{{short description|American artist}} {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2016}} {{COI|date=May 2015}} {{Infobox artist | name = Federico Solmi | image = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = April 1973 | birth_place = Bologna, Italy<ref name="luisdejesus">{{Cite web|url=https://www.luisdejesus.com/artists/federico-solmi2|title=Federico Solmi|date=|access-date=2021-09-11|website=Luis De Jesus Los Angeles|via=Luis De Jesus|archive-date=January 28, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210128105810/https://luisdejesus.com/artists/federico-solmi2|url-status=live}}</ref> | field = Digital art | awards = }}

'''Federico Solmi''' (born April 1973) is a visual artist based in Brooklyn, New York.

== About == Federico Solmi's work utilizes bright colors and a satirical aesthetic to portray a dystopian vision of our present-day society. His exhibitions often feature articulate installations composed of a variety of media including video, painting, drawing, and sculpture.<ref name="luisdejesus" />

In 2009, Solmi was awarded by the Guggenheim Foundation of New York with the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in the category of Video & Audio.<ref name=Heartley>{{Cite book|title=Federico Solmi's March of Folly|last=Heartney|first=Eleanor|publisher=Rowan University Art Gallery|location=Glassboro, New Jersey|publication-date=2020-11-02}}</ref> From 2016 to 2019, Solmi was a visiting professor at the Yale University School of Art and Yale School of Drama in New Haven, Connecticut.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ccam.yale.edu/event/ccam-visiting-artist-federico-solmi|title=CCAM Visiting Artist: Federico Solmi|date=2017-11-16|access-date=2021-09-11|website=Yale University|archive-date=January 22, 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250122044241/https://ccam.yale.edu/event/ccam-visiting-artist-federico-solmi|url-status=live}}</ref>

== Exhibitions == Federico Solmi's work was included in the exhibition The Outwin 2019: American Portraiture Today, at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Solmi |first1=Federico |title=THE OUTWIN 2019: AMERICAN PORTRAITURE TODAY Featuring: Hugo Crosthwaite and Federico Solmi 2019 |url=https://www.luisdejesus.com/publications/the-outwin-2019-american-portraiture-today |website=Luis De Jesus Los Angeles |access-date=31 January 2021 |archive-date=February 6, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210206035225/https://www.luisdejesus.com/publications/the-outwin-2019-american-portraiture-today |url-status=live }}</ref> For the month of July 2019 his video installation “American Circus” was featured in Times Square New York for the Midnight moment series. thumb|318x318px|''MIDNIGHT MOMENT.'' Time Square Arts, New York, NY, July 1 – 31

Solmi's works have been exhibited in several international biennials including: Open Spaces: A Kansas City Arts Experience (2018), the Beijing Media Art Biennale (2016), Frankfurt B3 Biennial of the Moving image (2017-2015), the First Shenzhen Animation Biennial in China (2013), the 54th Venice Biennial (2011), and the SITE Santa Fe Biennial in New Mexico (2010). Solmi' s work has been featured in solo museum exhibitions including Rowan University Art Gallery, Glassboro, New Jersey, Tarble Art Center, Charleston Illinois, Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Rochester, New York, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo del Zulia Maracaibo, Venezuela, the Haifa Museum of Art, Israel, the Centro Cultural Matucana 100, Santiago, Chile, The Italian Cultural institute of Madrid, Spain. Solmi' s videos have also been screened in festivals around the world, such as: Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Tina B (Prague), Les Rencontres Internationales (Paris, Madrid, Berlin), The London International Animation Festival, Loop Barcelona, and more. He has given lectures on his work at universities and art schools in the United States and Europe.<ref>{{Cite web | title=Archived copy | url=https://sites.rowan.edu/artgallery/_docs/solmiguide.pdf | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220518221037/https://sites.rowan.edu/artgallery/_docs/solmiguide.pdf | archive-date=2022-05-18}}</ref>

== Collections == Solmi’s work is part of many notable collections including The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.; Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL; Tarble Art Center, Charleston, IL; 21C Museum Hotels, Knoxville, TN; Thoma Foundation, Chicago, IL / Santa Fe, NM; OCAT, Oct Contemporary Art Terminal, Shanghai, China; Collezione Farnesina Experimenta, Rome, Italy; Dr. Arturo and Liza Mosquera Collection, Miami, FL; and Collezione Marchina, Milan, Italy.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.luisdejesus.com/artists/federico-solmi2|title=Federico Solmi - Artist - Luis de Jesus Los Angeles|access-date=February 5, 2021|archive-date=January 28, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210128105810/https://luisdejesus.com/artists/federico-solmi2|url-status=live}}</ref>

== Awards ==

Guggenheim Foundation of New York with the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in the category of Video & Audio<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/federico-solmi/|title=John Simon Guggenheim Foundation &#124; Federico Solmi|access-date=February 5, 2021|archive-date=February 28, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210228165252/https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/federico-solmi/|url-status=live}}</ref>

