Beatrice Pediconi

Beatrice Pediconi was born in 1972 in Rome, Italy.
She currently lives and works in Queens (NY), USA.

Beatrice Pediconi is a multimedia artist whose practice locates itself within a discourse around drawing, photography, painting and video. Easily moving on the thin line of demarcation between traditional mediums, the artist creates unconventional works that evades forms of neat categorization.

Utilizing water as the primary means to create subtle and floating imagery, her work investigates the fleeting, precarious and vulnerable condition of transience. Through a chance–based practice Pediconi releases into the water different pigments and materials, including Polaroid emulsion, and then captures the resulting ephemeral flow of images with a camera or directly on paper or canvas.

Pediconi’s approach of altering methods and using materials by changing their original functions explores the possibilities for experimentation. In doing so she presents us with a work whose composition reveals a more complex structure upon closer inspection.

Education

1992 – 1998

Bachelor of Arts, Department of Architecture, University of La Sapienza, Rome, Italy

1994 – 1995

Erasmus Project Scholarship, University of La Viellette, Paris, France

Solo Exhibitions (selection)

2026

(Upcoming) The pine appears to wait, the fir to listen, Galerie Isabelle Lesmeister, Regensburg, Germany

2024

senza turbare una stella …, curated by Antonello Tolve, Z2O Sara Zanin Gallery, Rome, Italy

2023

Presenze, curated by Adriana Polveroni, Galleria Nazionale di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome, Italy

2021

Nude, curated by Cecilia Canziani, Z2O Sara Zanin Gallery, Rome, Italy

2019

Subject to Change, sepiaEye Gallery, New York (NY), USA

2017

Dimensioni Variabili, Z2O Sara Zanin Gallery, Rome, Italy

2016

Alien/Alieno, sepiaEye Gallery, New York (NY), USA

2015

Untitled, MACRO – Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome, Rome, Italy

2014

Ephemeral Pigments, The Institute of Fine Arts, New York (NY), USA

2013

9’/Unlimited, Collezione Maramotti – Max Mara, Reggio Emilia, Italy

2012

Red, Z2O Sara Zanin Gallery with Valentina Bonomo Gallery, Rome, Italy

2011

Untitled 2009, Italian Academy, Columbia University, New York (NY), USA

No Trace, MACRO – Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome, Italy

No Trace, Italian Institute of Culture, Paris, France

2009

Untitled, Valentina Bonomo Gallery, Rome, Italy

2008

Untitled, Photo & Contemporary Gallery, Turin, Italy

Oltre, Bonomo Gallery, Bari, Italy

2007

Corpi Sottili, Bonomo Gallery, Bari, Italy

Corpi Sottili, Photo & Contemporary Gallery, Torino, Italy

2006

Oltre, Castello Svevo, Bari, Italy

Group Exhibitions & Projects (selection)

2026

Upcoming: FLORA, mühlen.kunst Eichhofen, curated by Galerie Isabelle Lesmeister, Eichhofen, Germany

2025

La Tempesta nel bicchiere, curated by Saverio Verini, Frankreichsca Antonini Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy

Velo d’acqua, curated by Roberto Lacarbonara, E.T. WORKS, Fondazione Ennio Tamburi, Rome, Italy

2024

Through the Floods, Collezione Maramatti, Reggio Emilia, Italy

Another World is possible, Centrul de Interes, Cluj-Napoca, Bulgarien

The Beginning, Museo Studio Felice Casorati, Pavarolo, Torino, Italy

A matter of Time, Platform Project Space, Brooklyn (NY), USA

Contrappunti, Z2O Sara Zanin Gallery, Rome, Italy

2023

Underneath the Visible, Montoro 12 Gallery, Bruxelles, Belgium

Il segno è l’esemplare parlato, Z2O Projects, Rome, Italy

2022

Arteam Cup, Contemporary Art Prize Finalists exhibition, Palazzo del Commissario, Savona, Italy

