Luisa Turuani

Luisa Turuani (Milan, 1992) studied at the Brera Academy in Milan. In 2024 she participated in the Core Residency at Millay Arts (Austerlitz, New York, USA); the same year she took part in TAD (Teatro Arte Danza), a residency at the Monastero del Carmine in Bergamo. Other residencies include Dialogos Part Six (Nairobi, 2022), a project supported by the Italian Cultural Institute of Nairobi in collaboration with Kuona Art Centre. In 2022, he is among the winners of the Italian Council with the research project ‘1 second 1 gram’. In 2024, the publication concerning the project was added to the Stedelijk Museum’s library. In 2021, he participated in Travel Diary, the first digital crypto art exhibition in Italy, via the New York-based platform Snark.art. In 2020 he won the AccadeMibact Prize and exhibited in Domani Qui Oggi, curated by I. Gianni, a collateral event of Quadriennale 2020 at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome. In 2019 he participated in Artissima Experimental Academy, a project supported by Alserkal, Dubai; the same year he took part in the UK Young Artists Biennale in Nottingham and in GQ-Passion for the path of art, curated by I. Bonacossa, at Galleria Cardi. Abroad, he took part in Gaze Off (2022), at the Wopart fair in Lugano; Artagon Live, exhibition supported by the Ministère de la Culture, Ville de Paris and Fondation Hippocrène, at Villa Radet, Paris, 2020; Artagon III, exhibition supported by the French Ministry of Culture, Société Générale, Paris, 2017. In addition to the prizes already mentioned, he has won the Arte Laguna Special Prize – Villa Rechsteiner Residency (2022); the Combat Prize for the video section (2019), the Opera Viva Prize – Il Manifesto (2020) and the O.R.A. Prize (2019) the Nocivelli Prize (2018). In addition to currently being a finalist for the Combat Prize (2024), she is a multiple finalist for the Arte Laguna Prize in 2019 and 2022-23; she has also been a finalist for the Exibart Prize several times, finishing fourth (2023) and seventh (2022). Various publications include: Kings Don’t Touch Doors, 2024; 222. Emerging artists to invest in, 2021; BienNolo, Postmedia Books, 2019.