Lidia Sanvito , was born in Napoli , Italy in 1970, she currently lives and works in Milano.

2006 Artist’s Residency in artLAB, San Servolo, Venice.
2006 Artist’s Residency in Hotel Pupik, Schrattenberg, Austria.
1998-2001 Master in Contemporary Art at the Catholic University of Milan;
1991-1996 University Degree in Medieval and Modern Art at D.A.M.S. (Discipline Arte, Musica e Spettacolo), University of Bologna;
1989-1991 Sociological studies at the Public University of Milan.

Lidia Sanvito graduated at DAMS in Bologna in Art History, and she received her MFA in Contemporary Art at Università Cattolica in Milano. She starts exhibit in 2003.

Lidia Sanvito’s work has been shown in several solo and group shows in Italy and abroad, as La CISL è a tre metri, a+mbookstore (Milano, 2007), Doreen, Tufano Studioventicinque (Milano, 2007), Dead End (Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, NYC 2007), Calma apparente, Fondazione Ambrosetti (Palazzolo sull’Oglio, 2006), Multiplo_4, N.O. Gallery (Milano, 2006), Fatti e finzioni nella venusta Isola di San Servolo, Isola di San Servolo, (Venezia, 2006), Hotel Pupik-Artists in Residence in Schwarzenberg’schen Meierei (Schrattenberg, Austria, 2006), The Furniture Shop, Magazzino di via Breventano (Pavia, 2006), La torta della sposa, galleria Klerkx (Milano, 2006), Reset>>>Forward, O’artoteca (Milano, 2006), Talk to the city, Fabbrica del Vapore (Milano, 2005), Multiplo_3, N.O. Gallery (Milano, 2005), Tracce, Posteria (Milano, 2005), Premio nazionale d’arte “Donato Frisia”, Palazzo Municipale (Merate, 2004), Neon Projectbox Extended, Galleria Neon (Bologna, 2004), Air, (Novara, 2004), Il confine, Branka Cuca, Jovan, Jovanovic, Bojana Lukic, Lidia Sanvito, Sasha Talek, Spazio di Serbia e Montenegro (Milano 2004), Elena Busisi, Linda Fregni, Francesca Lazzarini, Lidia Sanvito, galleria Bruna Soletti (Milano, 2003).

SOLO EXHIBITION
2003 Doreen, Tufano Studioventicinque, Milan, coordinated by Giorgio Zanchetti.

GROUP EXHIBITION

2006 Calma apparente (Apparent Calm), coordinated by Paolo Campiglio, Ambrosetti Foundation, Palazzolo sull’Oglio, Brescia.
Fatti e finzioni nella venusta isola di San Servolo (Facts and Fictions in the beautiful Island of San Servolo), coordinated by Irene Calderoni, Venice.
Artists in residence in Schwarzenberg’schen Meierei, coordinated by Heimo Wallner, Schrattenberg, Austria.
The furniture shop, into a second-hand furniture shop of Pavia, coordinated by William West and Elisa del Prete, Pavia
La torta della sposa (The Bridal Cake), Klerkx Gallery, Milan
Reset>>>Forward, O’Artoteca, Milan

2005 Talk to the city, competition in order to decorate the walls of La fabbrica del vapore in Milan
Multiple_3, N.O.Gallery, Milan
Traces, Posteria, Milan, coordinated by Letteraventidue, web site www.letteraventidue.it

2004 National Art Prize “Donato Frisia”, Townhall of Merate, coordinated by Sara Fontana
Neon Projectbox Extended, Neon Gallery, Bologna
Air, Bertottina Farm, Novara, coordinated by Maria Campitelli
Il confine (Borders), Branka Cuca, Jovan Jovanovic, Bojana Lukic, Lidia Sanvito, Sasha Talek, Space of Serbia and Montenegro, Milan, coordinated by Lavinia Tonetti.
2003 Elena Busisi, Linda Fregni, Francesca Lazzarini, Lidia Sanvito, Bruna Soletti Gallery, Milan, coordinated by Leonardo Passarelli and Giorgio Zanchetti.

PUBLICATIONS
2006 Calma apparente (Apparent Calm), catalogue written by Paolo Campiglio.
Fatti e finzioni nella venusta isola di San Servolo (Fact and Fictions in the beautiful Island of San Servolo), catalogue written by Irene Calderoni.
The furniture shop, catalogue written by Elisa Del Prete.
2004 National Art Prize “Donato Frisia”, catalogue written by Sara Fontana.
Air, catalogue written by Maria Campitelli.
2003 Doreen, web review, www.exibart.com
Elena Busisi, Linda Fregni, Francesca Lazzarini, Lidia Sanvito written by Chiara Guidi, “Segno”, Art Magazine n°189, march/april 2003.
Feminine obsessions for four (Ossessioni femminili per quattro), written by Francesca Bonazzoli, “Corriere della Sera”, national newspaper, wednesday, 12 february.

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