BEA BONAFINI
CV
Born in 1990 in Bonn, Germany
Lives and works in London
SOLO & DUO SHOWS
2021 - Upcoming - solo show, Renata Fabbri Gallery, Milan
2021 - Upcoming - solo show, Lychee One Gallery, London
2020 - Twin Waves ≈ Onde Gemelle, Operativa Arte Contemporanea, Rome
2019 - Chimère, GALERIE CHLOE SALGADO, Paris
2019 - Talk to the Hand, Bosse & Baum, London
2018 - Ogni Pensiero Vola, Renata Fabbri Gallery, Milan
2018 - Giotto’s Room, duo show with Aisha Christison, curated by Lucy Von Goetz, Post_Institute Von Goetz, London
2018 - Garageland, duo show with Anne Ryan, The Rectory Projects, London
2018 - Shed Shreds, Lychee One Gallery, London
2017 - Dovetail’s Nest, Zabludowicz Collection, Invites, London
2017 - A World of One’s Own, Fieldworks Gallery, London
2013 - Anthropophagi, duo show with Paola De Ramos, 26 Greek Street, London
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2020 - In Stitches, Larsen Warner, Stockholm, Sweden
2020 - Waves between us, Palazzo Re Rebaudengo, Guarene, Italy
2020 - Staycation, Lychee One, London
2020 - Composite Materiality, El Jundi Art Gallery, Marbella, Spain
2020 - We can work it out, Renata Fabbri Gallery, Milan
2020 - The Thicker the Woods, the Vaster the Vista, Nevven Gallery, Göteborg, Sweden
2020 - For your eyes only, online show, Bubenberg
2020 - Viewing Room: The Mask of Dionysus, online show, Brooke Benington
2019 - Parade, Broadway Studio Gallery, Herfordshire, UK
2019 - Adieu To Old England, The Kids Are Alright, Choi&Lager, Cologne
2019 - December Mostra, British School at Rome, Rome
2019 - Lost and Found in Paradis, ARTUNER, Paris
2019 - A Seed’s a Star, curated by Constabce Tenvik, Loyal Gallery, Stockholm
2019 - The Italian Open, Galerie Rolando Anselmi, Berlin
2019 - Generation Y, curated by Kate Bryan and Sara Terzi, Platform Foundatation X, London
2019 - Tender Touches, curated by Open Space Contemporary, AMP Gallery, London
2019 - Subversive Stitch, curated by Hannah Watson, TJ Boulting, London
2019 - FiBRA, Post_Institute Von Goetz, London
2018 - Premio Lissone, Lissone, Italy
2018 - Bone Memory, Lychee One, London
2018 - FEŸ Rencontres d'Art, Château de Feÿ, Burgundy, France
2018 - Memories Arrested in Space, curated by ARTUNER. Italian Cultural Institute, London
2018 - Searching for Myself Through Remote Skins, curated by Bianca Baroni, Renata Fabbri, Milan
2018 - Chambre 10, Sans titre (2016), Hôtel La Lousiane, Paris
2018 - Et Refaire Le Monde, curated by Bianca Cerrina Feroni, Galerie Bessières, Chatou, France
2018 - If You Can Stand the Heat, curated by Lindsey Mendick and Paloma Proudfoot, Roaming Projects, London
2017 - 40-40-40, curated by Fenella Brownlee, Soho House London
2017 - Ripe, curated by Eleanor Davies, Kingsgate Project Space, London
2017 - Dik Piks, curated by Suzy Babington, Ladybeck, Leeds
2017 - La Diablesse, curated by Jerusha West, Sarah Batey and Simone Kennedy-Doig, Tramps Gallery, London
2017 - Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour (On The Bedpost Over Night)?, curated by Will Rees and Hamish Pearch, J Hammond Projects, London
2017 - Penelope, curated by Alix Janta and Lauren Jones, 46 Gallery, London
2016 - Summer Blue, curated by Jonathan Milesc Lychee One Gallery, London
2016 - Royal College of Art Graduate Show. London
2016 - At Home Salon: Double Acts, curated by Lana Bountakidou, Marcelle Joseph Projects, Ascot
2016 - Paper, Publication, Performance, curated by Jonathan Miles, Lychee One Gallery, London
2015 - The Behaviour of Being, curated by Mia Pfeifer. The Beekeeper’s Residency at Cob Gallery, London
