Born 1966, Reggio Calabria, Italy.
Lives and works in Cuernavaca, Mexico.
A native of southern Italy’s Reggio Calabria province, Domenico Zindato studied theater design in Rome, before withdrawing from university to devote his time to art. In the 1980s, Zindato lived and worked in Berlin, where his interests in photography, theater, music, performance, and image-making came together in multi-media events he organized for the emblamatic venues of Berlin’s post-Punk nightlife. After leaving Europe, he traveled throughout India and Mexico, finally settling in Mexico City. After a decade in the Mexican capital, Zindato moved to his current residence in Cuernavaca.
A master draftsman, Zindato has developed a labor-intensive, meticulously detailed drawing technique, using nib pens and fine-haired brushes on paper, to create semi-abstract images packed with mysterious motifs and elaborate patterns. Set against brightly colored backgrounds, Zindato’s drawings read, from a distance, as abstract. Viewed closely, however, they reveal the artist’s intricate pattern-making, with its dynamic swirls, eddies, and enigmatic symbols: eyeballs, floating heads, wave-like ripples and hand-drawn letters. At once extremely precise in its execution and meditative in spirit, Zindato’s art suggests affinities with pre-historic cave paintings, aboriginal art, Buddhist mandalas and Native-American decorative patterns. Zindato’s palette has absorbed the colors of his travels in India and Mexico…vivid ochres, blues, greens and pinks.
Zindato is a favorite of collectors of self-taught artists’ works in the United States and Europe. He was previously represented by Phyllis Kind Gallery in New York; Andrew Edlin Gallery has represented the artist since July 2009
EDUCATION
1984-88
Studied Law, Theatre, Film and Literature, Sapienza, Università di Roma, Rome, Italy
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022
Domenico Zindato: By the River of Multiple Suns, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, NY
2019
Summer Exhibition, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, NY
2018
Actually Weird, Underdonk, Brooklyn, New York, NY
2017
31, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York
Micro: A Survey, Copyright Berlin, Works on Paper (1997-2016), presented by Julian Scholl, Berlin, Germany
2016
31, Nixon, Mexico City, Mexico
2013
Domenico Zindato, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York
2010
Domenico Zindato, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York
2007
Domenico Zindato: Recent Work, Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York
Galérie Objet-Trouvé, Paris, France
2004
Domenico Zindato: Recent Work, Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York
2000
Domenico Zindato, Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York
1998
Galeria 127, Mexico City, Mexico
1996
Café Aurora Tresor, Berlin, Germany
1995
SOMA in Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
Gallery OZ, Paris, France
1993
Gallery OZ, Paris, France
1992
Boudoir, Berlin, Germany
1991
Gallery Loulou Lasard, Berlin, Germany
1990
Gallery Loulou Lasard, Berlin, Germany
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
Tejido Común, curated by Martina Sabbadini, Languna, Mexico City, MX
Domenico Zindato, One River School of Art + Design, Montclair, NJ
From Nature to Spirit , Thomas Brambilla Gallery, Bergamo, IT
2021
Domenico Zindato and John O’Connor, One River School of Art + Design, Hartsdale, NY
Figure Out: Abstraction in Self-Taught Art, Outsider Art Fair New York, Andrew Edlin
Gallery, New York, NY
Small World, Outsider Art Fair New York, Shin Gallery, New York, NY
2020
Dreamers, curated by Paola Gallio, Assembly Room, New York, NY
2019
Memory Palaces: Inside the Collection of Audrey B. Heckler, American Folk Art Museum, New York, NY
Summer Exhibition: Recent Works, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, NY
2016
