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SILVIA BARISIONE
Curriculum Vitae
EMPLOYMENTS - CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE:
From October 2020: Chief Curator at The Wolfsonian–FIU, Miami Beach.
From July 2019: Senior Curator at The Wolfsonian–FIU, Miami Beach.
From September 2011: Curator at The Wolfsonian–FIU, Miami Beach.
From October 1991 to August 2011: Curator and Registrar at the Mitchell Wolfson Jr. Collection in
Genoa, Italy, now Wolfsoniana – Palazzo Ducale Fondazione per la Cultura, Genoa.
From 1990 to 1991: Assistant Director Galleria Chisel, Contemporary Art Gallery in Milan.
EXHIBITIONS:
2024
In Balance by Hettler.Tüllmann, Miami Beach, The Wolfsonian–FIU.
2023
Simon Chaput: Miami Beach Art Deco Architecture, Miami Beach, The Wolfsonian–FIU.
The Big World: Alternative Landscapes in the Modern Era, Miami Beach, The Wolfsonian–FIU (co-
curator).
Bridge Deconstruction Site, with misael soto and the Department of Reflection, Miami Beach, The
Wolfsonian–FIU.
2021
Shameless: Bas van Beek, Miami Beach, The Wolfsonian–FIU.
Dominga's Photo Studio, installation by artist Juan Luis Matos, Miami Beach, The Wolfsonian–FIU.
2020
Color and Form: American Depression Glass, Miami Beach, The Wolfsonian–FIU.
2019
Destination Deco, Miami International Airport’s North Terminal D.
2018
Enter The Design Age. Installation by H5, Miami Beach, The Wolfsonian–FIU.
Made in Italy. MITA Textile Design 1926–1976, Miami Beach, The Wolfsonian–FIU (co-curator).
Deco. Luxury to Mass Market, Miami Beach, The Wolfsonian–FIU (co-curator).
2016
Modern Dutch Design, Miami Beach, The Wolfsonian–FIU.
More is More. Installation by Christie van der Haak, Miami Beach, The Wolfsonian–FIU.
2014
Boom, Bust, Boom: Downtown Miami Architecture 1920s-1930s, Miami Beach, The Wolfsonian–
FIU.
I Have Seen the Future: Norman Bel Geddes Designs America, Miami Beach, The Wolfsonian–FIU
(venue curator).
2013
The Birth of Rome, Miami Beach, The Wolfsonian–FIU.
Rendering War: The Murals of A.G. Santagata, Miami Beach, The Wolfsonian–FIU.
Echoes and Origins: Italian Interwar Design, Miami Beach, The Wolfsonian–FIU.
2012
Postcards of the Wiener Werkstätte. Selections from the Leonard A. Lauder Collection, Miami
Beach, The Wolfsonian–FIU (venue curator).
2011
Italia Unita, Genoa, Wolfsoniana (co-curator).
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2010
Novecento a tavola, Genoa, Wolfsoniana (co-curator).
2009
Pubblicità e Propaganda. Ceramica e grafica futuriste, Genoa, Wolfsoniana (co-curator).
Galileo Chini e le terme Berzieri di Salsomaggiore, Genoa, Wolfsoniana (co-curator).
2008
Dittatura di partito e vita quotidiana nella DDR, Genoa, Wolfsoniana (venue-curator).
Antonia Campi. Ceramica e Design, Genoa, Wolfsoniana (co-curator).
2007
Garibaldi il mito. Manifesti e propaganda, Genoa, Wolfsoniana (co-curator).
Galileo Chini e i cicli decorativi per la Biennale di Venezia, Genoa, Wolfsoniana (co-curator).
2006
Mita. Tessuti d’arte a Nervi, Genoa Nervi, Ex-Municipio (co-curator).
2005
Installation of the newly opened Wolfsoniana and Momenti della decorazione murale in Italia
1920-1940. Genoa, Wolfsoniana (co-curator).
2004
Architetture in Liguria dagli anni Venti agli anni Cinquanta, Genoa, Palazzo della Nuova Borsa
(co-curator).
Stelle sul mare. Immagini e immaginario della vita sui transatlantici, La Spezia, Palazzina delle Arti
(co-curator).
