Giusy Lauriola was born in Rome, where she lives and works.
Her artistic journey unfolds as a continuous dialogue between the external world and the inner universe. Her early works are marked by socially impactful themes – war, induced needs, the city of Rome – reinterpreted in pieces of great power and emotional intensity. Over time, her language has evolved towards a more intimate dimension, exploring the essence of femininity, the value of emotions, and the bonds between people. This exploration is accompanied by the creation of landscapes where color, with the emotions evoked by its shades, and resin, with its transparency and gloss, become tools to give these visions a sense of suspension.
Completing this journey is a deep interest in nature, seen as an essential part of our existence, along with an invitation to restore a harmonious relationship with it. Throughout these explorations, intensity and expressive power remain constant elements of her pictorial language.
The line frees itself from mere description to become an emotional and intellectual narrative, while the interplay between light and color takes on an almost meditative value. The dialogue between fluidity and compositional architecture is manifested in the interaction between resin, acrylic, and enamel. This material confrontation generates a dualism of opposing forces that merge to create suspended and immaterial dimensions. The tension between controlled gesture and instinctive impulse characterizes Lauriola’s work, creating a bridge between reality and imagination, between the visible and the hidden.
Among her artistic influences, two key figures stand out: Mario Schifano, with his disruptive energy and bold color, and Egon Schiele, master of incisive line and emotional tension in drawing.
From a technical perspective, her work has undergone a significant transformation. She initially used photographs from magazines and the web, reworked with pictorial and digital interventions, and printed on supports such as plexiglass or PVC. Over time, she abandoned these tools to focus on painting as her main expressive medium.
Since 2010, a distinctive element of her works has been resin, which she describes as a sort of ‘brilliant friend’: not only a technical ally but also a component capable of adding materiality and sensory depth, transforming her works into visual and tactile experiences.
Her exhibitions have been curated by 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, and Agnieszka Zakrzewicz.
Awards and Recognitions. Finalist of Singulart International Women’s Day 2025 Award In 2021, during the SyArt Sorrento International Festival, she received the Arbiter Fata Verde Award, and in 2022, her work was featured on the cover of Arbiter magazine. She received an Honorable Mention from the Circle Foundation for the Arts in 2020 and 2022 and was a finalist in important competitions such as the Premio Lupa 2020 and the Premio Celeste 2007. In 2015, she won the competition at the Pier Maria Rossi Museum.
Her works are part of prestigious collections, including the Copelouzos Family Art Museum in Athens, the SanPaolo Invest Art Collection in Rome, the Pinacoteca Comunale Antonio Sapone in Gaeta and two hotels in Rome: The First Roma Arte and Abitart. From 2021 to 2024, she participated in numerous contemporary art fairs, including Arte in Nuvola in Rome and the fairs in Genoa, Padua, and Parma. In 2020, she was included in the Atlante dell’Arte Contemporanea De Agostini, one of the most comprehensive surveys of Italian artists since 1950.
Her career has led her to exhibit internationally, as a guest of honor at the International Photo Festival in Lodz (Poland) in 2006, and with solo exhibitions in prestigious venues such as the Italian Cultural Institute of Damascus in 2010 and the Italian Cultural Institute of Tokyo in 2024, on the occasion of the Holocaust Remembrance Day.