UPCOMING
Solo exhibition, Biblioteca Braidense, Milan (october, 2026)
Selected solo exhibitions and public art projects
2025
Lettere Mediterranee, retrospective exhibition, BUILDING gallery, Milano. Catalogue published by BUILDING gallery with essays by Elio Cappuccio, Angelo Crespi, Christine Macel
2024
Condenser l’Infini, Passerelle Centre d’Art Contemporain, Brest, curated by Loïc Le Gall. Catalogue published by Johan & Levi, Milano with texts by Alessandro Castiglioni, Loïc Le Gall, Melissa Bianca Amore, Angelo Crespi
Natura Naturans, Michel Rein, Paris
Condensare l’Infinito, Building Terzo Piano, Milano, curated by Angelo Crespi
2023
Condensare l’Infinito, Museo MA✪GA, Gallarate, curated by Alessandro Castiglioni. Catalogue published by Johan & Levi, Milano with texts by Alessandro Castiglioni, Loïc Le Gall, Melissa Bianca Amore, Angelo Crespi
2022
Step into Life of Maybe, Michel Rein, Bruxelles
2021
Sans commencement et sans fin, retrospective exhibition, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Rochechouart, curated by Sébastien Faucon. Catalogue published by Zamân Books, Paris by Sébastien Faucon, Valérie da Costa, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Roberta Garieri, Morad Montazami and Michele Ciacciofera
2020
The Library of encoded time, Museo Marino Marini, Firenze, curated by Angelo Crespi
Time in Territories of Life, Michel Rein, Paris
2019
The Library of encoded time, Michel Rein, Paris
2018
A chimerical museum of shifting shapes, Voice Gallery, Marrakech
The translucent skin of the present, Mirrored Gardens, Vitamin Creative Space, Guangzhou
2017
Emisferi Sud, Museo MAN, Nuoro, curated by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung
Fragments of nature and other stories, Senesi Contemporanea, London, curated by Marco Izzolino. Catalogue with text from Richard Demarco, Marco Izzolino and an interview with Hans Ulrich Obrist
2016
Enchanted Nature, Revisited, CAFA Museum, Beijing, curated by Wang Chunchen. Catalogue published by CAFA with texts from Christine Macel, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Wang Chunchen
Enchanted Nature, Revisited, Primus Capital Art, Milan, curated by Angelo Crespi. Catalogue published by Johan&Levi with texts from Christine Macel, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Angelo Crespi
2015
Odio gli Indifferenti, Carta Bianca Fine Arts, Catania
Odio gli Indifferenti, 20th Street Studio Projects, New York, curated by Jee Won Kim
2014
I hate the indifferent, Summerhall, Edinburgh, curated by Robert Mc Dowell
Art is Reality is Art, Musée en Herbe, Paris (showing with Malachi Farrell)
Odio gli indifferenti, Palazzo Montalto, Siracusa
2013
Tell me a story, Magazzini dell’arte contemporanea, Trapani, curated by Antonio Sammartano
Dessins, Onishy Project gallery, New York
2011
Mining memories, Light of Creativity, Miami Beach, curated by Renato Miracco
No man’s land, Museo Civico, Noto, curated by Ornella Fazzina. Catalogue published by Marchese with text from Ornella Fazzina and Lorenzo Guzzardi
Michele Ciacciofera/Enzo Rovella, Fondazione Sambuca, Palermo. Catalogue published by Fondazione Sambuca with texts by Marina Giordano and Paolo Falcone
The triumph of death, Epicentro Contemporary, Berlin, curated by Renato Miracco. Catalogue published by Epicentro with texts by Renato Miracco and Judith Plodeck
2010
No man’s land, Galleria André, Rome
ARTI-FICI: argonauta, Galleria Civica d’arte contemporanea Montevergini, Siracusa, curated by Carmelo Strano and Giorgia Romano. Catalogue published by Marchese with text by Carmelo Strano and Giorgia Romano
2009
Silence!, Italian Cultural Institute, New York, curated by Renato Miracco. Catalogue published by Charta, texts by Miracco and Lance M. Fung
Silence! – drawings, Palazzo At Borgia del Casale, Siracusa, curated by Carmelo Strano. Catalogue published by Erreproduzioni with text by Carmelo Strano
2007
Viaggio nell’immagine sulle tracce di Goethe, St. John’s College, Santa Fé (New Mexico USA) . Catalogue published by Lussografica with texts by Giuseppe Quatriglio, Pasquale Hamel, Manuel Giliberti
Prigionieri e deserti, Palazzo del Governo, Siracusa, curated by Ornella Fazzina. Catalogue published by Erreproduzioni with text by Ornella Fazzina
2005
Dentro il paesaggio, Complesso dello Spasimo, Palermo, curated by Aurelio Pes. Catalogue published by Edizioni La Rocca, with texts by Aurelio Pes and Giuseppe Quatriglio
Selected group exhibitions
2025
36th São Paulo Bienal Not All Travelers Walk Roads — Of Humanity as Practice, curated by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, co-curated by Alya Sebti, Anna Roberta Goetz, Thiago de Paula Souza and Keyna Eleison
