Biography

Born in Rome, 1975Lives and works in Rome Education 2002 - 2004 MFA in Fine Art Media, Slade School of Art, UCL, London1999 - 2002 BA in Fine Art Media, Chelsea College of Art, London Solo Exhibitions 2024Kant Can't, Polo della Cultura della Provincia di Potenza2023Play, Platea Palazzo Galeano, Lodi2022Isolitudine, ZACentrale, PalermoLà dove muore, canta, Torre Matta, OtrantoPlay It Again, Forte di Belvedere, Firenze, curated by Sergio RisalitiLe città di Bolo, Valentina Bonomo Gallery, Roma2021Valentina Bonomo Gallery, Roma2020Allunati, Monica De Cardenas, MilanoL’eccezione, Lio Capital Art Prize, Milano2019L'eccezione, Museo Novecento, FirenzeAfterall, Mattatoio, Roma2018Poor Poor Jerry, Copperfield Gallery, LondonValentina Bonomo Gallery, RomaPremio Acacia 2018, Museo del ‘900, MilanoFocus, Lo schermo dell’arte, FirenzePoor, Poor Jerry, Musia, Roma2017Monica De Cardenas, MilanoPoor, Poor Jerry, Marsèlleria, MilanoControfigura, Mostra del Cinema di Venezia, Venezia2015The Picture of Ourselves, Art Pod, AdelaideCerto è ch’io nacqui, Istituto Nazionale della Grafica, RomaOn Making a Circle to Swim Under Water, Collicaligreggi Gallery, CataniaStaging the Screen: Fatma Bucak & Rä di Martino, The Ryder, London2014Authentic News of Invisible Things, Copperfield Gallery, LondonAuthentic News of Invisible Things, Museion, BolzanoAuthentic News of Invisible Things, nctm per l’arte, MilanoMarilyn, Galleria Il Capricorno, Venezia

