Elena Damiani
Elena Damiani was born in 1979 in Lima, Peru, where she currently lives and works.
Damiani has participated in multiple international biennales, including the Seoul Mediacity Biennale (2023), Cuenca Biennial (2018, 2016), Gwangju Biennale (2016), Venice Biennale, Vienna Biennale and IV Poly/Graphic Triennial (all 2015), Bienal de la Imagen y Movimiento (2014), Mercosul Biennial (2013).
Solo exhibitions include MAC Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Lima (2022), Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA (2017), Museo Amparo, Puebla (2016), MUAC Museo Universitario Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City (2015). Her work has been exhibited at the MoMA The Museum of Modern Art, Heide MoMA, Melbourne and ! MACO Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca (all in 2023), C3A, Cordoba and Museo de Arte Zapopan, Guadalajara (both 2022), Harn Museum of Art, Florida and A4 Art Museum, Chengdu (both 2021), Dhaka Art Summit, DePaul Art Museum, Chicago and MOCO Montpellier Contemporain (all in 2020), Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon and Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Roma (both 2019), Skissernas Museum, Lund, (2017), Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, and MOCAD Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit (both 2015). She was awarded the Grants & Commissions Program, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation CIFO (2016) and the commission for the David Rockefeller Atrium, Americas Society, New York (2014).
Her work is represented in the collections of MoMA The Museum of Modern Art, New York; MALI Museo de Arte de Lima, Lima; Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection, Miami; Museo Tamayo, Mexico City; Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco and Paris, Cisneros Fontanals ArtFoundation, Miami; Kamel Lazaar Foundation, Tunisi; Schoepflin Foundation, Lorrach and FOLAFototeca Latinoamericana, Buenos Aires.
Elena Damiani was born in 1979 in Lima, Peru, where she currently lives and works.
Damiani has participated in multiple international biennales, including the Seoul Mediacity Biennale (2023), Cuenca Biennial (2018, 2016), Gwangju Biennale (2016), Venice Biennale, Vienna Biennale and IV Poly/Graphic Triennial (all 2015), Bienal de la Imagen y Movimiento (2014), Mercosul Biennial (2013).
Solo exhibitions include MAC Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Lima (2022), Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA (2017), Museo Amparo, Puebla (2016), MUAC Museo Universitario Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City (2015). Her work has been exhibited at the MoMA The Museum of Modern Art, Heide MoMA, Melbourne and ! MACO Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca (all in 2023), C3A, Cordoba and Museo de Arte Zapopan, Guadalajara (both 2022), Harn Museum of Art, Florida and A4 Art Museum, Chengdu (both 2021), Dhaka Art Summit, DePaul Art Museum, Chicago and MOCO Montpellier Contemporain (all in 2020), Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon and Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Roma (both 2019), Skissernas Museum, Lund, (2017), Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, and MOCAD Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit (both 2015). She was awarded the Grants & Commissions Program, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation CIFO (2016) and the commission for the David Rockefeller Atrium, Americas Society, New York (2014).
Her work is represented in the collections of MoMA The Museum of Modern Art, New York; MALI Museo de Arte de Lima, Lima; Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection, Miami; Museo Tamayo, Mexico City; Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco and Paris, Cisneros Fontanals ArtFoundation, Miami; Kamel Lazaar Foundation, Tunisi; Schoepflin Foundation, Lorrach and FOLAFototeca Latinoamericana, Buenos Aires.
- Black Crested Saguaro, 2024Hand carved black Santa Ana marble, Tuscan Arenaria base
148×58×58 cm - Ellisella, 2024Copper plated iron base and iron rods
44×44×80 cm - Ellisella, 2024Copper plated iron base and iron rods
44×44×80 cm - Pendula en aro, 2024Copper, Breccia Marina marble base
64,5×107×15 cm - Rama, 2024Copper branch, copper leaves
108×82×80 cm - Rama, 2024Copper branch, copper leaves
108×82×80 cm - Mineral Cell III, 2024Cast bronze frame, stone slabs (marble, travertine, quartzite, granite), brass fittings, cast bronze base
192×127×59,5 cm - Poem, 2024Travertine cylinders with copper, steel shelves
260×335×6 cm - Unfolding X, 2024Hand carved Rumi travertine, copper plate, steel L shaped angle, steel french cleat, screws
27×66×27 cm - The Erratic Marbles XII, 2024Inkjet print on cotton paper, inkjet print on alpha-cellulose paper
34×25 cm
each
18 elements
Edition unique within a series - Filter II N8, 2024Black and gold marble, brass, steel
110×80×3 cm - Fading Field N12, 2018digital print on silk chiffon, wood structure paint in black matte
206,5×235×156 cm - Transits 1, 2019, view 1nero marquina marble, Carrara marble, brass
130×27×17 cm - Transits 1, 2019, view 2nero marquina marble, Carrara marble, brass
130×27×17 cm - Transits 1, 2019, detailnero marquina marble, Carrara marble, brass
130×27×17 cm - Unsaturated Mudcrack, 2016, view 1concrete mix, Nero Marquina marble, brass
15×123×76 cm - Unsaturated Mudcrack, 2016, view 2concrete mix, Nero Marquina marble, brass
15×123×76 cm - Placement (Macelo N.2), 2016, view 1travertine, glass, collage
70×25×55 cm - Placement (Macelo N.2), 2016, view 2travertine, glass, collage
70×25×55 cm - Mineral Cartographies (Southern Hemisphere), 2019G print on cotton paper
75×63 cm
Edition of 3 - Mineral Cartographies (Northen Hemisphere), 2019G print on cotton paper
75×63 cm
Edition of 3 - Mineral Cartographies (Western Hemisphere), 2019G print on cotton paper
75×63 cm
Edition of 3 - Mineral Cartographies (Eastern Hemisphere), 2019G print on cotton paper
75×63 cm
Edition of 3 - Conjunction, 2016gyclee print on cotton paper
50×70 cm - Untitled (The weight of), 2016Untitled (The weight of), 2016
gyclee print on cotton paper
29,77×40 cm each - Untitled (The weight of), 2016, detailUntitled (The weight of), 2016
gyclee print on cotton paper
29,77×40 cm - Untitled (The weight of), 2016, detailUntitled (The weight of), 2016
gyclee print on cotton paper
29,77×40 cm - Untitled (The weight of), 2016, detailUntitled (The weight of), 2016
gyclee print on cotton paper
29,77×40 cm - Untitled (The weight of), 2016, detailUntitled (The weight of), 2016
gyclee print on cotton paper
29,77×40 cm