Luisa Adelfio has been a working artist since 1984. Primarily a sculptor, she works in a variety of materials including stone, bronze, paper, and glass. Consistent themes in her work are archetypes and symbols, cultural memory, the intersection of science and spiritual practices, and the transcendence of the material world to the spiritual world.
BIO/CV
Education
Accademia di Belle Arti, Italy, Master’s in Fine Arts and Art History, Cum Laude.
Wellesley College, Bachelor of Arts in Sculpture and Art History, Cum Laude.
Exhibitions and Awards
Selected Awards
Fulbright-García Robles Social Sciences and Humanities, Mexico, Finalist.
Wellesley College/Mary Elvira Stevens Traveling Fellowship to live and work in México for one year.
Artist in Residence at The Hague School, Norfolk, VA.
Louisiana Division of the Arts Grant for Professional Artists, New Orleans, LA.
Harriet A. Shaw Fine Arts Fellowship, Boston, MA, fellowship for art creation.
Royal Society of Arts, London, UK, silver medal for dedication to art and science.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2025 Luisa Adelfio: Obras recientes, Tinta y tiempo, San Miguel de Allende, México.
2025 Luisa Adelfio: Transcendence, Torggler Fine Arts Center, Christopher Newport University, Virginia.
2023 Lugar——Hogar, Otros 360 Grados, Bogotá, Colombia.
2022 Luisa Adelfio, Residencia, Instituto de Artes Gráficas de Oaxaca, Oaxaca, México.
2021 Corona Chronicles, Galería Otros 360 Grados, Bogotá, Colombia.
2017 Innocent Objects, Virginia Wesleyan University, Norfolk, VA.
2017 Arte al Limite, Featured Artist, Santiago, Chile.
2015 Collective Memory, Slover Library, Norfolk, VA.
2012 From Parchment to Prose, East End Gallery, Easton, MD.
2011 Temple Intervention, Sfoglia, NYC.
2009 Temple Intervention, Civetta, NYC.
1993 Luisa Adelfio: Opere Recenti, Galleria 2000, Monreale, Italy.
1992: Recent Sculpture and Drawings by Luisa Adelfio, Frost Gallery, Washington, DC.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025 Macondo, Feria Estampa, Madrid, Spain.
2025 Recess, Bond Millen Gallery, Richmond, VA
2025 Oaxaca Central, Mexican Cultural Institute, Washington, DC.
2023-4 Dádiva Diversa, Galería Quetzalli, Oaxaca, México.
2022 DE LA FIGURACIÓN AL CAOS, el dibujo en la plástica oaxaqueña contemporánea, Biblioteca Pública Central Margarita Maza de Juárez. Oaxaca, México.
2022 DIBUJO: Proceso, Método, o Construcción, Alcalá, Oaxaca, México.
2022 Pollinate, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA.
2022 Women Paint, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA.
2021 Premio Paris Art Expo, Galerie Thuillier, Paris, France.
2020 Artisti Selezionati, Modena, Italia, virtual exhibition.
2020 Singulart, online forum, virtual exhibition.
2020 A Bunch of Kunst in Quarantine//Reflections on the Viral Vacuum, London, UK, virtual exhibition.
2018 Gather, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA.
2018 Scope Art, Metropolitan Pavilion, New York, NY.
2017 Dream House Remix, Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Norfolk, VA.
2017 Cinco Años de Otros 360, Galería Otros 360 Grados, Bogotá, Colombia.
2016 Native, Work Release, Norfolk, VA.
2016 PARC art fair, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Lima, Peru.
2014 ODEON art fair, Bogotá, Colombia.
2013 El Arte de la Palabra, Galería Otros 360 Grados, Bogotá, Colombia.
2013 Special Installation, Habitat for Humanity, Easton, MD.
2012 Un Año de Otros 360, Galería Otros 360 Grados, Bogotá, Colombia.
2012 From Parchment to Prose, East End Gallery, Easton, Maryland.
2011 Temple Intervention, Sfoglia, NYC.
2010 Special Installation, Angela Royo Latin American Art Gallery, NYC.
2009 Temple Intervention, Civetta, NYC.
Selected Public Art Installations
2024 Metamorfosis, finalist, Norfolk public art program, St. Paul’s, Norfolk, VA.
2019 Onda di Memoria, Amos Science Center, Wilmington, DE.
2018 Stories of the Sea, Greer Environmental Sciences Center, VA.
2016 Memory Wall, Slover Library, Norfolk, VA.
Selected Permanent Collections
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia, Robert Sterling Clark Foundation, New York, NY, Instituto de Artes Gráficas de Oaxaca, Oaxaca, México, Annie Cohen Solal Collection, Milan and Paris, Frank Williams Collection, Wellesley, Massachusetts.
Selected Publications and Initiatives
2025 Glass art studio demo, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA
2025 Printmaking workshop, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA
2021 Corona Chronicles, Catalog of work with essay and introduction by Annie Cohen Solal.
2017 Arte al Límite magazine, featured artist and permanent collection, Santiago, Chile.