“Ultimately, I am interested in creating computational systems to translate specific natural behaviours and phenomena into new forms of pictorial representation.”

“Ultimately, I am interested in creating computational systems to translate specific natural behaviours and phenomena into new forms of pictorial representation.”

“Ultimately, I am interested in creating computational systems to translate specific natural behaviours and phenomena into new forms of pictorial representation.”

“Ultimately, I am interested in creating computational systems to translate specific natural behaviours and phenomena into new forms of pictorial representation.”

  1. Quayola is an Italian artist who employs technology as a lens to explore the tensions and equilibriums between seemingly opposing forces: the real and artificial, figurative and abstract, old and new. Constructing immersive installations, he engages with and re-imagines canonical imagery through contemporary technology. 


  2. Quayola’s hybrid works draw on classical aesthetics like landscape painting, sculpture, and iconography. His varied practice, deriving from custom computer software, also includes audiovisual performance, immersive video installations, sculpture, and works on paper.


  3. His work, Pointillisme, is created using LiDAR, a 3D laser scanning system that captures nature in high detail. As the machine scans the forest, it makes occasional errors, creating a landscape that is both imperfect and unique. After the scans are transformed through custom software. 


  4. Quayola became the third artist to make a mapping on the iconic Casa Batlló in Barcelona, after Refik Anadol and Sofia Crespo. His project, Arborescent, was inspired by natural growth systems and environmental responses.


  5. Also a frequent collaborator on musical projects, Quayola has worked with composers, orchestras and musicians including London Contemporary Orchestra, National Orchestra of Bordeaux, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Vanessa Wagner, Jamie XX, Mira Calix, Plaid and Tale Of Us.

Selected group shows  

Vox Marmoris, mudaC and Cave Successori Alfonso Corsi, Carrara, Italy, 2024
Serpenti Infinite Tales, Genesis Gallery, Beijing, China, 2024
Dal Cuore alle Mani: Dolce&Gabbana, Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy, 2024
Les héritiers de l’impressionnisme, Festival Normandie Impressionniste, Ville du temps retrouvé, Cabourg, France, 2024
Evi Lichtungen Internationale Licht Kunstbiennale, Hildesheim, Germany, 2024
Sapporo International Art Festival, Sapporo, Japan, 2024
UCCA exhibition for Hangzhou Center, Hangzhou, China, 2023–2024
Noor Riyadh Festival, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 2023
Quayola x LG OLED ART, Frieze London, The Regent’s Park, London, UK, 2023
Catalyst Lab - The Making of Tomorrow, Ars Electronica Exhibition, Munich, Germany, 2023–2024
Paesaggio: Quayola / Roberto Pugliese, Quadriennale di Roma, Museo di Roma Palazzo Braschi, Rome, Italy, 2023
Imaginarium - Acqua Foundation & LVRSustainable, Fondazione Riccardo Catella, Milan, Italy, 2023
Return to Nature, Pearl Art Museum, Shanghai, China, 2023
Digital Impact, Disseny Hub Museum, Barcelona, Spain, 2023
Is this real? L’arte nell’epoca della Game Engine Culture, Fondazione Modena Arti Visive - FMAV, Palazzina dei Giardini, Modena, Italy, 2023
Jeju Biennale, JMOA, Jeju Museum of Art, Jeju, Korea, 2022–2023
Slip.Stream.Slip, SODA Gallery, Manchester, UK, 2022
Ars Electronica - Esch Museum Exhibition, Luxembourg, 2022
White Carrara, Piazza Alberica, Carrara, Italy, 2022
The Magic Forest, Palais de Beaux-Arts, Lille, France, 2022
Il video rende felici, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy, 2022
Tongyeong Triennale, Tongyeong, South Korea, 2022