As Essential as Dreams: Self-Taught Art from the Collection of Stephanie and John Smither, curated by Michelle White, The Menil Collection, Houston, TX
World Made By Hand, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, NY
2014
En el umbral (y sólo a unos pasos de la dimensión sublime de la belleza), Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City, Mexico
2012
Accidental Genius: Art from the Anthony Petullo Collection, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
2010
Approaching Abstraction, American Folk Art Museum, New York, NY
2009
In Through the Out Door, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, NY
2008
Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, NY
2007
Winteropstelling, Galerie Hamer, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
OttoVolteQuattro, Galleria Fuorinorma, Verona, Italy
ArtVerona, Galleria Fuorinorma, Verona, Italy
2005
Interior Motives, Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, NY
Wos up man? Selections from the J.M. and J.D. Shein Collection, Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
Abuso de conciencia, Convento ExTeresa, Mexico City, Mexico
Galeria El Estudio, Mexico City, Mexico
2003
Write on, Webb Gallery, Waxahachie, TX
2002
Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, NY
2001
Hands Across the Sea, Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, NY
1999
Outsider Art, Museum C. Zander, Bonnigheim, Germany
1996
Gallery OZ, Paris, France
1995
Facing Holiness, Gallery Spektrum, Olmnitz, Czech Republic
Occhio.Concetti del disegno, Noire Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy
1994
Boudoir at PS.1, PS.1, New York, NY
1993
Livres et object d'art, Isabelle Bongard, Paris, France
1991
The Fourth Biedermaier, W139, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
SELECTED PRESS
2016
Randy Tibbits, "The 'As Essential as Dreams' Collection Is Almost Guaranteed to Surprise," Houston Press, June.
Edward M. Gómez, "In Houston, an Outsider Art Trove Finds a Museum Home," Hyperallergic, August.
2011
Edward M. Gómez, “On the Border,” Art & Antiques Magazine, February.
2008
Edward M. Gómez, “Domenico Zindato at Phyllis Kind,” Art in America, April.
2007
Edward M. Gómez, “Domenico Zindato’s Mystical, Mysterious World” Raw Vision, No. 58, Spring.
N.F. Karlins, “Force of Nature,” artnet.
2004
Edward M. Gómez, Review of exhibition at P.K. Gallery, Raw Vision, No. 46, Spring.
N.F. Karlins, “Outsider Art Fair 2004,” artnet.
2001
Roberto Smith, “Art So Out It’s Almost In,” New York Times, January 19.
2000
Edward M. Gómez, “Discovering Art With the Aura of the Outsider,” New York Times, February 20.
N.F. Karlins, “Outsider report,” artnet.
Pamela Scheinman, “Domenico Zindato’s World Music on Paper,” Fiberarts Magazine, March/April.
1995
Switch magazine, Tokyo, No. 10.
1992
Jens Pepper, “Spreeflorenz,” NeueBildendeKunst, No. 6.
1990
E.A., “Bizarre Lust” TIP magazine, Berlin, No. 17.
D. Kuhlbrodt, “Rexdildo in Loulou Lasard,” TAZ Berlin, August 22.
Elke Melkus, “Verborgene Phantasien,” PRINZ magazine, Berlin, August 15.
PUBLICATIONS
2017
Valérie Rousseau (ed.), Jane Caller, Anne-Imelda Radice et al, The Hidden Art: 20th- & 21st-Century Self-Taught Artists from the Audrey B. Heckler Collection, New York: Skirt Rizzoli/American Folk Art Museum.
2016
Michelle White, As Essential as Dreams: Self-Taught Art from the Collection of Stephanie and John Smither, Houston: The Menil Collection.
2013
Domenico Zindato: Recent Drawings, New York: Andrew Edlin Gallery (exhibition catalogue).
2012
Accidental Genius: Art from the Anthony Petullo Collection, Milwaukee: Milwaukee Art Museum (exhibition catalogue).
2011
Charles Russell, Groundwaters: A Century of Self-taught and Outsider Artists, New York: Prestel.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
American Folk Art Museum, New York, NY
Collection de l'Art Brut, Lausanne, Switzerland
The Menil Collection, Houston, TX
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, United Kingdom