Valentina De’ Mathà

Valentina De’ Mathà was born in Avezzano (Abruzzo, Italy) in 1981.
An Italo-Swiss artist, she lives and works in Ticino. Her artistic research is an investigation primarily focused on the human condition and the concept of memory, with attention and curiosity toward interpersonal relationships, the human psyche, and social customs; often with an ethnographic and identity-driven perspective, looking at beliefs, folklore, rituals, symbols, traditions, and emotional fragments of daily life. It is an intimate, very free, and expansive body of work that honors the act of creating as a daily and constant practice of transmitting.

Her works have been exhibited at international venues, including: StadtGalerie Brixen, Bressanone, IT (2025), OHSH Projects, London, UK (2024), Consulate General of Italy in Lugano, CH (2024), Palazzo Reale, Milan, IT (2022), Residence of the Italian Embassy in Bern, CH (2022), Macro Asilo-Macro Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome, IT (2019), Pasinger Fabrik, Munich, DE (2019), Art on Paper New York, USA (2016), Miami Project Art Fair, USA (2015), Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation, Turin, IT (2015), Cini Foundation, Venice, IT (2015), Museo Antinum, Civita d’Antino, IT (2015), PAV-Parco Arte Vivente, Contemporary Art Center, Turin, IT (2014), Limonaia di Villa Saroli, Museum of Art of Lugano, CH (2013), MLAC, Museum Laboratory of Contemporary Art, Rome, IT (2012), Palazzo Farnese, French Embassy, Rome, IT (2012), Nappe dell’Arsenale, Venice, IT (2012), 54th Venice Biennale, Italian Pavilion / Abruzzo, IT (2011).

She has been a finalist and winner of several art prizes, including: 21st Cairo Prize (2022), Art Rights (2021), San Fedele Prize 2013_14 (2014), 6th International Art Prize Arte Laguna (2012), Terna Prize (2009).

In 2025, she began her collaboration with Galleria Allegra Ravizza, which will inaugurate her solo exhibition “Album di Famiglia” at its Lugano location.