(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
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
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
