Ugo Rondinone

Ugo Rondinone is a New York-based multidisciplinary artist and curator whose practice spans several distinct groups of paintings, immersive installations, as well as sculptures in various materials, monumental landscape drawings, intimate still life drawings, text-based works, photography, video and film.

Rondinone has exhibited internationally for more than three decades and in 2007, he represented Switzerland at the 52nd La Biennale di Venezia.

Most recently his solo exhibitions have included vocabulary of solitude, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland (2021); nude in the landscape, Belvedere 21, Vienna (2021); everyone gets lighter, Helsinki Festival and Kunsthalle Helsinki, Helsinki (2019); good evening beautiful blue, The Bass, Miami Beach (2017).

Celebrated public commissions include Seven Magic Mountains, 2016, presented by Art Production Fund & the Nevada Museum of Art, Nevada; Liverpool Mountain, 2018, his first public sculpture in the UK, outside Tate Liverpool; and human nature, commissioned by the Public Art Fund, Rockefeller Plaza, New York in 2013.

Upcoming solo exhibitions in 2022 include: vocabulary of solitude, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City (June 5 – October 30, 2022), in Frankfurt: a survey exhibition lifetime at the Schirn Kunsthalle concurrent with a sculpture installation in the Städel Museum’s garden (June 24 – October 18, 2022).