Andrea Mastrovito

Andrea Mastrovito (born in Bergamo in 1978; lives and works between Bergamo and New York) is an Italian multimedia artist known for his ability to explore drawing through various forms of expression, from paper to installation and animated film, with a great narrative skill that enables him to engage with every form of expression.

Having graduated in 2001 from the G. Carrara Academy of Fine Arts in Bergamo, Mastrovito has been exhibiting in museums and foundations around the world since the mid-2000s. His best-known works include The Island of Dr. Mastrovito (2010–2012), created using thousands of cut-up books; Gv 19,30 (2014), a series of three-dimensional stained-glass windows for the Church of St John XXIII in Bergamo; his latest animated feature films, NYsferatu (2017) and I Am Not Legend (2020), and the installation Tristes Presentimientos de lo que ha de acontecer (2022), created using recycled materials for Proa21 in Buenos Aires and now part of the permanent collection of the GAMeC in Bergamo. In 2026, he created Gv 1.29, the Agnus Dei for the Tower of Jesus Christ at the Sagrada Família in Barcelona, a work that effectively marks the completion of the main phase of the basilica’s construction after 140 years of work.

The Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs awarded Mastrovito the New York Prize in 2007. In 2019, Mastrovito won the sixth edition of the Italian Council. His works have been featured in numerous institutional exhibitions across Europe and the United States, such as those at the MAXXI National Museum of 21st-Century Arts and the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome; Pecci, Prato; MART, Rovereto; Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester; B.P.S. 22, Charleroi; Belvedere21 in Vienna; Mudac, Lausanne; the Museum of Arts and Design, Queens Museum and The Drawing Centre, New York. His most recent solo exhibitions include: Res Gestae, Palazzo Braschi, Rome (2024); Yo Lo Vi, Proa21, Buenos Aires (2022); Strange Days, Laznia Centre, Gdańsk (2021); I Am Not a Legend, Palazzo Fabroni National Museum, Pistoia (2020); Le monde est une invention sans futur, Fondation Bullukian, Lyon (2019); Very Bad Things, National Gallery of Modern Art, Rome (2019); Symphonie eines Jahrhunderts, Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche, Osnabrück (2018); At the End of the Line, GAMeC, Bergamo (2014) and Le Cinque Giornate, Museo del Novecento, Milan (2011). Since 2014, he has created a series of permanent public installations in Italy, France, Belgium, Spain and the United States.

In 2021, together with his partners Marco Marcassoli and Walter Carrera, he founded The Drawing Hall in Bergamo – the first space entirely dedicated to contemporary Italian drawing – of which he is the artistic director. Andrea Mastrovito is represented by the Wilde Gallery (Geneva, Basel, Zurich) and the Galleria Michela Rizzo (Venice, Milan).