Tomaso De Luca

Amant Residency New York

Spring 2026

Tomaso De Luca’s work–articulated through drawing, sculpture, installation and video practices – is a set of perverse and improbable strategies that aim to present a ‘way out’ from the increasingly violent consequences of modernity–gentrification, oppression, isolation and exploitation. In opposition to these grim realities, they draw inspiration from queer utopias, weird studies, impossible architectural experiments, slapstick comedies and gothic characters in order to present a set of radical political alternatives–often camp and absurd–to reimagining the world.

Tomaso is a visual artist based in Berlin, they have exhibited their work in Künstlerhaus Bremen, Parque Lage - Rio de Janeiro, CAC Vilnius, SongEun Art Space Seoul, Pori Art Museum, IIC Paris, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo and LIAF 2022, the Lofoten Biennial. They have been Cy Twombly Fellow at the American Academy in Rome (2017) and the recipient of the MAXXI Bulgari Prize (2021).

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Tomaso De Luca, Installation view of A Week’s Notice, 2020, three channels video and sound installation, color, sound, total length 60’00”, MAXXI, Rome courtesy the artist, Fondazione MAXXI and BVLGARI. Photo: Giorgio Benni

Tomaso De Luca, Desperate Times, 2022 video color, sound, loop, single channel,16’35” video still

Tomaso De Luca, Installation view of Technology for a Ghost, 2024 Wood, iron, medium density fibreboard, acrylic glass, iron wires, varnish, acetate sheets, LE lamps, rotating device, three CCTV cameras, Three DVRs, three 17” monitors variable dimensions, Monitor, Rome. Photo: Giorgio Benni