2003
Arte a Palazzo. La Collezione Wolfson 1880-1945, Genoa, Palazzo della Regione and Palazzo Ducale
(co-curator).
La Collezione Wolfson. Testimonianze dell’arte italiana tra le due guerre, La Spezia, Palazzina delle
Arti (co-curator).
2002
Under Mussolini. Decorative and Propaganda Arts of the Twenties and Thirties, London, Estorick
Collection (co-curator).
Six Wonderful Days. Un invito al viaggio sulle grandi navi italiane, Genoa, Palazzo della Nuova
Borsa and Museo dell'Accademia Ligustica di Belle Arti (co-curator).
2001
Parole e immagini futuriste dalla Collezione Wolfson - Futurist Words and Images from the Wolfson
Collection, New York, New York University-Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò; San Francisco, Museo
ItaloAmericano; Genoa, Palazzo Ducale.
1999
Wonderwall (featuring four Genoa based artists, Pietro Millefiore, Roberto Schiavi, Massimo
Palazzi, Cesare Viel), Genova, Il Pozzo (with V. Dapelo).
Luigi Vietti. Architetture 1928-1998, organized in collaboration with the Ordine degli Architetti
della Provincia di Genova, Genoa, Palazzo Ducale (with V. Scelsi).
La visione del Prisma. La Collezione Wolfson, Parma, Palazzo della Pilotta (co-curator).
1996
La Collezione Wolfson. Aspetti dell'Arte Italiana tra le due guerre, Genoa, Palazzo Ducale (co-
curator).
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PUBLICATIONS:
“Futurist and mechanical influences in Bauhaus graphics”, in F. Benzi and R. Cohen Tervaert,
Futurism & Europe: The Aesthetics of a New World (Yale University Press: New Haven, 2023).
Shameless by Bas van Beek at The Wolfsonian, exhibition catalogue in collaboration with Het
Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, 2021.
“L’Architecture de Miami Beach”, in E. Bréon (ed.), L’Art Déco: France, Amerique du Nord
(Norma Éditions: Paris, 2021).
“Craftsmanship and Industrial Production of Italian Furniture During the Interwar Period”, in R.
Barron-Duncan, T. Norris (eds.), The Journal of Modern Craft, Volume 13, 2020.
“The reception of World War I monuments: From the Ossari to the Case del, Mutilato”, in Kay
Bea Jones, Stephanie Pilat (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Italian Fascist Architecture:
Reception and Legacy (Routledge: New York, 2020)
“Lyda Levi e il rinnovamento del design italiano del dopoguerra”, in Ceramica e Arti Decorative del
‘900 # 5, January 2020.
“Around the World with Art Deco”, in The Magazine Antiques, December 6, 2018.
“The MITA Factory: An Example of Italian Rationalist Architecture”, in S. Barisione et al. (eds.),
Made in Italy. MITA Textile Design 1926–1976, Genoa: Sagep, 2018.
“Modern Dutch Design: Currents and Tensions”, in S. Barisione. J. Mogul (eds.), Modern Dutch
Design, The Wolfsonian–FIU, Miami Beach 2016.
“La Fabbrica Mita di Luigi Carlo Daneri”, in M. Fochessati, G. Franzone (eds.), La trama dell’arte.
Arte e design nella produzione della MITA 1926-1976, Sagep, Genoa 2016.
“Just One Word: Plastics”, in Primitive Hut, Giovanni Beltran, Miami 2016.
“Otto Wagner, Royal Waiting Room, Imperial Station, Vienna Metropolitan Railway”, in C. A.
Larsen, Philodendron: From Pan-Latin Exotic to American Modern, The Wolfsonian–FIU, Miami
Beach 2015.
Ville in Riviera tra eclettismo e razionalismo (Updated Edition), Sagep, Genoa 2015.
“Bauhaus and the Spread of Functionalism”, in G. Celant (ed.), Arts & Foods. Rituals since 1851,
exhibition catalogue, La Triennale di Milano, Electa, Milan 2015.
“Curator’s Eye. FontanaArte”, in Modern, Summer 2015.
“The Costruction of the Case del Mutilato”, in S. Barisione, M. Fochessati, G. Franzone (eds.),
Rappresentare la guerra A.G. SANTAGATA Rendering War, Sagep, Genoa 2014.
