His work has been part of internationally acclaimed museum group shows. He has exhibited at the Biennale of Paris and San Paolo and three times at the Venice Biennale. The principal transavantgarde artists were Sandro Chia, Francesco Clemente, Enzo Cucchi, Nicola de Maria and Mimmo Paladino. He has been part of the Italian “Transavanguardia” movement, exhibiting in many of the most important museums and galleries of the world. The following year he moved to New York City, where he will remain for over two decades, with frequent trips back to Montalcino, near Siena in Italy.

Between September 1980 and August 1981 he received a scholarship from the city of Monchengladbach in Germany where he moved to work for a year. At Graphicstudio (at USF where this was produced) Chia produced colourful and distinctive works in a variety of media, including intaglio, lithography, heliorelief photographic woodblock, and bronze sculpture.ĭuring the 1970’s he began to exhibit in Rome and Europe, gradually moving away from conceptual works towards a more Pop Art, figurative style of painting. While Chia is principally a painter, he is also an accomplished printmaker and sculptor.

It was a movement that was concurrent with Memphis Milano of Ettore Sottsass design movement with its bright vibrant colours and patterns. He was a key member of the Italian Transavanguardia movement which during its peak in the 1980’s was a part of a wider movement of Neo-Expressionist painters around the world. After graduation, he has travelled extensively in India, Turkey and throughout Europe before settling in Rome in 1970. He has studied at the Istituto d’Arte and then at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence where he graduated in 1969. Biography: Sandro Chia was born in Florence in 1946.

Sandro chia circle fine art lithograph