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