2013Rä di Martino – Nedim Kufi, Sumarria Lunn, London2012Greater Torino, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino2011Monitor Gallery, Rome2010Artscape, Vilnius Cultural Capital of Europe, Vartaj Gallery, Vilnius2009The Night Walker and Other Works, CAV, CoimbraAugust 2008, Monitor Gallery, RomaEspace Doll - Les Urbaines Festival, Losanne2008The Night Walker, Maze Gallery, Torino2007The Red Shoes - Present Future, Artissima, Torino2006La camera, Macro, Roma2005The Dancing Kid, Monitor Gallery, Roma2003Monitor Gallery, Roma Selected Group Exhibitions 2023Art and Human Rights, Palais des Nations, GenevePerchè questo è un tempo duro, Circolo, MilanoUntitled (Radical Objecthood), Artvisor, Londra, curated by Piero Tomassoni30 YEARS, Monica De Cardenas, Milano2022Eretici. Arte e vita, MART, RoveretoThe Floating Collection, MAMbo, BolognaSpettri: palinsesti della memoria, Museo Madre, NapoliFloating Collections, MAMBO, Bologna, a cura di Lorenzo BalbiFrammenti di un discorso amoroso, Monica De Cardenas, MilanoWhat a Wonderful World, MAXXI Roma, a cura di Bartolomeo PietromarrchiThe Future Behind Us, Villa Arson, Nizza, a cura di Marco Scotini2021Un'Epopea Pop, MAR RavennaLa Vita Nova, Museo Giovanni Barracco, RomaIo dico io. La Galleria Nazionale, RomaIo poeto tu, MACRO, Roma2020Metamorphoses Overdrive, Künstmuseum St. Gallen, ZurichWall Eyes: Looking at Italy and Africa, IIC South Africa -Auditorium Parco della Musica, RomaSwimming Pool–Troubled Waters, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, BerlinAround the World in 128 Minutes, Townsend, New YorkLoneliness at the Time of Covid, Spatiu Intact, Cluj NapocaUnstilled Life Artist Animations 1980-2020, Ron Mandos Gallery, AmsterdamStardust: Convergence - 5 Mostre, American Academy in Rome, Roma2019Uncommon Nature, Blindside, MelbourneKronos e Kairos, Parco archeologico Palatino e Colosseo, Roma2018100% Italia, Museo Ettore Fico, TorinoArabesques. Antonio Ratti, il tessuto come arte, curated by Lorenzo Benedetti, Annie Ratti e Maddalena Terragni, Terme di Diocleziano, RomaPlease, Come Back, IVAM, Valencia2017Please, Come Back, MAXXI, Roma2016From Generation to Generation, Jewish Museum of Cont. Art, San FranciscoXVI Quadriennale, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Roma3rd Nanjing International Art Festival, NanjingHigh Line Channel 14, The High Line, New YorkTime and Detail, Ca’ Foscari University, VeneziaL’astronauta caduto, Galleria A+A, Venezia2015Illuminati, Palazzo Mosca, PesaroLevitate, Quarter 21, Museum Quartier, WienAvant-Noir, ICA Artists’ Film Biennal, LondonDelta ti - In tempo reale, Museo Carlo Bilotti, RomaReverse Inequality, Patrick Ebensperger Galerie, BerlinWaiting for the Acciddent to Happen, Screen Space, MelbourneConcrete, The Tophane-i amire Arts Center/Mimar Sanalar Universiti, IstanbulCosa vuoi che sia, Fondazione Remotti, CamogliLe Point De Fuite De l’Histoire, Centre d’art et photographie de Lectoure, LectoureAvant- Noir Vol.2, Artist Film Club, ICA, LondonFashion as Social Energy, Palazzo Morando, MilanoKino der Kunst festival, Munich201471° Venice film Festival, VeneziaSoleil Politique, Museion, BolzanoGlitch, PAC, MilanoOpen Museum, Open City, MAXXI, RomaPremio Maretti, Havana, CubaAct & Application, Lawrie Shabibi Gallery, DubaiConcrete, Muma, Museum of Monash University, MelbournePremio Cairo, Palazzo della Permanente, MilanoNoli me tangere, Biblioteca Civica, VeronaWorlds in Collision, Samstag Museum, Adelaide International, AdelaideDisplacement, MAXXX Project, SierreVaf Foundation Award, Schauwerk Sindelfingen and Stadtgalerie, KielMeraviglioso, Fondazione VOLUME, Roma2013Ruins in reverse, Tate Modern, London / MALI, LimaAndata e Ricordo, Souvenir de Voyage, MART, Trento e RoveretoRemainder, BWA SokòL Gallery of Contemp. Art, Nowy SączKino der Kunst, MunichClueless, HDLU, Zaghreb20122nd Mardin Biennale, Mardinlo sguardo espanso, Cinema d’artista 1912-2012, Fondazione Guglielmo V, CatanzaroMission Afterviews, Victoria theatre, San FranciscoFantasie fluttuanti, Torrione Passari, MolfettaRe-generation, MACRO, RomeSilence where things abandon themselves, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb2011When in Rome, IIC, Hammer Museum and LaxArt, Los AngelesTerre vulnerabili, Hangar Bicocca, MilanoUnità, New York2010SI Sindrome Italiana, Magasin, GrenobleVideoZone 5°, International Video Art Biennal, Tel AvivVideoReport, Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea, MonfalconeLinguaggi e Sperimentazioni, Mart, RoveretoVisions in the Nunnery, Bow Arts Trust, LondonPerson in Less, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Guarene, travelling to: Palazzo Ducale, GenovaMal d’archive, Friche la belle de Mai and Italian Cultural Institute, MarseilleClueless, Manifattura Tabacchi, Torino2009Italics, MCA, ChicagoFuori Centro, Hangar Bicocca, MilanoWork in Space, Connaught House, Ballsbridge, DublinLumen, Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, PratoEppur si muove, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Guarene, travelling to: Palazzo Ducale, GenovaKunst Film Biennale, Colonia and BonnSolo al buio, Mercati di Traiano, RomaThe Buffer Zone, American Academy in Rome, RomaFinancial District, ISCP Studios, New York2008Manifesta7, Rovereto, Trento, BolzanoItalics, Palazzo Grassi, VeneziaWorlds on Video, Palazzo Strozzi, FirenzeHow Soon Is Now?, Bronx Museum, New YorkTarantula, Piazza Duomo, Fondazione Trussardi, MilanoXV Quadriennale, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, RomaHere Once Again, Loop Gallery e MOA, SeoulHot Season, Stenersen Museum, OsloHere, Seaport Swing Space LMCC, New York2007Senso Unico, MoMA PS1, New YorkArt Summer University, Tate Modern, LondonOff Screen, Netherlands Media Art Institute, AmsterdamPadiglione Sloveno, 52ª