Norberto Spina
b. 1995

chapter four
september 2025 - december 2025
london

Norberto Spina born in Turin, Italy, lives and works in London. After earning his BA from the Brera Academy in 2017, he graduated from the Royal Academy in 2024. His practice develops through a reflection on memory, understood as the connective tissue between the personal and collective dimensions. Drawing on a heterogeneous visual archive of family photographs, scenes from everyday life, religious icons and popular images from Italian tradition, Spina constructs pictorial compositions that elude any narrative linearity.

Spina’s recent solo exhibitions include Anticamere (Cassina Projects, Milan, 2025) and Presente (Cooke Latham Gallery, London, 2024). He has also taken part in numerous group exhibitions in institutional and independent spaces, including Portals to unwritten time (Perrotin, Paris, 2025), RA Schools Show (Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2024), and Basel Social Club (Bank, Basel, 2025), on the occasion of Art Basel.

selected artworks

Norberto Spina, La promessa, Oil and acrylic on canvas. 80 x 80 cm, 2025. Photography Roberto Marossi. Courtesy of the Artist and Casisna Projects.

Norberto Spina, Il colore delle castagne, Oil, acrylic and marker on canvas. 90 x 80 cm, 2024. Photography Jack Elliot Edwards. Courtesy of the Artist and Cooke Latham Gallery.

Norberto Spina, Frammenti epistolari, Ink on paper, glue, metal and anti-glare glass. 10 x 40 x 23,5 cm, 2024. Photography Jack Elliot Edwards. Courtesy of the Artist.

Norberto Spina, La direzione del tempo, Oil, acrylic and marker on canvas. 170 x 600 cm, 2024. Photography Jack Elliot Edwards. Courtesy of the Artist.

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