SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2012 //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Lilong - Galleria Murat 122 - Bari - IT (solo)
For hours and hours - Galleria Boccanera - Trento -IT
Venti per Una - IGAV - Torino - IT

2011 ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
BUNKER - Media Art Festival - Wuppertal - Germany
Memory Awake - Storey Gallery- Lancaster - UK
Ethnographic Terminalia 2011: Montréal —field, studio, lab - Eastern Bloc Centre for New Media and Interdisciplinary Art - Montreal - Canada
Biennale de la Mediterranee, Thessalonikki and Rome, Greece and Italy
Verona Art Fair ,Galleria Murat Centoventidue, Italy
Co.Co.Co. Contemporary Como Contest, Spazio Natta, Como, Italy
Premio Celeste, Museo Civico Archeologico di Bologna, Italy
Cell Bank, Galerie G11, Berlin
I sensi del Mediterraneo (touring exhibition) Hangar Bicocca, Milan, Villa Durazzo, Santa Margherita Ligure, Italy
Blind Spot Skopje - CreAKTive Cultural Centre, Skopje - Macedonia
Salon Video Prize - Matt Roberts Project Space - London
Contemporary.doc - portfolio Selection - DOCVA, MAXXI, Rome
Salon Photo Prize - Matt Roberts Project Space - London
2010
Autumn Exhibition - The Open Prize -The Square Gallery, Bristol
Visions in the Nunnery - Bow Arts Trust - London
Open Prize for Video Painting - Shortlisted Works - Nichols and Clarke Warehouse -London
China: an interpretation - Chelsea College of Art and Design
London Salon Video Art Prize - Matt Roberts Project Space, Vyner Street, London
2009
Correspondences #2, The Gallery at Willesden Green, London
Subversive Correspondences #1, Broadwalk Arts, Bristol
No Passport Necessary, The Roundhouse, London
Fu Festival, Galerie O L G A, Wuppertal, Germany
2008
Twelve Steps Down, Shoreditch Town Hall - London
2007
(Deviant ) Art Festival, The Punphouse, Trollhattan Sweden
Asia Europe Mediations, Kunsthalle Faust, Poznan, Poland
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SELECTED SCREENINGS

2011 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Rencontres Internationales 2011, Paris
Biennale de la Mediterranee, Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome
International Short Film Festival Detmold, Germany
25th European Media Art Festival - Osnabrueck, Germany
7th International Directors Lounge, Galerie Pfeffenberg Meinblau, Berlin
2010
Renaissance Arts Prize - shortlisted works - Italian Cultural Institute - London
Souvenirs from Earth - Satellite TV Broadcast, France and Germany
Evento Musae:Milano - Museo Sperimentale di Arte Urbana, Italy
2009
Streaming Festival - La Hague, Netherlands
namaTRE.ba part III - Gallery of Fine Arts Academy Trebinje, Open Air cinema and Town Theatre of Trebinje - Trebinje, Bosnia & Herzegovina
Duration:London, Candid Arts Trust, London
2008
CologneOFF at The Salon de Arte Digital at Museum of Contemporary Art Zulia (MACZUL) Maracaibo - Venezuela
2video.undo.net // Curated by Francesca di Nardo
2007
Women in Magmart, Trip, Naples
Asia Europe Mediations, Kunsthalle Faust, Poznan, Poland
Athens Video Art Festival, Athens, Greece
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NOMINATIONS PRIZES GRANTS

2011 Premio Celeste - Finalist

         Salon Video Prize - Finalist

         Bar Tur Award - Annual Photography Competition - Finalist

         Salon Photo Prize - Finalist

2010 Renaissance Arts Prize - Finalist

         Open Gallery Prize for videopainting - Finalist

         Salon Video Art Prize - Finalist 

2006 EEA Leonardo Placement Grant 

2005 Second Prize - Concorso Pareti ad Arte - Italy /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

DISTRIBUTION
Visual Container, Milan, Italy

ART FAIRS
Art Verona 2011 - Italy - Galleria Murat Centoventidue - Bari
Crunch Festival and Art Fair - UK - The Open Gallery - London

CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2010 Guest Curator - Visions in the Nunnery - Bow Arts Trust - London
2008 Twelve Steps Down - Shoreditch Town Hall - London


STUDIES
2008      NEW MEDIA - China Academy of Art - Shanghai and Hangzhou
2006-09 BA Fine Art - Chelsea College of Art and Design - London
2002-06 DAMS Disciplines of Art, Music and Drama, Universita' di Bologna - Italy

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Co.Co.Co. Contemporay Como Contest, Catalogue 2011
Celeste Prize, Catalogue, 2011
Biennale de la Mediterranee, Catalogue 2011
AAVV International Short Film Festival Detmold, Catalogue, 2011
Bonazzoli F.,"Italia Israele: il Mediterraneo e' giovane", Il Corriere della Sera, 5 May 2011
Mele F. "I sensi del Mediterraneo", La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno, 2011
AA VV "This is Media Art", 25th European Media Art Festival, Osnabrueck, Germany, 2011
AA VV "Sensi del Mediterraneo" Catalogue, 2011
Price D. "The Open Prize for Video Painting", Jotta Magazine, 29 July 2010
King Z. "Video Painting at the Open Gallery", Volt Café’ Magazine, July 2010
Everman S. "The Open Prize", Idol Magazine, July 2010
AA VV, "The Open Prize 2010" Catalogue 2010
"Valentina Ferrandes: September Feature" VAD - Video Art Database - 2009
Edelstein J.H. "In the footsteps of giants", The Guardian, Art and Design Blog, 2008
Petti M. "In video come allo specchio" Eosarte.it, 2007