1969, Born in Trento. Lives and works in Trento, Italy
EDUCATION
1997-98, Postdoctoral Fellowship, PHD level, Government of Canada Grant Award
Holder, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada
1993, Accademia di Belle Arti di "Brera", Milano, Italy
1989, Istituto d'Arte, Trento, Italy
SELECTED SOLO SHOWS
2008, Guinea Pig, Priska Juschka Fine Art, New York, USA
2007, The Flu ID, NADiff - New Art Diffusion, Tokyo, Japan
2005, Babylon Zoo, Oredaria Arti Contemporanee, Rome, Italy
Atomicwerk, Forte Strino, Vermiglio, Italy
Lies, Platform, London, UK
2004, Irrational Exuberance. Project room: video windows, Stefan Stux Gallery, New York, USA
2000, Contemporanea: Stefano Cagol, MART - Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art,
Trento, Italy
Spider & Empire, Galleria Estro, Padova, Italy
1999, The Cat's Moon, Studio d'Arte Raffaelli, Trento, Italy
1998, Entropia, Ryerson Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1996, Disintegrazione, Galerie der Berchtold Villa, Salzburg, Austria
Fattore Artificiale - Dirbtinis Faktorius, Arka Galerija, Vilnius, Lithuania
1995, Sex-Net - Mort Nuclèaire, Künstlerhaus, Salzburg, Austria
SOLO PROJECTS
2007-2008, Flu Power Flu, public art installation, BeursSchouwburg, Brussels, Belgium
2007, Chess Time. Time Influence, permanent public art installation, Oltrisarco, Bolzano, Italy
Head Flu, public art installation, Tronchetto, Venice, Italy
2006, Tokyospace: Harajuku Influences, IIC - Italian Cultural Institute, Tokyo, Japan
Power Station, installation / action, Singapore Biennale, IIC - Italian Cultural Institute Singapore
Bird Flu, installation / action, Auguststrasse, 4 Berlin Biennale, Berlin, Germany
Bird Flu, installation / action, Kunstarum, Innsbruck, Austria
Bird Flu, installation / action, Museion - Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art,
Bolzano, Italy
Bird Flu, Installation / action, "Spot! Un artista, un'opera, un luogo", Civic Gallery of Contemporary Art, Trento, Italy
2005, White-Flags, performance / action, Giardini, 51 Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Heart, site-specific installation, The Passion for Learning and Knowing. 6th International Conference, Faculty of Sociology, University of Trento, Italy
2004, Tokyospace, video screening, Superdeluxe, ART Foundation, Tokyo, Japan
2004, The Wedding Project, site-specific installation and web project, Civic Gallery of Contemporary Art, Trento, Italy
2003, Diary Project 03, web project, Miami, USA
Dress the Risk, performance, Miss Italy, S. Benedetto del Tronto, Italy
The Silver Squadron, Public Art project, Galerie im Traklhaus, Salzburg, Austria
Videoartproject1, video screening, Antonioli, Milan, Italy
2002, Open studio, Leube Zementwerk, Gartenau, Austria
Diary project 02, web project, Miami and New York, USA
2001, Diary Project 01, web project, New York, USA
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2008, Fragile, Hoet Bekaert, Ghent, Belgium
Eurasia, Mart - Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto, Italy
Le luci dell'arte, Roma Sotterranea, Rome, Italy
2007, From_and_to, Kunst Merano Arte, Merano, Italy
War, peace and ecstasy, Lingotto, Turin, Italy
Bellavita. L.A. Auction, The Barber Shop, Los Angeles, USA
Videoart Yearbook 2007, Chiostro di Santa Cristina, Bologna, Italy
Auslaender Marathon, A4 Zero Space, Bratislava, Poland
Paesaggi Metropolitani, MLAC - Museo Laboratorio di Arte Contemporanea,
La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
Italy 1980-2007. Tendencies of the contemporary research. Vietnam National Fine Arts Museum Hanoi, Vietnam
On the Edge of Vision, Victoria Memorial, Calcutta, National Gallery, New Delhi, National Gallery, Bombay, India
2006, Zoo Logical Garden, Harry Malter Park, Ghent, Belgium
Euronite, IIC - Italian Cultural Instiute, Toronto, Canada
Videoart Yearbook, Chiostro di Santa Cristina, Bologna, Italy
Fair Play. Festival delle Culture Giovani, Salerno, Italy
2005, Atomica. Making the invisible visible, Lombard Freid Fine Arts and Esso Gallery,
