Photo: Francesco Bonami
Francesco Bonami,born in Florence in 1955, is the Manilow Senior Curator at large at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Artistic Director of Fondazione Sandretto ReRebaudengo per l’Arte in Turin, Fondazione Pitti Discovery in Florence and Centro di Arte Contemporanea Villa Manin, Udine. Bonami is also one of the founders of WAC (weapons of art construction), an agency for cultural diplomacy, and a member of FACIE for the US State Department, the selecting committee for US participations in international exhibitions.
Bonami has been the youngest and the first US citizen to be appointed director of the Biennale di Venezia of Visual Arts in 2003. He got a MFA in Stage Design and Art History at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence and studied architecture at the Architecture University in Florence and at the Center for Palladio’s studies in Vicenza. He has been the curator of Site Santa Fe, Manifesta 3 and the first Triennale of Turin. He has been guest professor at the IUAV, the institute of visual art of the Venice University. The magazine Class included him among the 100 most influential and innovative Italians in the world.
He is a regular contributor of the Italian daily Il Riformista, Vanity Fair Italia and the political magazine Zero. His publications include Echoes: Contemporary Art at the Age of Endless Conclusion by The Monacelli Press; Cream, and the Gabriele Basilico and Maurizio Cattelan’s monographies by Phaidon Press. His first novel Lezioni di Fumo was published in the spring 2005 by Marsilio Editore. In 2007 he will publish Potevo farlo anch’io! for Oscar Mondadori. Bonami is the chief editor for Supercontemporanea a new series of monographies on contemporary artists by Electa Mondadori Publishing.
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