La Biennale di Venezia, VeneziaCarte Blanche, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New YorkDwelling Among the Elsewheres, Botkyrka Kohnstahlle, StockholmThe World Is Yours, Oliver Kamm5BE Gallery, New YorkTV Dinners, Lmak Projects, New York2006Altered, Stitched and Gathered, MoMA PS1, New YorkBusan Biennale – CAFE2, BusanSetting The Scene, MACRO in collaboration with Discoteca di Stato, RomaFrame, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, MelbourneThe Mind/Body Problem, Artists Space, New YorkGirato a Palermo, Kals’art, Palermo2005T1 Triennale Torino Tre Musei, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, TorinoFollow Your Shadow, Premio Furla, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, BolognaTracce di un seminario, Via Farini, Milano2004All Tomorrow’s Parties, The Yugoslav Biennal of Young Artists, SerbiaSurely We Will Be Confused, Fondazione Ratti, ComoVideoZone 2°, Intern.l VideoArt Biennal, Tel Aviv, IsraelOur Personal Vision, Futura Gallery, Prague2002Beck’s Futures Student Film Award, ICA, London Film & Video Festivals 2018 Festival Lo schermo dell’arte, Florence. 2017 Mostra del Cinema di Venezia, Venice; Festival Lo Schermo dell’arte, Florence; Cortodorico, Ancona; Les rècontres international, Paris, Berlin; Tirana Film Festival, Tirana. 2016/2015 Lo schermo dell’arte, Florence in collaboration with Palazzo Grassi-Punta della Dogana, Venice. 2015 Subversive Film Festival, Zagabria; Visioni Italiane Film Festival, Bologna. 2014 Salina Doc Festival, Salina; Attraversamenti, Ostuni; Experiments in Cinema Festival, Albuquerque. 2013 Alternative Film/Video, Belgrade; Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Kassel; Dallas Video Festival, Dallas; 5th Video Festival, Cairo; Muslihat OK, 6th Jakarta International Video Festival, Jakarta. 2011 Stuttgart Filmwinter23, Stuttgart; International Rotterdam Film Festival, Rotterdam; Festival Videomedeja, Novi Sadi; EMAF European Video Art Festival, Osnabrueck. 2010 Impakt Video Art Festival, Utrecht; 4th Video Festival, Cairo; Signal & Noise Media Art Festival, Vancouver. 2009 Antimatter Film Festival, Victoria; Fundada Artists’ Film Festival, Halifax; Festival Premio Sergio Amidei, Gorizia; Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Kassel. 2008 Torino Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, Turin. 2007 Media Art Festival Friesland. 2007 Dallas Video Festival, Dallas; Unclassifiable, Malmö Film Festival, Malmö; Pesaro Film Festival, Pesaro; Trieste Film Festival, Trieste. 2006 Locarno Film Festival, Locarno; Viper Basel, Basel; DUMBO Film & Video Festival, Brooklyn. 2005 Kassel Video & Doc Festival, Kassel; Media Art Friesland, Friesland; Rio De Janeiro Film Festival, Rio De Janeiro; New York Underground Film Festival, New York. 2005/2004 Impakt Video Art Festival, Utrecht; Transmediale, Berlino; Sarajevo Film Festival, Sarajevo; Saint Petersburg Film Festival of Experimental Cinema, Saint Petersburg; Vila Do Conde Festival, Vila Do Conde; Montreal Festival of New Cinema, Montreal; Aarhus Film Festival, Aarhus; Island Film&Video Festival, London; EMAF, European Video Art Festival, Osnabrueck. 2003/2002 Torino Film Festival, Turin; Alternativa, Barcelona Independent Film Festival, Barcelona; Video Mundi Festival, Chicago. Screenings 2020 Vive le Cinéma. Festival del cinema francese, Lecce. 2019 L’eccezione, Istituto Svizzero, Rome. 2018 Controfigura, Italian Cultural Institute, Madrid. 2017 Rä di Martino on Piper, Artissima, Torino; Controfigura, Mostra del Cinema di Venezia, Venice; Controfigura, MAXXI, Rome.2016 Yap, MAXXI, Rome. 2015 Invisibili Province, Turin; Copperfield, London. 2014 ART/REVI, Cinema Trevi, Rome; Glitch, O CAT, Shangai; Directions, Amsterdam. 2013 Nighthawk Cinema, New York; Invideo, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan; 2011 Open Screens, Cornell University, Ithaca. 2010 Art|Film, Art Basel 41; University of Richmond, Richmond. 2010 Kunst Film Biennale, KW Institute, Berlin; Finzioni, Museo Internazionale delle Marionette, Palermo. 2009 Video Arte Italiana, Centro Arti Visive Pescheria, Pesaro. 2008 Abre tus ojos, Plaza San Martin, Buenos Aires; Unclassifiable, Darling Foundry Visual Arts Center, Montreal; Exposure, Plaza Pringles, MACRO Rosario, Rosario. 2008/2007 CASZ–Moving Images in Public Space, Amsterdam. 2007 Unclassifiable, Overgaden ICA, Copenhagen and LMCC Swing Space, New York; Video Killed the Painting Star, CCA Glasgow, Glasgow. 2006 Prevailing Climate, Sarah Meltzer Gallery, New York. 2005 Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City. Awards & commissions 2021 Premio Termoli, MACTE, Termoli. 2020 Premio Lio Capital. 2018/2019 Italian Council– Mibact. 2018 Premio ACACIA; Nastro d’argento, (Mentioned Best Docu-Film). 2017/2016 3rd Nanjing International Art Festival, Nanjing, (Winner of the section Mixed Media Arts). 2016 Museo chiama Artista Award, Mibact and AMACI. 2015 Nastro d’argento (Mentioned Best Docu-Film) 2014 Salina Doc Festival, Salina (Special Mention); Premio SIAE; Premio Gillo Pontecorvo, Mostra del Cinema di Venezia, Venice; VAF Award, Dreieich; Premio Cairo, (Finalist). 2010 Premio Fondazione Ettore Fico. 2008 Talent Prize, Fondazione Roma, Roma. 2005 Premio Furla, Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice (Finalist); 2005/2004 Premio New York. 2003 2° Premio Video-Art, Mart, Trento and Rovereto; 2002 Development Award (16mm Film), FLAMIN, London. Residencies 2018Rome Prize, American Academy in Rome, Roma2008AIM Artists in the Marketplace, Bronx Museum, New York2006OMI International Artists Residency, Columbia County, New York2004/05Premio New York - Fellowhip, Columbia University, New York2004Corso Superiore di Arte Visiva, Fondazione Ratti, Como2002Prototipi, Fondazione Olivetti, Roma


