Roberto Visani was in residence at The Square from July - August 2022.

Roberto Visani is a multi-media artist residing in Brooklyn, New York. Primarily working in sculpture, his artwork examines the black body, often through the reinterpretation of historical artworks and artifacts.

His work often involves a reinterpretation of historical artworks and artifacts. Within these archival materials, the artist explores the anonymity that technology engenders and how our identity interfaces with it. In a more visceral sense, he makes things. Physical, dimensional, figurative sculptures that move between representation and abstraction. Sculptures that explore a past present future technology and a past present future body - in particular a Black body. He is interested in the transformation, translation, and transportation of this body through time and space. He uses a combination of digital and traditional tools, process, and materials to this end. His recent works synthesize the black body as a form of digital geometry and ask the viewer to consider complex ideas around spirituality, history, and representation.

Roberto Visani has exhibited at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY; The Studio Museum in Harlem, NY; The Bronx Museum, NY; Brattlesboro Museum, VT; Speed Museum of Art, KY; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, SF; and Barbican Galleries, London. Visani has been awarded residencies from Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, NY, Chelsea College of Art, London and Art Omi, NY. He is a NYFA Fellow in Sculpture and was a Fulbright Fellow to Ghana. His work has been reviewed by the New York Times, Art Forum, Art News, and Frieze among others. Since 2004 he has taught at John Jay College of Criminal Justice where he is an associate professor of art.