: 18 Jun 2015 - 18 Jul 2015
The Collezionando Gallery of Ada Egidio opens on June 18, 2015 the exhibition entitled "Out of the world" by Giusy Lauriola in the new location in Prati, Rome. The artist is at her second solo exhibition in this space.
Event: Butterfly Effect
Dates: 6 Dec 2014 - 6 Jan 2015
Domus Art Home Gallery opens in Athens on December 6, 2014 with the exhibition "Butterfly effect" by the Roman artist Giusy Lauriola its activity dedicated to contemporary art.
Event: Qui e Ora
Dates: 5 Apr 2014 - 10 May 2014
The Collezionando Gallery opens Saturday, April 5 at 18.30 the solo exhibition of Giusy Lauriola that has as its title - Here and Now -, curated by Ada Egidio. T
Event: Aspirazioni Urbane
Dates: 5 Jun 2013 - 26 Jun 2013
URBAN ASPIRATIONS
The protagonists are urban travelers, a recurring theme in his artistic career, who create a vision, the continuous pilgrimage without a defined destination, a metaphor for existence. In this particular atmosphere, wings can be seen. Butterfly wings resting on travelers who seem almost not to be aware of it. Their aspirations, their dreams that they carry inside every day in their incessant pilgrimage: dreamlike transfiguration of human thought
Event: Viandante Urbano a cura di Cristina Del Ferraro
Dates: 19 Oct 2011 - 18 Nov 2011
The center of the narrative is the city, always at the center of Lauriola's reflection, in which the attention is focused on some individuals, portrayed as if they were wayfarers, aimless pilgrims who escape any identification.
Event: Visioni urbane in Fermento -
Dates: 16 May 2010 - 29 May 2010
Visioni urbane in Fermento - Centro Culturale Arabo. Aburemmaneh - Damasco (Siria) - (a cura di Carlo Ercoli - catalogo)
Event: Blowing in the wind
Dates: 15 Nov 2009 - 15 Dec 2009
Blowing in the wind - galleria Ercoli Arte Contemporanea - Roma - (a cura di Carlo Ercoli – catalogo)
Event: Sei gradi. Un Istante
Dates: 12 May 2009 - 30 Jun 2009
Sei gradi. Un Istante - Galleria 196 - Roma - (a cura di Manuela De Leonardis - catalogo)
Event: Extra-Urbane
Dates: 25 Sep 2008 - 24 Oct 2008
Extra-Urbane - Galleria 196 - Roma - (a cura di Micol di Veroli – catalogo)
Event: Oltre
Dates: 12 Oct 2007 - 31 Oct 2007
Oltre - Abitart - Roma - calendario espositivo di “Roma Design più”, rassegna internazionale Promossa dall’Università “La Sapienza” - (a cura di Micol di Veroli - catalogo)
Event: D.I.O. - Il Frantoio - Capalbio (Grosseto) - (a cura di Gianluca Marziani
Dates: 21 Jul 2007 - 12 Aug 2007
Il Frantoio - Capalbio (Grosseto) - (a cura di Gianluca Marziani – catalogo)
Event: D.I.O
Dates: 15 Jun 2007 - 29 Jun 2007
D.I.O. - Artemisia Art Gallery - Montecarlo (Principato di Monaco)
Event: S.P.Q.R.
Dates: 7 Feb 2007 - 23 Feb 2007
S.P.Q.R. - Studio Mo.Ca - Roma - (a cura di Giorgia Calò – catalogo)
Event: V edition of International FotoFestiva Killing Paradise
Dates: 18 May 2006 - 21 May 2006
Honor Guest of the Killing Paradise - International FotoFestival - Lodz (a cura di Agnieszka Zakrzewicz Polonia)
Event: Ciò che vuoi è ciò di cui hai bisogno? -
Dates: 7 Apr 2006 - 30 Apr 2006
Ciò che vuoi è ciò di cui hai bisogno? - S. Cecilia in Trastevere - Roma - (a cura di Cristina del Ferraro – catalogo)
Event: Istanti
Dates: 13 May 2005 - 30 Jun 2005
Istanti - Mo.Ca.- Roma (a cura di Cristina del Ferraro - catalogo)
Event: Cambialamore
Dates: 30 Sep 2004 - 30 Oct 2004
Cambialamore - Salon Privé Arti Visive - Roma - (a cura di Sergio Rispoli - catalogo)
Biography
Giusy Lauriola
Giusy Lauriola is a contemporary artist based in Rome. Her work explores the threshold between reality and imagination, creating layered, semi-abstract compositions through the use of resin, acrylic, and enamel.
Light, color, and transparency play a central role, turning her surfaces into meditative spaces that evoke silence, memory, and emotion.
Themes of femininity, human connection, and nature run throughout her visual language. Resin, her signature material, is more than a medium-it's a luminous, tactile presence that enhances the sensory and sculptural quality of her works.
Lauriola's expressive approach balances structure and spontaneity, blending controlled gesture with instinctive impulse. Over time, she has moved from digital and photo-based media back to painting, developing a distinct aesthetic rooted in poetic sensitivity and material experimentation.
Awards and Recognition
Finalist of the Singulart International Women’s Day 2025 Award. In 2021, she received the Arbiter Fata Verde Award during the SyArt Sorrento International Festival. In 2022, one of her works was chosen for the cover of Arbiter magazine. She received Honorable Mentions from the Circle Foundation for the Arts in both 2020 and 2022, and was a finalist in prestigious competitions such as the Lupa Award (2020) and the Celeste Prize (2007). In 2015, she won the competition held by the Pier Maria Rossi Museum. Her works are held in prominent collections, including the Copelouzos Family Art Museum in Athens, the SanPaolo Invest Art Collection in Rome, the Antonio Sapone Municipal Gallery in Gaeta, the Monumental Complex of Santo Spirito in Sassia, and two art hotels in Rome: The First Roma Arte and Abitart. Between 2021 and 2024, she participated in several major contemporary art fairs, including Arte in Nuvola in Rome, and fairs in Genoa, Padua, and Parma. In 2020, she was included in the De Agostini Atlas of Contemporary Art, one of the most comprehensive reviews of Italian artists since 1950. Her career has had an international reach: she was guest of honor at the International Photo Festival in Łódź (Poland) in 2006 and held solo exhibitions at prestigious venues including the Italian Cultural Institute in Damascus (2010), the Italian Cultural Institute in Tokyo (2024, for International Holocaust Remembrance Day), the MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art, and Palazzo Merulana in Rome.
