Andrea Mastrovito

Bergamo, 1978
Lives and works between Bergamo and New York

He graduated in 2001 from the G. Carrara Academy of Fine Arts in Bergamo.  In 2007 he won the New York Prize awarded by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs; in 2012 the Moroso Prize; in 2016 the Ermanno Casoli Prize; in 2017 the NYSCA and the NEA Award for his collaboration with the New York non-profit More Art; in 2019 the Italian Council, promoted by the Ministry of Culture; in 2021 the Prix Plantagenet and the Icona Prize; in 2022 the PAC (Plan for Contemporary Art), awarded by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Ministry of Culture.
In 2025, he won the competition to create the Agnus Dei for the cross of the Tower of Jesus, which will complete the construction of the Sagrada Família in Barcelona.

His works have been exhibited in numerous international museums, including: in Rome at MAXXI, MACRO, and the Palazzo delle Esposizioni; in Milan at the Museo del Novecento and Palazzo Reale; at MART in Rovereto; at Centro Pecci in Prato; at Museo Novecento in Florence; at Belvedere 21 in Vienna; at MUDAC in Lausanne; at MUDAM in Luxembourg; at Manchester Art Gallery; and in New York at the Queens Museum, the Museum of Arts and Design, The Drawing Center, and Magazzino Italian Art.

Recent public solo exhibitions include: Res Gestae (Museo di Palazzo Braschi, Rome, 2024); Yo Lo Vi (Proa21, Buenos Aires, 2022); Strange Days (Laznia Center, Gdańsk, 2021); Io Non Sono Leggenda (Museo di Palazzo Fabroni, Pistoia, 2020); Very Bad Things (Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome, 2019); Le Monde est Une Invention sans Futur (Fondation Bullukian, Lyon, 2019); At the end of the line (GAMeC, Bergamo, 2014).
Since 2014, he has created a series of permanent public works in Italy, France, Belgium, and the United States.

In 2017, he made his directorial debut with the animated feature NYsferatu – Symphony of a Century, followed by the sequel I Am Not Legend in 2020.
Since 2021, he has been the co-founder, along with director Marco Marcassoli and photographer Walter Carrera, of The Drawing Hall in Bergamo, the first exhibition space dedicated to contemporary Italian drawing, where he serves as artistic director.

Andrea Mastrovito has been represented by Wilde Gallery (Geneva, Basel, Zurich) since 2012 and by Galleria Michela Rizzo (Venice) since 2019.