Cesare Pietroiusti

Cesare Pietroiusti is an Italian artist based in Rome. He has a degree in Medicine and graduated with an essay on Psychiatry. He is the co-founder and editor of the artist-run space Jartrakor in Rome (1977) and of the magazine Rivista di Psicologia dell’Arte (1979). Pietroiusti has always been interested in paradoxical or apparently irrational situations commonly considered “too insignificant to become the basis for analysis or representation.” He is also a curator and initiator of many collective projects, including the Oreste projects (1997-2001), the conference How do I explain to my mother that what I do is useful? (Link Project, Bologna, 1997), and Oreste at the Venice Biennale (Biennale di Venezia, 1999). He is co-founder of Nomads & Residents, New York (2000), curator for the CSAV, the Advanced Visual Art Course at the Fondazione Ratti, Como (2006-2011), MFA Faculty, LUCAD, Lesley University, Boston (2009-2016) and NABA, Rome (2021-ongoing), and lecturer in Visual Art workshop at IUAV University, Venice (2004-ongoing). As a member of the collective Lu Cafausu, he is co-founder and president of the Lac o Le Mon Foundation, San Cesario di Lecce (2015-ongoing). Since 1977, he has exhibited, alone or with others, in official and alternative, private and public spaces, in Italy and abroad.