2015 - Two Hundred Acres, group exhibition of RCA students, curated by Anna Clifford, Pump House Gallery, London
2015 - Rift Banquet, performance, curated by Leo Cohen at AYA Peckham, London
2015 - ScreenSaver, group video exhibtion and co-curation, Dyson Gallery, Royal College of Art, London
2015 - RCA Secret, Dyson Gallery, Royal College of Art, London
2015 - 15th Cypriot Contemporary Dance Festival, performance of In the Likeness Of…, Rialto Theatre, Limassol, Cyprus
2015 - Exposiçao Lar., curated by Paola De Ramos, Curitiba, Brazil
2015 - Resolutions! 2015, performance of In the Likeness Of…, The Place Theatre, London
2014 - Persephone, Queen of the Underworld. E122 Banquet Performance, Cock ‘N’ Bull Gallery, London
2014 - Arts Atrium, Twitter HQ Group Exhibition organised by the London Sculpture Workshop
2014 - The Scars are Not Just Skin Deep, curated by Mia Pfeifer, Cob Gallery, London
2014 - Slade School of Fine Art Degree Show, London
2013 - On/Off, performance event, Vibe Gallery, London
2013 - Slade Print Fair, group exhibition and performance. Slade Research Centre, London
2013 - Invitation by the Board Director of the UAL Development Council, Tate Modern, London
2013 - St Martins School of Art & Design Degree Show, collaboration with Cecilia Granara, St Martins School of Art & Design, London
2013 - Elegy, group exhibition and performance, curated by Leo Cohen, Guest Project Space, London
2013 - Performance event organised by the Slade School of Fine Art, Camden Arts Center, London
2013 - Bodies of Silence, performance, curated by Giulia Casalini and Diana Georgiou, Platform, London
2013 - The Strange Impression of Seeing Things, group exhibition and performance, Mile End Art Pavilion, London
2012 - Performance Art Event organised by the Slade, Camden Arts Centre, London
2012 - Platform 1, Performance Art Event organised by the Slade, Bloomsbury Theatre, London
TEACHING
2020 - Participary workshop-performance Exercices in Friendship with Cecilia Granara, Museo Maxxi, Rome
2018 - Artist workshops at October Gallery, London
2015 - Art workshops designed and taught at the Royal College of Art, ReachOut, for two state secondary schools, London
2015 - The Garden Tapestry. Public workshops at the Pump House Gallery, London
2014 - The Slade Summer School. Widening Participation Course, UCL, London
AWARDS
2019 - 2020 - Abbey Scholarship at the British School at Rome, Italy
2019 - La Berlugane - Maleki Residency and Commission, Beaulieu-sur-Mer, France
2019 - (Official invitation-only selection) Premio Lissone / Lissone Prize
2018 - Platform Southwark Studio Residency, London
2018 - FIBRA Artist Residency, Colombia, curated and co-produced with Mia Pfeifer
2017 - Fieldworks Studio Residency, London
2016 - Villa Lena Residency, Tuscany, Italy
2016 - Commendation, West Dean Tapestry Commission
2014-16 - Leverhulme Scholarship
2015 - The Beekeepers Art Residency, Portugal, in collaboration with curator Mia Pfeifer and Cob Gallery, London
2015 - Stapely Trust Grant
2015 - O2 Think Big Grant
2014 - Slade Prize
2010 - Salzburg Academy of Fine Art Scholarship
EDUCATION
2016 - MA Painting, Royal College of Art, London
2014 - BA Fine Art, 1st Class Honours, Slade School of Fine Art, London
2010 - Foundation in Art & Design Diploma, Chelsea College of Art & Design, London
2010 - Scholarship for Sculpture course by Italian artist Liliana Moro, Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Art, Austria
2008 - Painting course by Chinese artist Li Songsong, Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Art, Austria