Lorella Paleni is an Italian artist based in Paris. Working across painting, animation, and transparent textiles, her practice explores the shifting boundaries between human and non-human forms, weaving together ritual, memory and ecology.
Education
2015 MFA Visual Arts, Columbia University School of the Arts - New York, NY (USA)
2010 BFA Painting, Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia - Venice (IT)
Awards and Residencies
2024 _ Homiens Art Prize Winner Artist, Homiens - (USA)
2018 Indo-European Residency Project Kolkata, Alliance Française du Bengale, Goethe Institut, Cima Gallery, and Kala Bhavana, Visva Bharati University Santiniketan - Kolkata (IN)
2018 Catwalk Art Residency, Catwalk Institute - Catskill, NY (USA)
2016 2nd prize, Artist Residency Grant award, Le CouveNt - Auzits (FR)
2015 Grant Nominee, Rema Hort Mann Foundation - New York (USA)
2014 TOMS Visual Arts Scholarship, Columbia University - New York (USA)
2014 Painting Grant, Robert Gambling - (USA)
2014 AZ West - Andrea Zittel Institute of Investigate Living - Joshua Tree, CA (USA)
2013 Visual Arts Graduate Fellowship, Columbia University - New York (USA)
2013 Residency Grant, Italian Cultural Institute in Vilnius - Vilnius (LT)
2013 Menas senuosiuose Lietuvos dvaruose residency - Kaunas (LT)
2011-12 Wassaic project, winter resident - Wassaic, NY (USA)
2022 Dcéra Anubis, Galéria Mesta Levoča - Levoča (SK)
2019 Untamed, Galerie de L’OpenBach - Paris (FR)
2017 Dwellers, E.Tay Gallery - New York, NY (USA)
2016 OTHƎRWISƎ, Magic Beans Gallery - Berlin (DE)
2013 Out loud, Kunstalle 1, HB55 Kunstfabrik - Berlin (DE)
Solo Exhibitions
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025 The world that remains, Left Bank Gallery, curated by Firelei Bàez – Brooklyn (USA)
2025 Salo, Les Salaisons Art Contemporain – Paris (FR)
2024 Homiens Art Prize Exhibition , Homiens - (USA)
2021 Myriad Spheres, IESA Arts & Culture – Paris (FR)
2019 Expolaroid, Galerie de l’OpenBach – Paris (FR)
2019 Prix de dessin Pierre David-Weill - Académie des beaux-arts, Cité Internationale des Arts – Paris (FR)
2019 Ensorcelés, curated by Joanna Wong & Marie C. Mendes, L.A.R.O. – Paris (FR)
2019 Listening to the Anthropocene, curated by Douglas Cushing, Sarofim Fine Arts Gallery - Georgetown, TX (USA)
2018 Indo-European Residency Project 2018, Goethe-Institut/Max MuellerBhavan - Kolkata (IN)
2018 Death Dive, Launch 18, New York, NY (USA)
2017 Anthology, Charlie Smith London, London (UK)
2017 Magic + Love x Art, Magic Beans Gallery, Berlin (DE)
2017 Virtual to Physical: thepostdigitalprintmaker, Manhattan Graphics C., New York (USA)
2016 I Sky You, Magic Beans Gallery, Berlin (DE)
2015 Imperfect Containers, E.TAY gallery, New York, NY (USA)
2015 Commedia: New Prints 2015/Autumn, International Print Center, New York, NY (USA)
Selected Bibliography
2026 New Visionary Magazine, Issue 17, Featured Artist Interview, Visionary Art Collective NY
2026 Folkcloric Magazine, Issue 2, featured artist
2024 Sofia Ahlberg, Magic, Literature and Climate Pedagogy in a Time of Ecological Crisis, Bloomsbury Academic - book cover (ISBN 9781350401143)
2024 Tomorrow's Talent 4, Booooooom (ISBN 978-1-7775614-7-5)
2023 'The Perspective Issue,' Popout Magazine #3, Paris
2022 Jakub Milčák, exhibition text for Dcéra Anubis, Galéria Mesta Levoča
2021 Myriad Spheres exhibition catalogue, IESA Arts & Culture, Paris
2020 Esther Harrison, 'Lorella Paleni: Brujas,' Coeur & Art
2019 Douglas Cushing, 'Listening to the Anthropocene,' Southwestern University - Extract
2018 Simek Shropshire, 'Lorella Paleni,' Floorr Magazine
2017 Natasha Marie Llorens, 'Flashes in the Breach,' Lorella Paleni - Dwellers, Vanilla Edizioni (ISBN: 978-88-6057-377-3)
2017 Larissa Kikol, 'Menschentier — Starter: Lorella Paleni,' Art das Kunstmagazin
2016 Andrew Nunes, 'Humans Ain't Nothin' But Mammals in these Animalistic Paintings,' Vice / Creators - Link
2016 Michele Poulos, cover art for Black Laurel (poetry), Iris Press
2015 A. Will Brown, 'Fan Mail: Lorella Paleni,' Daily Serving
2014 Johnny Magdaleno, 'Art Discovery: Lorella Paleni,' Interview Magazine
2014 Shelby Hartman, “Embracing the Unknown”, Arts Culture Beat
2013 Berlin Artparasites, May 13th : "Shaking The Hands Of A Painter - Studio visit: Lorella Paleni", Article by Jovanny Varela-Ferreyra - Link
2012 Katre Laan, 'Lorella Paleni — Dreams Are Private,' SCHÖN! Magazine, Issue 16