Born Montreal, Canada, 1965
Lives and works in Los Angeles, California, USA

EDUCATION
1995-97
• Master of Fine Arts, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
1993-94
• RAKB, Rijkskademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1988-91
• ESAV, Ecole Superieure des Beaux Arts, Geneva, Switzerland

SOLO & TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2024
• Francesca Gabbiani (exhibition) & Sea of Fire (screening), Brothers Marshall, Malibu, California (forthcoming, May 2024)
• Francesca Gabbiani & Paolo Colombo, Baert Gallery, Los Angeles, California (forthcoming, April 2024)
• 10 Years: Anniversary Show, Wilding Cran Gallery, Los Angeles California 
2023
• Mutations, Wilding Cran Gallery, Los Angeles, California
• Hot Panoramas, Cedric Bardawil Gallery, London, UK
2022
• Sea of Fire, screening and conversation with Catherine Taft, Getty Center, Los Angeles, California
• Years After, Mixografia, Los Angeles, California
• Sea of Fire, private screening with Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills at San Vicente Bungalows, Beverly Hills, California
• SUN YELLOW SCIENCE FICTION, with Olivier Mosset, Parapet Real Humans, Saint Louis, MO
2021
• Catch the Light, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, Texas
• Francesca Gabbiani, Monica De Cardenas, Milan, Italy
2020
• Francesca Gabbiani, Monica De Cardenas, Zuoz, Switzerland
• Baby’s on fire, innen, Zurich, Switzerland
2018
• An Uncertain View, with Dimitri Chamblas, Manuela Dalle, and Eddie Ruscha, Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles, California
• Vague Terrains / Urban Fuckups, Gavlak, Los Angeles, California
• Francesca Gabbiani / Iliodora Margellos, Baert Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2016
• Francesca Gabbiani, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, Texas

2012
• The Shapes, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin
• Lookouts, Monica De Cardenas Gallery, Milan, Italy
2010
• Dream Baby Dream, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin
2009
• Patrick Painter, Los Angeles
2008
• Once We Were Trees, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin
• Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York
• Monica De Cardenas, Zuoz, Switzerland
• Christophe Daviet-Thery, Livres et Editions d’Artistes, Paris, France
2007
• Art & Public, Geneva, Switzerland
• Soul Keepers, Patrick Painter, Los Angeles
2006
• Save Me Up, Gallery Side 2, Tokyo, Japan
• Wonderland, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, Texas
• Art & Public, Geneva, Switzerland
• Monica De Cardenas, Milan, Italy
2005
• Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, California
• Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles
• Christophe Daviet-Thery, Paris, France
• CentrePasquArt, Kunsthaus Centre d’art Biel Bienne, Switzerland
2004
• Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
2003
• The Innermost Limits of Pure Fun, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles
• DreamSpace, Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
2001
• Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles
• Gallery Art & Public, Geneva, Switzerland
• Hammer Projects: Francesca Gabbiani, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
2000
• Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles
1999
• Go to the rainbow, Gallery I-20, New York
• Fancy, Gallery Art & Public, Geneva, Switzerland
1998
• Memories to chew, MAMCO, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Geneva, Switzerland (Placette Award)
• Gallery I-20, New York
1996
• Gallery Art & Public, Geneva, Switzerland

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
• Francesca Gabbiani (performance), curated by Catherine Taft, LAXArt, Los Angeles, California (forthcoming)
2023
• The Gaia Hypothesis, Chapter Two: Palm Trees Also Die, THE ELEMENTAL, Palm Springs, California
• Elsewhere (curated by Yann Perreau), SHOW Gallery, Los Angeles, California
• NEO-GEO+ 1986-2018: Une Sélection Dans La Collection Du FCAC, Palais de L’Athénée Salle Saint-Ours, Geneva, Switzerland
• Some Trees (curated by Benjamin Weissman), The Floating Gallery, Los Angeles, California
• Collections, Kunsthaus Pasquart, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland
• Art Genève 2023, Monica De Cardenas, Geneva, Switzerland
• 30 Years, Monica De Cardenas, Milan, Italy
2022
• Artists by Monica De Cardenas + Guests, Hotel Chesa Salis, Bever, Switzerland
• Landscapes, PRJCTLA, Los Angeles, California
• Group Exhibition curated by Chris Johanson, Altman Siegel Gallery, San Francisco, California
• Drawing Down the Moon, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California
• Lonesome Crowded West: Selections from the Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
• Seven/Seven: The Fraught Landscape, Fergus McCaffrey, Tokyo, Japan
2021
• Sexy Xmas V, The Lodge, Los Angeles, California
• &zines, Zarinbal Khoshbakht, Cologne, Germany
• Earth Beats, Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
•  All Tomorrow’s Parties, domicile (n), Los Angeles, California
• The Burning Kite (curated by Dolly Bross Geary, Michelle Y. Loh, and Kristen Lorello), Kristen Lorello, New York, New York
• Drawing Biennial 2021, Drawing Room, London, United Kingdom
• Beyond Borders Together: A Collection of Contemporary American and Middle Eastern Artists, Art Scoops (online)
• Barbarian Days, Fergus McCaffrey, St. Barth
2020
• Nasty Women, Gavlak, Los Angeles, California
• NONE OF THE ABOVE: 2004-2020, curated by John M. Armleder, Kanal - Centre Pompidou, Brussels, Belgium
• Kaléidoscope: Current Views on the 30 Years of Collection, Kunsthaus Centre d’Art Pasquart, Biel, Switzerland
• Summer Group Exhibition, with Dean Sameshima and Marnie Weber, Gavlak, Los Angeles, California
• Drive-By-Art, Los Angeles, California
2019
• LA on Fire, Wilding Cran Gallery, Los Angeles, California
• Inaugural Exhibition, Gavlak, Los Angeles, California
• Les Amoureuses, Show Gallery, Los Angeles, California
• Sète - Los Angeles, Sète, France; Show Gallery, Los Angeles, California
• The Fight: Abstraction vs. Figuration, Kunstgenerator, Geneva, Switzerland
2018
• As You Like It, Praz-Delavallade, Los Angeles, CA
• How They Ran, Over the Influence, Los Angeles, CA
2017
• Concrete Island, Venus Over Manhattan, Los Angeles, California
2016
• GVA ← → JFK, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Geneva, Switzerland
2015
• Ten Year Anniversary, Gavlak, Los Angeles, California
• Paperworks, The Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, California
• Summer Group Exhibition, Gavlak, Los Angeles, California
• The Afghan Carpet Project, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
• Don’t Shoot the Painter, Galleria d’Arte Moderna Milano, Italy

