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

2020-23
2014-18

MFA Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK
BA NABA, Milan, IT

SOLO/DUO EXHIBITION

2026
2025
2023

(upcoming) Flexitron Gallery, London, UK
Study for Dowsing, Commonage, London, UK
stay in your eye (duo), Split Gallery, London, UK

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2026
2025

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020
2018

2017

2016

UNAROMA: Atomistica Prop, Porto Simpatica, MACRO, Rome, IT
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

2025-26
2023
2022
2016

Citè Internationale Des Arts, Paris, FR
Lab For New Imaginations, MACRO, Rome, IT
UVA, Nizza Monferrato (AT), IT
Era Pacifica Pare, Careof, Milan, IT

GRANTS/AWARDS

2023
2021
2018
2016

Gibert Bayes Scholarship Grant, UK
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.