New York, USA
Pensieri sul relativismo, Villa Tonda, Ansedonia, Italy
Affetti Collaterali, Guidi & Schoen, Genova, Italy
2004, Moving Pictures. A Video Installation Survey, Artcore Gallery, Toronto, Canada
MacroVideoteca: On Air, MACRO - Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome, Italy
Costanti Diversità. European Biennial of Visual Arts, CAMeC - Contemporary Art Center,
La Spezia, Italy
Medioevo prossimo venturo, Palazzo Pretorio, Certaldo, Florence, Italy
Interfacies Asteriae, Asteria Multimedia, Trento, Italy
On Air, La Comunale - Contemporary Art Center, Monfalcone, Italy
Artcore International, Artcore Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Stop & Stor, Luxe Gallery, New York, USA
Quadriennale Anteprima, La Promotrice delle Belle Arti, Turin, Italy
Enter. Casoli Art Prize, Barbara Behan Gallery, London, UK
2003, Art Basel Miami Beach, Artcore Gallery - Toronto, Miami Beach, USA
Piccole Belve, Museo Laboratorio, Città Sant'Angelo, Italy
You can find it anywhere. Visioni by Renault, Villa Borghese, Rome, Italy
Places of Affection. Luoghi d'Affezione, IKOB - Internationales Kunstzentrum Ostbelgien, Eupen, Belgium
In Faccia al Mondo, Villa Croce - Museum of Contemporary Art, Genova, Italy
Foto, Galleria Rebecca Container, Genova, Italy
Warm Up, Galleria Neon, Bologna, Italy
2002, New Italian Space, MART - Museum of Modern Art & Civic Gallery of Contemporary Art, Trento, Italy
Art Basel Miami Beach, Artcore Gallery - Toronto, Miami Beach, USA
VideoLab, Artissima, Turin, Italy
Mostra d'emergenza, Galleria Civica, Castel San Pietro Terme, Italy
1st International Festival of Photography. Viasatellite, Mercati Traianei, Rome, Italy
First Detroit Video Festival, Museum of New Art, Detroit, USA
2001, Public Art Project: Künstler Brücken. Ponti d'artista, Bolzano, Italy
Panorama II, Tiroler Kunstpavillion, Innsbruck, Austria
River Run: Paesaggi in movimento, Chiostri di San Domenico, Reggio Emilia, Italy
All'Esedra, Villa Manin, Codroipo, Udine, Italy
S.A.A. Strategies Against Architecture, Gian Carla Zanutti Gallery, Milan, Italy
2000, Dintorni/Umgebung, Galerie Im Traklhaus, Salzburg, Austria
1999, Whichkraft?, Trans Hudson Gallery, New York, USA
Video.it, S.Pietro in Vincoli, GAM - Gallery of Modern Art, Turin, Italy
Atlante. Geography of Young Art in Italy, MACS - Museum of Contemporary Art, Masedu, Sassari, Italy
Super Mega Drops, Viafarini, Milan, Italy
1998, Laboratorio, Civic Gallery of Contemporary Art, Trento, Italy
1997, Generazione Media, Palazzo della Triennale, Milan, Italy
1996, Adicere Animos, Civic Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cesena, Italy
Video Forum. 2nd edition, ART 27'96, Basel, Switzerland
RESIDENCIES AND AWARDS
2008, Winner of MurriPublicArt, Bologna, Italy
2008, Winner of the second price, Targetti Art Light, Florence, Italy
2005, Winner for Trentino Alto-Adige, SEAT Pagine Bianche d'autore, Turin, Italy
2003, Artist in Residence, IOR - Corbyn Street, London, UK
2002, Artist in Residence, Leube Group's Art Program, Gartenau - Salzburg, Austria
2001, Fellowship, ICP - International Center of Photography, New York, USA
1998, Grant Award, Internationale Sommerakademie für Bildende Kunst, Salzburg, Austria
1995-96, Residency Award, Künstlerhaus, Salzburg, Austria
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Books
2008, Yuka Uematsu, Stefano Cagol, In conversation, Tokyospace, Italy
Angelique Campens, Stefano Cagol, In conversation, Tokyospace, Italy
2007, Mami Kataoka, Stefano Cagol, In conversation, Tokyospace, Italy
2005, Alessandra Vaccari, Wig Wag. Le bandiere della moda, MARSILIO Ed. - Pitti Immagine Discovery, Venice, Italy
AA.VV., L'Arte contemporanea Italiana nel mondo, SKIRA operaDARC, Milan, Italy
2004, Enciclopedia dell'arte Zanichelli, ZANICHELLI Ed., Milan, Italy
2003, AA.VV., Dizionario della Giovane Arte 1, Giancarlo POLITI Ed., Milan, Italy
2002, Angela Madesani, Le icone fluttuanti. Storia del cinema d'artista e della videoarte in Italy.
