Paolo Colombo

Paolo Colombo (born 1949 in Turin, Italy) graduated in languages and literature from the University of Rome in 1975 and began painting and drawing as a self-taught artist from 1974 at the Mario Pozzoli gallery in Milan. In 1977, Colombo was the first European artist to exhibit at PS1 in New York. He interrupted his career in 1986 for 21 years. During this time, he worked as a curator in museums in the United States, Switzerland, Italy, Greece and Turkey. After this hiatus, Colombo resumed his artistic practice in 2007, coinciding with a move to Athens, Greece. Since then, his work was presented in London, Los Angeles, Geneva, Rossinière, and Athens. His works are part of the collections of MONA in Hobart (Tasmania), Istanbul Modern (Turkey), Bénaki Museum in Athens (Greece) and the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles (USA).