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Simone Pellegrini was born in Ancona, Italy in 1972. He lives and works in Bologna, where he teaches Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts and where his studio is located. His career as an artist began in 1996 during his training at the Academy of Fine Arts in Urbino, where he graduated in 2000. Since 2003, he has held fifty solo exhibitions in museums and galleries in Italy and abroad, among the most recent are shows in New York, Brussels, Salzburg, Lugano, Münster, Berlin and Paris.
Simone Pellegrini's work, created entirely on paper, evokes landscapes, cosmogonies and cartographies that recall ancient, mystical and pagan iconography. His is a work of excavation in the collective and unconscious memory. The technical process seems to respect laws and rituals that he has given himself over the years, a few shades of primary colours, the monotype with matrixes created by the artist, used only once and then destroyed. Each work is unrepeatable, unique.
His artworks belong to international public and private collections: Farnesina Collection of Contemporary Art, Roma; Collection Museo delle Trame Mediterranee, Gibellina; Collection Lissone Prize of MAC – Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Lissone; Collection Maramotti, Reggio Emilia; Bologna Fiere, permanent collection, Bologna; Art Collection UniCredit, Milano; Collection Volker Feierabend, Frankfurt am Main; Collection Wolfgang Hanck, Museum Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf; MUSA, civica raccolta del disegno di Salò; Palazzo Forti, Verona; Collection of Provincia di Reggio Emilia; Musei Civici di Monza, Casa degli Umiliati, Monza.
Among other publications, in 2016 he has created for the French publisher Fata Morgana the artist’s book Dans la chambre du silence.