Vol. 1, B. MONDADORI Ed., Milan, Italy
Catalogues
2007, texts by Valerio Dehò, Denis Isaia, From_&_To, Damiani Ed., Italy
texts by Gabriella Belli, Laura Cherubini, Daniela Lancioni, Gianluca Marziani, Italy 1980-2007. Tendencies of the contemporary research, Temi Ed., Italy
curated by Lorenzo Canova, Rajeev Lochan, On the Edge of Vision New idioms in Indian & Italian contemporary art, Rome, Italy
texts by Angelique Campens, Stefan Bidner, David Elliott, Andrea Dissoni, Roberto Pinto, Stefano Cagol: Harajuku Influences, CHARTA, Milan, Italy
2006, AA.VV, Belief. Singapore Biennale, National Arts Council, Singapore
2005, essay by Pier Luigi Tazzi, Stefano Cagol: Babylon Zoo, Rome, Italy
essay by Ombretta Agrò Andruff, Atomicwerk, Trento, Italy
essay by Mami Kataoka, Lies, Platform, London, UK
2004, curated by Bruno Corà, essay by Gabriella Belli, European Biennial of Visual Arts, CAMeC - Contemporary Art Center, La Spezia, Italy
essay by Letizia Ragaglia, Tokyospace, Tokyo, Japan
curated by Andrea Bruciati, Antonella Crippa, essay by David Hunt, On Air, SILVANA Ed., Milan, Italy
curated by Lorenzo Canova, Arte Italiana per il XXI sec, Collezione Farnesina, Rome, Italy
curated by Maurizio Sciaccaluga, Medioevo prossimo venturo, Certaldo, Florence, Italy
AA.VV., Quadriennale Anteprima, De Luca Ed., Turin, Italy
2003, curated by Angelo Capasso, essay by Micaela Giovannotti, Places of Affections, SNOECK Ed., Brusselles, Belgium
curated by Grazia De Palma, Piccole Belve, Museo Laboratorio, Città Sant'Ange lo, Italy
curated by Valerio Dehò, Enter. Invito al futuro, DE AGOSTINI-RIZZOLI Ed., Milan, Italy
curated by Beatrice Buscaroli, Meta - Architecture. Landscapes and Visions, Andrea Moro Ed., Udine, Italy
2002, curated by Giorgio Verzotti, Fabio Cavallucci, Giovanna Nicoletti, Nuovo Spazio Italiano, CHARTA Ed., Milan, Italy
curated by Alessandra Galletta, Viasatellite. 1st Int. Festival of Photography, Rome, Italy
2001, curated by Letizia Ragaglia, Künstler Brücken/Ponti d'artista, Council of Bolzano,
Bolzano, Italy
curated by Elena Volpato, Pier Giovanni Castagnoli, River Run: Paesaggi in movimento, Reggio Emilia, Italy
2000, essays by Gabriella Belli, Luca Cerizza, Giovanna Nicoletti, Contemporanea: Stefano Cagol, MART, Trento, SKIRA Ed., Milan, Italy
curated by Barbara Martuscello, Galleria Estro, Padova, Italy
1999, essay by Vittoria Coen, Atlante, MACS - Masedu, Sassari, Giancarlo POLITI Ed., Milan, Italy
curated by Vittoria Coen, Le vie e le ricerche, Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, S. Marino, MAZZOTTA Ed., Milan, Italy
1998, curated by Vittoria Coen, essay by Luigi Serravalli, Laboratorio, Civic Gallery of Contemporary Art Trento, TEMI Ed., Milan, Italy
1997, curated by Antonio d'Avossa, Visual Rave, Società Umanitaria, Milan, Italy
AA.VV., Generazione Media, Palazzo della Triennale, Milan, Italy
