Norberto Spina (b.1995) is an Italian artist currently working and living in London. His work examines the layered complexity of contemporary urban experience, and in doing so brings together seemingly disparate personal, historical, and religious iconography to form an elusive visual puzzle. In both subject matter and process, Spina presents us with a fragmented and charged visual lexicon, one in which the hierarchy of images is disrupted, with religious iconography given the same weighting as family photographs. His paintings reflect an experience of contemporary life that is chaotic and subjective, acknowledging the conscious and subconscious influence of the past as it reverberates in the present.
Education
2021-2024, Post graduate course, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2014-2017, Bachelor of Arts in painting, Brera Academy, Milan
2016-2017, Erasmus, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Exhibitions
2024
‘Presente’ solo show, Cooke Latham Gallery, London
‘And still may I’ group show, Workplace, London
‘RA School Show 2024’ Royal Academy of Arts, London
‘Future of loneliness’ group show, Guts Gallery, London
‘Three Years’ group show, Royal Academy of Arts, London
‘Nada Project’ solo booth with Cooke Latham Gallery, New York
‘After Reminiscence’ group show, Cassina Project, Milan
2023
‘Vanitas’ group show, Night Cafè Gallery, London
‘Premiums: Interim Projects 2023’ group show, Royal Accademy of Arts, London
‘Look mum non hands’ group show, French Place, London
2022
‘Y1 Royal Academy School Show’ group show, Sadie Coles HQ store, London
‘A path with heart’ group show, The Split Gallery, London
2021
‘Impronte’ group show, Fondazione Giacomo Lercaro, Bologna
2020
Residency ‘Impronte’ Fondazione Giacomo Lercaro, Bologna
Residency ‘Percorsi di riavvicinamento’ Sanctuary of La Verna, Tuscany
‘Frammenti di storia’ group show with the winners of San Fedele Prize, Fondazione San Fedele, Milan
2019
Third prize in the ‘Premio San Fedele’ and winner of the Martini Inernational Award, Fondazione San Fedele, Milan
‘Poetiche a Confornto’ group show MO.CA, Brescia
Residency at the San Fedele Foundation, Milan
2018
October, group show with the winners ‘X Premio Nocivelli’, Academy of Fine Arts, Brescia
Second prize ‘X Premio Nocivelli’ Verolanuva