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| Lucio Pozzi | |
|---|---|
| Name | Lucio Pozzi |
| Birth date | 1935 |
| Birth place | Milan, Italy |
| Occupation | Painter, Performance Artist, Educator |
| Nationality | Italian-American |
Lucio Pozzi is an Italian-born painter and performance artist active in New York City and the United States since the 1960s, associated with long-form painting practice and site-responsive performance. He has exhibited alongside figures from Abstract Expressionism, Minimalism, and Conceptual Art and has taught at institutions influential in contemporary art pedagogy.
Born in Milan, Pozzi studied architecture and painting in Italy before moving to the United States, where he continued studies that connected him to networks surrounding Columbia University, New York University, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Yale School of Art, and Pratt Institute. During his formative years he encountered figures and institutions such as Giulio Carlo Argan, Giorgio de Chirico, Italian Futurism, MAXXI, and Museo del Novecento, while travels took him through cultural centers like Rome, Florence, Venice, Paris, and London. His education placed him in dialogue with contemporaries and mentors from movements including Abstract Expressionism, Arte Povera, Minimalism, Fluxus, and Conceptual Art.
Pozzi's career developed amid the late-1960s New York art scene, intersecting with artists and venues such as Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Leo Castelli Gallery, Gagosian Gallery, MoMA, and Whitney Museum of American Art. He participated in exhibitions, performances, and collaborative events linked to curators and critics including Harold Rosenberg, Clement Greenberg, Lucy Lippard, Marcia Tucker, and Nicholas Serota. Pozzi produced paintings, installations, and live painting events alongside peers from Jackson Pollock's lineage, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, and later generations connected to Julian Schnabel, Anselm Kiefer, and Gerhard Richter. His practice engaged with galleries and alternative spaces such as P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Documenta, Venice Biennale, The Kitchen, and Artists Space.
Pozzi's work combines continuous painted surfaces, performative mark-making, and a concern for time and process that resonates with practices of Jackson Pollock, Cy Twombly, John Cage, Marina Abramović, and Allan Kaprow. He employs oil, acrylic, ink, and mixed media on canvas, paper, and found materials, referencing materials used by Robert Motherwell, Helen Frankenthaler, Brice Marden, and Joan Mitchell. Pozzi often stages painting as durational activity in settings ranging from studio to museum, echoing performative strategies of Yves Klein, Fluxus, Nam June Paik, and Gordon Matta-Clark. His techniques reflect dialogues with Minimalism figures like Donald Judd and Dan Flavin as well as with material experimentation associated with Art & Language and Postminimalism.
Pozzi has shown work in solo and group exhibitions at institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Guggenheim Museum, Tate Modern, Centre Pompidou, Neue Nationalgalerie, and galleries like Canada Gallery, Gallery Paule Anglim, and Leo Castelli Gallery. He has been included in survey exhibitions at Documenta, the Venice Biennale, the São Paulo Art Biennial, and regional museums including San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Brooklyn Museum, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Art Institute of Chicago. Major public and private collections holding his work include those of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and university collections at Yale University, Columbia University, Pratt Institute, and Cooper Union.
Pozzi taught and lectured at institutions such as Pratt Institute, Columbia University School of the Arts, Hunter College, Cooper Union, and School of Visual Arts, influencing generations connected to academic programs that produced artists associated with Postmodernism, Relational Aesthetics, Installation Art, and Performance Art. His pedagogical approach emphasized studio discipline, process-oriented inquiry, and cross-disciplinary exchange similar to faculty practices at Yale School of Art, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Rhode Island School of Design. Students and colleagues who intersected with his teaching include figures later associated with galleries like David Zwirner, Gagosian, and Pace Gallery.
Over his career Pozzi has received grants, fellowships, and awards from organizations such as the National Endowment for the Arts, Guggenheim Foundation, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, and various cultural ministries in Italy and the United States. He has been recognized in artist residencies and honors linked to institutions including MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, Civitella Ranieri, and municipal cultural awards from cities like New York City and Milan.
Category:Italian painters Category:20th-century painters Category:21st-century painters