1996, curated by Alice Rubbini, Adicere Animos, Civic Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cesena, Italy
AA.VV., Art 27'96 Art Fair Basel, Video Forum, Basel Art Fair catalogue, Basel, Switzerland
1993, AA.VV., Salon Primo '93, Academy of Fine Arts "Brera", Milan, Italy
Selected Reviews
2008, Roberto Pinto, "Dizionario della Giovane Arte Italiana", Flash Art # 269, Milan , Italy, Apr-May
2007, Luigi Meneghelli, "From & To", Flash Art # 267, Milan, Italy, Dec-Jan
June Yap, "To the Casual Observer: Stefano Cagol", Contemporary Magazine # 91,
London, UK, May
Orietta Berlanda, "Site Specific, time specific", Work. Art in progress, # 20, Italy, Nov
2006, Andrea Lissoni, "Trentino Alto Adige: nuovo polo dell´arte contemporanea",
Kunst-Bulletin, Switzerland, Dec
Luigi Meneghelli,"Stefano Cagol", Flash Art Italia # 261, Milan, Italy, Dec-Jan
Cristina Natalicchio, "Giovane Arte Trentina", Flash Art Italia # 261, Milan, Italy, Dec-Jan
Marco Enrico Giacomelli, "Fungo", Exibart Onpaper # 35, Rome, Italy, Dec-Jan
Denis Isaia, "Stefano Cagol", Flash Art Italia # 261, Milan, Italy, Dec-Jan
Luigi Meneghelli, "Neverending Cinema", Flash Art Italia #260, Italy, Oct-Nov
Adriana Polveroni, "Coppie d'arte fuori misura", D. La Repubblica delle Donne # 516,
Italy, Sept 16
AA.VV., "Stefano Cagol. Tokyo blues", Arte Mondadori, Italy, Sept
Ilaria Bombelli, "Bandiera Bianca", interview, Flash Art Italia # 259 Milan, Italy, Aug-Sept
Roberto Pinto, "Stefano Cagol", Work. Art in progress, # 16, Italy, July
"Bird Flu se desplaza por Europa", Lapiz, # 223, Madrid, Spain, May
2005, AA.VV., "New Talents: Stefano Cagol", Italica, Rai International online, Gallery # 17
AA.VV., "Stefano Cagol", Tema Celeste, # 111, Milan, Italy, Sept-Oct
AA.VV., "Attacco al fortino", Flash Art, Italia # 253, Milan, Italy, Aug-Sept
AA.VV., "Real vs Unreal", Flash Art Italia # 252, Milan, Italy, June-July
Enrico Gusella, "Cagol: ossia l'artista atomico", Il sole 24h: nordest, Milan, Italy, Aug 3
Pier Paolo Pancotto, "Roma, New York e Tokyo, le nuove Babilonia", L'Unità, Rome, July 8
2005, Carlo Brambilla, "L'Arte spiega la Società", La Repubblica, Rome, Italy, Jun 20
Chiara Zampetti, "Stefano Cagol: Lies. London", Exibart.com, Rome, Italy, March
Gary Michael Dault, "Where the cosmic meets the microscopic", Globe & Mail,
Toronto, Canada, Jan 1
2004, Andrew Conti, "Artifacts", Metropolis , Tokyo, Japan, Sept 17
AA.VV., "Gherkin reflections", Lloyd 's List, London, UK, Feb 16
Maurizio Sciaccaluga, "I talenti del made in Italy", Arte Mondadori, Milan, Italy, Jan
Angelo Mistrangelo, "La Quadriennale di Roma in Anteprima a Torino", La Stampa,
Turin, Italy, Jan 18
Alessandro Riva, "L'Italy dell 'arte è federalista", Sette. Corriere della Sera, Milan, Italy, Jan 15
2003, Paola Colombo, "Nuovo Spazio Italiano", Tema Celeste # 96, Milan, Italy, March-April
Guido Curto, "Mondi post-bellici e risciò nelle stanze dei giovani", La Stampa,
Turin, Italy, Jan 25
