Giorgio Vignawas born in 1955 in Verona, Italy, where he established his first studio at theage of twenty. He later moved to Rome and then Venice, finally settling in 1990in Milan, and remains based there today.

Together withfamed Murano glass company Venini, Vigna created a work in 2017 titled Fuochi di Rugiada for the Galleria dell’Accademiain Venice, where it was placed to welcome visitors. The same year, he wasinvited to participate in INTUITION,an exhibition coinciding with the 57th edition of the Venice Biennale atPalazzo Fortuny.

In 2013, theMuseum of Castelvecchio in Verona hosted StatiNaturali, an exhibition curated by Paola Marini, for which the artistconceived Acquaria, a permanent glassinstallation for the fountain of the Italian architect Carlo Scarpa.

Vigna wasinvited in 2011 to participate in TRA.Edge of Becoming, an exhibition curated by Axel Vervoordt and DanielaFerretti for the Palazzo Fortuny (concurrent with the 54th Venice Biennale),for which he created the sculptural work, Sospeso.Between 2003 and 2005, he realised the site-specific work La Radura in Garrison, New York, the first artwork of the OlnickSpanu Art Program.

He has held numerous solo exhibitions hosted by museums in Italy and abroad,including Altre Nature, also atPalazzo Fortuny (2010) and Giorgio Vigna:Jewels at the Designmuseo in Helsinki (2007), as well as a show at theLuigi Pecci Museum of Contemporary Art in Prato in 1992. The artist heldanother solo exhibition, Nature di Vetro(created in collaboration with Venini), in 2003, at the Correr Museum in Veniceand the Museum of Villa Pignatelli in Naples.

Vigna began his career as a set designer and directorin the 1980s, which allowed him to experiment with ancient marbling techniqueson porcelain, ceramic and glass, along with their derivatives. Later, hestudied engraving techniques at the National Chalcography Laboratory in Rome.

His ongoing collaboration with Venini began in 1997.He has since realised numerous works with the company, including a unique piecetitled Fuochi d’acqua (2002), thefirst collection of Venini glass jewelery.

The artist’s work has been exhibited widelyinternationally and can be found in many public and private collections.

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