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Sandro Chia (born 20 April 1946) is an Italian painter and sculptor.cite-ref-ben-3-0[2] In the late 1970s and early 1980s he was, with Francesco Clemente, Enzo Cucchi, Nicola De Maria, and Mimmo Paladino, a principal member of the Italian Neo-Expressionist movement which was baptised Transavanguardia by Achille Bonito Oliva.cite-ref-trecc2-4-0[3]

• Life

• Work

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Chia was born in Florence, in Tuscany in central Italy, on 20 April 1946.cite-ref-grove-5-0[4]cite-ref-ben-3-1[2]cite-ref-a-2-1[a] He studied at the Istituto d'Arte di Firenze from 1962 to 1967,cite-ref-trecc3-1-1[1] and then, until 1969, at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze.cite-ref-ben-3-2[2] He then travelled in Europe, in Turkey and in India.cite-ref-trecc-6-0[5]cite-ref-grove-5-1[4] He settled in Rome in 1970, and began to show work in the following year.cite-ref-trecc-6-1[5]cite-ref-grove-5-2[4] He spent the winter of 1980–1981 in Mönchengladbach, in Nordrhein-Westfalen in West Germany, on a study grant.cite-ref-ben-3-3[2] Later that year he moved to New York in the United States, where he lived for more than twenty years.cite-ref-trecc-6-2[5]cite-ref-trecc4-7-0[6] In 1984–1985 he taught at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan.cite-ref-trecc3-1-2[1]

Chia's early work tended towards Conceptualism, but from the mid-1970s he began to turn towards more a figurative approach.cite-ref-trecc-6-3[5]cite-ref-grove-5-3[4] In June 1979 Paul Maenz showed work by Chia, Francesco Clemente, Enzo Cucchi, Nicola De Maria and Mimmo Paladino at his gallery in Cologne, in Germany.cite-ref-dan-8-0[7] In an article in Flash Art in the same year, the critic Achille Bonito Oliva characterised the group as a new art movement, which he called "Transavanguardia".cite-ref-dan-8-1[7]

His work has been exhibited in a solo or group shows in a number of museums, among them: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York in 1983; the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1984; the Nationalgalerie in Berlin in 1992; the Villa Medici in Rome in 1995; the Magazzini del Sale in Siena in 1997; the Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea in Trento in 2000; Palazzo Pitti in Florence in 2002; the Duomo of Sant'Agostino in Pietrasanta in 2007; and the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna in Rome in 2009–2010.cite-ref-trecc-6-4[5] He participated in the Biennale di Venezia in 1984 and 1988.cite-ref-trecc-6-5[5]

cite-note-a-2a. The Enciclopedia Italiana gives a different date of birth, 26 February 1946.cite-ref-trecc3-1-3[1]

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cite-note-trecc3-11. Alexandra Andresen (2000). Chia, Sandro (in Italian). Enciclopedie Italiana, appendix VI. Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. Accessed March 2018.

cite-note-ben-32. ↑ Chia, Sandro. Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (subscription required).

cite-note-trecc2-43. ↑ Transavanguardia (in Italian). Enciclopedie on line. Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. Accessed March 2018.

cite-note-grove-54. ↑ Monica Bohm-Duchen (2003). Chia, Sandro. Grove Art Online. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.T016388. (subscription required).

cite-note-trecc-65. ↑ Chìa, Sandro (in Italian). Enciclopedie on line. Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. Accessed March 2018.

cite-note-trecc4-76. ↑ [s.n.] (2012). Chia, Sandro (in Italian). Lessico del XXI Secolo. Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. Accessed March 2018.

cite-note-dan-87. ↑ Daniel Soutif (1 February 2003) Trans-Avanguardia. Artforum International. (subscription required).