Virginia Mori is an Italian artist

She lives and works in Pesaro and Milan. She studied animation and design at the State Art Institute in Urbino. During this time she nurtured and honed her distinctive artistic imagination. Her favourite media are pencil, ink, and ballpoint pen on paper. In 2008 she won the “SRG idee suisse” prize at the “Annecy call for project” during the International Festival of Animation at Annecy, France. This enabled her to produce her first short film, “il gioco del silenzio” (“The Play of Silence”), which has won nominations and accolades at international events, launching her career as an illustrator and director of animated shorts. At the same time she has worked freelance for a number of clients and galleries like Withstand (Milan), for whom she created the illustrations for the video “Walt Grace’s submarine test, January 1967” by John Mayer, directed by Virgilio Villoresi and the animated book “Vento”, Blu Gallery (Bologna), Fendi (Rome), Valentino (Milan), Galleria Disastro (Milan) and 25Films (Paris), Club Sensible Gallery (Paris), Pelledoca editore, Penguin Random House (Spain), Edizioni EL, Einaudi Ragazzi, Vogue Arts, Gucci, Feltrinelli editore, Bollati e Boringhieri, Mini, Sammontana, Film Tv magazine, Libreria di Frusaglia, il Venerdì di Repubblica, Popshot magazine, The Washington Post, Virginia Living, 5280 Magazine, Domestika

SOLO SHOW

• Se passi di qui / Plastic Music Dispenser / March 2011/ Pesaro
• Se passi di qui / Spazio Elastico / December 2011/ Bologne
• Se passi di qui curated by Giorgia Noto / Spazio Biancovolta / May 2012 / Viterbo
• Specchio Riflesso curated by Francesca Pergreffi / Spazio Meme /January 2013/ Carpi
• Specchio Riflesso / Spazio Zuni /April 2013/ Ferrara
• Virginia Mori / Scratch festival / July 2013 / Lecce
• Virginia Mori / società per l’arte / May 2013/ Andria
• Virginia Mori / Rocca Malatestiana / July 2013 / Cesena
• Stanze a dondolo / Blu Gallery / November 2013 / Bologne
• Virginia Mori / Art Space – Rabbit Festival / May 2014 / Perugia
• Quando Torni curated by Giorgia Noto / Seven O’clock / May 2015 / Rome
• Quando Torni / Castellaneta Film festival / July 2015 / Castellaneta
• Hotel Miramare curated by Giorgia Noto / Blu Gallery / January 2016 / Bologne
• 16 curated by Cheap and Bilbolbul International Comic Festival / November 2016/ Bologne
• Quello che avanza curated by Umberto Palestini / Palazzo Ducale di Urbino / June 2018
• Camping Panorama curated by Nero Gallery / Rome / September 2018
• Ring Tales curated by Echale Guindas Galeria / March 2019/ Madrid

GROUP SHOW

• Banchi di nebbia / March  2010 /  Tricromia Gallery / March  2010 /  Rome
• Italian Pop Surrealism / Mondo Bizzarro Gallery / November 2011 / Rome.
• Vanishing points / Auguste Clown Gallery/ November 2012 / Melbourne.
• I love Brow curated by Andrea Oppenheimer /Palazzo Margherita/ April 2013 / L’Aquila
• Mad Hatters curated by Ixie Darkon/ Flower Pepper Gallery/ January 2014 / Pasadena Ca.
• Those who dream by day / Strychnine Gallery / March 2013/ Berlin
• Selvatico curated by Massimiliano Fabbri /Museo Civico /April 2013/ Massa Lombarda
• Graphiste curated by Rossana Calbi / Sacripante Gallery/ February 2015 / Rome
• Cabinet da end / Da End Gallery/ April 2015 / Paris
• Animami curated by Anna Pagnini / May 2015/ Cà Pesaro.2 Gallery/ Pesaro
• La Bellezza fa 40 curated by Stefano Bottura / Castello di Lecce / July 2015 / Lecce
• Ephemeral / Jiro Miura Gallery/ July 2015 / Tokyo
• Isole Connesse / Blu Gallery/ October 2015 / Bologne
• Fire and Desire curated by Stefano Bottura /Studio Messina / March 2016 / Milan
• Animazioni Italiane curated by Paola Bristot / Palazzo Costanzi / June 2016 / Trieste
• La règle et le jeu Montreuil Children’s book Fair / December 2017 / Paris
• When you are stranger / Echale Guindas Gallery / June 2017 / Madrid
• Ephemeral Territory of Girls / Jiro Miura Gallery / September 2017 / Tokyo

FESTIVAL

Festival International Du Film D’animation d’Annecy,
Third Culture Film Festival (Hong Kong)
Tehran International Animation Festival,
Athens Animfest,
Animateka (Ljubjana),
Go Short (NiJmegen),
Ratatà Festival (Macerata),
Festival Bd6Né (Paris),
Nonstop Barcelona Animacio,
Animasivo ( Ciudad de Mexico),
Animafest Zagreb,
Mostra Internazionale Del Nuovo Cinema (Pesaro),
Cartoon Club – International Festival Of Animation (Rimini),
Castellaneta Film Fest,
Anim’est (Bucarest),
Animation Block Party (New York),
La Guarimba Film Festival (Amantea),
Martha’s Vineyard International Film Festival,
World Festival Of Animated Films (Varna),
Helsinki Int’l Film Festival,
Krok International Animated Film Festival (Moscow),
Woodstock Film Festival,
Anima Mundi (Sao Paulo),
European Animated Film Festival Balkanima (Belgrade),
Cinetoro International Experimentation Festival (Madrid),
Tofuzi – International Festival Of Animated Film,
Festival Du Film De Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux,
Flip Animation Festival (Wolverhampton),
Fano International Film Festival,
Castelli Animati (Rome),
Filmaker Al Chiostro (Pordenone),
Bucheon International Animation Festival (Biaf) Korea,
Dok Leipzig – International Festival For Documentary And Anmated Film,
Multivision (St Petersburg),
Glas Animation Festival (Berkeley, Ca.),
London International Animation Festival,
Reanimania (Yerevan),
Cutout Fest (Querétaro),
Vientianale International Film Festival (Vientiane-Laos),
Rabbit Festival (Perugia),
Piccolo Festival Dell’animazione (Udine),
Scratch Animation Festival (Lecce),
Lago Film Fest (Treviso),
Fantoche Festival (Baden),
Tricky Women Festival (Wien),

and  more….