Selected solo shows  

LUCE, Commission for Istituto Luce Archive, Teatro 18, Cinecittà, Rome, Italy, 2024
Storms, Artnet & Times Square Arts, New York, USA, 2024
Plutone / Proserpina, Quayola, mudaC, Museo delle arti, Carrara, Italy, 2023–2024
Ways of Seeing, CUBO Unipol, Bologna, Italy, 2023
Aorist and Faena Art x Miami Art Week, Faena Project Room, Miami, USA, 2022–2023
En plein air, NOME Gallery, Berlin, Germany, 2022
Pointillisme, Vasarely Foundation - Residency Artist Prize, Aix-en-Provence, France, 2022–2023
Forze / Vettori / Cromie. Tempeste digitali e moti in espansione, Marignana Arte Gallery, Venice, Italy, 2022
Transient - Impermanent Paintings, Artechouse DC, Washington DC, USA, 2022
Storms, Bitforms Gallery, New York, USA, 2021–2022
Pointillisme, Galerie Charlot, Paris, France, 2021–2022
QUAYOLA re-coding, Palazzo Cipolla - Fondazione Terzo Pilastro, Rome, Italy, 2021–2022
Ultima perfezione, Galleria Civica di Modena - FMAV, Modena, Italy, 2020–2021


Awards 

Vasarely Foundation Residency Prize, 2021
Premio Quadriennale, Honorary Mention, 2016
New Technological Art Award, 2014
Prix Ars Electronica, Honorary Mention in Interactive Arts, 2014
Prix Ars Electronica, Golden Nica in Animation, 2013
Japan Media Art Festival, New Face Award, 2013
Cool Silicon Award, 2013
Italian Cultural Institutes for the 54th Venice Biennale, Best Video, 2011
Rencontres Audiovisuelles, Best Original Music for Strata #2, 2009
Videomedeja, Best Installation for Natures, 2009


Press 

Quayola to Transform Gaudí’s Casa Batlló Facade with Arborescent Digital Mapping Projection, designboom, 2024
Quayola x LG OLED Bring Digital Impressionism to Frieze London, Wallpaper Magazine, 2024
Midnight Moment: Storms, Times Square Chronicles, 2024
The Evolution of Landscape Painting in the Digital Age, Art Plugged, 2024
Artist Quayola on Why Algorithmic Art Is Like Impressionism, Artnet, 2024
Manfred Mohr, Refik Anadol, Quayola, Casey Reas at Art SG, Art Basel, 2024
Quayola Selected for Texas Commission, “Pioneer Tower Public Art Project”, Patch, 2020

Selected group shows  

Vox Marmoris, mudaC and Cave Successori Alfonso Corsi, Carrara, Italy, 2024
Serpenti Infinite Tales, Genesis Gallery, Beijing, China, 2024
Dal Cuore alle Mani: Dolce&Gabbana, Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy, 2024
Les héritiers de l’impressionnisme, Festival Normandie Impressionniste, Ville du temps retrouvé, Cabourg, France, 2024
Evi Lichtungen Internationale Licht Kunstbiennale, Hildesheim, Germany, 2024
Sapporo International Art Festival, Sapporo, Japan, 2024
UCCA exhibition for Hangzhou Center, Hangzhou, China, 2023–2024
Noor Riyadh Festival, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 2023
Quayola x LG OLED ART, Frieze London, The Regent’s Park, London, UK, 2023
Catalyst Lab - The Making of Tomorrow, Ars Electronica Exhibition, Munich, Germany, 2023–2024
Paesaggio: Quayola / Roberto Pugliese, Quadriennale di Roma, Museo di Roma Palazzo Braschi, Rome, Italy, 2023
Imaginarium - Acqua Foundation & LVRSustainable, Fondazione Riccardo Catella, Milan, Italy, 2023
Return to Nature, Pearl Art Museum, Shanghai, China, 2023
Digital Impact, Disseny Hub Museum, Barcelona, Spain, 2023
Is this real? L’arte nell’epoca della Game Engine Culture, Fondazione Modena Arti Visive - FMAV, Palazzina dei Giardini, Modena, Italy, 2023
Jeju Biennale, JMOA, Jeju Museum of Art, Jeju, Korea, 2022–2023
Slip.Stream.Slip, SODA Gallery, Manchester, UK, 2022
Ars Electronica - Esch Museum Exhibition, Luxembourg, 2022
White Carrara, Piazza Alberica, Carrara, Italy, 2022
The Magic Forest, Palais de Beaux-Arts, Lille, France, 2022
Il video rende felici, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy, 2022
Tongyeong Triennale, Tongyeong, South Korea, 2022