“Futurist Ceramics”, in V. Greene (ed.), Italian Futurism, 1909-1944: Reconstructing the Universe,
Guggenheim, New York 2014.
The Birth of Rome. Five Visions for the Eternal City, The Wolfsonian–FIU, Miami Beach, 2013.
“The Wolfsonian–FIU un museo di arti decorative e design” and “DDD dalle arti decorative al
design”, in Cambi Auction Magazine, II, no. 4, September 2012.
“La Società italiana Chini alla Stazione Marittima di Ponte dei Mille / Società italiana Chini at
Ponte dei Mille Maritime Station” (with M. Fochessati) and “La Stazione Marittima Andrea Doria
di Luigi Vietti / The Andrea Doria Maritime Station by Luigi Vietti”, in A. Verdiani (ed.), Le Stazioni
Marittime di Genova: viaggi e passaggi / The Maritime Stations of Genoa: Travels and Passages,
Sagep, Genoa 2011
“Il collezionista e l’oggetto. Specificità dei musei di arti decorative”, in M. Bruzzone (ed.), Musei
di Liguria. Un viaggio nel patrimonio museale delle quattro province, Sagep, Genoa 2011.
“Una ricostruzione dalla realizzazione controversa (il piano di ricostruzione di Recco)”, in
EccoRecco, no. 18, December 2010.
“The Espresso Cup”, in Byggstudio (ed.), The Story of a Mug, Greetings from the Factory, Everyday
Life Books Publishing, 2010.
Ville in Riviera tra eclettismo e razionalismo, Edizioni La Lontra, Genoa 2010.
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“Sana e distinta modernità: le argenterie Finzi di Milano”, in S. Barisione, M. Fochessati, G.
Franzone, Gli argenti di Arrigo Finzi, Silvana Editoriale, Cinisello Balsamo 2010.
“Ceramica e arte pubblicitaria”, in S. Barisione, M. Fochessati, G. Franzone, M.T. Orengo, Pubblicità
e Propaganda. Ceramica e grafica futuriste, Silvana Editoriale, Cinisello Balsamo 2009.
“Architetture termali di Giulio Bernardini e Ugo Giusti”, in S. Barisione, M. Bonatti Bacchini, M.
Fochessati, G. Franzone, Il déco termale. Galileo Chini e le terme Berzieri di Salsomaggiore,
Terme di Salsomaggiore e di Tabiano Spa, Salsomaggiore 2009.
“Costantino e Faustino Zatti, ebanisti a Brescia”, in I Quaderni della Fondazione Ugo Da Como, VII,
no. 15, December 2009.
Castello di Gabiano, Edizioni La Lontra, Genoa 2009.
“Navigazione Generale Italiana. Interni di navi e palazzi”, in Viaggio in Liguria, no. 1, April 2009.
“Antonia Campi negli Stati Uniti. Confronto con Eva Zeisel / Antonia Campi in the United States.
Dialogue with Eva Zeisel”, in C. Sironi (ed.), Antonia Campi. Opere scelte / Selected works 1949-
2009, Umberto Allemandi & C., Turin 2009.
“Architetture di guerra”, in G. Rossini with C. Masi (eds.), Da Baroni a Piacentini. Immagine e
memoria della Grande Guerra a Genova e in Liguria, Skira, Milan 2009.
“Duilio Cambellotti. L’arte della ceramica/ The Arts of Ceramics”, in Duilio Cambellotti ceramista,
exhibition catalogue, Galleria Terre d’Arte, Turin 2008.
“Residenze borghesi a Genova e in Riviera tra Ottocento e Novecento” in G. Bozzo, M. Cambi
(eds.), Il Castello Mackenzie a Genova. L’esordio di Gino Coppedè, Silvana Editoriale, Cinisello
Balsamo 2008.
“Nato il 4 luglio: Garibaldi tra grafica pubblicitaria e arti applicate”, in S. Barisione, M. Fochessati,
G. Franzone, Garibaldi il mito. Manifesti e propaganda, Giunti, Florence 2007.
S. Barisione, M. Fochessati, G. Franzone, La Collezione Wolfson di Genova / The Wolfson Collection
of Genoa, Skira, Milan 2005.
