(b. 1947, in Garessio, Italy. Lives and works in Turin and Paris.)
Giuseppe Penone's earliest exhibitions include the The Museum of Modern Art, New York (1970), Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne (1977); Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden (1978); and Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (1980). Most recently he has exhibited at The Drawing Center, New York (2004), and had a retrospective at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (2004). Short listed for the Turner Prize in 1989, Penone has exhibited in Documenta V (1972), VII (1982), and VIII (1987) and at the Venice Biennale (2007).
RECENT SOLO SHOWS
2013
Giuseppe Penone, Curated by Laurent Busine, Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris
Giuseppe Penone, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
Penone Versailles, Chateau de Versailles, Versailles, France
Giuseppe Penone : Entre les lignes, Chapelle du Méjan, Arles, France
2012
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
Giuseppe Penone, Centre d'arts et de nature, Parc du Château, Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire
Traversées, curated by the Département de l'Ardèche, La Fabrique du Pont d’Aleyrac, Saint-Pierreville
Jardin des Plantes, Paris
2010
Giuseppe Penone: Drawings and Sculptures, Fondation De Pont, Tilburg, The Netherlands
Giuseppe Penone, Musée des Arts Contemporains du Grand-Hornu, Hornu, Belgium
2009
Giuseppe Penone, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England
Giuseppe Penone, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota, Japan
2008
Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna (MAMbo), Bologna, Italy
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
2007
Giardino delle Sculture Fluide, 2003 – 2007, Reggia di Venaria Reale, Turin, Italy
RECENT GROUP SHOWS
2013
Morandi and Casorati in the De Fornaris Collection, From Workshop to Work, Italian Cultural Institute, New York
Neunzehnhundertsiebzig. Material, Orte, Denkprozesse, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland
Turbulences II, Villa Empain, Boghossian Foundation, Brussels, Belgium
Fragile?, Le Stanze del Vetro, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, Italy
2012
Documenta (13), Kassel, Germany
Kabinettstucke, Cabinet Pieces, “Weserburg Museum of Modern Art, Bremen, Germany
Arte Torna Arte, Galleria dell’Accademia, Florence
Arte Povera, Neues Museum Weimar, Weimar
Pelle di Donna, Triennale Bovisa, Milan
Tacita Dean, William Kentridge,... Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris
2011
The World Belongs to You - Palazzo Grassi - Francois Pinault Foundation, Venice
Arte povera 1968, MAMbo - Galleria d'Arte Moderna di Bologna, Bologna
Arte Povera International, Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin
2010
Essential Experiences, Palazzo Riso, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea della Sicilia, Sicilia, Italy
Rudolf Steiner and Contemporary Art, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
2009
Italics. Arte italiana fra tradizione e rivoluzione (Italian Art between Tradition and Revolution), 1968-2008, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy
The Russian Linesman," The Hayward Gallery, London, England
2008
Sydney Biennale: Revolutions: Forms that Turn," Sydney, Australia
ORIGINS, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York
2007
52nd International Art Exhibition of La Biennale diVenezia, Italian Pavilion, Italy
Drawing Connections: Baselitz, Kelly, Penone, Rockburne, and the Old Masters, Curated by Isabelle Dervaux, The Morgan Library and Museum, New York, New York