QUAYOLA

Quayola (b. 1982, Italy) is a visual artist working across video, sculpture, installation, and performance. He uses software, algorithms, and robotics to deconstruct and reimagine art historical subjects, ranging from Renaissance painting and Baroque sculpture to architectural façades and natural landscapes. Rather than reproducing traditional forms, Quayola interrogates them through machine-led processes, revealing abstract structures, symmetries, and rhythms that emerge from digital reinterpretation. His long-running series such as Strata, Iconographies, Pleasant Places, and Sculpture Factory challenge viewers to consider the changing role of craftsmanship, beauty, and authorship in an era increasingly shaped by automation and artificial intelligence. While rooted in contemporary technology, Quayola’s work maintains a strong dialogue with the history of Western art and continues to be exhibited at major art and media institutions globally.

Selected exhibitions

Centre Pompidou, Paris; V&A, London; Park Avenue Armory, New York; Ars Electronica, Linz; National Art Center, Tokyo; SeMA, Seoul; How Art Museum, Shanghai; UCCA Lab, Beijing; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires; British Film Institute, London; Villa Panza, Varese; Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Madrid; National Gallery, London; BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels; Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nancy; Queensland Art Gallery / GOMA, Brisbane; Museum of Contemporary Art, Montreal; Museum of Old and New Art (MONA), Hobart; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; MAK – Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna.

Selected collections

Centre Pompidou, Paris; V&A, London; British Council Collection, London; Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul; Fundación Telefónica, Madrid; How Art Museum, Shanghai.

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