1947        Born in Garessio, Italy

1970        Diploma di Scultura, Accademia di Belle Arte, Turin, Italy

 

Currently lives and works in Turin, Italy and Paris

 

 

Selected Solo Exhibitions

 

2015        Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas, USA

2014        Musee Grenoble, Paris

              Giuseppe Penone : Branches of Thought, Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles

              Prospettiva Vegetable, Beirut Art Center, Beirut, Lebanon

              Breath Is A Sculpture : Circling, Gagosian Gallery, London

              Prospettiva Vegetable, Forte di Belvedere and Giardino di Boboli, Florence, Italy

2013        Ideas of Stone, Madison Square Park, New York

              Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris

              Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland

              Chateau de Versailles, Versailles, France

              Entre les lignes, Chapelle du Mejan, Arles, France

2012        Marian Goodman Gallery, New York

              Centre d’arts et de nature, Parc du Chateau, Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, France

              Traversées, La Fabrique du Pont d’Aleyrac, Saint-Pierreville, France

              Jardin des Plantes, Paris

              Spazio di Luce, Whitechapel Gallery, London

              Intersecting Gaze, Gagosian Gallery, London

2011        The Hidden Life Within, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada

2010        Drawings and Sculptures, Fondation De Pont, Tilburg, Netherlands

              Musèe des Arts Contemporains – Site du Grand-Hornu, Belgium

2009        Hands: Works from 1968 – 2008, Tucci Russo Studio per L’ArteContemporanea,

              Piemonte

              Museo de la Ciudad, Quito Equador

              Alfonso Artiaco, Napoli, Italy

              Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota, Tokyo

              Ikon Gallery, Birmingham

2008        MAMbo, Bologna

              Frith Street Gallery, London

              Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris and New York

              Giardino delle Sculture Fluide, Le Veneria Reale, Torino

              Giuseppe Penone, Académie de France à Rome-Villa Medici, Rome

2007        Sculture di linfa, 52. Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte, La Biennale di Venezia, Italian

              Pavillion, Venice, Italy

2006        Galerie Alice Pauli, Lausanne

              Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve, Germany

              CeSAC Centro Sperimentale per le Arti Contemporanee, Il Filatoio, Caraglio,Cuneo,

              Italy

2004        Giuseppe Penone. Retrospectiva, CaixaForum, Barcelona

              Milton Keynes Gallery, Central Milton Keyes

              Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

              Giuseppe Penone, The Imprint of Drawing, The Drawing Center, New York

2003        Pescheria, Centro per le Arti Visive, Pesaro, Italy

2002        Spazio per l'arte Contemporanea, Bella Monaca, Rome

2000        Giuseppe Penone, Tucci Rosso Studio per l’Arte Contemporanea, Turi

              Respirare l’ombra (sponsored by the City of Pulheim), Synagoge

              Marian Goodman Gallery, New York

              Giuseppe Penone: Dessins et Sculptures 1968-2000, Rennes Espace, Paris

 

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

 

2014        Decomposed Garden, Gagosian Gallery, Paris

              Arte Povera and ‘Multipli , Torino 1970-1975, Spruth Magers, Berlin

              Dan Graham, Giuseppe Penone, Dahn Vo, Jeff Wall, Marian Goodman Gallery,

              New York

              Group Show, Gagosian Gallery, Paris

2013        I Look To You And I See Nothing, Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, Tasmania;

              travelled to Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

              Morandi and Casorati in the De Fornaris Collection, From Workshop to Work, Italian

              Cultural Institute, New York

              Turbulences II, Villa Empain, Boghossain Foundation, Brussels

              Fragile ?, Le Stanze del Vetro, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, Italy

2012        Ideas of Stone (2004-10), Documenta (13), Kassel, Germany

              Cabinet Pieces, Weserberg Museum of Modern Art, Bremen, Germany

              Arte Torna Arte, Galleria dell’Accademia, Florence, Italy

              Arte Povera, Neues Museum Weimar, Weimar, Germany

              Pelle di Donna, Triennale Bovisa, Milan, Italy

2011        The World Belongs To You, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy

              Arte povera 1968, Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Bologna (MAMbo), Bologna, Italy

              Arte Povera International, Castillo di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporana, Turin, Italy

2010        Essential Experiences, Palazzo Riso, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea della Sicilia, Sicily,

              Italy

              Rudolf Steiner and Contemporary Art, Kunstmuseum Wolfsberg, Wolfsburg, Germany

2009        Mark Wallinger Curates: The Russian Linesman, Hayward Gallery, London

2007        Rockburne, and the Old Masters, The Morgan Libraty & Museum, New York

              Mentalscapes, A journey Though Italien Contemporary Art, Tel AvivMuseum of Art,

              Tel Aviv Rouge baiser, FRAC Pays de Loire, Nantes

              Futurismo al web, MAMbo Museo d’arte moderna, Bologna

              Arte Povera, Kunstmuseum, Liechtenstein

              Contrepoint de la sculpture, Louvre, Paris

              Colecciòn de arte contemporaneo Fundaciàn La Coixa, Escucha con tus ojo,Caixaforum,

