Roberto Barni

Roberto Barni was born in Pistoia. He began his public career in 1960 with exhibitions in Pistoia and Florence. His works, exhibited also in Rome in 1963, included paintings, photographs, casts, sculptures and topographies.

Between 1986 and 1987 he had a studio in New York City, and had various exhibitions including a solo display at the Queens Museum. In 1985 he participated in the show on Italian art at the Hirshhorn Museum of Washington DC and the Akron Art Museum in Ohio, and in 1987 at the Avant-Garde in the Eighties exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. He also participated in an exhibition of contemporary Italian art at the Seibu Gallery in Tokyo. He has continued to exhibit across the globe. His slender figures often recall the work of the Swiss sculptor Giacometti.