Danilo Bucchi (Rome, 1978) studied in Rome, where he attended the Fine Arts Academy, focusing on drawing techniques, painting and photography. The artist showed from the get-go a real determination in basing his own language in a signs’ universe, which refers to tradition of European abstract art first avant-gardes, with the aid of technological techniques and supports. 

In 2003 he started exhibiting at international exhibits in cities like Bucharest (Parliament Palace 2016), Sofia (SAMCA 2016), Bulgaria (City Art Gallery of Varna 2014), Konstanz (Archaeology Museum 2014), Singapore (Partners & Mucciaccia Gallery 2013), Athens (True Lies Copelouzos Art Museum 2012), New York (MET Metropolitan Museum of Art 2010), Beijing (798 art district 2008) and Cairo (10° International Biennale 2006), Paris (Italian Institute of Culture, 2007), Buenos Aires (Contemporary Art Museum of Buenos Aires 2005), Baku (Italian Embassy 2004) and Amsterdam (Supper Club 2003). 

Among his major solo exhibitions are: Dolls (2008), Contemporary Art Society, Rome; Tema Sacro (2011), Museo del Risorgimento, Bologna; Danilo Bucchi (2011), Palazzo Collicola – Arti Visive, Spoleto; Signs. The black line (2011), MLAC, Rome; Monochrome (2015), Galleria Poggiali e Forconi, Florence; #danilobucchi (2016), Galleria Il Ponte Contemporanea, Rome. Between 2014 and 2015, Danilo Bucchi was invited to create three large urban regeneration projects: Il paese dei balocchi (2014), a permanent installation at the MAAM; Assolo (2015) for Big City Life, with which he participated at the Venice Bienniale (15th Architecture Exhibition, Italian Pavilion); Minotauro (2015) for Emergence Festival in Sicily. 

The year 2017 marks his solo exhibition Lunar Black at the MACRO Museum in Rome, curated by Achille Bonito Oliva. 

Among his major public exhibitions are: Prato Contemporanea, Bastione Delle Forche, Museo Pecci (Prato Italy), Collezione Farnesina, Ministry for Foreign Affairs (Rome, Italy), Collicola on the wall, Palazzo Collicola arti Visive (Spoleto, Italy), True lies, Copelouzos Art Museum (Athens, Greece) 

In 2018 he enters the permanent collection of the National Gallery in Rome with the work Liquid, displayed in 2023 inside the exhibition Time is Out of Joint, curated by Cristiana Collu, in an ideal dialogue with the plaster casts of the Gypsotheque.

In 2019 Bucchi’s solo exhibition Seed of grey took place in the historical Pièce Unique gallery in Paris, while in 2020 the artist created the monumental art project To live you die at the Giardini Naxos port in Sicily. 

In 2023 he also took part to the travelling exhibit La grande visione italiana, curated by Achille Bonito Oliva.

Solo shows

2022 BLU, curated by Gianluca Marziani, Visionarea Art Space, Rome

2019 Seed of grey, curated by Achille Bonito Oliva, Galerie Pièce Unique, Paris, France
Skintaste#5, curated by Adriana Rispoli, Porto Fluviale, Rome

2018 Atelier, curated by Giorgio de Finis, MACRO, Rome

2017 Rome Europa Digitalife 2017, section Kiz Art, curated by Raffaella Frascarelli for Nomas Foundation, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome
Lunar Black, curated by Achille Bonito Oliva, MACRO, Rome

2016 #danilobucchi#ilpontecontemporanea, curated by Giuliano Matricardi, introduction by Achille Bonito Oliva, il Ponte Contemporanea, Rome

2015 Big city life - Assolo, curated by Stefano Antonelli and Gianluca Marziani, VIII Municipio, Rome
Emergenze Festival-Silos-Minotauro, curated by Giuseppe Stagnitta, Silos Porti di Catania

2014 Monochrome, curated by Angela Madesani, Galleria Poggiali e Forconi, Florence
Antonio Marras + Danilo Bucchi Insieme siamo altro, curated by Francesca Alfano Miglietti, Circolo Marras, Milan
Il paese dei balocchi, curated by Giorgio De Finis, MAAM Museo dell’altro e dell’altrove, Rome

2013 Antonio Marras + Danilo Bucchi Insieme siamo altro, curated by Gianluca Marziani, Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive, Spoleto
Danilo Bucchi, curated by Gianluca Marziani, EMMEOTTO Gallery, Rome

2012 The dolls, curated by Sabiana Paoli, Sabiana Paoli Art Gallery, Singapore
Collicola on the wall-social cube, curated by Gianluca Marziani, Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive, Spoleto

2011 Danilo Bucchi, curated by Gianluca Marziani, Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive, Spoleto
Signs. The black line. Off, curated by Gianluca Marziani, Galleria Soligo, Rome
Signs. The black line, curated by Giorgia Calò and Domenico Scudero, MLAC, Rome
Tema Sacro, curated by Federica Fabbro and Roberto Martorelli, Museo del Risorgimento, Bologna

2009 Sinfonia di immagini e suoni, curated by Giuseppe Stagnitta, ROOM 26, Rome
Danilo Bucchi, curated by Mauro Vigneti, Castello Orsini, Rome

2008 Senza titolo, curated by Morgan Morris, Contemporary Arts Society, Rome

2007 Da come a come io, curated by Giovanni Faccenda, C30 Contemporary Art Gallery, Bologna

2006 La stanza del dialogo, curated by Serena Dell’Aira, Micro&Deomedea Arte, Rome

2005 Pagine di taccuino, curated by Serena Dell’Aira, Micro&Deomedea Arte, Rome

2004 Bucchi per Patty Pravo, curated by Barbara Tosi, Galleria Ta Matete, Rome

The tape, curated by Raffaella Guidobuono, Tad Lab Gallery, Rome

Group shows

2020 Além de 2020. Arte italiana na pandemia, curated by Teresa Emanuele and Nicolas Ballario, USP Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil

2019 Impronte dell’arte 2RC 1963/2018, curated by Achille Bonito Oliva, La Galleria Nazionale, Rome

2017 ET ET, curated by Giuseppe Stagnitta, Convitto delle arti Musium, Noto
Works On Paper, curated by Galleria Pack and FL gallery, Spazio 22, Milan
Home sweet home – Gallery becomes home, curated by Giuliano Matricardi, il Ponte Contemporanea, Rome

2016 Big city life, curated by Tam Associati, Venice Biennale 15° Architecture exhibit, Padiglione Italia

2014 Contaminazioni 014, curated by Maurizio Scudiero, Museum of National and Archaeological History, Costanza, Romenia
District 913, curated by Giorgio De Finis, Ex Convento di San Francesco Della Scarpa, Lecce
Contaminazioni 014, curated by Maurizio Scudiero, Varna City Ar Gallery, Varna, Bulgaria
La metamorfosi e il simbolo animale, curated by Graziano Menolascina, Spazio Nea, Naples

2013 Dal Futurismo ai percorsi contemporanei, curated by Maurizio Scudiero and Anna D’Elia, National Naval Museum, Tivit-Porto Montenegro, Montenegro
Milky Way-The Luminous Galaxy of the 20th Century, curated by Gianluca Marziani, Partners & Mucciaccia Gallery, Singapore
Novanta artisti per una bandiera, curated by Sandro Parmigiani, Chiostri di San Domenico, Reggio Emilia
OPEN// the generation of future, curated by Graziano Menolascina, BLUorg, Bari
Hic et Nunc, un segno d’artista, curated by Graziano Menolascina, Centre for Contemporary Art, Catanzaro

2012 Open Space 2, curated by Fabio De Chirico, Carmelo Cipriani, Palazzo Arnone, Cosenza
Change revolution starts in the street, curated by Francesca Briganti, Palazzo Condotti, Foligno
Il labirinto del fauno, curated by Graziano Menolascina, Masseria il Brigantino, Fasano

2011 Scaricoacarico, curated by Giseppe Stagnitta, Torre Vignazza, Giardini Naxos, Siracusa

2010 Carte d’identità, curated by Graziano Menolascina, Galleria Graziano Menolascina, Rome
Martedì critici, curated by Alberto Dambruoso e Micol Di Veroli, Rome

2009 Black and white, curated by Maurizio Calvesi, Galleria La Nuvola, Rome
Titled/Untitled, curated by Alberto Dambruoso and Micol Di Veroli, Galleria Wunderkammer, Rome
Scanning, curated by Stefano Elena, Galleria Studio Soligo, Rome

2008 Impronta globale, curated by Daniele Arzenta, Istituto Superiore Antincendi, Rome
Falce e martello, curated by Daniela Arzenta, Giorgia Calò, Roberto Gramiccia, MUASPAC, L’Aquila
Paraboles Exhibition, Gezira Art Center, Il Cairo, Creativity Center, Alexandria, Egypt
Arte senza tempo, curated by Raffaella Bozzini, Galleria Edieuropa, Rome

2007 Sagome 547, curated by Domenico Giglio, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Collezione della Farnesina, Rome
Sagome 547, Italian Cultural Institute, Paris, France
MediaArte, Galleria Garage, Palermo
Contemporaneamente, curated by Giuseppe Stagnitta, Giardini Naxos, Siracusa

2006 10° Biennale Internazionale, Cairo, Egypt
Vespignani per Pasolini: Omaggio, curated by Carmine Siniscalco, Galleria Studio-S, Rome

2005 The Dream, curated by C. Crescentini, L. Monachesi, F. Papale, C. Mosillo, Archivio Centrale, Rome
Premio Mario Razzano, Chiostro Museo del Sannio, Benevento
Rome: luoghi e colori, Complesso del Vittoriano, Rome
Contemporanea Recoleta Impronte, curated by Domenico Giglio, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Buenos Aires, Argentina
OUTCOMEOUT, curated by Patrizia Ferri, Galleria Fuoricentro, Rome
Sagome 547, curated by Paola D’Andrea, Via Nazionale, Rome

2004 Cleopatra, Da Michelangelo all’arte contemporanea, Italian Embassy, Baku, Azerbaijan
Nel segno della solidarietà, curated by Lucrezia De Domizio and Vittoria Urbano Giuli, Fabriano
Generazionale, curated by Alberto Dambruoso, Palazzo dei Congressi, Rome

2003 The artist of Rome, Supper Club, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Upperground, curated by Emilio Leofreddi, Vienna University, M.A.C.R.O. (Rome)
Impronte, M.A.C.R.O., Rome

Collections

Per vivere si muore, Emergenze Festival, Porto di Giardini Naxos, Italy
Liquid, Galleria Nazionale D’Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy
Minotauro, Emergenze Festival, Porto di Catania, Italy
Assolo, Big city life, Rome, Italy
Collezione Farnesina, Ministero Degli Affari Esteri, Rome, Italy
Il paese dei balocchi, MAAM Museo dell’altro e dell’altrove, Rome, Italy
Collicola on the wall, Palazzo Collicola arti Visive, Spoleto, Italy
True lies, Copelouzos Art Museum, Athens, Greece
Prato contemporanea, Bastione Delle Forche, Collezione Museo Pecci, Prato, Italy
Tema sacro - Il Cristo di Tutti, Museo del Risorgimento, Bologna, Italy