              Fundaciò La Caixa, Barcelona

              Samuel Beckett, musée national d’Art moderne Centre Georges Pompidou,Paris

              Live/Work: Performance into Drawing, The Museum of Modern Art, NewYork

              Collective One, Galerie Guy Bärtschi

              Accrochage d'hiver, Galerie Alice Pauli

2006        Resonance, Frith Street Gallery, London

              La Force de l’art, Grand Palais, Paris, France

              Where Are We Going, François Pinault collection, Pallazo Grassi, Venice,Italy

              Acquisitions récentes du Cabinet d’art graphique de Schwitters à Toguo,

              unchoix, musée national d’Art moderne Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

2005        Galarie Marian Goodman, Paris

              Jardin des plantes, FRAC Picardie/Galeries des Lycees, Peronne

              Some Trees, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen

2004-05   Basico, Tucci Russo, Torino, Italy

2004        Summer Show, Frith Street Gallery, London

              Aligned, Frith Street Gallery, London

              Reflecting the Mirror, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York

              Italian Master Drawings, 1540 to the present, The Philadelphia Museum of Art,

              Philadelphia

              Contre/Images, Carré d’Art, musée d’Art contemporain, Nîmes

              The State of Drawing: Gesture and Act. Selected from the Tate Collection,Tate Liverpool

              Village Global Musée des Beaux Arts, Montréal, Quebec

              The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography, 1960-1982, Walker ArtCenter,

              Minneapolis, Minnesota; UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles

              Skin Deep, MART Rovereto, Trento

2003        La Poetica Dell'Arte Povera, Magdeburger Museum, Magdeburg

              Jardin des Plantes, FRAC Picardie, Espace St. Jacques, Saint Quentin

              Dessins de la Collection Paul Maenz, FRAC Picardie, Amiens,

              A Sculpture Show, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York

2001        Zero to Infinity: Arte Povera 1962-1971, Tate Gallery of Modern Art,London, England;

              Walker Art Center, Minneapolis Minnesota; The Museumof Contemporary Art,, L.A

              Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.

              Dialogue Ininterromptu, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, Nantes,

2000        Beauté in Fabula," Palais des Papes D’Avignon, Avignon, France

              Teatro Botanico, La natura nell’arte del XX secolo, Museo Civico Castello

              Ursino,Le Temps Vite,"Musée National d’Art Moderne-Centre Georges Pompidou,Paris,

              Palais des Expositions, Rome, Italy; Centre de Cultura Contemporaniade Barcelona,

              Barcelona

              Kwangju Biennial 2000, Kwangju, Korea

              Out of the Wood, Sala Congressi, Casole d’Elsa; Associazione Holy Wood,L’oeil écoute,

              carte blanche à Alain Kirili, Duc des Lombards, Paris

              Sembianti della scultura, Palazzo Stella, Bologna

              Enclosed and Enchanted, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford

 

 

Awards

 

Schock Prize for The Visual Arts - reconciling nature and civilization, 2001, Kungl

Vetenskapsakademien, The Royal Swedish Academy of Science, Stockholm, Sweden

 

 

Collections

 

MoMA

Tate Britain

Tate Liverpool

Musée d´Art Moderne Bruxelles

Fondation pour L'art Contemporain, Claudine et Jean-Marc Salomon

National Gallery of Canada - Musée des beaux-arts du Canada

Inhotim Centro de Arte Contemporânea, Brazil

Collection Lambert, Avignon

Collection Lambert, Avignon

FRAC - Pays de la Loire, Carquefou

FRAC - Bretagne, Châteaugiron

MAC Musées d´Art Contemporain, Marseille

Carré d´art - Musée d´art contemporain de Nîmes, Nîmes

Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris

Musée d´Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris - MAM/ARC, Paris

Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris

Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain (MAMCS), Strasbourg

FRAC - Rhône-Alpes, IAC - Institute d`art contemporain, Villeurbanne

ALTANA Kulturstiftung im Sinclair-Haus, Bad Homburg

ZKM | Museum für Neue Kunst & Medienmuseum, Karlsruh

Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach

Sammlung Goetz, Munich

Kunstsammlungen zu Weimar - Neues Museum, Weimar

Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples

Museo D'Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina - MADRE, Naples

Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia

MART- Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto

Museo d´arte contemporanea Castello di Rivoli, Turin

21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art - Kanazawa, Kanazawa

MOMAT The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam

Kröller-Müller museum, Otterlo

Museum De Pont, Tilburg

Berardo Museum - Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art, Lisbon

CGAC - Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela

Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern

Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthu

Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds