Artists

Nanda Vigo

Nanda Vigo (b. 1936, Milan, Italy – d. 2020, Milan, Italy) was an Italian artist and designer. She studied at the Institut Polytechnique in Lausanne, in 1959 she opened her first studio in Milan and frequented the studio of Lucio Fontana, approaching in the early 1960s Piero Manzoni and Enrico Castellani, founders of the Azimut Gallery.

Between 1964 and 1966, she took part in numerous exhibitions, ZERO: NUL 65 at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and ZERO: An Exhibition of European Experimental Art at the Gallery of Modern Art in Washington, D.C. She won numerous prizes, including the New York Award for Industrial Design in 1971; in 1982, she took part in the Venice Biennale.

In 2014, she exhibited at the Guggenheim Museum in New York in the exhibition ZERO: Countdown to Tomorrow. The 1950s-60s, and in 2019, she held the anthological exhibition Nanda Vigo. Light Project at Palazzo Reale in Milan.

 

Exhibitions

  • Marina Apollonio, Mirella Bentivoglio, Valentina Berardinone, Tomaso Binga, Renata Boero, Dadamaino, Lucia Marcucci, Lucia Pescador, Giosetta Fioroni, Libera Mazzoleni, Verita Monselles, Stephanie Oursler, Sandra Sandri, Suzanne Santoro, Grazia Varisco, , , , Nanda Vigo

    Romana Loda e l’arte delle donne