Quayola

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Pointillisme #05_05850

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Laocoön Fragment #G_002.V

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Laocoön Fragment #B_004.002

Jardins d’Été #2

Jardins d’Été #1

Laocoön #D20-Q1

Laocoön Fragment #B_005.003

Laocoön Fragment #A_002.001

Iconographies #16: Venus and Adonis after Rubens

Iconographies #82-1, Madonna after Raphael

Iconographies #82-2: Madonna after Raphael

Iconographies #82-3: Madonna after Raphael

Pleasant Places #005.007

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Pleasant Places

Iconographies #26: Judith and Holofernes after Artemisia Gentileschi

Iconographies #44: Judith and Holofernes after Guido Reni

Iconographies #54: Judith and Holofernes after Lavinia Fontana

Iconographies #60: Judith and Holofernes after Luca da Reggio

Iconographies #67: Judith and Holofernes after Mattia Preti

Iconographies #70: Judith and Holofernes after Orazio Gentileschi

Iconographies #73: Judith and Holofernes after Sandro Botticelli

Iconographies #20-10: Tiger Hunt after Rubens

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Iconographies #20-12: Tiger Hunt after Rubens

Captives #1 – Triptych

Captives #1 – 8-Channels

Matter

Strata #4

Topologies – Tiepolo, Immacolata Concezione

Topologies – Velazquez, Las Meninas

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Natures #2B

Natures #3B

Strata #1

Longhi, Lucia. “Man and Robot Meet Halfway: An Interview with Davide Quayola,”
Berlin Art Link, October 4, 2019
Editors. “What is the Role of Artificial Intelligence in Modern Art?,”
albawaba, May 14, 2019
Editors. “6 Shanghai Art Exhibitions to Check Out This Weekend,”
that’s Magazine Shanghai, May 3, 2019
Qin, Xu. “When the machines take over the studio,”
Shine, April 4, 2019
Kocay, Lisa. “Tale Of Us Will Debut New York City ‘Afterlife’ Show During Fashion Week,”
Forbes, September 4, 2018
Klaus, Laurel. “Ars Electronica 2018: The mistake as an art form,”
Computer Welt, September 2, 2018
Parra, Alfonso. “What happens when art and haute horlogerie come together,”
GQ, June 21, 2018
Nechvatal, Joseph. “Post-Internet Artists Crack Open Our Technological Past,”
Hyperallergic, May 16, 2018
Editor. “Lounge by Sebastian Errazuriz and photos by Quayola,”
World Tempus, April 15, 2018
Watkin, Hannah. “Audemars Piguet Uses 3D Printed Backdrop at Art Basel Hong Kong,”
All3DP, April 3, 2018
Kinsella, Eileen. “At Art Basel Hong Kong, Two Artists Team Up With Audemars Piguet to Transform a VIP Lounge Into a 3-D-Printed Wonderland,”
artnet, March 30, 2018
Safarzadeh, Anahita. “BITFORMS GALLERY LA,”
Flaunt Magazine, March 20, 2018
Pangburn, D., “Quayola’s Glitchy Reimaginings of Broken Ancient Greek Artifacts,”
Vice Creators, April 6, 2017
Editors. “Quayola, Jardins d’Été,”
Inside Art, April 3, 2017
“Temporal narratives + the annals of Western art in Quayola’s Fragments at bitforms, Feb 25 – Apr 9,”
Aqnb, February 23, 2017
Kang, Victoria. “When Digital is Taking Over Humans,”
Trendland, February 22, 2017
D’Arcy, David. “Art on film at Sundance, from Van Gogh’s landscapes to an orbiting VR vanitas,”
The Art Newspaper, January 27, 2017
“Back in Bologna party Artribune and Unipol to CUBE. In ArtCityWhiteNIght Art Fair,”
Artribune, January 25, 2017
Motta, Alberto. “Digital video Inspired by Vincent van Gogh arrive in Bologna,”
Wired Italy, January 20, 2017
Baumgardner, Julie. “A Guide to America’s Next Great Art Neighborhood,”
The New York Style Magazine, January 11, 2017
“Extended until March 4: bitforms fifteen-year anniversary exhibition at Minnesota Street Project,”
Art Daily, January 7, 2017
Pangburn, DJ. “Bitforms Gallery Celebrates 15 Years with a Retrospective in San Francisco,”
The Creators Project, November 8, 2016
Pangburn, DJ. “Robotic Art Sculpts Like a Manufacturing Michelangelo,”
The Creators Project, July 19, 2016
Holmes, Kevin. “Quayola Turns ‘Laocoön and His Sons’ into Meta-Sculptures,”
The Creators Project, April 29, 2016
“Daata Editions Exposes Leading Artists Like Tracey Emin To The Masses,”
Artlyst, April 18, 2016
Catala, L., “The mutant abstractions of Quayola,”
Digital Arti, April 4, 2016
Federl, Fabian. “Rubens in Polygon Sea,”
Der Tagesspiegel, March 29, 2016
Shipwright, Fiona. “Through the Eyes of a Machine: An Interview with Artist Quayola,”
uncube, February 25, 2016
Sokhan, Alena, “NETWORKS // An Interview with Quayola,”
Berlin Ark Link, February 5, 2016
Peteranderl, Sonja, “ The artist Davide Quayola used algorithms such instruments,”
Wired Germany, January 15, 2016
Kordic, Angie, “Quayola To Present Iconographies At Nome Berlin,”
Widewalls, January 9, 2016
Pangburn, DJ, “Quayola Talks ‘Iconographies,’ His New Show of Algorithmic Engravings and Prints,”
The Creators Project, January 5, 2016
Gruber, Angela. “Data Art: Fragmented masterpieces,”
Spiegel Online, January 1, 2016
Marsala, Helga, “I piacevoli paesaggi dissolti di Davide Quayola. Sognando l’Olanda e Van Gogh,”
Artribune, December 6, 2015
“Introducing: Quayola,“
Coded Matter(s), December 6, 2013
“Captives – CG Geological Formations as Life-Size ‘Unfinished’ Sculptures,“
Creative Applications Network, October 25, 2013
Napolitano, Pasquale, “Quayola & Memo Akten: ‘Forms’. Something about Life, at Ars Electronica Prix 2013,“
DIGICULT, May 28, 2013
Mills, Jennifer, “Music Becomes Chaotic Kinetic Sculpture In Quayola And Abstract Birds’ Partitura-Ligeti,”
The Creator’s Project, December 12, 2012
Denson, G. Rogers, “Going Forward in Reverse: The Present Tense(ion) of History Painting (Banisadr, Howe, Dalwood, Steir, Taaffe, Quayola, Wang),”
Huffington Post, July 9, 2012
Pearlman, Ellen, “Digital Homage to the Old Masters,”
Hyperallergic, May 15, 2012
Saeed, Abdullah, “The Newest Additions to Quayola’s Strata Series Come to New York,”
The Creators Project, May 10, 2012
Venkataramanan, Madhumita, “Dragging Old Masters into 21st Century with digital makeovers,”
Wired, May. 2012
Kaganskiy, Julia, “Quayola’s New Work Matter Rethinks Rodin’s The Thinker”,
The Creators Project, March 22, 2012
Holmes, Kevin, “Quayola And Memo Akten Translate Athletic Movement Into Abstract Animations”,
The Creators Project, March 5, 2012
“Quayola’s Stratification Of Classical Art”,
The Creators Project, November 23, 2011
Williams, Eliza, “Quayola at Palais des Beaux Arts, Lille,”
Creative Review, October 7, 2011
Klanten, R., and Schulze, F. Erratic,
Visual Impact in Current Design, Gestalten, p. 148-149, 2011
“See Jamie xx and Quayola collaborate on the first ever RizLab project,”
The Independent, July 22, 2011
Sedbon, Lara, “Interview with Quayola,”
Leaders in Software and Art, July 12, 2011
Chayka, Kyle, “Quayola Fractures a Roman Cathedral”,
Hyperallergic, May 10, 2011

