Francesco Albano

Francesco Albano (1976) graduated from the Fine Arts Academy of Carrara in Italy. He received the National Art Award MUIR in sculpture in 2005. He lived and worked in Istanbul between 2009 and 2018 and has been living in Palermo since 2018. Albano works as a professor at the Accademia di Belle Arti Palermo.

Francesco Albano’s solo exhibitions include Banks of River at Öktem Aykut (Istanbul, 2024), Melaine Chole at Bilsart (Istanbul, 2020); Four or Five Exercise of Acephalia at Öktem Aykut (Istanbul, 2019), Humoral Fortuities, curated by Luca Reffo and Depart Puor L’Image at Ditta Salvatore Parlato (Palermo, 2019); After Grünewald at Robert Kananaj Gallery (Toronto, 2016); The Possibility of an Island at Öktem Aykut (Istanbul, 2016); On the Eve, with a text written by Selen Ansen at Tophane I-Amire with Galerist (Istanbul, 2013); P.I.E.T.A.S at Studio 9 (Istanbul, 2011); Five Easy Pieces at ExMarmi (Pietrasanta, 2009) and Bestiario Quotidiano at Castello di San Giorgio (Legnano, 2008). The artist has been included in numerous group exhibitions, such as Suppose You Are Not at Arter (Istanbul, 2024); Healing Ruins at Zeyrek Çinili Hamam (Istanbul, 2023); Grief and Pleasure at Odunpazarı Modern Museum (Eskişehir, 2022); Senkron at Öktem Aykut (Istanbul, 2021); 9th Anniversary RKG at Robert Kananaj Gallery (Toronto, 2020); The Child Within Me, Ömer Koç collection at the Abdulmecid Efendi Pavilion (Istanbul, 2019); Ambidexterous at Ambidexter (Istanbul, 2018); Pulsanti Aperietur, Ömer Koç collection at the Abdulmecid Efendi Pavilion (Istanbul, 2017); 0 at Espacio Guesso (Buenos Aires, 2016); Closest Distance at Galerist (Istanbul, 2014) and Lo Stato dell’Arte coinciding with the 54th Biennale di Venezia (Venezia, 2011). Öktem Aykut presented his works at Artissima in Turin in 2021. Francesco Albano’s exhibition titled The Weakest, The Most Insignificant Wind is a Tornado took place at L’Ascensore in February 2025.