Giancarla Frare

Of Venetian origin, Giancarla Frare trained at the Academies of Naples, Urbino and Venice.

Present from 1979 to 1987 with continuity in the exhibitions of the Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation in Venice, she won the Study Grant of the Ca' Pesaro Museum of Modern Art in 1981.

She has carried out an uninterrupted exhibition activity that sees her present in individual and group exhibitions in Italy, Europe, America, the Middle and Far East.

Her most significant solo exhibitions include:

1975, Museo Arengario, Monza; 1983, Museo di Ca' Pesaro, Venice; 1987, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice; 1990, Musei Civici di Corno, S. Francesco (anthological exhibition curated by Enrico Crispolti); 1997, Galleria Civica di Palazzo Crepadona, Belluno (anthological exhibition curated by Flaminio Gualdoni); 2002, Galleria Giulia, Rome; 2005, Palazzo dei Capitani, Ascoli Piceno, Austrian Cultural Forum Rome, Musei Civici Monza, Galerie Libre Cours Brussels; 2006, Galerie im Traklhaus, Salzburg, Italian Cultural Institute, Vienna, Leopold Franzens Universität, Innsbruck; 2007 Kro Art Gallery and Italian Cultural Institute, Vienna; 2008 Galleria Civica di Palazzo Crepadona, Cubo di Mario Botta, Belluno; 2009 Musei Civici di Massa Marittima, Palazzo dell'Abbondanza, 2011 Museo Civico di Bassano del Grappa; 2012 Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Palazzo Poli, Rome; 2014 Galleria Aleandri Arte Moderna, Rome; 2016-17 Fondazione Mastroianni, Castello di Ladislao, Arpino; 2019 Biblioteca Vallicelliana, Salone Borrominiano, Rome; 2024 Musei di Villa Torlonia, Casino dei Principi, Rome

Widespread group participations include:

1983, Museum of Image and Sound, São Paulo, Brazil; 1984, Biennial of São Paulo, Brazil; 1995 and 1997, International Biennials of Ljubljana (Invitation of the Central Institute for Graphics, Rome); 1996 Museo Barracco, Rome; 1997, Modern Art Museum, Portland, USA; 1997, Haifa Museum, Israel ( From Pollaiolo to Paladino. Masterpieces from the National Institute for Graphics, Rome); 1997 and 2003 National Institute for Graphics, Rome; 2000, Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato; 2000 and 2003, International Triennials, Cairo; 2001, Museo da Agua, Lisbon, Museums of Contemporary Art of Rabat, Tunis and Akenaton Art Center, Cairo; 2004, The Niavaran Foundation Teheran; Kro Art Gallery Wien; 2008, Museum of Contemporary Art, Erice, Fondazione Orestiadi di Gibellina; 2009, Musei Civici di Bassano del Grappa, (International Graphics Biennial (1st Prize); 2009, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, New Delhi; 2010 - 2014, Bienal Internacional de Gravura do Douro, Portugal; 2011, Jaffa Old Museum of Antiquities, Tel Aviv; 2012 Collège de France, Paris; 2016 Museo dell'Arte Classica, Università La Sapienza, Rome

Giancarla Frare's works are present in the permanent collections of museums and foundations in Europe and America.

Among the most significant are: Grapishe Sammlung Albertina, Vienna; Museo del Castello Sforzesco, Milan; Museo di Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato; Istituto Nazionale per La Grafica, Rome; Museo di Ca' Pesaro, Venice; Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice; Portland Art Museum, USA; Musei Civici di Bassano del Grappa, Museo Remondini; Museu Do Douro, Portugal; Galleria Civica di Uzice, Serbia; Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence; Museo della Grafica, Palazzo Lanfranchi, University of Pisa Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)