Biography
Monica Marioni was born near Treviso in 1972, but moved to the area of Vicenza when she was still very young and here she lives several months a year. She instinctively approached art during her studies, enrolling at the Vicenza Institute of Art; nevertheless she obtained a degree in statistical sciences because of her passion for mathematics. She spent several years in a large industrial group, thereby developing strong ties with certain materials and the types of manipulation functional to them. In 2005 she leaved any other job and activity to devote herself to full time art career, starting with her solo shows at Contarini-Fasan Palace in Venice and at Yvonne Artecontemporanea gallery in Vicenza in 2007. Then solo shows in the United States, at the Carlo Livi Gallery of Miami and the Poltrona Frau Showroom of Washington D.C., both of which took place in 2008, and her shows in Rome, Capri and Vicenza, again, between 2008 and 2009. At the end of 2008 she won the First Prize of the Fiorino d'Oro for Painting, which was given to her in Florence. A great solo show was in 2009 at the Museo de Arte Italiana in Lima, within the Italy-Peru economic and cultural forum. In the summer of the same year, she was invited to Detournement Venise, a collateral event of the 53rd Biennale d'Arte of Venice, and she realized "Ego", installation and video art conjoined in a single work. She thus came to "digital painting" at Anna Bellati’s "Il vuoto e le forme", a collective exhibition that was a collateral event to the Biennale Architettura of Venice 2010, and after it the solo show Ninfe (Nymphs) in Vicenza, by Vignato Foundation for Art of Vicenza, with Oliver Tschirky as curator.
In 2011 Marioni, when the 53rd Biennial Art was closing, made the installation: It’s Italian art today GOATS! GOATS!! GOATS!!!.
The current year 2012 opened with the project IO SONO, located in Milan, at the Stelline Foundation and curated by Vittorio Sgarbi Oliver Tschirky.