Press

R. di Martino - ATP Diary, 28 Sept 2024

R. di Martino - Elle Decor, 22 March 2023

R. di Martino - Exibart, 5 October 2022

R. di Martino - Artribune, 12 September 2022

R. di Martino - Artforum, December 2020

R. di Martino - EspoArte, 30 Nov 2020

R. di Martino - We Wealth, 13 November 2020

R. di Martino - Segno Online, November 2020

R. di Martino - Il Sole 24 Ore, 27 October 2020

R. di Martino - Exibart, 22 October 2020

R. di Martino - Segno Online, October 2020

R. di Martino - Vogue Italia, 15 Oct 2020

R. di Martino - La Repubblica Roma, 28 Sept 2020

R. di Martino - il Manifesto, 26 Sept 2020

R. di Martino - Umbigo Magazine, 28 May 2020

R. di Martino - Exibart #106, Oct / Dec 2019

R. di Martino - Artribune, 7 October 2019

R. di Martino - La Lettura del Corriere della Sera, 10 Feb 2019

R. di Martino - El Pais, 21 Nov 2018

R. di Martino - Il Sole 24 Ore, 8 November 2018

R. di Martino - ArtBasel film 2018

R. di Martino - Il Giornale dell'Arte, Apr 2018

R. di Martino - Urban Magazine, March 2017

R. di Martino - Il giornale dell'arte, March 2017

R. di Martino - InsideArt, 2015

R. di Martino - BA3YLON #22, 2015

R. di Martino - Art Text Pics, 20 Oct 2015

R. di Martino - Artribune, 31 May 2015

R. di Martino - Il Manifesto, 21 April 2015

R. di Martino - Broadsheet #43.1, 2014

R. di Martino - Artribune, 4 Dec 2014

R. di Martino - Museion Project Room, 27 Sept 2014

R. di Martino - Flash Art, May / June 2014

R. di Martino - Exibart #88, 2014

R. di Martino - The Guardian, 6 March 2013

R. di Martino - Der Spiegel, 6 Sept 2013

R. di Martino - Frieze, 27 Sept 2012