Federico Arani (b.1995, Rome) is a London-Rome based artist who works across sculpture, painting, drawing and installation, often with a site-specific approach.
Working through processes of transformation, transfiguration and material corruption, he treats his practice as a speculative language inherently bound to failure, embracing dysfunction, elusiveness and complexity as a methodological posture.
Currently in residence at Citè Internationale Des Arts in Paris.
EDUCATION
2014-18
BA NABA, Milan, IT
SOLO/DUO EXHIBITION
2025
2023
Study for Dowsing, Commonage, London, UK
stay in your eye (duo), Split Gallery, London, UK
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
2018
2017
2016
Threshold by Dawn: Anatomy of an Unseen, NEST, AlUla, SA
Skulptur, akku Kunstplattform, Emmen, CH
Ford Festa, Porto Simpatica, Rome, IT
To my Student, Litografia Bulla, Rome, IT
Falene, Limbo Contemporary, Milan, IT
Salon ACME 12, ACME, Mexico City, MX
Dumping Ground, Hypha Studios, London, UK
Great Expectations, Spazio Mensa, Rome, IT
Annual Sadness, The Organ Factory, London, UK
Soldi e Paura, Spazio Mensa, Rome, IT
The Perf. End, Milan, IT
Graduate Degree Show, Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK
Burning Desire, Danuser & Ramirez Gallery, London, UK
Interim Show, Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK
Scoppio Terzo, Scoppio (TR), IT
Mal d’Uve, Nizza Monferrato, IT
Scoppio Secondo, Scoppio (TR), IT
Artoday Projects, Guest Artists Section, ReA! Art Fair, Milan, IT
DucatoPrize 2021, Volumnia, Piacenza, IT
Scoppio / Scoppio (TR), IT
Premio Città di Treviglio, Treviglio (BG), IT
Itaca non è Nulla, Spazio Angur, Milan, IT
FOUR, Fondazione A. Pini, Milan, IT
My body can’t hold your gaze, Fondazione A. Pini, Milan, IT
The Great Learning, Triennale di Milano, Milan, IT
Era Pacifica Pare, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan, IT
RESIDENCIES/WORKSHOPS
2023
2022
2016
Lab For New Imaginations, MACRO, Rome, IT
UVA, Nizza Monferrato (AT), IT
Era Pacifica Pare, Careof, Milan, IT
GRANTS/AWARDS
2021
2018
2016
Ducato Prize, IT (Finalist)
Premio Città di Treviglio, IT (Finalist)
17° Ricas Prize, IT (Finalist)
Co-funder of the collective and artist-run space Porto Simpatica.