Biography
Adria was born in Genoa in 1969 where she currently lives and works. Sartore’s work first came to the attention of an international audience when the BP Portrait Award committee selected her for exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in 2004. She has since participated in exhibitions and international art fairs in Asia, Italy, Russia, Spain and the US.
1995/96 Grant in Philosophy – University of Paris La Sorbonne IV/1997 Degree in Philosophy with Summa cum Laud Honours with a thesis in Aesthetics – University of Genoa, Italy/ 1999/00 Academy of fine art of Brera, Milan, Italy.
Solo Exhibitions
2008 Beijing Art Now Gallery, Beijing/ Shanghai
2006 “Redaltered”- Beijing Art Now Gallery, Beijing
2006 “Redaltered, Angels, Transitional Age”- Fine Art Gallery, Moscow
2005 “Omaggio a Elizabedth S.† 11 Feb. 1862–†11 Feb. 2005”- La Bertesca- Masnata Gallery, Genoa
2005 “Portraits- Fluid, flowing with Elizabeth Siddal”,†Kvadrat Gallery, St. Petersburg
2004 “Portraits”- La Bertesca, Masnata Gallery, Genoa
Group Exhibitions
2008 “Stories: Portraits” Greenberg van Doren Gallery/Eleven Rivington, New York
2008 “NOW, NEXT”, Shanghai selection- Beijing Art Now Gallery, Shanghai
2007 “OPTION WITHIN REALISM”, Jason McCoy Inc., New York
2004-05
BP Portrait Award 2004, National Portrait Gallery, London
Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter
Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen
International Art Fairs
2007 ShContemporary & Beijing Art Now Rock and Roll Party, Beijing
2007 Art Beijing, Contemporary Art Fair, Beijing
2007 Cornice International Art Fair, Venice
2006 Moscow Art Fair, Moscow
2006 Art Beijing, Contemporary Art Fair, Beijing
2006 ARCO International Contemporary Art Fair, Madrid
Catalogues
“Artnow Shanghai- Adria Sartore”, Shanghai 2007
“Redaltered- Adria Sartore”, Essay by Li Ming, Stefano Canepa, Linda Kaiser & Maria Korosteleva, Beijing 2006
“Portraits- Fluid, Flowing with Elizabeth Siddal”, Essays by Linda Kaiser & Olga Thomson, St. Petersburg 2005
“Adria Sartore, Portraits”, Essay by Linda Kaiser,
Masnata Editions, Genoa 2004
“BP Portrait award 2004“, Essay by Blake Morrison, (page 63),
National Portrait Gallery Publications, London 2004
