Francesca Gabbiani creates intricate cut-paper collages depicting moments frozen in time and space. The idea of memory lies at the core of Gabbiani’s investigation. She is interested in creating a space that feels familiar yet uncanny; as though the viewer is visiting a new place he or she has already seen.
Gabbiani was born in 1965 in Montreal, Canada. In 1969 she moved to Switzerland, and in 1992 she graduated from the Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Geneva. She studied at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam from 1993 to 1994 and received her MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1997. Gabbiani’s work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York; and the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Geneva (MAMCO), among other venues. Her work was shown at the Hammer Museum in 2001 as part of the Hammer Projects series.
The artist currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.
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Works on Paper
Melinda Braathen, Paolo Colombo, Francesca Gabbiani, Reuben Gordon, Dene Leigh, Daniel Silva, Sophie Wahlquist 8 Feb - 28 Mar 2020Baert gallery is pleased to present Works on Paper, a group exhibition featuring Melinda Braathen, Paolo Colombo, Francesca Gabbiani, Reuben Gordon, Dene Leigh, Daniel Silva and Sophie Wahlquist. Encompassing a...Read more -
Color is an Act of Reason
Jasmin Blasco, Melinda Braathen, Francesca Gabbiani, Reuben Gordon, Amy MacKay, Iliodora Margellos, Jebila Okongwu 3 Aug - 14 Sep 2019Color is uncontainable. It effortlessly reveals the limits of language and evades our best attempts to impose a rational order on it... To work with color is to become acutely...Read more -
Iliodora Margellos & Francesca Gabbiani
10 Feb - 24 Mar 2018A two person show has the great advantage of presenting a substantial amount of each artist’s work, giving the opportunity for viewers to compare, to think in wider horizons and...Read more
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Francesca Gabbiani
Francesca Gabbiani at the Getty Research Institute October 19, 2022Francesca Gabbiani's film 'Sea of Fire' (2022) is included in The Getty Research Institute's 'Fire Szn'. A screening on October 22, 2022, will be followed...Read more -
Francesca Gabbiani
Included in Drawing Room London's 2021 Biennial benefit May 21, 2021Our celebrated exhibition and auction of over 300 unique artworks provides an invaluable snapshot of how artists are working with drawing today. Featuring new and...Read more -
Francesca Gabbiani
Solo exhibition, Monica De Cardenas Gallery, Milan, Italy May 13, 2021May 13 - July 30 2021 In the Project Room, Monica de Carndenas presents a new cycle of works by Francesca Gabbiani, Italian-Swiss artist based...Read more -
Francesca Gabbiani
Online Exhibition "Beyond Borders Together: A Collection of Contemporary American and Middle Eastern Artists", ArtScoops March 25, 2021Although borders, demarcated or metaphorical, confine us physically and geographically in today’s landscape, we are all together and somewhat “Beyond Borders”. ArtScoops in association with...Read more -
Francesca Gabbiani
Group exhibition "Barbarian Days", Fergus McCaffrey St. Barth March 11, 2021Fergus McCaffrey is delighted to present Barbarian Days, opening Thursday, March 11th at the gallery's St. Barth location, featuring work by: Rachelle Dang, Koji Enokura,...Read more -
Francesca Gabbiani
"None of the Above, 2004 – 2020", Kanal Centre Pompidou, Brussels, Belgium September 24, 2020For this exhibition, John M Armleder invited around 50 artists from all over the world to present a work of art either no bigger than...Read more -
Francesca Gabbiani
Solo exhibition “Vagues Terrains/Urban Fuckups“, Gavlak Gallery, Los Angeles, USA April 13, 2018April 13 – June 9, 2018 Non-place, a book by French anthropologist Marc Augé, explored spaces of transience where individuals are anonymous—airport waiting rooms, hotel...Read more