Luca Buvoli - Maus Contemporary

New York-based multimedia artist Luca Buvoli (b. 1963, Italy) has exhibited internationally for 30 years. His work intertwines mythology, science, and ideology, with daily life and humor. Major institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and the Guggenheim Museum in New York have acquired his sculptures, and his animated films and videos have been screened internationally at the Lincoln Center, New York; MoMA, New York; and the British Library, London.
His expanded multimedia projects have been presented at the 2007 Venice Biennale (image on right), the 1997 Johannesburg Biennale, and other biennials in Asia and Europe.

Buvoli’s museum solo shows include the Phillips Collection, Washington DC (Digital Intersection, 2020), the Philadelphia Museum of Art (2001), the M.I.T. List Center, Cambridge (2000), ICA in Philadelphia (2007), and gallery solo shows at Cristin Tierney gallery (2022), Susan Inglett gallery (2009), Hyundai Gallery (2012), and John Weber Gallery (1995, 1997, 1999). Group shows include the Utopia Matters (Deutsche Guggenheim Museum in Berlin, 2010, pre-installation rendering shown on left), Venice Biennale (2007, image above, on right), Greater New York at P.S. 1 MoMA (2000), and the 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, South Africa (1997). Permanent public commissions are in New York, Houston, and in Seattle.
Luca Buvoli has been a 2017 Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington DC. He is the Director of the Mount Royal School of Art Multidisciplinary Master of Fine Arts Program at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland.

Buvoli began The Quarantine Chronicles - his daily practice of expression and communication - while living in isolation during quarantine.

The protagonist is Astrodoubt, a fictitious astronaut who imagines drifting into space to escape ecological disaster, but is instead is grounded on this planet by the deadly pandemic.

Astrodoubt’s only hope for survival is “humor and creativity.”

The series is part of the artist’s Space Doubt Expedition Project, which began in 2009 in collaboration with NASA scientists and other institutions, including the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. Over more than one decade, the project evolved from sculpture and drawing to painting, video animations, installations, and most recently social media (@astrodoubt_).