Varda Caivano

Born 1971, Argentina (Italian citizenship)

Lives and works in London, UK

Education

2002-2004

MA Painting, Royal College of Art, London, UK

2000-2001

Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, London, UK

1994-1998

BA History of Art, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2011

Voice, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK

2009

The Inner Me, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Kyoto, Japan

2007

Galerie Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf, Germany

Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK

2006

Kunstverein Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

2005

Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK

1998

Fundacion Federico Klemm, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Selected Group Exhibitions

2011

Fountains and Drains, The British School at Rome, Italy

2010

British Art Show 7: In the Days of the Comet, Nottingham, UK. Touring to Hayward Gallery, Glasgow Centre for Contemporary Art and Plymouth Arts Centre

Collection 2 – Focus on Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Osaka, Japan

Resonance, Suntory Museum, Osaka, Japan

2009

Cave Painting, Gresham’s Ghost, New York, USA

East End Academy: The Painting Edition, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK

2008

Her House, Her House Gallery, London, UK

Precious Things, Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda, Ireland

Swans Reflecting Elephants: Varda Caivano, Renee So, Rose Wylie, Kate MacGarry, London, UK

M25 Around London, CCA Andratx Art Centre, Majorca, Spain

Busan Biennale, Korea

Jerwood Contemporary Painters, Jerwood Space, London, UK

Imaginary Realities: Constructed Worlds in Abstract and Figurative Painting, Max Wigram Gallery, London, UK

Rose Tinted Glasses, Gavin Brown Passerby, New York, USA

INsideOUT, Galeria Moriarty, Madrid, Spain

2007

Very Abstract and Hyper Figurative, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, UK

2006

World-Gone-Mad, Herbert Read Gallery, Canterbury, UK. Touring to Castlefield

Gallery, Manchester, and Limehouse Art Foundation, London, UK

2005

London in Zurich, Hauser & Wirth, Zurich, Switzerland

Expanded Painting - Prague Biennale 2, Prague

Mourning Galerie Sies & Höke, Düsseldorf, Germany

2004

Group Show, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

Arrivals 2004, Pump House Gallery, London, UK

Revenge of Romance, Temporary Contemporary, London, UK

TwentyfourThirty, Keith Talent Gallery, London, UK

Painting 2004, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK

Group show, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand

2003

Three person show, with Phil Allen and Christian Ward, Millefiori ArtSpace, Athens, Greece

Selected Paintings, MW projects, London, UK

Dirty Pictures, The Approach Gallery, London, UK

2002

POT, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, Sao Paulo, Brazil and Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK

Notably, Pump House Gallery, London, UK

Only Way Forward, Neon Gallery, London, UK

Primeiro do Abril, Erika Verzutti Project Space, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Group show, Archimboldo, Buenos Aires, Argentina

2001

New Contemporaries, Camden Arts Centre, London and Sunderland Museum, Sunderland, UK

Mujer, Centro Cultural Borges, BuenosAires, Argentina

2000

Out House, Rich and Famous Gallery, London, UK

Brainstorm, Goldsmiths College, London, UK

1999

La punta del ovillo, Contemporary Museum of Modern Art Bahia Blanca, and Borges Cultural Center, Buenos Aires, Argentina,

Nominations and Awards

2004 Parallel Prize, Royal College of Art, London

2004 Nominated for Becks Futures 2004

2003 Nominated for The Paul Hamlyn Awards for Artists 2003.

2002 Antorchas Grant for Postgraduate Studies (fees and maintenance)

1997-1999 Guillermo Kuitca International residence program for young artists, Borges Cultural Centre, Buenos Aires, Argentina