Beatrice Pediconi (Rome, 1972) lives and works in New York.
Beatrice Pediconi is an Italian-born visual artist based in New York whose interdisciplinary practice includes drawing, photography, painting, collage, video, and installation.
Pediconi earned a Bachelor of Art and Architecture at La Sapienza University, Rome in 1999. In 1995 she was awarded an Erasmus Scholarship in Paris at the University of la Villette, where she studied painting and art history. Pediconi was awarded an Artist in Residency Fellowship at Djerassi (CA, NY) in 2019 and Yaddo (NY, US) in 2018. In 2008 she has won the VII Biennal of Experimental Art in Saint Petersburg, Russia and she is a recipient of the Special 2015 Videoinsight prize for Italian Artists.
Her work has been shown internationally in exhibitions including Presenze, La Galleria Nazionale di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Roma (2023), Cinema Ephemera, Central Brooklyn Public Library, NY, (2020); NUCLEUS/Imagining Science, Noorderlicht International Photography Festival, Groningen, The Netherlands (2017), The Other View, Italian Women photographers 1965-2015, The Triennale Design Museum, Milan, Italy (2016), Plumbing-Sequence VII-Real Time video Biennial, Reykjavik, Iceland (2015), Ensemble-Quand La Maison Européenne de la Photographie Collectionne, Les Rencontres d’ Arles, France (2015), The Polaroid Years, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center,Vassar, NY (2013).
Pediconi’s work has been acquired by numerous public and private Museums such as La Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris, the Macro Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome and the Collezione Maramotti in Reggio Emilia amongs others. Her work has been published and reviewed in international magazines, including Il Giornale dell’Arte, Artforum, Harper’s Magazine, Art in America and Photograph Magazine.