Past Events

They Make You Write Your Poems brings together artists, poets, coders, and design engineers, who explore the relationship between somatic and machine cognition, embracing poetry as an “embodied technology” for resisting the settling of language in the expected. It is curated by Giulia Colletti for the American Academy in Rome’s second Italian Fellowship for Curatorial Research, in collaboration with, and supported by, the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture. It is hosted by Onassis ONX, the Onassis Foundation’s platform for art and advanced technologies.

The exhibition is a dialogue between two painters: Kamrooz Aram (1978, Shiraz, Iran) and Giorgio Griffa (1936, Turin, Italy), whose work illustrates how abstract painting reverberates across time and space. For the opening, contemporary Italian poets Silvia Bre and Carmen Gallo read a selection of poems chosen to reflect the themes of the exhibition. 

The American Academy in Rome invites the public to experience the work of its Rome Prize and Italian Fellows during Open Studios 2026. This special event offers a rare opportunity to step inside their studios, discover the McKim, Mead & White Building and take part in performances.

The event explores the travels and discoveries of women archaeologists featured in Women & Ruins: Archaeology, Landscape, and Photography—including Gertrude Bell, Esther Van Deman, the Bulwer Sisters, and Marion Blake—followed by a discussion of Olivier Guez’s Mesopotamia with Caroline Goodson, Ilaria Puri Purini, and moderator Raffaella Silvestri.

AAR presents Shavasana I (2019) on the occasion of the solo exhibition Poemi della Terra Nera by Wangechi Mutu (2019 Resident) at Galleria Borghese. 

The American Academy in Rome will showcase the work of its Rome Prize winners and Italian Fellows in the arts this summer during Open Studios 2025.

Sublime Cliché marks the third edition of the Festival of Foreign Academies and Cultural Institutes in Rome, on view at MACRO and curated by Saverio Verini.

AAR presents Women and Ruins: Archaeology, Photography, and Landscape, the first exhibition dedicated to the influence of a group of trailblazing women who helped record archaeology and landscapes from new vantage points.

Roman Thresholds features prints, drawings, and collages that engage with architectural elements to challenge the boundaries between architecture, visual art, and design within the context of the experience of the Rome Prize.