Selected solo shows  

LUCE, Commission for Istituto Luce Archive, Teatro 18, Cinecittà, Rome, Italy, 2024
Storms, Artnet & Times Square Arts, New York, USA, 2024
Plutone / Proserpina, Quayola, mudaC, Museo delle arti, Carrara, Italy, 2023–2024
Ways of Seeing, CUBO Unipol, Bologna, Italy, 2023
Aorist and Faena Art x Miami Art Week, Faena Project Room, Miami, USA, 2022–2023
En plein air, NOME Gallery, Berlin, Germany, 2022
Pointillisme, Vasarely Foundation - Residency Artist Prize, Aix-en-Provence, France, 2022–2023
Forze / Vettori / Cromie. Tempeste digitali e moti in espansione, Marignana Arte Gallery, Venice, Italy, 2022
Transient - Impermanent Paintings, Artechouse DC, Washington DC, USA, 2022
Storms, Bitforms Gallery, New York, USA, 2021–2022
Pointillisme, Galerie Charlot, Paris, France, 2021–2022
QUAYOLA re-coding, Palazzo Cipolla - Fondazione Terzo Pilastro, Rome, Italy, 2021–2022
Ultima perfezione, Galleria Civica di Modena - FMAV, Modena, Italy, 2020–2021


Awards 

Vasarely Foundation Residency Prize, 2021
Premio Quadriennale, Honorary Mention, 2016
New Technological Art Award, 2014
Prix Ars Electronica, Honorary Mention in Interactive Arts, 2014
Prix Ars Electronica, Golden Nica in Animation, 2013
Japan Media Art Festival, New Face Award, 2013
Cool Silicon Award, 2013
Italian Cultural Institutes for the 54th Venice Biennale, Best Video, 2011
Rencontres Audiovisuelles, Best Original Music for Strata #2, 2009
Videomedeja, Best Installation for Natures, 2009


Press 

Quayola to Transform Gaudí’s Casa Batlló Facade with Arborescent Digital Mapping Projection, designboom, 2024
Quayola x LG OLED Bring Digital Impressionism to Frieze London, Wallpaper Magazine, 2024
Midnight Moment: Storms, Times Square Chronicles, 2024
The Evolution of Landscape Painting in the Digital Age, Art Plugged, 2024
Artist Quayola on Why Algorithmic Art Is Like Impressionism, Artnet, 2024
Manfred Mohr, Refik Anadol, Quayola, Casey Reas at Art SG, Art Basel, 2024
Quayola Selected for Texas Commission, “Pioneer Tower Public Art Project”, Patch, 2020

Selected group shows  

Vox Marmoris, mudaC and Cave Successori Alfonso Corsi, Carrara, Italy, 2024
Serpenti Infinite Tales, Genesis Gallery, Beijing, China, 2024
Dal Cuore alle Mani: Dolce&Gabbana, Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy, 2024
Les héritiers de l’impressionnisme, Festival Normandie Impressionniste, Ville du temps retrouvé, Cabourg, France, 2024
Evi Lichtungen Internationale Licht Kunstbiennale, Hildesheim, Germany, 2024
Sapporo International Art Festival, Sapporo, Japan, 2024
UCCA exhibition for Hangzhou Center, Hangzhou, China, 2023–2024
Noor Riyadh Festival, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 2023
Quayola x LG OLED ART, Frieze London, The Regent’s Park, London, UK, 2023
Catalyst Lab - The Making of Tomorrow, Ars Electronica Exhibition, Munich, Germany, 2023–2024
Paesaggio: Quayola / Roberto Pugliese, Quadriennale di Roma, Museo di Roma Palazzo Braschi, Rome, Italy, 2023
Imaginarium - Acqua Foundation & LVRSustainable, Fondazione Riccardo Catella, Milan, Italy, 2023
Return to Nature, Pearl Art Museum, Shanghai, China, 2023
Digital Impact, Disseny Hub Museum, Barcelona, Spain, 2023
Is this real? L’arte nell’epoca della Game Engine Culture, Fondazione Modena Arti Visive - FMAV, Palazzina dei Giardini, Modena, Italy, 2023
Jeju Biennale, JMOA, Jeju Museum of Art, Jeju, Korea, 2022–2023
Slip.Stream.Slip, SODA Gallery, Manchester, UK, 2022
Ars Electronica - Esch Museum Exhibition, Luxembourg, 2022
White Carrara, Piazza Alberica, Carrara, Italy, 2022
The Magic Forest, Palais de Beaux-Arts, Lille, France, 2022
Il video rende felici, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy, 2022
Tongyeong Triennale, Tongyeong, South Korea, 2022


