Bologna, 1943.
Lives and works in Lisbon.

Selected solo exhibitions

2023
Pier Paolo Calzolari, Casa ideale, Villa Paloma, Nouveau Musée National Monaco (NMNM), Monaco

2022
Painting as a Butterfly, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
Pier Paolo Calzolari. “demons and dew”, Bernier/Eliades Gallery, Athens

2021
Pier Paolo Calzolari, Pitture, Cabinet, Milan

2020
Pier Paolo Calzolari, Scritture, z2o Project, Rome
Pier Paolo Calzolari, Muitos estudos para uma casa de limão, Beck & Eggeling International Fine Art, Düsseldorf

2019
Pier Paolo Calzolari, Painting as a Butterfly, Museo MADRE, Naples

2017
Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York

2016
Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris

2015
Ronchini Gallery, London

2014
Boesky East, New York

2013
Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris
Galleria Repetto, Pier Paolo Calzolari: Sur l’aile du tourbillon intelligent, Milan; Acqui Terme

2012
Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
Marianne Boesky Gallery in collaboration with Pace Gallery, New York

2011
Bernier/Eliades Gallery, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Athens
Ca’ Pesaro, Galleria Internazionale d’Arte Moderna, Venice
Galleria de’ Foscherari, Che ne è del sogno, Bologna
Museo Morandi, Bologna

2007-08
Nature Morte, Galleria Il Ponte Contemporanea, Rome

2006
Christian Stein, Milano Galleria Cardi & Co., Milan

2003
Museo di Arte Contemporanea, Nice
Quadreria Cesarini, Fossombrone

2002
Studio la Città, Verona

2001
Galerie Giorgio Persano, Turin
Kleine Musik, Galerie Catherine Issert, Saint-Paul-de-Vence
Galerie de France, Paris

1999
Galleria d’arte moderna, Villa delle Rose, Bologna
Au clair de la lune, Centre d’art, Crestet

1998
Là, où les êtres et les choses se font miroir, la Criée, Rennes; Centre d’art contemporain, Domain de Kerguéhennec, Bignan

1994
Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris
Pier Paolo Calzolari, Helmut Newton, Castello di Rivoli
FAE Musée d’art contemporain, Pully-Lausanne
Lieu, persone, temps, chacun influe sur l’autre, Domain de Kerguéhennec, Bignan

1992
Galerie Catherine Issert, Saint-paul-de-Vence

1991
Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris
Studio Bocchi, Rome
Galleria Giorgio Persano, Turin
Galleria Gentili-Arte Contemporanea, Florence

1990
Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Köln
Galleria Rossana Ferri, Modena

1989
Associazione Culturale per le Arti Visive, Pesaro
Galerie Micheline Szwajeer, Antwerpen
Galleria Giorgio Persano, Milan
Galerie Jean Bernier, Athens

1988
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
Galleria Giorgio Persano, Turin

1986
Galleria Civica, Modena
Galleria Giorgio Persano, Turin

1984
Galerie de France, Paris
Galerie Jean Bernier, Athens
Galerie Peter Pakesch, Wien

1983
Galleria Luigi De Ambrogi, Milan

1982
Galerie Knoedler, Zürich

1981
Galerie Ursula Schurr, Stuttgart
Galleria Emilio Mazzoli, Modena
Galerie Jean Bernier, Athens
Galerie de Paris, Paris

1980
Galleria LP 220, Turin
Galleria Giuliana De Crescenzo, Rome
Galleria del Capricorno, Venice
Galerie Issert, Saint-Paul-de-Vence

1979
Galleria Emilio Mazzoli, Modena
Galleria Tucci-Russo, Turin
InK, Halle für Internationale neue Kunst, Zürich

1978
Galleria Ferruccio Fata, Bologna
Galleria Gianenzo Sperone, Rome
Galleria Salvatore Ala, Milan
Galerie Jean & Karen Bernier, Athens

1977
Galleria Tucci-Russo, Turin
Museo Diego Aragona Pignatelli Cortez, Naples

1976
Galleria Franco Toselli, Milan
Villa Delma di Saiano, Brescia
Strumenti, Brescia
Galleria Forma, Genova
Galleria De Ambrogi-Cavellini, Milan

1975
Galleria Lucrezia de Domizio, Pescara
Galleria Marinucci-Russo, Turin
Studio Paola Betti, Milan
Galleria Multipli, Turin
Studioerre, Cuneo

1974
Galleria Franco Toselli, Milan
Galerie Baecker, Bocum

1973
Galerie Folker Skulima, Berlin
Festival d’Automne, Musée Galliéra, Paris

1972
Modern Art Agency (Galleria Lucio Amelio), Napoli

1971
Galerie Sonnabend, Paris
Sonnabend Gallery, New York

1970
Galeria Gianenzo Sperone, Turin
Galerie Sonnabend, Paris

1969
Galeria Gianenzo Sperone, Turin

1968
Studio Bentivoglio, Bologna

1967
Studio Bentivoglio, Bologna

1965
Studio Bentivoglio, Bologna