Born 1992, Genoa, Italy
Lives and works in London, UK
Education
2024
Elected Member of the Royal Society of Sculptors, London, UK
2017
MA in Sculpture, Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milan, Italy
Erasmus Exchange, École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
2015
BA in Sculpture, Accademia Ligustica di Belle Arti, Genoa, Italy
Solo Exhibitions
2026
Vita immobile, Brompton Cemetery Chapel, London, UK
Selected Group Exhibitions
2026
House & Garden Craft Prize Exhibition, Sotheby’s, London Craft Week, London, UK
In the Company of Still Life, ArtYard, Frenchtown, NJ, USA (current)
Mundane Shrines II, One Paved Court Gallery, London, UK
London Art Fair, Royal Society of Sculptors in partnership with TM Gallery, London, UK
2025
Soho Open, Great Pulteney Street Gallery, London, UK
Summer Exhibition, Crane Court Gallery, London, UK
Summer Show, Royal Society of Sculptors, Burgh House, London, UK
Spaceshifting, Royal Over-Seas League, London, UK
Provisional We, The Handbag Factory, London, UK
Stone, Falconhurst, Kent, UK
Buoyancy, Royal College of Art, London, UK
Stone, Paper and Paint, Thompson Gallery, London, UK
Risvolti materici, Terra Migaki Design, Milan Design Week, Milan, Italy
2024
Still Not Static, Thompson Gallery, London, UK
Summer Show, Moncrieff-Bray Gallery, Egdean, West Sussex, UK
2023
SSA Annual Exhibition, The Maclaurin Gallery, Ayr, Scotland
British Art Fair, Thompson Gallery at Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
Autumn Exhibition, Thompson Gallery, London, UK
Summer Show, Moncrieff-Bray Gallery, Egdean, West Sussex, UK
Winter Sculpture Park, Gallery No.32, Bexley, UK
2022
On Form, Asthall Manor, Oxfordshire, UK
Artworks Open, Barbican Art Group Trust, London, UK
2017
Les Ateliers Ouverts, Beaux-Arts de Paris, Paris, France
S'inscrire, puis s'effacer, Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
Awards and Recognitions
Winner - Marsh Award for Best in Show, Royal Society of Sculptors Summer Show 2025
Finalist – House & Garden Craft Award 2026
Finalist - First Plinth Award 2025
Longlisted – Aesthetica Art Prize 2025
Public Collections
Museum Casa Don Bosco, Turin, Italy
Eighty The Strand, London, UK
Beatrice Solinas Donghi Garden, Serra Riccò, Genoa, Italy
Gabriele Risso is a sculptor based in London. He studied at the Ligustica Academy of Fine Arts in Genoa and at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera in Milan, with an Erasmus exchange at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. In 2017, he exhibited at the Louvre as a student of the Beaux-Arts de Paris. In 2020, he completed a permanent, site-specific commission for the Museo Casa Don Bosco in Turin. His work has been exhibited internationally. Winner of the 2025 Marsh Award for Best in Show at the Royal Society of Sculptors’ Summer Exhibition.