Agostino Iacurci (b. 1986) studied Visual Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. His artistic practice spans multiple media, including painting, murals, sculpture, drawing, and installation. Often driven by a site-specific approach, Iacurci collects and reworks heterogeneous materials to generate images and visions that freely narrate and interweave cultural history, personal memories, literary references, and vernacular tales.
Iacurci has exhibited his work in both solo and group shows, including Pensare come una montagna #2, GAMeC, Bergamo (2024); Ruinenlust at Garage Bentivoglio, Bologna (2024); The Traveling Landscape, PDC Gallery, Los Angeles (2023); Alien Horti Picti, Robert Grunenberg, Berlin (2023); Of My Abstract Gardening, Ex Elettrofonica, Rome (2022); Hortus, IIC, Prague (2022); Tracing Vitruvio, Musei Civici, Pesaro (2019); Talent Prize 2019, Mattatoio, Rome (2019); Gypsoteca, M77 Gallery, Milan (2018); Trompe-l'oeil, Celaya Brothers Gallery, Mexico City (2017); Urban Art Biennale, Völklinger Hütte, European Centre for Art and Industrial Culture (2017); Cross the Streets, MACRO Museum, Rome (2017); and the 16th Premio Cairo, Palazzo della Permanente, Milan (2015).
Since 2009, Iacurci has created monumental wall paintings and installations for public and private institutions. Recent commissions include Ensemble at Casa Italia for the Olympic Games, Le Pré Catelan, Paris (2024); Grüne Oase, Tertianum Project, Frankfurt-am-Main (2024); Côte-des-Neiges Mural project, Montreal (2022); MURALU for Ludwigs-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen (2021); Life is Beautiful, Las Vegas (2021); Principal Place, London (2020); Yakutsk Biennale, Yakutsk (2017); Distrito Tec University, Monterrey (2016); Govind Puri Metro Station, New Delhi (2016); Istituto Mario Penna, Belo Horizonte, Brazil (2014); and the Fubon Art Foundation, Taipei (2012).
He has participated in several residency programs, including Artivist in Seoul (2023), the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) in New York (2020-2022), and the Plop x Cob Residency in London (2021).
Iacurci has received numerous awards, including the Premio Ermanno Casoli (2024), The New York Prize promoted by MiBAC, MAE, and the Italian Academy-Columbia University (2020-2022), and the Cantica21 Italian Contemporary Art Everywhere Prize (2021).
He has collaborated with international brands and publishers, including Apple, Adidas, Hermès, Herman Miller, La Repubblica, Penguin Books, Starbucks, and The New Yorker.