Selected solo shows  

LUCE, Commission for Istituto Luce Archive, Teatro 18, Cinecittà, Rome, Italy, 2024
Storms, Artnet & Times Square Arts, New York, USA, 2024
Plutone / Proserpina, Quayola, mudaC, Museo delle arti, Carrara, Italy, 2023–2024
Ways of Seeing, CUBO Unipol, Bologna, Italy, 2023
Aorist and Faena Art x Miami Art Week, Faena Project Room, Miami, USA, 2022–2023
En plein air, NOME Gallery, Berlin, Germany, 2022
Pointillisme, Vasarely Foundation - Residency Artist Prize, Aix-en-Provence, France, 2022–2023
Forze / Vettori / Cromie. Tempeste digitali e moti in espansione, Marignana Arte Gallery, Venice, Italy, 2022
Transient - Impermanent Paintings, Artechouse DC, Washington DC, USA, 2022
Storms, Bitforms Gallery, New York, USA, 2021–2022
Pointillisme, Galerie Charlot, Paris, France, 2021–2022
QUAYOLA re-coding, Palazzo Cipolla - Fondazione Terzo Pilastro, Rome, Italy, 2021–2022
Ultima perfezione, Galleria Civica di Modena - FMAV, Modena, Italy, 2020–2021


Awards 

Vasarely Foundation Residency Prize, 2021
Premio Quadriennale, Honorary Mention, 2016
New Technological Art Award, 2014
Prix Ars Electronica, Honorary Mention in Interactive Arts, 2014
Prix Ars Electronica, Golden Nica in Animation, 2013
Japan Media Art Festival, New Face Award, 2013
Cool Silicon Award, 2013
Italian Cultural Institutes for the 54th Venice Biennale, Best Video, 2011
Rencontres Audiovisuelles, Best Original Music for Strata #2, 2009
Videomedeja, Best Installation for Natures, 2009


Press 

Quayola to Transform Gaudí’s Casa Batlló Facade with Arborescent Digital Mapping Projection, designboom, 2024
Quayola x LG OLED Bring Digital Impressionism to Frieze London, Wallpaper Magazine, 2024
Midnight Moment: Storms, Times Square Chronicles, 2024
The Evolution of Landscape Painting in the Digital Age, Art Plugged, 2024
Artist Quayola on Why Algorithmic Art Is Like Impressionism, Artnet, 2024
Manfred Mohr, Refik Anadol, Quayola, Casey Reas at Art SG, Art Basel, 2024
Quayola Selected for Texas Commission, “Pioneer Tower Public Art Project”, Patch, 2020

Selected group shows  

Vox Marmoris, mudaC and Cave Successori Alfonso Corsi, Carrara, Italy, 2024
Serpenti Infinite Tales, Genesis Gallery, Beijing, China, 2024
Dal Cuore alle Mani: Dolce&Gabbana, Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy, 2024
Les héritiers de l’impressionnisme, Festival Normandie Impressionniste, Ville du temps retrouvé, Cabourg, France, 2024
Evi Lichtungen Internationale Licht Kunstbiennale, Hildesheim, Germany, 2024
Sapporo International Art Festival, Sapporo, Japan, 2024
UCCA exhibition for Hangzhou Center, Hangzhou, China, 2023–2024
Noor Riyadh Festival, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 2023
Quayola x LG OLED ART, Frieze London, The Regent’s Park, London, UK, 2023
Catalyst Lab - The Making of Tomorrow, Ars Electronica Exhibition, Munich, Germany, 2023–2024
Paesaggio: Quayola / Roberto Pugliese, Quadriennale di Roma, Museo di Roma Palazzo Braschi, Rome, Italy, 2023
Imaginarium - Acqua Foundation & LVRSustainable, Fondazione Riccardo Catella, Milan, Italy, 2023
Return to Nature, Pearl Art Museum, Shanghai, China, 2023
Digital Impact, Disseny Hub Museum, Barcelona, Spain, 2023
Is this real? L’arte nell’epoca della Game Engine Culture, Fondazione Modena Arti Visive - FMAV, Palazzina dei Giardini, Modena, Italy, 2023
Jeju Biennale, JMOA, Jeju Museum of Art, Jeju, Korea, 2022–2023
Slip.Stream.Slip, SODA Gallery, Manchester, UK, 2022
Ars Electronica - Esch Museum Exhibition, Luxembourg, 2022
White Carrara, Piazza Alberica, Carrara, Italy, 2022
The Magic Forest, Palais de Beaux-Arts, Lille, France, 2022
Il video rende felici, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy, 2022
Tongyeong Triennale, Tongyeong, South Korea, 2022


