FULL BIO / CONTINUATION
This artistic path has developed through different phases, while maintaining a constant tension between expressive intensity and inner research. In her early works, social themes — war, induced needs, the city of Rome — gave shape to works marked by a strong visual energy. Later, the sign progressively moved away from mere description to become an emotional and intellectual narration, opening her work to a more suspended and meditative dimension.
In her transition towards painting as her main medium, Lauriola also went through a phase connected to the use of photographic images taken from magazines and the web, reworked through pictorial and digital interventions and printed on supports such as plexiglass and PVC. Over time, she abandoned these tools to focus increasingly on pictorial matter, colour layering and the relationship between surface, depth and light.
The dialogue between resin, acrylic and enamel creates a balance between fluidity and compositional architecture, controlled gesture and instinctive impulse. Resin, which has been a stable presence in her practice since 2010, is not merely a technical element, but a material capable of holding light, amplifying depth and transforming the artwork into a visual and tactile experience.
In her most recent works, suspension is increasingly connected to nature, water and the female figure. The presences that inhabit her canvases do not impose themselves as absolute protagonists, but emerge as immersed figures, crossed by landscape and matter. Body, light and natural environment seem to belong to the same fluid dimension, in which the boundary between inner and outer space becomes increasingly subtle.
In parallel, her investigation into light has also extended into three-dimensionality through a number of luminous works: ethereal sculptures made of resin and organza, illuminated from within, in which light becomes matter and presence. These installations represent a coherent expansion of her research and transform space into a place of passage and perception.
Among her artistic influences, two key figures stand out: Mario Schifano, with his disruptive energy and bold use of colour, and Egon Schiele, master of incisive line and emotional tension in drawing.
Her exhibitions have been curated by Hans Achtner, Giorgia Calò, Maurizio Calvesi, Antonietta Campilongo, Cristina Del Ferraro, Manuela De Leonardis, Federica Di Stefano, Micol Di Veroli, Barbara Drudi, Carlo Ercoli, Gianluca Marziani, Manuela Pacelli, Sergio Rispoli, Rossella Savarese and Agnieszka Zakrzewicz.
Throughout her career, she has received numerous awards and recognitions. She was a finalist for the Singulart International Women’s Day 2025 Award. In 2021, during the SyArt Sorrento International Festival, she received the Arbiter Fata Verde Award, while in 2022 one of her works was selected for the cover of Arbiter magazine. She received an Honorable Mention from the Circle Foundation for the Arts in 2020 and 2022 and was a finalist for several awards, including the Premio Lupa 2020 and the Premio Celeste 2007. In 2015, she won the competition promoted by the Pier Maria Rossi Museum.
Her works are part of public and private collections, including the Copelouzos Family Art Museum in Athens, the SanPaolo Invest Art Collection in Rome, the Pinacoteca Comunale Antonio Sapone in Gaeta, The First Roma Arte and Abitart Hotel.
From 2021 to 2024, she participated in numerous contemporary art fairs, including Roma Arte in Nuvola and the fairs of Genoa, Padua and Parma. In 2020, she was included in the Atlante dell’Arte Contemporanea De Agostini. Her career has also led her to exhibit internationally, as guest of honour at the International Photo Festival in Lodz, Poland, in 2006, and with solo exhibitions in institutional venues such as the Italian Cultural Institute in Damascus in 2010 and the Italian Cultural Institute in Tokyo in 2024. She has also exhibited in Roman venues such as MACRO – Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome and Palazzo Merulana.