Biography

Camilla Ancilotto was born in Rome. She obtained her MFA from the New York Academy of Art in 1999. Her early painting and sculpture focused on multiple interactive figurations, realized by way of rotating parallelepipeds.

In 2012, her monumental work Original Sin became part of the Wolfson Campus sculpture permanent collection (Miami Dade College).

In 2013, she was featured among the artists selected for the 55th International Art Exhibition at the Venice Biennale with Deposizione (Deposition).

In 2017, Ancilotto began experimenting with modular polychrome works inspired by the Tangram, the ancient Chinese puzzle. This new cycle, entitled Ab Ovo, was in the limelight at the internationally known Spoleto Festival dei Due Mondi with a big solo exhibition, “Mutaforma” (Shapeshifting) at Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive - Museo Carandente.

In 2018, she took part in both BIAS – Manifesta 12, Palermo, and the “Premio Van Gogh - International Art Exhibition”, Monreale, where her work Katharsis received “the most innovative” work of art award. That same year, Ancilotto was invited to participate in the 45th edition of the contemporary art prize “Premio Sulmona” 2018. Her work Nigredo was awarded third prize.

In January, 2019 the work of Ancilotto joined the international art circuit again and was featured at the Los Angeles Art Show. In April, her Ab Ovo works were exhibited at the Milan Design Week in the prestigious venue of the Mandarin Oriental Hotel. During the summer months, she took part in the Contemporary Art International Competition held at Palazzo Rospigliosi, Zagarolo, winning the “Toy Museum” prize, as well as in the exhibition “EMOZIONI IN MOSTRA - Armenia meets the World” at Castel dell’Ovo in Naples.

In the fall, three Ab Ovo works were featured at the interactive exhibition “Bimbumbam” in the porticoed cloister of the Palermo Chiaramonte-Steri Palace. In October, she was among the artists invited to take part in the innovative project “MACRO ASILO Atelier” organized at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome. During the same month, the Premio Sulmona “Gaetano Pallozzi” renewed its invitation at the Polo Museale Civico Diocesano di S. Chiara, where the work Ab Ovo (missile configuration, steel) won the Special Prize.

The year 2020 was inaugurated with Ancilotto’s polychrome, steel-frame Ab Ovo works being exhibited at the Museo Carlo Bilotti at the Orangery of Villa Borghese on the occasion of the show “Unforgettable Childhood” curated by Ermanno Tedeschi and promoted by Roma Capitale, the Cultural Growth Council Department, and the Culture Department of the Embassy of Israel in Italy.

In 2021, the travelling exhibition “Bimbumbam” – including the three Ab Ovo sculptures – is scheduled to feature at the National Archaeological Museum of Naples.

Exhibitions

Personal Exhibitions
  • 2017   Mutaforma - Palazzo Corricola Arti Visive, Spoleto (PG)
  • 2012   In Fieri - Camera Dei Deputati, Complesso di Vicolo Valdina, Roma
  • 2012   Original Sin - Freedom Tower Museum - Miami Dade College, Miami
  • 2011   Original Sin - Ca' d'Oro Art Gallery, Miami
  • 2010   Metamorfosi - Chiostro del Bramante, Roma
  • 2008   Galleria d'Arte Davico - Torino
  • 2003   Dipinti recenti - Galleria Cà d'Oro, Roma
Collective Exhibitions
  • 2020   Museo Carlo Bilotti - Roma
  • 2019   Premio Sulmona - Museo Civico Diocesano, Sulmona
  • 2019   MACRO ASILO - Museo di Arte Contemporanea, Roma
  • 2019   Castel dell'Ovo - Napoli
  • 2019   Museo del Giocattolo - Zagarolo
  • 2019   LA Art Show - The Culver Hotel, Los Angeles
  • 2018   Premio Sulmona - Museo Civico Diocesano, Sulmona
  • 2018   Unforgettable Childhood - Museo Nazionale di Ravenna
  • 2018   Oasi - Chiesa di Sant Agostino, Pinerolo
  • 2018   Villa Malfitano Whitaker (MANIFESTA 2018) - Palermo 2018 Art Rooms Fair International contest, Roma
  • 2017   Io Sono Qui - Museo MACRO Testaccio, Roma
  • 2017   Esposizione Triennale di Arti Visive a Roma - Complesso Monumentale del Vittoriano, Roma
  • 2016   Era perduto ed è stato ritrovato - Museo del Tesoro del Duomo di Vigevano, Vigevano (PV)
  • 2016   In Arte Belzebù - Complesso dei Dioscuri al Quirinale, Roma
  • 2015   Amsterdam International Art Fair - Amsterdam
  • 2015   Expo Arte Italiana - Villa Bagatti Valsecchi Varedo, Milano
  • 2014   'Ad Artem' - Museo Fondazione Venanzo Crocetti, Roma
  • 2013   Art Basel - Miami
  • 2013   Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte - la Biennale di Venezia
  • 2012   Marilyn Monroe. Tribute to a Female Icon - Galleria Ca' d'Oro, Miami
  • 2011   Art Basel - Miami
  • 2011   Biennale di Scultura - Roma
  • 2009   Scomposizioni - Palazzo Torlonia, Galleria Ca' d'Oro, Roma
  • 2008   Omaggio a De Chirico - Palazzo Torlonia, Galleria Ca' d'Oro, Roma
  • 2008   Donne D'Arte. Freedom - Galleria Cortese & Lisanti, Roma
  • 2007   Roma visioni di una Capitale - Galleria Cortese & Lisanti, Roma
  • 2007   Per Bacco - Palazzo Antinori, Firenze
  • 2006   Bestiario - Galleria Cà d'Oro, Roma
  • 2006   Omaggio a Rembrandt 1606/2006 - Galleria Cà d'Oro, Roma
  • 2006   Donne D'Arte. Pittura a Roma da Antonietta Raphaël Mafai a Giosetta Fioroni - Galleria Cortese & Lisanti, Roma
  • 2006   Zodiaco - Galleria Davico, Torino
  • 2005   Primaverile Romana, A.R.G.A.M. - Galleria Cà d'Oro, Roma
  • 2004   Triennale giovani artisti - Vercelli
  • 2003   Premio Nazionale di Pittura "Città di Fondi"
  • 2003   Sotto/Sopra, Primaverile Romana, A.R.G.A.M. - Galleria Cà d'Oro, Roma
  • 2002   RipArte International Art Fair - Ripa Hotel, Roma
  • 2002   La mia idea di campagna romana e laziale - Castello Baronale, Fondi (LT)
  • 2000   Studio 4 West - New York
  • 2000   Atmosphere Gallery - New York
  • 1998   Atmosphere Gallery - New York