“Questioni di linguaggio nelle colonie del regime”, in V. Balducci, Architetture per le colonie di
vacanza. Esperienze europee, Alinea, Florence 2005.
« Le design italien », in A. Bollé, F. Friès, C. Saturno, Geoguide Italie du Nord 2005/2006, Gallimard
Loisirs, Paris 2005.
“Lorenzo Volante fotografo di bordo”, in Viaggio in Liguria, II, no. 2, ottobre 2004.
S. Barisione, M. Fochessati, G. Franzone, Stelle sul mare. Immagini e immaginario della vita sui
transatlantici, Corigraf, Genoa 2004.
“Architetture per i transatlantici. Le grandi stazioni marittime in Italia”, in Transatlantici. Scenari e
Sogni di Mare, exhibition catalogue, Genova, Galata-Museo del Mare, Skira Milan 2004.
“1 Architetto / 1 Città - Ulisse Stacchini / Milano”, in Rivista D’Architettura - Dopo Rossi, no. 23,
maggio 2004.
“Gli arredi liguri attraverso le Biennali di Monza e le Triennali di Milano” and, with A. Canziani,
“Due ville a Bordighera, anzi una”, in S. Barisione, M. Fochessati, G. Franzone, A. Canziani,
Architetture in Liguria dagli anni Venti agli anni Cinquanta, Abitare Segesta, Milan 2004.
“La Casa del Balilla di Giuseppe Crosa di Vergagni”, in Viaggio in Liguria, I, no. 1, novembre 2003.
“Tradizione e Oriente negli arredi tra Ottocento e Novecento della Collezione Wolfson”, in Arte a
Palazzo. La Collezione Wolfson 1880-1945, Sagep, Genoa 2003.
“La promozione delle compagnie di navigazione attraverso le Triennali milanesi”, in Six Wonderful
Days. Un invito al viaggio sulle grandi navi italiane, Tormena, Genoa 2002.
“The Decorative Arts in Italy from the Monza ‘Biennale’ to the Milan ‘Triennale’, in S. Barisione, M.
Fochessati, G. Franzone, Under Mussolini. Decorative and Propaganda Arts of the Twenties and
Thirties, Mazzotta, Milan 2002.
“Le industrie femminili negli anni del regime / Female Industries During the Fascist Regime”, in A.
Pansera, T. Ocleppo, Dal merletto alla motocicletta. Artigiane/artiste e designer nell'Italia del
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Novecento, exhibition catalogue, Ferrara, Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Silvana Editoriale,
Cinisello Balsamo 2002.
“Ceramisti d’eccezione / Exceptional Ceramists”, in S. Barisione, M. Fochessati, G. Franzone, Parole
e immagini futuriste dalla Collezione Wolfson / Futurist Words and Images from the Wolfson Collection,
Mazzotta, Milan 2001.
“Architetture e arredi nella Collezione Wolfson”, in S. Barisione, M. Fochessati, G. Franzone, La
visione del prisma. La Collezione Wolfson, Mazzotta, Milan 1999.
“La Collezione Wolfson di Genova”, in P. Trucco, S. Palanga (eds.), La biblioteca multimediale di
architettura, Atti delle quinte giornate di studio del CNBA, 4-6 June 1998, Genoa 1999.
S. Barisione, V. Scelsi, Luigi Vietti. Architetture liguri, Ordine degli Architetti della Provincia di
Genova, Genoa 1999.
S. Barisione, M. Fochessati, G. Franzone, La Collezione Wolfson. Aspetti dell'Arte Italiana tra le due
guerre, Tormena, Genoa 1996.
LECTURES:
2023
Lecture: The Art Deco of Our Time: A Constant Aesthetic (Focus on Igor Polevitzky), in the 16th
World Congress on Art Deco, Miami Beach, The Jewish Museum-FIU.
2022
Panel Discussion: Agency vs In-House Panel, moderator, Miami, Design Subtropic.
Lecture: Soviet Revolutionary Porcelain, in the Symposium Ceramic and Politics, Sèvres
Manufacture et Musée nationaux.
