Paola Pivi – I don’t like it, I love it
Pivi’s art transforms our expectations of what an artwork can be. It’s delightful, thoughtful and deeply human. With this exhibition, we aim to offer Western Australians and visitors a rare opportunity to experience the full spectrum of her incredible imagination and insight.
Colin Walker
AGWA Director
Paola Pivi. Photo: Laura S. Fuchs.
ABOUT THE ARTIST – PAOLA PIVI
Pivi has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions including A helicopter upside down, San Carlo Cremona, Italy (2025); Come check it out, Contemporary Calgary, Canada (2024); It’s not my job, it’s your job, Musée d’art contemporain, Marseille, France (2023); I Want It All, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (2022); You know who I am, High Line Art, New York (2022); Bear like me, Aspen Art Museum, Colorado (2021); Lies, Lies, Lies, Anchorage Museum, Alaska (2021); 25,000 Covid Jokes (It’s not a joke), La Vieille Charité, Marseilles, France (2021); We are the Alaskan Tourists, Arken Museum, Denmark (2020); Art with a view, The Bass Museum, Miami Beach, Florida (2018); I did it again, Savannah College of Art and Design, Georgia (2018); I am tired of eating fish, LaRinascente, Milan, Italy (2017); Ma’am, Dallas Contemporary, Texas (2016); Tulkus 1880 to 2018, FRAC Bourgogne, France (2014); You started it…I finish it, National Gallery of Victoria, Australia (2014); Tulkus 1880 to 2018, Witte de With, Rotterdam, Netherlands (2013); Share, But It’s Not Fair, Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, China (2012); How I Roll, Public Art Fund, New York (2012); It’s a cocktail party, Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany (2008); and It just keeps getting better, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland (2007). Pivi has exhibited internationally at institutions including Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom; Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy; Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany; Whitechapel Gallery, London, United Kingdom; Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Italy; Malmö Konsthall, Sweden; MOMA PS1, USA; Yokohama Triennial, Japan; and the XLVIII Biennale di Venezia, Italy. The artist lives and works in the Island of Hawai’i, Hawai’i.
The title of the show I don’t like it, I love it has been created by Karma Culture Brothers, who creates most of the titles of the artist’s shows and artworks.
