Collection: Chia Sandro

(Florence 1946)

Sandro Chia is one of the most important members of the Italian Transavantgarde movement (also known in Europe as Neo-Expressionism), alongside Francesco Clemente, Mimmo Paladino, Nicola De Maria, and Enzo Cucchi. The movement founded by critic Achille Bonito Oliva reached its peak in the 1980s, then gradually declined. Currently, Chia lives and works splitting his time between New York and Montalcino near Siena. He has exhibited at the Paris Biennale, the São Paulo Biennale, and several editions of the Venice Biennale.
Chia has a very diverse artistic background. He graduated in 1969 from the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, where he came into contact with the main European neo-avant-gardes and later also American ones; he moved to Rome for a decade and then to New York for about two decades. In the late 1970s, after various travel experiences in Asia and Europe, he converted to Figurativism and naturally and automatically integrated into the Transavantgarde.
His works are found in major international museums, such as MoMA (New York), Tate Gallery (London), Fukujama (Japan), Tel Aviv Museum of Art (Israel), Neue Nationalgalerie (Berlin).