Combat Prize Finalists, Museo Civico Giovani Fattori, Livorno, Italy

2021

La MEP x Planches Contact, La Chapelle, Deauville, France

Premio Frankreichsco Fabbri per le Arti Contemporanee 2021, Villa Brandolini, TV, Italy

2020

Cinema Ephemera, Central Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn (NY), USA

Sharing Our Dreaming Room, Z2O Sara Zanin Gallery, Rome, Italy

Traces, Museo Civico Medievale, Bologna, Italy

2018

Chi utopia mangia le mele, Corte Dogana 2, Verona, Italy

The Other View, Italian Women photographers 1965-2018, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy

The Milky Way, Lia Rumma Gallery, Neapel, Italy

2017

Nucleus imagine Science, Noorderlicht Festival 2017, Groningen, The Netherlands

Preview to Desolation, curated by Premjish Achari, Italian Institute of Culture, New Delhi, India

ON/OFF Festival Video, Maison Victor Hugo, Havana, Cuba

Bounce, sepiaEye Gallery, New York (NY), USA

2016

The Other View, Italian Women Photographers 1965-2015, Palazzo della Triennale, Milan, Italy

The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Diana Lowenstein Gallery, Miami (FL), USA

2015

Women artists of Rome the Macro Collection, MACRO – Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome, Italy

“Quand la Maison Européenne de la Photographie collectionne”, Les Rencontres des Arles, Arles, France

Plumbing-Sequence VII-Real Time video Biennial, Reykjavik, Island

2014

Songes et Visions, Fotomed festival, Beirut, Lebanon

2013

The Polaroid Years, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar (NY), USA

L’eau et le Reves, Normandie Impressionist Festival, Normandie, France

La Magnifica Ossessione, Contemporary Art Museum of Trento and Rovereto, Italy

2012

Light Matter, Pelham Art Center for Contemporary Art, Pelham (NY), USA

Lux- Art and Science, Milstein Hall Gallery, Cornell University, New York (NY), USA

2011

The Edge of Vision, Cornell Fine Art Museum, Winter Park (FL), USA

The Edge of Vision, Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland (OR), USA

2010

The Edge of Vision, Center for Creative Photography, Tucson (AZ), USA

La Camera dello Sguardo-Fotografia Italiana, Palazzo Sant’Elia, Palermo, Italy

Frames! Italian Style in contemporary video art, Bangkok, Thailand

2009

1+1, Galleria Bonomo, Bari, Italy

2008

VII Biennial of Experimental Art, Museo Manège, St. Petersburg, Russia

A Private History in the Cotroneo Collection, Museo Bilotti, Rome, Italy

2007

Avventura e Racconti, curated by Marilena Bonomo, Dimora Intini, Noci, Bari, Italy

Grants and Awards

2012

Arteam Cup, Contemporary Art Prize (Finalist)

Combat Prize for Contemporary Art (Finalist)

LensCulture Art Photography Award (Finalist)

2021

Francesco Fabbri Prize for Contemporary Art (Finalist)

2019

Artist in Residency Stipendium, Djerassi Resident Artist Program, Woodside (CA)

2018

Artist in Residency Stipendium, Yaddo, Saratoga Spring (NY), USA

2015

Arte Fiera – Special Videoinsight Prize for Italian Artists

2010

Artist in Residency Fellowship, J.B.Blunk Residency, Inverness (CA), USA

2008

Biennial of Experimental Art, Award of Merit, St. Petersburg, Russia

Collections

Parrish Art Museum, Watermill (NY), USA

Galleria Nazionale di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome, Italy

MACRO – Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome, Italy

La Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France

Collezione Maramotti – Max Mara, Reggio Emilia, Italy

Lucid Art Foundation, San Francisco (CA), USA

Videoinsight Art and Science Foundation, Turin, Italy

Imago Mundi Collection, Treviso, Italy

Fondazione Brodbeck, Catania, Italy

The Murray and Isabella Rayburn Foundation, New York (NY), USA

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