About
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Born 1974, Gorizia, Italy. Lives and works in London.
BA in Fine Arts at the London Metropolitan University, The School of Art, Architecture, and Design, London, UK
‘Embracing various mediums, from sculpture to sound to installation, my work explores the connections emerging between different entities and their interaction with the contemporary rituals of destruction and reconstruction of reality’.
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Solo Exhibitions
2022 ‘Shapes of Worlds of Shapes’, The Flat – Massimo Carasi, Milan, Italy
2019 ‘Perpetual Nexus’, The Flat – Massimo Carasi, Milan, Italy
2017 ‘Real Reality’, Beers London Gallery, London, UK
2016 ‘Devotion’ Utopian State of Mind, The Concept Space and AquabitArt, Berlin, Germany
2015 ‘Technological mandala 48 – Eye of Pula’, Singular Gallery, Pula, Croatia
2015 ‘Volta NY’, The Flat – Massimo Carasi, An invitational solo project fair, New York, USA
2014 ‘Tesla Remixed’, The Flat – Massimo Carasi, Milan, Italy
2013 ‘Sacred space’, Beers London, London, UK
2010 ‘Flames, Roses and Wires’, Shift Gallery, London, UK
2009 ‘Iperuranio’, Kobo Shop gallery space, Udine, Italy
Group Exhibitions
2022 ‘Arte tra le Calli’, Associazione [A], curated by Rosella Zentilin, Marano Lagunare, Italy
2022 ‘Cyclophilia’, Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, Germany
2022 ‘Overdose’, Design Art From the Galila Barzilai Hollander Collection. Design Museum Holon, Israel
2021 ‘Cheers Lhasa,’ Jebum Gang Art Center, Lhasa, Tibet
2020 ‘Altitude Syndrome’, Tihho art gallery, Shanghai, China
2020 ‘And thence we came forth to see again the stars’, The Flat – Massimo Carasi, Milan, Italy
2019 ‘RA Summer Show’, 251st Royal Academy summer show, London, UK
2019 ‘Discover Himalayas’, Tibetan Contemporary Art Exhibition at IFS Centre, Chengdu, China
2017 ‘Forever Never Comes’ curated by Lapo Simeoni, Maremma Archaeological & Art Museum, Grosseto, Italy
2017 ‘Impact’, Sharjah Art Museum, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
2017 ‘Matter Matters’, The Flat – Massimo Carasi, Milan, Italy
2017 ‘Summer Exhibition’, The Concept Space, London, UK
2016 ‘Spirit Mandala’, The Scorching Sun Art Lab, Lhasa, Tibet
2015 ‘On the Toile,’ Museo di Toile de Jouy, Château de l’Églantine, France
2015 ‘Youth Mode’, Tartu Art Museum, Tartu, Estonia
2014 ‘4 tales from the belly of the whale’, The Flat – Massimo Carasi, Milan, Italy
2014 ‘A sense of things’, Zadludowicz collection, London, UK
2014 ‘London Art Fair’, Beers London Gallery, London, UK
2013 ‘Medley’, Chicago Urban Art Society, Chicago, USA
2013 ‘Kinetic art fair’, London, UK
2013 ‘London Art Fair’, Beers London Gallery, London UK
2012 ‘Timewave Zero’, Espacio Valverde, Madrid, Spain
2012 ‘Motion 1’, Residency at SyZ.y.gy Art Space, London UK
2012 ‘Bow Art Open Show 2012’, Bermondsey Project Space, London, UK
2011 ‘Phantasmagoria’, O2 Centre, London, UK
2011 ‘Sluice Art Fair’, Shift Gallery, London, UK
2011 ‘Condensation, Immaginare il tempo’, Clauiano, Italy
2009 ‘Umlaut’, Hales Gallery, London, UK
2009 ‘Spegni la TV’, Kobo shop gallery space, Udine, Italy
2009 ‘Three by Three (4)’, Exhibitions in Yinka Shonibare’s new space at Sunbury House, London, UK
2009 ‘Turbulence’, The Foundry, London, UK
2008 ‘Who is Stice Boris?’, Villa Florio, Pavia di Udine, Italy
2008 ‘The museum of stolen art’, No Id Gallery, Shoreditch, London, UK
2007 ‘Innersense’, Etc Gallery, Hackney, London, UK
2005 ‘Time runs’, Gallery in the Crypt, St Martin in the Field, London, UK
Selected collections
Museum für kommunication, Frankfurt, Germany
CSET, Georgetown University Washington DC, USA
GALILA’s P.O.C. Collection, Brussels, Belgium
Allegrini Estates, Valpolicella, Italy
Fidelity Worldwide Investments, London, UK
Hermes of Paris International, Paris, France
OpenAI, Silicon Valley, San Francisco, USA
Tableau Headquarters, London, UK
Leonardo Ulian is collected in various private collections in USA, France, Italy, Swiss, China, UK, Germany
Awards
2009 Owen Rowley Award, London, UK
2000 Stamps of the XX century, Udine, Italy
Residencies
2011 Rave East Village Artist Residency with the guest Artist Adrian Paci, Trivignano Udinese, Italy
Commissions, Special projects, and acquisitions
2022 Far East Film Festival 24, artwork for the official image of the FEFF 24, Udine, Italy
2021 Facebook, permanent site-specific installation, London, UK
2020 MGH/HST Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical, Harvard Medical School and MIT and Mass General Hospital, Charlestown, USA
2019 BlackRock collection, commissioned work, Taiwan
2019 Eversource company, permanent work for the headquarters, Boston, USA
2018 BlackRock collection, commissioned work, Palo Alto, USA
2018 Mathworks company, permanent work for the headquarters, Natick, Massachusetts, USA
2017 Tableau company, permanent work for the headquarters, London, Uk
2016 OpenAl, permanent work for the headquarters, San Francisco, USA
2014 AM-PM for HERMES, Ex libris project for Hermes, Paris, France
Selected press & publications
2022 Alberto Villa, ‘Gli altri mondi di Leonardo Ulian in mostra a Milano, Artribune, [external link]
2021 Luca Roscini, ‘Corrispondenze quotidiane, Style Magazine (Corriere della sera)
2020 Stefanie Hardick, Zuses Erben, Albert jurnal, (img. featured) [external link]
2019 ‘Regeneration’, (cover image), Resurgence & Ecologist magazine [external link]
2017 ‘Impact’, Islamic Art Festival (catalogue)
2017 ‘Forever never comes’, Maremma Archaeological and Art Museum (catalogue)
2015 ‘Youth mode’, Tartu Museum, (catalogue)
2015 ‘On the toil’, Musée de la Toile de Jouy, (catalogue)
2014 Jason Kehe, ‘Visualizing Our Tech Worship With Giant Webs of Circuitry’, WIRED, [external link]
2014 Textiles, innovations et matières actives, Florence Bost, Guillermo Crosetto, EYROLLES
2014 ‘Tesla Remixed’, Domus, [external link]
2013 Jane Szita, Digital dharma, FRAME magazine, (interview)
2013 ‘100 Sculptors of Tomorrow’, Kurt Beers foreword by Richard Cork, Thames & Hudson
2012 Daisy Woodward, Leonardo Ulian (Interview), AnOther, [external link]