Lecture: Le Esposizioni Internazionali: dal particolare all’universale, Società di Letture e
Conversazioni Scientifiche, Genoa, Palazzo Ducale.
2021
Zoom Lecture: Modern for the Masses as part of the Miami Beach Art Deco Weekend.
Zoom Lecture: Iconic Examples of Italian Design organized by the Italian Cultural Society of Naples,
Florida
Zoom Lecture: Made in Italy: MITA Textile Design, Columbia University, History Class
Webinar: Our Ecosystem in Peril: 3 Contemporary Women Artists Respond, ‘Cooperate’! organized
by Strength in Numbers/Power with Books & Books, Miami.
Webinar: On the Avenue: Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore, The Wolfsonian with MBAS and JMOF.
Zoom Lecture: Italian Line Glamour, World Ship Society Port of New York Branch.
Panel discussion: Innovating Heritage: Contemporary creation that looks back to look forward”,
with Aric Chen, Bas van Beek and Khaled El Mays, Miami Beach, Design Miami/ Miami Art Basel
Week
2020
Lecture: Building Women (Margaret Staal-Kropholler) as part of the Miami Beach Art Deco Weekend, The
Wolfsonian–FIU.
Zoom Lecture: Curator’s Choice: Mediterranean by Design, The Wolfsonian–FIU.
Zoom Panel Discussion: #WolfWatch: Metropolis, Zoom webinar The Wolfsonian–FIU
Zoom Panel Discussion: Lair: Architecture of Villainry, Zoom webinar The Wolfsonian–FIU with MCAD
and AIA Miami.
Webinar Italian Design Day. The Italian Way: Creativity, Craftmanship, Innovation, organized by
the General Consulate of Italy in Miami on the International Italian Design Day.
2019
Lecture: Modern Dutch Design as part of Dutch Design Lecture Series at the Mint, Charlotte, Mint
Museum Uptown.
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Panel Discussion: Curator Speed Round: 10 Objects, Miami Beach, Design Miami/ Miami Art Basel
Week
Panel Discussion: Tel Aviv’s White City and South Beach’s Art Deco District, Miami Beach, Jewish
Museum of Florida-FIU.
Lecture: Made in Italy. MITA Textile Design 1926–1976, Charleston, Dante Alighieri Society at
Ashley Hall.
Lecture: Italian Line, Warwick, RI, Steamship Historical Society of America.
Lecture: Deco Domestic: 3 Modern Homes of the 1930s (Villa Girasole) as part of the Art Deco Weekend,
Miami Beach, The Wolfsonian–FIU.
2018
Lecture: Italian Industry, Italian Style, on the exhibition Made in Italy. MITA Textile Design 1926–
1976, Miami Beach, The Wolfsonian–FIU.
Lecture: Le memoria deviata: I sacrari della Grande Guerra, Genoa, School of Architecture,
University of Genoa.
2015
Lecture: Art Nouveau to Art Deco: Architecture and Decorative Arts in France on the ArtsNaples
World Festival, Naples, FL, South Regional Library.
2014
Lecture in the program: Rebirth of Rome: Italian Art and Architecture in the Interwar Period, New
York, Italian Cultural Institute.
Lecture: Italian Futurist Design: From Furniture to Ceramics on the exhibition Italian Futurism,
1909-1944: Reconstructing the Universe, New York, Salomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
2011
Lecture: Salvare l’architettura del Novecento for the lecture series organized by Italia Nostra,
Genova.
2010
Lecture: Multitasking Furniture Design in the 20th Century, ICOM-ICDAD 2010 Annual Conference,
What is Modern?, Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen.
Lecture: Claudio Andreani Architetto, on the exhibition, Recco. Il Piano della ricostruzione secondo
il progetto dell’architetto Claudio Andreani, Recco, Sala Polivalente; Recco, Villa Dufour.
2009
Lecture: Le dinamiche del secondo Futurismo attraverso le opere della collezione Wolfson for the
lecture series, Cent’anni di Futurismo, La Spezia, Camec.
Lecture: Ville in Riviera dall’eclettismo al razionalismo for the symposium Villa Dufour.
Villeggiatura in Riviera fra Ottocento e Novecento, Settimana della Cultura 2009, Recco, Villa
Dufour.
