Giulia Mangoni

Raised between Italy and Brazil, she has now returned to live and work in her hometown. Mangoni received her artistic education in the United Kingdom: first, she earned a Foundation Degree in Art & Design at Falmouth University of the Arts (2011), followed by a BA (Hons) in Painting from City & Guilds of London Art School (2014), where she also won both the Skinner Connard’s Travel Prize and the Chadwick Healey Prize for Painting. She also holds an MFA from the SVA Art Practice program, New York City (2019).

She is an Italian-Brazilian artist whose practice revolves around the ethics of return. She is interested in performing orchestrated interventions through the lens of painting in order to deconstruct notions of memory and identity linked to specific geographies and decentralized communities. Her work develops through visual modes of personal narrative, often the result of a multi-voiced dialogue, whose influences, relationships, and contributions help generate works that temporarily solidify this ongoing process of collecting and disseminating knowledge.

In recent years, Mangoni has participated in national and international exhibitions, including: Bits & Cream. Metabolizzazione d’Archivio, solo show, ArtNoble Gallery, Milan; From the Island of Liri, solo show curated by Juliana Leandra, Dreambox Lab, New York; Ladder to The Moon, Monitor Gallery, Rome; VIVERE DI PAESAGGIO, curated by Mirta di Argenzio, APALAZZO Gallery, Brescia; Zeitgeber (donatore di tempo), ArtNoble Gallery, Milan; The New Abnormal, Straperetana curated by Saverio Verini.

Furthermore, in 2020 Mangoni joined the scholarship program at CASTRO Projects in Rome, winning the Scovaventi Italian Fellowship. She currently continues to deepen her research in itinerant projects and exhibitions, in dialogue with artisans, agronomists, and breeders of native species in the Ciociaro territory.