Born in 1943 in Rome, Italy
Died in 2017 in Rome, Italy
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2019
'Claudio Abate', Almine Rech, London, UK
2018
‘Arte Povera - Roman art scene’, curated by Natacha Carron, Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2010
‘Scatti ritrovati. Claudio Abate per Gino de Dominicis’, Mara Coccia gallery, Rome, Italy
2009
‘Claudio Abate. Photographe. Installation & Performance Art’, Base sous-marine de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
2008
‘One Piece’, Art gallery, Rome, Italy
‘One Piece’, Galleria Il Ponte in Florence, Italy
2007
‘Claudio Abate’ retrospective, the MART di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto, Italy
2006
‘Claudio Abate : Block Beuys Galleria dell’Oca’, Rome, Italy
‘6 + 6’, curated by L. Benedetti, Fondazione Pastificio Cerere, Rome, Italy
‘Hadrianeum, Claudio Abate’, Hadrians Temple, Rome, Italy
2005
‘Obscura’, Associazione Mara Coccia, Rome, Italy
‘Christo a Rome : fotografie di Claudio Abate’, Dooso, Art Book & Sushi, Rome, Italy
2002
‘Rome Around 1970. Claudio Abate’, WestLondonProjects & Sprovieri, London, United Kingdom
‘Rome Around 1970. Claudio Abate’, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Serbia
2001
‘Claudio Abate’, Vent’anni in atelier, Académie de France à Rome, Villa Medici, Rome, Italy
2000
‘Claudio Abate: lago’, Studio Lipoli, Rome, Italy
1999
‘Claudio Abate’, Galleria Eventi, Rome, Italy
1998
‘Claudio Abate’, Museo Laboratorio d’Arte Contemporanea, “La Sapienza“, Rome, Italy
1995
‘Claudio Abate, Sprovieri’, Le Cornacchie, Rome, Italy
1993
‘Punti Cardinali dell’Arte’, Giardini di Castello, Venice, Italy
1991
‘Joseph Beuys – Claudio Abate’, Studio Bocchi, Rome, Italy
1989
‘Daguerre-mania’, curated by I. Mussa, Centro di cultura Ausoni, Rome, Italy
1986
‘Contatti a occhio nudo’, Galleria Ugo Ferranti, Rome, Italy
1980
‘Claudio Abate’, part of the visual arts review ‘Per immagine’, curated by I. Mussa, Galleria l’Alzaia, Rome, Italy
1979
‘Claudio Abate’, curated by A. Bonito Oliva, Centro Culturale dell’Immagine, Il Fotogramma, Rome, Italy
‘Claudio Abate’, Studio Cavalieri, Bologna, Italy
Selected Group Exhibitions
2018
'Colore, immagine, segno, oggetto, comportamento', Musia, Roma, Italy
2017
‘Atto Secondo’, Palazzo Velli Expo, Rome, Italy
2016
‘Marisa and Mario Merz : I am with that curve of that mountain which I see reflected in this lake of glass. At Mario’s table’, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
‘Claudio Abate’, Zoo Zone Art Forum, Rome Italy
2015
‘The Body as Language : Women and Performance’, Richard Saltoun Gallery, London
2013
‘L’origine des choses’, Collection du Centre national des arts plastiques, La Centrale for contemporary art, Brussels, Belgium
2010
‘Scatti ritrovati. Claudio Abate per Gino de Dominicis’, Mara Coccia gallery, Rome, Italy
2006
‘Une Histoire Privée’, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France
2005
‘Obscura exhibition’, Associazione Mara Coccia, Rome, Italy
2004
‘Meet Photography’, curated by A. Donadio, Venezia Immagine, Italian Pavilion, Giardini di Castello, Venice, Italy
‘Photobiennale 2004’, Cinquième mois International de la photographie à Moscou, Maison de la photographie, Moscow, Russia
‘Une histoire Privée’, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France
2003
Piazza del Popolo. Sessanta – Settanta, Cafè Notegen, Rome, Italy
‘Occhio per occhio. Quando la fotografia guarda l’arte’, curated by A. Bonito Oliva and D. Faccioli, Photology, Milan, Italy
‘Sessanta – Settanta at Cafè Notegen and Incontri…dalla collezione di Graziella Lonardi Contemporary”, Villa Medici in Rome, Rome, Italy
2002
‘Nitrato d’argento’, Studio Lipoli & Lopez, Rome, Italy
‘Sotto il cielo di Tor Bella Monaca, Claudio Abate – Piero Pompili’, curated by D. Lancioni, Spazio per l’arte contemporanea Tor Bella Monaca, Rome, Italy
1999
Galleria Eventi 2000 at Studio Lipoli, Rome, Italy
1998
Museo Laboratorio d’Arte Contemporanea at “La Sapienza” University in Rome, Rome, Italy
1996
Martiri e Santi, F. Sargentini, Associazione Culturale l’Attico, Rome, Italy
1993
‘Punti Cardinali dell’Arte’, XLV Esposizione Internazionale d’arte, Giardini di Castello Biennale di Venezia, Italy
1988
‘Stories dell’occhio/1 ; Fotografi ed eventi artistici in italia dal ’60 all’ 80’, Galleria Civica, Palazzina dei Giardini Publici, Moden.
‘D’après Man Ray’, Galleria II Fotogramma, Rome - London
1987
Stux Gallery New York, United States
Colombella Premio Florenzi 87, VIII mostra fotografica, Centro studi di Villa “La Colombella“, Italy
1985
‘Mostra internazionale del film di fantascienza e fantastico’, Cinema Capranica, Rome, Italy
1983
‘Camera d’arte’, Sala dei Notari, Perugia 1983.
1977
‘Fotografi e Fotografie’, curated by I.Mussa, Galleria Lastaria, Rome, Italy
1972
‘Incontri 1972’, Contatto con la superficie sensibile, International Art meetings, Incontri internazionali d’Arte, Palazzo Taverna, Rome, Italy
1969
Septième biennale de Paris, Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris, France