Ben Award – Frankfurt B3 Biennal Of The Moving Image – Frankfurt Germany, 2015<ref>{{Cite web| url=https://b3biennale.de/person/federico-solmi/ | title=Federico Solmi | access-date=February 5, 2021 | archive-date=January 18, 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210118154859/https://b3biennale.de/person/federico-solmi/ | url-status=dead}}</ref>

== Articles == ===2020=== *'''Darren Jones''' – Review of the exhibition “The Bacchanalian Ones”, Rowan University Art Gallery, Glassboro, New Jersey – Critics’ Picks, ARTFORUM<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.artforum.com/picks/federico-solmi-84622|title=Federico Solmi at Rowan University Art Gallery|date=December 11, 2020|access-date=February 5, 2021|archive-date=February 2, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210202185422/https://www.artforum.com/picks/federico-solmi-84622|url-status=live}}</ref> *'''Eleanor Heartney''' – Federico’s Solmi March of Folly – Essay for the Catalog of the exhibition “The Bacchanalian Ones”, Rowan University Art Gallery, Glassboro, New Jersey<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.luisdejesus.com/news-press|title=News & Press - Luis de Jesus Los Angeles|access-date=February 5, 2021|archive-date=January 20, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210120223248/https://www.luisdejesus.com/news-press|url-status=live}}</ref> *'''Mark Bloch''' – Review of the exhibition Art and Politics, Elga Wimmer Gallery, NY – Whitehot Magazine, December<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/art-politics-online-in-spain/4817|title=Elga Wimmer Reboots with Art and Politics Online and in Spain|access-date=February 5, 2021|archive-date=January 19, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210119104328/https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/art-politics-online-in-spain/4817|url-status=live}}</ref> *'''Salvatore Russo''' – The Great Satirical Orgy Art – Interview with Federico Solmi – Art International Magazine<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://feldmangallery.com/news/2020/2020-solmi-art-international-contemporary|title=Federico Solmi: The Great Satirical Orgyart &#124; in conversation with…|access-date=February 5, 2021|archive-date=March 5, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210305014025/https://feldmangallery.com/news/2020/2020-solmi-art-international-contemporary|url-status=live}}</ref>

===2019=== *'''Jamie Martinez''' – Interview with Artist Federico Solmi – ArteFuse, June<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://artefuse.com/2019/06/27/interview-with-artist-federico-solmi/|title=Art Exhibits, Art Magazine, Contemporary Art, Art Blogs, Art Artists|date=June 27, 2019|access-date=February 5, 2021|archive-date=January 18, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210118135051/https://artefuse.com/2019/06/27/interview-with-artist-federico-solmi/|url-status=dead}}</ref> *'''Maximilíano Durón & Katherine McMahon''' – Scenes from the 2019 Armory Show – Artnews, March 6<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.artnews.com/art-news/market/scenes-from-the-2019-armory-show-12068/|title = Scenes from the 2019 Armory Show|date = March 6, 2019}}</ref> *'''Zachary Small''' – Women and Minority Artists Flourish Amid Elite Indulgence at the 2019 Armory Show– Hyperallergic, March 7<ref>{{Cite web|url = https://hyperallergic.com/488295/women-and-minority-artists-flourish-amid-elite-indulgence-at-the-2019-armory-show/|title = Women and Minority Artists Flourish Amid Elite Indulgence at the 2019 Armory Show|date = March 7, 2019|access-date = February 5, 2021|archive-date = May 9, 2021|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210509012149/https://hyperallergic.com/488295/women-and-minority-artists-flourish-amid-elite-indulgence-at-the-2019-armory-show/|url-status = live}}</ref> *'''Andy Smith''' – The Video Paintings of Federico Solmi – Hifructose, March 17<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://hifructose.com/2019/03/17/the-video-paintings-of-federico-solmi/|title=The Video Paintings of Federico Solmi|date=March 18, 2019|access-date=February 5, 2021|archive-date=August 1, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210801093649/https://hifructose.com/2019/03/17/the-video-paintings-of-federico-solmi/|url-status=live}}</ref>

== References == {{reflist}}

==Publications== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20160808203143/http://www.artbook.com/9788881587858.html ARTBOOK], 2010 *[http://artforum.com/picks/id=55149.pdf/ ARTFORUM], 2015 *[https://news.artnet.com/art-world/postmasters-federico-solmi-lets-tyrants-show-off-337721/ artnet Review] *[https://hadasyossifon.wordpress.com/2015/12/18/federico-solmi-/ TTWISI], 2015 * Cleveland Johnson (ed.): ''Federico Solmi: Escape into the Metaverse'' (London: Black Dog Press, 2022). {{ISBN|978-1-912165-47-6}}

==External links== {{commons category|Federico Solmi}} *[http://www.federicosolmi.com/ Federico Solmi] *[http://www.postmastersart.com/ Postmasters Gallery, New York] *[http://www.connersmith.us.com/ Conner Smith Gallery, Washington, D.C.] *[http://www.luisdejesus.com/ Luis De Jesus Los Angeles] *[http://www.adngaleria.com/ ADN Galeria] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20090413012106/http://www.gf.org/news-events/List-of-2009-Fellows-United-States-and-Canada/ John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation]

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