b. 1982, Rome, Italy
Lives and works in London, England

Quayola employs technology as lens to explore the tensions and equilibriums between seemingly opposing forces: the real and artificial, figurative and abstract, old and new. Constructing immersive installations, often at historically significant architectural sites, he engages with and re-imagines canonical imagery through contemporary technology. Hellenistic sculpture, Old Master painting, and Baroque architecture are some of the historical aesthetics that serve as a point of departure for Quayola’s abstract compositions. His varied practice, all deriving from custom computer software, also includes audiovisual performance, video, sculpture, and works on paper.

Past exhibitions of his work of work include V&A Museum, London; Park Avenue Armory, New York; Bozar, Brussels; National Art Center, Tokyo; UCCA, Beijing; How Art Museum, Shanghai; SeMA, Seoul; Biennale, São Paulo; Triennale, Milan; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, Barcelona; British Film Institute, London; Cité de la Musique, Paris; Grand Theatre, Bordeaux; Ars Electronica, Linz; Elektra Festival, Montreal; Sonar Festival, Barcelona and Sundance Film Festival.

Also a frequent collaborator on musical projects, Quayola has worked with composers, orchestras and musicians including London Contemporary Orchestra, National Orchestra of Bordeaux, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Vanessa Wagner, Jamie XX, Mira Calix, Plaid and Tale Of Us.

In 2013, Quayola was awarded the Golden Nica at Ars Electronica. In 2021, the artist received his first major museum solo exhibition in Rome at the Palazzo Cipolla.

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Quayola, Storms Nov 19, 2021–Jan 22, 2022

The Tree of Life, curated by Claudia Hart May 15–Sep 30, 2020

Quayola, Fragments February 25–Apr 9, 2017

Fifteen Year Anniversary Exhibition Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco Nov 5, 2016–Mar 4, 2017

Quayola, Strata May 11–Jun 16, 2012