Gaia Di Lorenzo is an artist and educator based in Rome. Her research revolves around collective behaviors and their role in self-identification processes. She works on the complexity of images and weaves levels of meaning by modulating different techniques and incorporating sources from a number of contexts. Her subjects are gathered in equal measure from social network imagery, antiques and peers’ artworks. Conceived as articulated and potentially misleading representations, her works demonstrate the impossibility of a synthesis and understanding of existing events and structures. Each work should be read as the product of a sedimentation of ideas, stories, references that do not summarize existence but rather recount its contradictions. In this respect, the variety of techniques employed such as casting, engraving and drawing, formally builds and conceptually expresses different levels of meaning.

She holds a BA in Literature and Philosophy from the University of Tor Vergata and a BFA from Goldsmiths University of London. She attended numerous workshops and masterclasses with tutors such as Monster Chetwynd, Michelangelo Pistoletto, John Stezaker, Enrico David, Bart van der Heide, Bik Van der Pol, Kobe Matthys, Annette Krauss, Janna Graham and Valeria Graziano. In 2019 she was selected for the Q-Rated Program of the Quadriennale.

Among her exhibitions:in 2025 Premio GAMEC, Bergamo; My Tongue in my Friend's Mouth at Forma, London 2024 Offendicula, Kora, Castrignano dei Greci; in 2022 ITALICS, Monopoli curated by Vincenzo De Bellis; Persona, ADA, Rome; in 2021 MATERIA NOVA curated by Massimo Mininni at the Gallery of Modern Art in Rome; Una Boccata d'Arte, Puglia curated by Bruno Barsanti, Elpis Foundation and Galleria Continua; in 2019 We Contain Each Other (Breve storia di una spugna), ADA, Rome; in 2018 Sitting Amongst, with Pietro Librizzi at Jupiter Woods, London; in 2017 An Entertainment in Conversation and Verse, curated by Maria Adele Del Vecchio, Galleria Tiziana Di Caro, Naples and in 2016 Goldsmiths Degree Show, London. Her works are part of numerous private collections and the installation Temmatemeneté produced for Boccata d'Arte was acquired by the Puglia Region and will remain permanently in the village.

She has been a visiting tutor at the Academy of Fine Arts of Rome and Milan. She is the representative of the Minister for Culture on the Board of Directors of the Michetti Foundation. She was invited by the Norwegian Embassy to represent Italy in Coast Contemporary, by the British Council as a member of the Committee for the UK-ITALY 2020 Cultural Season.

In 2018 Gaia founded CASTRO, an experimental learning program based in Rome. CASTRO’s programming is articulated on 3 independent tracks: the Public program hosts a range of cultural events for and with everyone, the Studio program provides development opportunities and workspace to fellowship-awarded artists and researchers and the Academia program runs learning activities for students.

Gaia is a founding member and sits on the steering committee of ART WORKERS ITALIA, an autonomous and non-partisan association, created with the aim of giving voice to contemporary art workers in Italy. Conceived out of the political imagination of a group of workers in 2020 as an informal movement, today AWI is an association that collaborates with experts in the legal, fiscal, and administrative sectors, with research institutes and universities, with art and cultural institutions, to build ethical, contractual, and legal tools to protect art workers.

Both activities, that for CASTRO and that for AWI, parallel to his artistic practice reflect her interest in collective dynamics and the role of the artist in contemporary society.