(b. 1960, Padua, Italy. Lives and works in New York and Milan.)
Maurizio Cattelan has exhibited at Skulptur Projekte, Münster (1997), the Tate Gallery, London (1999), the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2003) and the Museum Ludwig, Cologne (2003), and participated in the Venice Biennale (1993, 1997, 1999, and 2002). He was a finalist for the Guggenheim's Hugo Boss prize in 2000, received an honorary degree in Sociology from the University of Trento, Italy, in 2004, and was also awarded the Arnold-Bode prize from the Kunstverein Kassel, Germany, that same year.
RECENT SOLO EXHIBITIONS/PROJECTS
2011
Maurizio Cattelan: All, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York
2010
Maurizio Cattelan, The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas
Maurizio Cattelan, DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
2009
Maurizio Cattelan, Quadriennale di Roma, Palazzo dell’Esposizioni, Rome, Italy
2008
Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria
2007
New Works, Tate Modern, London, England
Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany
Museum fur Modern Kunst, Frankfurt am Rhein, Germany
RECENT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011
Mémoires du future, La Maison Rouge, Paris, France
2010
Beg Borrow and Steal, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, Florida
Pop Life – Warhol, Haring, Koons, Hirst, …, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
2009
Italics. Arte italiana fra tradizione e rivoluzione (Italian Art between Tradition and Revolution), 1968-2008, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy / Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
Mapping the Studio: Artists from the François Pinault Collection Punta della Dogana, Venice, Italy
2008
theanyspacewhatever, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York
After Nature, New Museum, New York, New York
2007
Freakshow: An Unnatural History, The Baltic Center for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, England