Lecture: Italian Futurist Design, Los Angeles, LACMA.
Lecture: Art and Technical Innovation in the Works of the Italian Futurist Movement on the ICOM-
ICDAD 2009 Annual Conference: The Intersection of Art and Technical Innovation held in Hanover,
Germany, Museum August Kestner.
2008
Lecture: Antonia Campi. Ceramic and Industrial Design, ICOM-ICDAD 2008 Annual Conference,
Zagreb, Croatia, Museum of Arts and Crafts.
2007
Lecture: L’Archivio e l’Esposizione for the seminary Comunicare l’Architettura, School of
Architecture, University of Genoa.
Lecture: Back to the Sixties: Idoli del Design for the presentation of the movie La Decima Vittima by
Elio Petri during the Film Festival Cinemarch, School of Architecture, University of Genoa.
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Lecture: Paolo De Poli sulla scena internazionale for the symposium Paolo De Poli maestro
padovano nell’arte dello smalto, Padua, Musei Civici agli Eremitani.
Lecture: L’Architettura degli anni’30 tra Novecento e Razionalismo for the seminary L’Architettura
degli anni’30 a Genova e dintorni, Genoa, Liceo Classico A. D’Oria.
Lecture: Exporting Italy 1902–1952, on the ICOM-ICDAD 2007 Annual Conference: Collecting
Decorative Arts and Design: Individual Approach and Responsibility for the Universal Heritage.
Private Collectors and Public Institutions, held in Vienna, MAK, Austrian Museum of Applied Arts /
Contemporary Art.
2006
Lecture: Gli apparati decorativi nelle opere pubbliche del Regime, as part of the Wolfsoniana
lecture series, Momenti della decorazione murale in Italia 1920-1940, Genoa, Wolfsoniana.
2005
Lecture: Questioni di linguaggio nelle colonie del regime, in V. Balducci, Architetture per le colonie
di vacanza. Esperienze europee, organized by the University of Bologna - School of Architecture
and held in Cervia, Teatro Comunale.
2002
Lecture: La Secessione viennese e il nuovo clima artistico all’inizio del secolo and Gli arredi degli
architetti. La progettazione d’interni negli anni tra le due guerre, as part of the seminar “Arte
decorazione nella prima meta’ del Novecento. Esperienze italiane e internazonali a confronto,
organized by Valore Liguria and held in Genoa, Palazzo Ducale.
2001
Lecture: Ceramica futurista on the exhibition, Parole e immagini futuriste dalla Collezione Wolfson
- Futurist Words and Images from the Wolfson Collection, Genoa, Palazzo Ducale.
1999
Lecture: La Secessione viennese: architettura e arti decorative, as part of the seminar “Art Nouveau
e Secessione” arte, decorazione, letteratura. Le capitali del modernismo nell’Europa Centrale,
organized by Valore Liguria and held in Genoa, Palazzo Ducale.
1998
Lecture: La collezione Wolfson di Genova (on the conservation of the architects' archives of the
Genoa Wolfson Collection) as part of the seminar, La biblioteca multimediale di architettura
organized by the Coordinamento Nazionale Biblioteche di Architettura at the University of
Genoa - School of Architecture.
Lecture: Contrast between Vernacular and Rationalism in Fascist Youth Buildings as part of the
seminar, The Other Modern organized by the University of Miami-School of Architecture and held
at the Villa Malaparte in Capri.
AWARD AND GRANTS:
2014: Cavaliere dell’Ordine della Stella d’Italia (Knight of the Order of the Star of Italy).
2021: Grant from Creative Industries Fund NL; the Mondriaan Fund; Dutch Culture USA program
by the Consulate General of the Netherlands in New York; and the Netherland-America
Foundation for the exhibition Shameless: Bas van Beek.
2019: Selected to participate in the International Visitors Programme of Het Nieuwe Instituut
organized in collaboration with the Consulate General of the Netherlands in New York in the
context of the Dutch Design Week 16-20 October.
2018: Grant from the Consulate General of Italy in Miami for the exhibition Made in Italy: MITA
Italian Textile Design 1926–1976, Miami Beach, The Wolfsonian–FIU.