Fissare l’arcipelago, Fondazione Sant’Elia, Palermo, curated by Philippe Terrier-Hermann
2024
Further away, 6th Mardin Biennial, curated by Ali Akay
Opus Liber, Building Milano, curated by Angela Madesani
Art & Craft, ArtParis 2024, Grand Palais Éphémère Paris, curated by Nicolas Tremblay
2023
Fais que ton rêve soit plus long que la nuit, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Rochechouart, curated by Sébastien Faucon
Circulus – “Le fond de ma nature est, quoi qu’on en dise, le saltimbanque” (Flaubert), Galerie Papillon, Paris, curated by Colette Barbier
2022
Celebrazioni 800 anni Duomo di Cosenza, Cosenza, curated by Giacinto Di Pietrantonio
Ceramics Now, Galerie Italienne, Paris, curated by Florian Daguet-Bresson
Ground Odyssey: Amphoreus, Le Marais 91530 (France) and Brownstone Foundation, curated by Victoire de Pourtales
Edipo. Lo sguardo in se, Museo di Palazzo Bellomo, Siracusa, curated by Antonio Calbi
2021
Monaco-Alexandrie. Le grand détour. Villes-mondes et surréalisme cosmopolite, NMNM Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, curated by Morad Montazami. Catalogue published by Zamân Books
La Couleur crue, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, curated by Jean-Roch Bouiller, Sophie Kaplan, Anne Langlois
⧣WAAG21, Museum of Byzantine Culture, Thessaloniki, curated by Francesco Piazza and Vassilis Karampatsas
Real Utopias, Maison R&C – Manifesta 13 project , Marseille, curated by Bianca Cerrina Feroni and Melania Rossi
2019
FIAC Projects, Petit Palais, Paris, curated by Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel
Fiber Art Biennale – Museo Murats, Samugheo
2018
Geographies of Imagination, Savvy Contemporary, Berlin, curated by Antonia Alampi and Bonaventure Ndikung.
Sutures, Marc Straus, New York, curated by Tim Hawkinson
Textile Abstraction, Casas Riegner, Bogotá, Colombia, curated by Jens Hoffmann.
Through, Aghmat archaeological site/Voice Gallery, Marrakech.
2017
Helicotrema Recorded Audio Festival, Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi and Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Venezia, Italia
57th Biennale Internazionale d’Arte di Venezia Viva Arte Viva, curated by Christine Macel
Documenta 14 Kassel/Athens – Every time a ear di soun, curated by Adam Szymczyk and Bonaventure Son Bejeng Ndikung
2016
J’ai rêvé le goût de la brique pilée, ENSA/La Box, Bourges, curated by Natsuko Uchino and Sophie Auger-Grappin
2015
Nel Mezzo del Mezzo, Museo Riso, Palermo, curated by Christine Macel, Marco Bazzini, Bartomeu Mari
What we call love – from Surrealism to now, IMMA Museum, Dublin, curated by Christine Macel and Rachel Thomas
Art Bridge Center, Beijing
2012
Endless summer, White Box, New York, curated by Jee Won Kim
2011
Barocco austero, ex Monastero dei Benedettini, Catania, curated by Carmelo Strano
Carta delle circostanze – frontiere liquide, Teatro Verga Ortigia, Siracusa
54 Biennale di Venezia – Padiglione Italia, Corderie dell’Arsenale, Venezia
Sicilia sopra tutti, Galleria Civica d’arte contemporanea Montevergini, Siracusa
2010
Suite 13, Nostra Signora, Palermo
Icona Magnifica, Palazzo della Cultura, Catania
Neoiconoduli-figurazione internazionale complessa, Museo Bellomo, Siracusa, curated by Carmelo Strano
Terzo Rinascimento – linguaggi della sensibilità ibrida, Castello Normanno Galleria Civica d’arte contemporanea, Acicastello, curated by Carmelo Strano
2009
Salvados por el arte, el viaje artistico de unos libros condenados a morir, Istituto Cervantes, Palermo, curated by Ornella Fazzina
Porta della Bellezza, Librino/Fondazione Fiumara d’Arte, Catania
2008
Trinacria: Gambadoro, Ciacciofera, Roccasalvo, Le Ciminiere, Catania
2007
Contemporanea, Palazzo del Governo, Siracusa, curated by Ornella Fazzina and Paolo Giansiracusa
2006
200 artisti per 100 anni – i colori del lavoro, Palazzo del Governo, Siracusa, curated by Alberto Baio
Ratio Naturalis, Biviere, Lentini, curated by Ornella Fazzina
Pluralità segniche: Ciacciofera – Pasini – Roccasalvo, Church of S. Salvatore, Caltavuturo, curated by Ornella Fazzina
Migrazioni, Palazzo del Governo, Siracusa, curated by Michele Romano
La visione negata, Church of S. Nicolò dei Cordari- Parco Archeologico, Siracusa, curated by Nino Portoghese
2005
Periplo Blu, Monastero del Ritiro, Siracusa, curated by Nino Portoghese
VI Biennial of Sacred Art Jacob’s Ladder, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, Pennsylvania
Via Lucis, Monastero del Ritiro, Siracusa, curated by Paolo Giansiracusa
Diafania – luce dal buio, L’Arco e la Fonte arte contemporanea, Siracusa, curated by Nino Portoghese
2000
Nel cuore di Sciascia, Galleria La Rocca, Palermo / Fondazione Sciascia, Racalmuto