2002, AA.VV., "Giovane Videoarte Italiana", Flash Art Italia # 234, Milan, Italy, June-July
AA.VV., "Giovane Fotografia Italiana", Flash Art Italia # 233, Milan, Italy, April-May
Stefania Michelato, "Raccontami una storia", Arte & Critica # 30/31, Rome, Italy, April -Sep
Mariella Rossi, "Stefano Cagol", Tema Celeste Italia # 90, Milan, Italy, March-April
Stefano Giordano, "Se la videoarte di Cagol vola a Detroit", Il sole 24h: nordest,
Milan, Italy, Feb 11
2001, Elisa Fulco, "S.A.A.", Flash Art Italia # 227, Milan, Italy, April-May
Orietta Berlanda, "Stefano Cagol", Arte e Critica, Rome, Italy, Jan-March
Luigi Meneghelli, "Stefano Cagol", Flash Art Italia, # 226, Milan, Italy, Feb-March
Andrea Bruciati, "Stefano Cagol", Segno, # 177, Pescara, Italy, Feb-March
2000, Francesca Turchetto, "Stefano Cagol", temaceleste.com, Milan, Italy, Nov-Dec
Stefania Michelato, "Stefano Cagol e Gea Casolaro", Flash Art Italia # 224,
Milan, Italy, Oct-Nov
1999, Joyce Korotkin, "Whichkraft?", The New York Art World, New York, USA, Nov
Deborha Everett, "Whichkraft?", NY Arts, New York, USA, Oct
Giovanna Nicoletti, "Stefano Cagol", Juliet, # 93, Trieste, Italy, June
Fiorenzo Degasperi, "Cagol allo Studio Raffaelli", Alto Adige, Trento, Italy, Feb 19
1997, Melissa Garzonio, "Generazione Media", Corriere della Sera: Vivimilano, Milan, Italy, Nov 5
1996, Audronè Jablonskienè, "Talismanas nuo mutacijos", Respublika, Vilnius, Lithuania, Feb 21
LECTURES
2007, Nuove ricerche e nuovi ruoli dell'arte contemporanea, curated by Roberto Pinto, Faculty of Humanities and Philosophy, Trento, Italy
Debates, with Angelique Campens, ArtBrussels, Brussels, Belgium
The Flu ID, with Yuka Uematsu, NADiff, New Art Diffusion, Tokyo
2006, Past Time Hereos, with Mami Kataoka, senior curator Mori Art Museum, IIC, Tokyo
2005, The Passion for Learning and Knowing. 6th International Conference, Faculty of Sociology, University of Trento, Italy
TSM - Master of Culture Management, MART - Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rovereto, Italy
2004, The forms of the digital, MiArt, Milan, Italy
TSM -Master of Culture Management, MART - Museum of Contemporary Art, Rovereto, Italy
1999, Academy of Fine Arts "Brera", Milan, Italy
1998, McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology, University of Toronto, Canada
1994, Civic Gallery of Contemporary Art, Trento, Italy
WORKSHOPS
2007, Museion Summer Lab, Museion - Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Bolzano, Italy
2007, Thinking on Space, Accademia Cignaroli, Verona, Italy
2006, A scuola con gli artisti, Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea di Trento, Italy
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
MART - Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rovereto, Italy
Civic Gallery of Contemporary Art, Trento, Italy
Collezione Unicredit, Unicredit Group, Italy
Prader Bank, Bolzano-Trento, Italy
Targetti Art Light Collection, Florence, Italy