Runo Lagomarsino (Lund, Sweden, 1977) lives and works between Malmö and São Paulo.
He received his BFA at Academy of Fine Art Valand in Gothenburg, Sweden, in 2001, and his master’s degree in Fine Art at Malmö Art Academy in Sweden (2003).
In 2008, he undertook Whitney Independent Study Program in New York, USA.
Born in Sweden, with exiled Argentinian parents who descended from Italian emigrants who fled Europe during the First World War, Lagomarsino’s biography set the tone for his artistic endeavor.
Lagomarsino’s œuvre finds itself within a critical, decolonial project. His work presents alternative perspectives on historical, political and cultural power relationships. Often employing strategies of displacement and transformation to question the writing of history, especially within the context of South America, his installations, sculptures, pictures, and films focus on how today’s political and social environment has developed through historical processes, and how this creates metaphors and pictures from which we read history and society.
His work is part of many national and international collections, such as, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, USA; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas; Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangdong, China; Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA; Teixeira de Freitas’ Art Collection, Lisbon, Portugal; etc.