2014
• My Self is An Other, The Underground Museum, Los Angeles
• Summer Show, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, Texas
2013
• Kiss Me Deadly, Paradise Row, London
• Galerie Gmurzynska, St. Moritz, Switzerland
2012
• Mardin Biennale, Turkey
2009       
• Trouble in Paradise: Examinig Discord in Nature and Society, Tucson Museum of Art, Arizona
2008
• My Generation, Spichernohe, Köln, Germany
• Wunderkammer: A Century of Curiosities, MoMA New York
• Wall Rockets: Contemporary Artists and Ed Ruscha, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York
2007
• Double XX-rated: Where The Girls Are, Stellan Holm Gallery, New York
• 5 rencontres d’artistes, &: Aurelie Geslin Christophe Daviet thery, Paris, France
• Summer Show, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin
• Ten Years, Emily Tsingou Gallery, London
2006
• Works on Paper, Patrick Painter Inc, Santa Monica, California
• New Trajectories: Relocations: Recent painting, drawing and multi-media work from the Ovitz Family Collection, Los Angeles; Cooley Gallery, Reed College, Portland, Oregon
• Off the Shelf: New Forms in Contemporary Artists’ Books, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York
2005
• Follow Me: A Fantasy, Arena 1 Gallery, Santa Monica, California
2004
• Project Ruinart with &:, Paris, France
• Paper, Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, California
• The Dogs (curator), Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles
• Emily Tsingou Gallery, London, United Kingdom
• Seeing Other People, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
2003
• Galerie Tache-Levy, Antwerp, Belgium
• Light and Spaced Out, Galerie Loevenbruck, Paris, France, traveled to Fonds Regional d?Art Contemporain, Brest, France
• Within, Alongside and Between Spaces, Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Germany
• Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
2002
• Painting On The Move, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
• Play It As It Lays: 17 Artists From Los Angeles, The London Institute Gallery, Millbank, London, England
• Cut; Francesca Gabbiani, Simon Periton, Eva Rothschild, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles
2001
• New Prints 2001/Summer, International Print Center, New York
• By Hand: Pattern, Precision, & Repetition in Contemporary Drawing, University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, California
2000
• Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, North Carolina
• Spellbound, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles
1999
• Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy
• hair styling, Toasting Agency Project, Paris, France
• the temptations (Curated by Dennis Cooper), Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles
1998
• dog days are over (Curated by Nicholas Tremblay), Swiss Cultural Center, Paris, France
• Freie Sicht aufs Mittelmeer (Curated by Bice Curiger), Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland; Shirn
• Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
1997
• Malibu Sex Party, Purple Fine Arts, Los Angeles
• 504 (Curated by John Armleder), Center for Art, Media & Design, Braunschweig, Germany
1996
• confrontations, Museum of Art, Nyon, Switzerland
• Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Geneva, Switzerland
• Young Art, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland (Providentia Award)
• OCE Collection, Museum Bonnefeld, Maastricht, The Netherlands
1995
• Lost Property, Great Western Studios, London, England; W139, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Kunsthalle Glarus, Glarus, Switzerland

AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS
2023 Best Experimental Short, Malibu International Film Festival, Los Angeles, California
1998 Placette Award, Geneva, Switzerland
1996 Providentia Award, Switzerland
1995 Federal Award of Art, Switzerland
1994 Uriot Award, RAKB, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1994 Federal Award of Art, Switzerland
1993 Federal Award of Art, Switzerland

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
CentrePasquArt, Biel, Switzerland
City of Geneva, Switzerland
Hammer Museum
Hood Museum of Art
Kunsthaus Zürich
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
MAMCO Genève
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Microsoft Art Collection
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Collection, Switzerland
OCE Collection, The Netherlands
UBS Art Collection
Yale University Art Gallery