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.
Bachelor of Arts, Department of Architecture, University of La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
Erasmus Project Scholarship, University of La Viellette, Paris, France
(Upcoming) The pine appears to wait, the fir to listen, Galerie Isabelle Lesmeister, Regensburg, Germany
senza turbare una stella …, curated by Antonello Tolve, Z2O Sara Zanin Gallery, Rome, Italy
Presenze, curated by Adriana Polveroni, Galleria Nazionale di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
Nude, curated by Cecilia Canziani, Z2O Sara Zanin Gallery, Rome, Italy
Subject to Change, sepiaEye Gallery, New York (NY), USA
Dimensioni Variabili, Z2O Sara Zanin Gallery, Rome, Italy
Alien/Alieno, sepiaEye Gallery, New York (NY), USA
Untitled, MACRO – Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome, Rome, Italy
Ephemeral Pigments, The Institute of Fine Arts, New York (NY), USA
9’/Unlimited, Collezione Maramotti – Max Mara, Reggio Emilia, Italy
Red, Z2O Sara Zanin Gallery with Valentina Bonomo Gallery, Rome, Italy
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
Untitled, Valentina Bonomo Gallery, Rome, Italy
Untitled, Photo & Contemporary Gallery, Turin, Italy
Oltre, Bonomo Gallery, Bari, Italy
Corpi Sottili, Bonomo Gallery, Bari, Italy
Corpi Sottili, Photo & Contemporary Gallery, Torino, Italy
Oltre, Castello Svevo, Bari, Italy
Upcoming: FLORA, mühlen.kunst Eichhofen, curated by Galerie Isabelle Lesmeister, Eichhofen, Germany
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
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
Underneath the Visible, Montoro 12 Gallery, Bruxelles, Belgium
Il segno è l’esemplare parlato, Z2O Projects, Rome, Italy
Arteam Cup, Contemporary Art Prize Finalists exhibition, Palazzo del Commissario, Savona, Italy
Combat Prize Finalists, Museo Civico Giovani Fattori, Livorno, Italy
La MEP x Planches Contact, La Chapelle, Deauville, France
Premio Frankreichsco Fabbri per le Arti Contemporanee 2021, Villa Brandolini, TV, Italy
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
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
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
The Other View, Italian Women Photographers 1965-2015, Palazzo della Triennale, Milan, Italy
The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Diana Lowenstein Gallery, Miami (FL), USA
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
Songes et Visions, Fotomed festival, Beirut, Lebanon
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
Light Matter, Pelham Art Center for Contemporary Art, Pelham (NY), USA
Lux- Art and Science, Milstein Hall Gallery, Cornell University, New York (NY), USA
The Edge of Vision, Cornell Fine Art Museum, Winter Park (FL), USA
The Edge of Vision, Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland (OR), USA
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
1+1, Galleria Bonomo, Bari, Italy
VII Biennial of Experimental Art, Museo Manège, St. Petersburg, Russia
A Private History in the Cotroneo Collection, Museo Bilotti, Rome, Italy
Avventura e Racconti, curated by Marilena Bonomo, Dimora Intini, Noci, Bari, Italy
Arteam Cup, Contemporary Art Prize (Finalist)
Combat Prize for Contemporary Art (Finalist)
LensCulture Art Photography Award (Finalist)
Francesco Fabbri Prize for Contemporary Art (Finalist)
Artist in Residency Stipendium, Djerassi Resident Artist Program, Woodside (CA)
Artist in Residency Stipendium, Yaddo, Saratoga Spring (NY), USA
Arte Fiera – Special Videoinsight Prize for Italian Artists
Artist in Residency Fellowship, J.B.Blunk Residency, Inverness (CA), USA
Biennial of Experimental Art, Award of Merit, St. Petersburg, Russia
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