Biography
Dunia Mauro takes her degree at the Academy of Art, in Rome, 2002.
In 2001 her installation 'Le Dunie' is chosen to represent Rome at the 10th Biennial of young artists of Europe and Mediterranean, in Sarajevo.
In 2003 she takes a Master Degree in Fine Arts at Central Saint Martins College, in London, where she lives and works for 8 years.
She then takes a PGCE in Art and Design at the institute of Education (IOE), in 2006.
From 2006 to 2008 she teaches Sculpture in the Art Department of the Hackney Community College in London.
She then moves to Berlin for a year where she participates to the event Building up, opening show of the activity of the space 91mQ, project space (2008).
Back in London, in 2009, Dunia is co-founder and manager of Havelock13, artists' studios in South London.
From 2011 to 2012 she curates the two shows: 'ash hush hash' at Havelock 13 and 'to be or not to be: a false dichotomy', in the Shoreditch Town Hall, in London.
In 2013 she takes part in the first stage of the project Exodus with the installation Noah's Ark, at Sala 1, in Rome.
Dunia mainly works with installation, sculpture, photography and video, often introducing autobiographical elements in her work.
She is now based in Rome and is completing the series of videos animal speech and using sound as a new element in other projects.
The first two chapters of the series of videos gain a special mention within the Video Festival, Roma: I colori del Mondo, at the museum MACRO in Rome.
In December 2013 the video Noah's Ark is showed for the first time at the museum MUMI in Montevideo Uruguay and consequently in Buenos Aries.
In 2014, Dunia has been selected finalist artist within the Sculpture section at Bugatti-Segantini Prize, at Combat Prize with the video Noah's Ark and at Top 40, juried competition at LACDA in Los Angeles.
She has recently had a solo show with the project 'The Outsiders' at MACK, Museum of Contemporay Art in Crotone.
