Piero Golia

In 2008, Golia was invited to take over a booth at the Art LA fair; his contribution was to completely fill the space with a full-sized passenger bus that had been dramatically crushed by bulldozers to fit the dimensions of the exhibition space.[3]

Retaining ties to his Italian roots, Golia was selected to represent Italy at the Biennale di Venezia in 2013. Golia installed Untitled (My Gold Is Yours) (2013), a gray cube 2.5 meters tall, composed of thirty-six tons of concrete mixed with two kilograms of gold sand and set directly on a grassy outdoor plaza. He then invited visitors to “mine” the sculpture for gold, a social proposition that would transform the physical form and monetary value of the work independent of the artist's own direct actions.[4]

In 2013 he opened Chalet, an underground Hollywood speakeasy (later restaged as Chalet Dallas at the Nasher Sculpture Center in 2015[5]) that was conceived as a space combining architecture, entertainment, and art. Working with architect Edwin Chan, Golia created his Chalets to encourage social interactions and generate a convivial art community that was visited by movie stars, art world luminaries, a local marching band, acrobats, and even a pair of alpacas. During the closing celebration of the four-month-long Dallas installation,[6] Golia hired a mariachi band, arranged a fireworks display, and commissioned a large stage curtain printed with the iconic closing sequence from Looney Tunes cartoons, with the words “That’s All Folks!” His immediately recognizable Mariachi Painting series (2016), made from cut and stretched swatches of the Chalet Dallas curtain, serve as relics of this spectacular event.[7]

At Art Basel in 2017, he realized the kinetic sculpture The Painter,[8] which featured a robot programmed to paint abstract geometric forms onto eight large canvases whenever movement in the exhibition space was detected. The resulting Basel Paintings (2017) retain visual evidence of the process of their own making.

In 2005, Golia and the artists Eric Wesley and Richard Jackson developed a free, bare-bones, yet ambitious graduate school—no tuition, no degree, but a vigorous curriculum—centered on talks and seminars led by visiting artists and curators. The Mountain School of Arts was born. Over the past fourteen years, the program has evolved into a forum where hundreds of students have received instruction from guest faculty including the artists Tacita Dean, Thomas Demand, Simone Forti, Dan Graham, Mark Grotjahn, Pierre Huyghe, Catherine Opie, Jeff Wall, and many others"[9]

• 2020: Still Life. Gagosian, Britannia Street, London, England.
• 2020: The End. La Fondazione Roma, Rome, Italy.
• 2018: Suddenly, in the middle of the summer. Gagosian Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, CA.
• 2018: Solutions to Mortality. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS.
• 2017: The painter. Kunsthaus Baselland, Muttenz, Switzerland.
• 2015: Chalet Dallas. Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX.
• 2015: Intermission Paintings. Gagosian Gallery, Rome, Italy.
• 2014: The Comedy of Craft (Intermission). Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels, Belgium.
• 2014: Models, Monuments, and Sculptures on Pedestals. Gagosian Gallery, Paris Project Space, Paris, France.
• 2013: finalmente venezia. Galleria Fonti, Naples, Italy.
• 2011: Concrete Cakes and Constellation Paintings. Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
• 2011: Double Tumble or the Awesome Twins. Stedeljik Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
• 2009: Oh my God that's so awesome! Bortolami Gallery, New York, NY.
• 2008: Knives. Galleria Fonti, Naples, Italy.
• 2007: Time Machine. Bortolami-Dayan Gallery, New York, NY.
• 2007: Postcards from the edge. Cosmic Galerie, Paris, France.
• 2005: Let the devils do their job. Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York, NY.
• 2005: February 2005. Galleri Christina Wilson, Copenhagen, Denmark.
• 2005: Piero Golia Piero Golia. Galleria Fonti, Napoli, Italy.
• 2004: The King is Dead. Cosmic Galerie, Paris, France.
• 2003: Maybe not even a nation of millions. Cosmic Galerie, Paris, France.
• 2002: Faccio sul serio! Studio Massimo De Carlo, Milan, Italy. Again. Galleria Maze, Turin, Italy.
• 2002: To whom it may concern. Ecart, Basel, Switzerland.
• 2001: Voi non sapete chi mi credo di essere. Viafarini, Milan, Italy.
• 2000: ...Forever... Galleria Maze, Turin, Italy.
• 2000: Le mucche per Morra. Studio Morra, Naples, FL.

• 2020: Broadcast: Alternate Meanings in Film and Video. Gagosian, Park + 75, New York, NY.
• 2019: In Production: Art and the Studio System. Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China.
• 2018: About Photography. Gagosian, San Francisco, CA.
• 2017: The Electric Comma. V-A-C Foundation, Palazzo delle Zattere, Venice, Italy. L.A. Invitational. Gagosian, West 24th St., New York, NY.
• 2016: Conversation Piece | Part 3. Fondazione Memmo Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy.
• 2016: LEXICON. Gagosian Gallery, Paris, France.
• 2016: Par tibi, Roma, nihil. Nomas Foundation, Roman Forum and Palatine Hill, Rome, Italy.
• 2015: Theories on Forgetting. Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA. Chromophobia. Gagosian Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland.
• 2014: Prospect.3: Notes for Now. New Orleans, LA. Made in L.A. Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA. CLEAR. Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA.
• 2013: 55th Biennale di Venezia. Italian Pavilion, Venice, Italy. Mixed Media Messages. Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY.
• 2012: The Mystery Spot. Fondation d'Entreprise Ricard, Paris, France. Micro Mania. Gagosian Gallery, Paris, France.
• 2011: Home Show Revisited. Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA.