Paolo Radi

Paolo Radi was born in Rome on 28 March 1966.

Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome in 1988, he made his debut in 1992 at the Young Artists IV exhibition at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome.

In 2002 he was invited to create his work at the Sculpture Space Foundation in Utica, New York.
In the same year he won the Youth/Sculpture Award of the Accademia Nazionale di San Luca in Rome.

In 2003 he was invited to the XIV Quadrennial Anteprima Napoli, Palazzo Reale.

In 2005 he participated in the exhibition Lucio Fontana and his legacy, where the aim was to highlight a line of continuity between the work of Lucio Fontana and that of some artists of subsequent generations.

In 2006 he participated, by invitation, in the X International Architecture Exhibition-Venice Biennale (New Italian Pavilion for VEMA – “The city of the future”) where Alam exhibited a sculpture inspired by the theme of hibernation. The work is designed for the Hospital of the Future designed by Antonella Mari.

In 2009 he participated in the exhibition Cromofobie – Paths of black and white in contemporary Italian art held at the Ex Aurum in Pescara. Recent exhibitions include Experimenta (the Farnesina collection of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs) and Springs in White (New Delhi, Kolkata and Bangkok), created on the initiative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, whose objective is to promote and disseminate, internationally, the works of the latest generations.

In 2012 he was invited, together with Emanuela Fiorelli, by the Italian Cultural Institute of Lima, to exhibit at the Centro-Culturale Visual Art Gallery Ccori Wasi Universidad Ricardo Palma. The exhibition, Emanuela Fiorelli and Paolo Radi – In the sign and in the light, presents a large number of works from the recent career of the two artists.

In 2016 the exhibition The Sharper Perception, Dynamic Art, Optical and Beyond, at the GR Gallery in New York and the solo exhibition at the MAC Museo Arte Contemporanea in Lissone where he presented his latest work on L’opera discronica.

The exhibition in the Museums of San Salvatore in Lauro, curated by the Galleria Ferrarin Arte of Legnago, dates back to 2018.

He lives and works in Rome.