MARIO SUGHI

​Mario Sughi began drawing and painting as a child under the guidance of his father, the artist, Alberto Sughi, in Cesena. At the end of the seventies he went to live in Rome where he published his first illustrations in the satirical magazines “Il Male” and “Zut” and studied Art and History at the University of La Sapienza, graduating in 1986. Three years later he moved to Dublin where in 1995 he completed a PhD in Medieval History at Trinity College. In 1996 at Queen's University, Belfast, he edited a medieval Latin text for publication by the Irish Manuscripts Commission. On his return to Dublin he worked as an illustrator for a company of archaeologists, starting to experiment with digital drawing techniques. In 2007 he decided to devote himself exclusively to his career as an artist. In that year he took part in a first group exhibition at the Loft Gallery in Dublin, which was followed by solo exhibitions at Green Room, Manchester (2010), Exchange Gallery and The Complex Studios, Dublin (2011). In 2011 his works were presented at the Italian Cultural Institute in Dublin, as part of the 54th Venice Biennale, Il Padiglione Italia nel Mondo. Subsequently, solo exhibitions of his work were held in Waterford (2012), Rome (2012), Vicenza (2013), Mannheim (2014 & 2015), Aberdeen (2016), Turin (2016) Athlone (2017), Drogheda (2017), Rome (2018), Forlì (2020), Italian Institute of Culture, Bratislava (2021), Italian Institute of Culture, Dublin (2022), United Arts Club Dublin (2023), and he has been regularly invited to take part the Annual Exhibition of Irish Art at the Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin (between 2012- 2023). His work has been installed at Dublin Airport (2011), NHOW Hotel (Milan 2013), Grosby Park (Dublin 2015) and the Raheny Public Library (Dublin 2016) and is included in public and private collections, including the Municipal Gallery of Waterford, the Cassino Museum of Contemporary Art (CAMUSAC) and the Absolute Art Collection. In recent years, his works have been chosen for book and magazine covers, such as the Italian editions of novels by Sally Rooney, Emilie Pine, Emma Straub and David Nicholls, The Dublin Inquirer Magazine, and the Italian dayly newspaper, Domani. In 2022 with Irish writer Mia Gallagher, he co-authored Dubliners, published by Marinoni Books, Milan, 2022. His debut short story, Lacca, alongside his artworks, is dued to be released by Marinoni Books, later on this year. October 2023