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Biography
Damien Cifelli is an artist from Edinburgh, Scotland. His work explores an alternative world of his own creation called ‘Tarogramma’ and everything he creates exists within this fictional environment. Referencing the scale and compositions of history paintings and historical sculpture, he has built a detailed culture with its own aesthetic, way of living, and understanding of the world; one that is at once alien, and eerily similar to our own. He tells the story of the place through fictional anthropology and storytelling; the paintings and artefacts are a visual representation of this alternative society - documentary images of a new world. He has exhibited internationally at galleries including Whitechapel Gallery, Saatchi Gallery, and OOF galleries with solo shows at Spinello Projects, Moosey Gallery, Pulpo, Liminal Gallery, and Edinburgh Art Festival. He was shortlisted for the East London Art Prize, UK New Artists Award, Cass Art Prize and Delphian Open Call and won the Thyssen Versiona award
Education
MA, Royal College of Art, 2024-2025
Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
2024 - ‘Dream Animal’ Spinello Projects, Miami
2024 - ‘City Infinite X’ Union Gallery, London
2024 - ‘The Thing Beyond - Adventures in Tarogramma’ Pulpo Gallery, Munich
2023 - ‘Damien Cifelli - Welcome to Tarogramma’ Moosey Gallery, London
2022 - ‘Damien Cifelli - Tarogramma’ Liminal Gallery, Margate
2022 - ‘Hidden Door 2022’ Old Royal High, Edinburgh
2022 - ‘Tarogramma’ Hackney Downs Studios, London
2019 - ‘Tarogramma Archive’ Edinburgh Art Festival. Dundas St Gallery, Edinburgh
2019 - ‘Tarogramma Archive’ Edinburgh Art Festival. Italian Cultural Institute, Edinburgh
Group Exhibitions
2024/25 - ‘Body & Spirit’, Spinello Projects, Miami
2024 - Cass Art Prize, Copeland Gallery, London
2024 - Tops, OOF Gallery, London
2024 - Across the Pond, Good Mother Gallery, Los Angeles
2024 - Urvanity Art Fair, Galleria Victor Lope, Madrid
2023 - New Adventures in Hi-Fi - Galleria Victor Lope, Barcelona
2023 - ELAP x Whitechapel Gallery - Whitechapel Gallery, London
2023 - Union20 - Union Gallery, London
2023 - Spring Spring - Moosey Gallery, London
2023 - Because - Dorothy Circus Gallery, Rome and London
2023 - East London Art Prize - Nunnery Gallery, London.
2022 - UK New Artists Prize - Saatchi Gallery London
2022 - One Art Taipei - Plzzzz Gallery, Taipei
2022 - The Art of the Football Scarf - OOF Gallery, London
2022 - Delphian Open Call 2022 - Unit 1 Gallery, London
2022 - 'Tendencies in Painting', London Paint Club
2022 - ‘The Rise of Inside’, Eve Leibe Gallery and Artsy
Awards
Cass Art Prize 2024 (Shortlisted)
Thyssen Versiona Award, Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum 2024
East London Art Prize 2023
UK New Artists Award 2022
Delphian Open Call 2022