Selected solo shows  

LUCE, Commission for Istituto Luce Archive, Teatro 18, Cinecittà, Rome, Italy, 2024
Storms, Artnet & Times Square Arts, New York, USA, 2024
Plutone / Proserpina, Quayola, mudaC, Museo delle arti, Carrara, Italy, 2023–2024
Ways of Seeing, CUBO Unipol, Bologna, Italy, 2023
Aorist and Faena Art x Miami Art Week, Faena Project Room, Miami, USA, 2022–2023
En plein air, NOME Gallery, Berlin, Germany, 2022
Pointillisme, Vasarely Foundation - Residency Artist Prize, Aix-en-Provence, France, 2022–2023
Forze / Vettori / Cromie. Tempeste digitali e moti in espansione, Marignana Arte Gallery, Venice, Italy, 2022
Transient - Impermanent Paintings, Artechouse DC, Washington DC, USA, 2022
Storms, Bitforms Gallery, New York, USA, 2021–2022
Pointillisme, Galerie Charlot, Paris, France, 2021–2022
QUAYOLA re-coding, Palazzo Cipolla - Fondazione Terzo Pilastro, Rome, Italy, 2021–2022
Ultima perfezione, Galleria Civica di Modena - FMAV, Modena, Italy, 2020–2021


Awards 

Vasarely Foundation Residency Prize, 2021
Premio Quadriennale, Honorary Mention, 2016
New Technological Art Award, 2014
Prix Ars Electronica, Honorary Mention in Interactive Arts, 2014
Prix Ars Electronica, Golden Nica in Animation, 2013
Japan Media Art Festival, New Face Award, 2013
Cool Silicon Award, 2013
Italian Cultural Institutes for the 54th Venice Biennale, Best Video, 2011
Rencontres Audiovisuelles, Best Original Music for Strata #2, 2009
Videomedeja, Best Installation for Natures, 2009


Press 

Quayola to Transform Gaudí’s Casa Batlló Facade with Arborescent Digital Mapping Projection, designboom, 2024
Quayola x LG OLED Bring Digital Impressionism to Frieze London, Wallpaper Magazine, 2024
Midnight Moment: Storms, Times Square Chronicles, 2024
The Evolution of Landscape Painting in the Digital Age, Art Plugged, 2024
Artist Quayola on Why Algorithmic Art Is Like Impressionism, Artnet, 2024
Manfred Mohr, Refik Anadol, Quayola, Casey Reas at Art SG, Art Basel, 2024
Quayola Selected for Texas Commission, “Pioneer Tower Public Art Project”, Patch, 2020

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ADDRESS

Carrer Llull, 134, 08005 Barcelona, Spain

CONTACT

visit@load-gallery.com

SIGN UP FOR UPDATES

OPENING HOURS

4 PM — 8 PM, Thursday–Saturday

Gallery admission is free

For collectors, artists and potential collaborators visits are available by appointment—please email us to arrange a private viewing

LEGAL

Privacy policy

T&C

@Load Gallery 2023-2025

ADDRESS

Carrer Llull, 134, 08005 Barcelona, Spain

CONTACT

visit@load-gallery.com

SIGN UP FOR UPDATES
OPENING HOURS

4 PM — 8 PM, Thursday–Saturday

Gallery admission is free

For collectors, artists and potential collaborators visits are available by appointment—please email us to arrange a private viewing

LEGAL

Privacy policy

T&C

@Load Gallery 2023-2025

ADDRESS

Carrer Llull, 134, 08005 Barcelona, Spain

CONTACT

visit@load-gallery.com

SIGN UP FOR UPDATES

OPENING HOURS

4 PM — 8 PM, Thursday–Saturday

Gallery admission is free

For collectors, artists and potential collaborators visits are available by appointment—please email us to arrange a private viewing

LEGAL

Privacy policy

T&C

@Load Gallery 2023-2025