Giusy Lauriola was born in Rome, where she currently lives and works.
Her artistic journey unfolds as a continuous dialogue between the external world and the inner self. Her early works addressed social themes, war, constructed needs, the urban landscape of Rome, transformed through a visual language charged with emotional intensity. Over time, her practice evolved toward a more intimate dimension, exploring the essence of the feminine universe, the value of emotions, and the invisible bonds between people.
Alongside this narrative, Lauriola developed a series of landscapes in which colour and resin become tools to evoke suspended atmospheres: colour expresses emotional nuance, while resin, through its transparency and luminosity, creates a sense of immaterial depth. Her interest in nature, seen as an essential part of human existence, further enriches her research, inviting viewers to restore a harmonious relationship with the natural world.
Throughout her work, expressive force and emotional clarity remain central. The line frees itself from mere description and becomes an intellectual and emotional narration, while the interplay of light and colour acquires an almost meditative value. Her compositions emerge from the dialogue between fluid gestures and a more structured visual architecture: resin, acrylic and enamel interact to create a duality of opposing forces that merge into suspended, intangible worlds. The tension between controlled gesture and instinctive impulse defines Lauriola’s pictorial language, building bridges between reality and imagination, the visible and the hidden.
Her artistic influences include Mario Schifano, whose bold colour and explosive energy resonate in her work and Egon Schiele, with his incisive line and emotional tension.
From a technical standpoint, her practice underwent an important transformation. In her early career, she worked with photographic materials from magazines and the web, digitally and manually reprocessed and printed on plexiglass or PVC. Over time, she abandoned these supports to devote herself fully to painting. Since 2010, resin has become a distinctive element of her work, what she defines as her “brilliant friend,” a material capable not only of adding tactility but of enhancing the sensory depth of her pieces, turning them into luminous, immersive experiences.
Curators who have worked with her include: 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, Agnieszka Zakrzewicz.
Awards and recognitions.
Lauriola was a finalist for the Singulart International Women’s Day Award 2025. In 2021, during the SyArt Sorrento International Festival, she received the Premio Arbiter Fata Verde, and in 2022 her work was selected for the cover of Arbiter magazine. She received an Honourable Mention from the Circle Foundation for the Arts in 2020 and 2022, and was a finalist for major Italian prizes such as Premio Lupa 2020 and Premio Celeste 2007. In 2015, she won the Pier Maria Rossi Museum competition.
Her works are part of prestigious collections, including the Copelouzos Family Art Museum (Athens), SanPaolo Invest Art Collection (Rome), the Antonio Sapone Municipal Art Gallery (Gaeta), the Monumental Complex of Santo Spirito in Sassia (Rome), and two art hotels in Rome: The First Roma Arte and Abitart Hotel.
From 2021 to 2024, she participated in major contemporary art fairs such as Arte in Nuvola (Rome) and fairs in Genoa, Padua and Parma. In 2020, she was included in the De Agostini Atlas of Contemporary Art, one of the most authoritative surveys of Italian artists since 1950.
Her international career includes exhibitions as guest of honour at the International Photo Festival in Łódź (Poland) in 2006; solo exhibitions at the Italian Cultural Institute in Damascus (2010) and the Italian Cultural Institute in Tokyo (2024, for Holocaust Remembrance Day); and exhibitions at the MACRO – Museum of Contemporary Art Rome, Palazzo Merulana, and in 2025 at the Museo Correale di Terranova in Sorrento.