Francesca Anfossi Italian, b. 1980

Education

2006-08 MFA Painting, Slade School of Art, London, UK

2001-04 BA Fine Art, Middlesex University, London, UK

 

Selected Projects and Exhibitions

2025

In Good Company, Lamb Gallery and Studio Wright, London, UK

 

2024

Camden Art Centre editions for Frieze, London, UK

Subject Platter, Corner 7, London, UK

NADA, Whitechapel Gallery, Miami, USA

Pop-Up, Kate MacGarry, London, UK

Arcade, Canopy Collection, London, UK

Domani e' un Altro Giorno, Spazio Giallo, Rome, Italy

Ceramic Bread, public workshop, MACTE, Termoli, Italy

Muda 10, Ten years of Museo Diffuso Albisola, Italy

Pourquoi London, Gertrude x Canopy Collections, London, UK

 

2023

A House A Home A Landscape, Ebba and Aora, Georgie Wolton House, London, UK

Mermaids, Corner 7, London, UK

A Tavola con Rochester Square, Museo della Ceramica Savona, Italy

 

2022

Animal of Your Lips Banquet, with Bea Bonafini, Bosse & Baum, London, UK

Paper & Clay, Canopy Collections, Cromwell Place, London, UK

SupaVenezia, A Plus A Gallery, Venice, Italy

 

2021

Slingbacks and Sunshine, SupaStore Southside, South London Gallery, London, UK

The Dinner Table, San Mei Gallery, London, UK

The Shape of Colour, The Room/Turnbull & Asser, London, UK

Short Line and Tall Shapes, Rosegger Grundschule, Berlin, Germany

 

2020

Winner of the Whitegold International Ceramic Prize, UK

Square meal, Frieze Art Fair VIP Programme, London, UK

Do not Swear by the Moon, Canopy Collection, London, UK

How Small a Thought, curated by Andrew Child & Anne Ryan, Margate, UK

Living Well is The Best Revenge, Canopy Collection, London, UK

 

2019

Salone del Mobile, collaboration with CO-TE fashion brand, Milan, Italy

Clay Picnic, Jamboree, Darlington, UK

Mustafa Hulusi Posters, Hoxton Square, London, UK

 

2018

Square Meal, Art Licks Weekend, London, UK

Clay Picnic, Jamboree, Darlington, UK

Mustafa Hulusi Posters, Hoxton Square, London,UK

Implements for Distraction, CAVE, University of Leeds, UK

 

2017

Studio Ceramic, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK

Summer Takeover (education programme), Camden Arts Centre, London, UK

 

2012

Endogenous, Maria Stenfors Gallery, London, UK

Golf Sale, The Bowery, New York, USA

 

2010

Francescassecretkitchen, Supper Club, (w/ Francesca Astesani) London, UK

Petrified Paper, Cardi Black Box, Milan, Italy

Dazed × Converse Emerging Artist Award, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK

Loops, Chelsea SPACE, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London, UK

 

2009

Rob Pruitt's Flee Market, Tate Modern Live, London, UK

...Goodbye Edelweiss, (solo) Hayward Gallery Cafe, London, UK

 

2008

In from the Cold, (solo) Igloo Cinema, Royal Festival Hall, London, UK

Flux Capacitor, Galleria Extraspazio, Rome,Italy

S.T.O.R.A.G.E, The Agency, London, UK

Sunspot Mirage, Bishoff/Weiss, London, UK

Soul Stripper, Projet Midi, Brussels, Belgium

 

2007

Kurzfilmsalon 1., Short Film Festival, Vienna, Austria

Avalanche!!!, Alsop's Architect Space, London, UK

 

2006

SV06 Annual Member's Exhibition, Studio Voltaire, London, UK

 

Teaching

2022

Royal College of Art, sculpture visiting tutor, London, UK

 

2018-20

Fine art visiting tutor, University of Leeds, UK

 

2017-18

Camden Art Centre, Summer Takeover, education programme, London, UK

 

2011

Parasol Unit, family education programme assistant, London, UK

 

Awards and Residencies

2024

Ceramic bread, MACTE, Termoli, Italy

JB Blunk House, Inverness, California , USA

 

2023

Al Lavoro con Rocherster Square , Museo della Ceramica Savona, Italy

 

2020-2021

Winner of the Whitegold International Ceramic Prize, St Austell, UK

 

2019-2020

Creative Learning Programme, Residency, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK

 

2017

AIR Residency, Sefrou, Morocco

 

2010

Dazed / Converse, Emerging Artist Award, London, UK

 

2008

Utopia 2008, Crete, Greece

 

2003

The Apthorp Fund Y oung Artists First Award, London, UK