

Born in 1974 in Naples, Italy, Piero Golia currently lives and works in Los Angeles. Golia utilizes himself as a medium in his works, presents himself as a conceptual artist. Through story-telling, Golia??™s ultimate aim is to enter history and become a legend as his stories are disseminated. Golia??™s feats have included rowing across the Adriatic Sea, indelibly tattooing his portrait onto a girl??™s back, and displacing the fa?§ade of a museum in It takes a nation of millions to hold us back, at Perry Rubenstein Gallery. Golia has participated in international individual and group exhibitions at such venues as Galerie Christina Wilson, Copenhagen; Prague Biennale 2002; the Villa Medici Academy, Rome; The Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan; and the Centre Rhenan D??™art Contemporain, France. In 2000 he won the IV Ed. Premio ???Torino Incontra??¦l??™Arte???