Louisa Gagliardi (b. 1989) lives and works in Zurich. She graduated from Graphic Design major of Gerrit Rietveld Academie and Gerrit Rietveld Academie. Louisa draws freely from the codes of painting as well as contemporary graphic design and advertising in order to rethink questions of figure and ground, flatness and depth. Created initially as fluid digital images, her works are printed on vinyl and then intervened upon with a gel medium that lends a texture that could be read as ghostly impressions of painterly marks.

Recent solo exhibitions: Wishful Thinking, Antenna Space, Shanghai (2020); Galeria Dawid Radziszewski, Poland (2020); Side Effects of Satisfaction, Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium (2019); Force of Circumstance, McNamara Art Projects, Hong Kong (2019); Deleted Scene(s), Adam Cruces & Louisa Gagliardi, Galerie Joseph Tang, Paris (2018); Under the Weather, MOSTYN, Llandudno, Wales (2018); Holdings, Openforum, Berlin (2018); On a day like this, Plymouth Rock, Zurich (2018); Whispers in the Shade, Pilar Corrias, London (2017); Cold Sweat, with Manon Wertenbroek, La Plage, Paris (2017); Notes for later, Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium (2017); Walking Errands, with Adam Cruces, The Cabin, Los Angeles (2016); La Belle Heure, Tomorrow Gallery, New York (2016).

Selected group exhibitions: La métamorphose de l’art imprimé, Edition VFO, Zurich (2019); DOG DAYS, CLEARING, New York (2019); On the Road, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Switzerland (2018); Tronc Mental, Centre d’art de Neuchâtel CAN, Switzerland (2018); No Fear of Fainting in a Gym, Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, St. Gallen (2018); Being There, Louisiana, Humlebæk, Denmark (2017); Werkschau 2017, Museum Haus Kontruktiv, Zurich (2017); Tastes Like Headaches, kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, Latvia (2017); Painters? Painting?, David Risley Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark (2016); Hinter jedem Berg steht noch ein Berg, Helmhaus, Zurich (2016); Hypnic Jerk, Smart Objects, Los Angeles (2016); Design & Crime, Galerie Hussenot, Paris (2016); Mirrors, DUVE, Berlin(2016).