Giuseppe Penone was born in Garession, Italy in 1947. Long related to developments in sculpture in the 60s and 70s, and to Arte Povera, Penone's work retains its own distinctive character incorporating binary meanings related to the natural world and the notion of living sculpture. Penone's interest in the space between the hand and the touched surface that becomes sculpture and drawing, between imprint and sight, gesture and action, has been sustained throughout his body of work.
Giuseppe Penone's solo exhibitions have been at the Palais d'léna - CESE, Paris, France (2019); Yorkshire Sculpure Park, Wakefield, UK (2018); Chateau La Coste, Le Puy-Sante-Réparade (2017); Palazzo della Civilità, Rome (2017); Louvre Abu Dhabi, UAE (2017); MART, Rovereto (2016); Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (2016); Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas (2015); Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland (2015); the Beirut Art Center, Lebanon (2014); the Musée de Grenoble, France (2014); the Château de Versailles, France (2013); Kunstmuseum Winterthur (2013); Madison Square Park, New York (2013) and Whitechapel Gallery, London (2013).
Penone received the McKim Medal (2017) and the prestigious Praemium Imperiale International arts Award for Sculpture in 2014. Giuseppe Penone has exhibited at Documenta V (1972), VII (1982), VIII (1987) and XIII (2012) and the Venice Biennale in 2007, 1995, 1986, 1980, and 1978. He currently lives and works in Turin, Italy.