2016: The Netherland-America Foundation grant in support of the production of the companion
book to the exhibition Modern Dutch Design, Miami Beach, The Wolfsonian–FIU.
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2016: Grant from the Consulate General of the Netherlands in New York for the exhibition Modern
Dutch Design, Miami Beach, The Wolfsonian–FIU.
2015: NEA grant for the exhibition Modern Dutch Design, Miami Beach, The Wolfsonian–FIU.
2013: Grant from the Istituto di Cultura Italiano New York for the exhibition series: Rebirth of
Rome (The Birth of Rome, Rendering War: The Murals of A.G. Santagata, Echoes and Origins:
Italian Interwar Design), Miami Beach, The Wolfsonian–FIU.
2013: Grant from Funding Arts Network for the exhibition series: Rebirth of Rome, Miami Beach,
The Wolfsonian–FIU.
2013: Grant from Leon Levy Foundation for the exhibition series: Rebirth of Rome, Miami Beach,
The Wolfsonian–FIU.
2010: Scholarship to participate in the 59th Attingham Summer School.
2009: NEA grant to research and catalogue Italian works at the Wolfsonian-FIU.
2005: Scholarship from the International Committee of Decorative Arts and Design to participate
to the ICOM-ICDAD Annual Conference in Oslo.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:
2022
Participated in the nomination of candidates for the 2023 Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy, in
the field of the Arts (Painting, Sculpture, Craft, Architecture, Photography, Design, etc.) on behalf
of the Inamori Foundation and the Kyoto Prize Selection Organization.
2021
Became secretary of the board of the American Friends of Palazzo Ducale (Genoa)
2020
Served as a juror for Design Miami/ 2020: Top 10 Contemporary; Top 10 Historical.
Served as a juror for Fountainhead Residency Open Call: Foreign Born Artists Living & Working in
the U.S.
2019
Served as a juror for the South Florida Cultural Consortium 18-19. Grant to Contemporary Visual
& Media Artists. Regional Jury.
Became part of the Advisory Board of the Italian journal CAD900-Ceramica e Arti Decorative del
‘900
2017
Participated in the nomination of candidates for the 2018 Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy, in
the field of the Arts (Painting, Sculpture, Craft, Architecture, Photography, Design, etc.) on behalf
of the Inamori Foundation and the Kyoto Prize Selection Organization.
2016-17
Serving as a juror for the Samuel H. Kress Foundation – AAMC Affiliated Fellowship at the
American Academy in Rome.
2016
Served as a juror for the exhibition Design and its Dimensions, organized by the Young Artist
Initiative in partnership with the Miami Design District, Miami, The Moore Building.
2013
Served as a juror for Slideluck Miami, first edition in Miami.
Served as a juror for the Design Build – FIU Design Charette organized by Nick Gelpi, Assistant
Professor FIU-School of Architecture.
2010
Took part in the advisory committee of the exhibition Italian Futurism, 1909–1944, which opened
in February 2014 at the Salomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
2008-09
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Took part in the committee of the exhibition Da Baroni a Piacentini. Immagine e memoria della
Grande Guerra a Genova e in Liguria, Genoa, Palazzo Reale.
2008-13 served as Secretary of the Board of ICOM-ICDAD (International Council of Museums -
International Committee of Decorative Arts and Design)
2001-02
Took part in the committee for the reinstallation of the Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna di
Genova reopened in 2004 with holdings from the Genoa Wolfson Collection.
MEMBERSHIPS:
AAMC (Association of Art Museum Curators) since 2012.
Alumni - The Attingham Trust since 2010.
ICOM-ICDAD (International Council of Museums - International Committee of Decorative Arts and
Design) since 2005.
DOCOMOMO Italia (Documentation and Conservation of Buildings of the Modern Movement)
from 2006 to 2012.
TEACHING:
From 2005 to 2011: Teaches the Design and Italian Culture course for the Fall and Spring
semesters as part of the Florida International University’s Architecture program in Genoa.
EDUCATION:
1990: Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree in Art History and German Literature at the University of
Genoa with a thesis on Austrian architecture in the World's Expositions between the 19th and the
20th century.
1983: diploma of High School Maturity at Civico Liceo Linguistico Grazia Deledda, Genoa.