Nicoletta Salomon, PhD
Current Position: full-time Professor of Fine Arts and Creative Writing, at the Florence University of the Arts – The American University of Florence (FUA–AUF), Italy, where I also serve as a member of the Academic Senate and a member of the Scientific Committee.
Abbreviated CV
Education, Academic Research, Writing, Painting, Teaching Experience
I graduated in Classics both at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa and at the University of Pisa.
I obtained my PhD in Greek History at the Scuola Normale of Pisa.
I obtained my Post-doctoral Fellowship in Classics at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa.
I won various fellowships to carry academic research in Italy (Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa, University of Pisa, University of Venice, The Italian National Research Council); in Europe (Paris, École Normale Supérieure and École Pratique des Hautes Études; Geneva, Fondation Hardt; University of Tübingen); in the US (Princeton University, The Graduate School).
I won a 2-years Research&Teaching fellowship in Aesthetics at the University of Florence.
My academic research focuses on Aesthetics and Classics. My specific fields of interest are: creativity, memory, identity, creative processes in painting and writing.
My essay La zattera di mimesis: i greci, la creazione, l’arte, Marsilio, Venice 2001, won the Castiglioncello – Costa degli Etruschi Philosophy Award, and was awarded the Orient-Express special jury award, as well as the Valitutti special jury award (2002).
As a writer of fiction I focus on women’s struggle for identity.
My novel Questa non è una storia d’amore has been shortlisted at the Calvino Prize 2005.
My novel Tredici anni has been long-listed at the Calvino Prize 2019.
My novel Royal has been long-listed at the Clvino Prize 2023.
I am a professional translator from English, French, German, Latin, Ancient Greek.
I am fluent in English and French, and I have a good knowledge of German.
I teach and write in English and Italian.
I am an established painter, my work is represented by the Immaginaria Arti Visive Gallery, Florence (https://www.galleriaimmaginaria.com). My artworks have been exhibited in European art fairs, and are in various private collections in Europe and in the US. A permanent collection of my paintings, “Inner Cosmos” is showcased at FUA–AUF, Florence. (http://fair.palazziflorence.com/our-gallery/permanent-exhibitions/).
I am a full-time Professor of Creative Writing, Fine Arts, and Creative Processes for the Arts, Head of the Fine Arts Department, as well as a member of the Scientific Committee of the Florence University of the Arts – The American University of Florence, Italy (FUA–AUF).
Full CV
Education, Research, Teaching Experience, Published books and articles, Exhibitions
Education
•1986: High School Degree: maximum score, Liceo Classico “Tiziano,” Belluno.
•1986: Winner of the National competition for the admission at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa.
•1991: Graduated in Classics both at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa and at the University of Pisa: maximum score cum laude.
•1991: Winner of the National competition for the admission at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa – The Graduate School.
•1995: PhD in Greek History at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa: maximum score cum laude + right of publication of the PhD dissertation.
•1995: Winner of a 1 year Giorgio Pasquali Fellowship in Greek History and Philology at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa.
•1998-1999: Winner of a 2 years Post-doctoral Fellowship in Classics at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa.
•2000: Research Fellowship – University of Pisa.
•2000: Research Fellowship – University of Venice.
•2001: Research Fellowship – Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa.
•2001: Research Fellowship – Italian National Research Council.
•2001: Assistant to the Aesthetic Professors of the Florence State University.
Research in Foreign Universities
•1991: Research Fellowship, Fondation Hardt – Geneva.
•1992: Research Fellowship, École Normale Supérieure and École Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris.
•1993: Research Fellowship, Princeton University – The Graduate School.
•1993: Semester of free research in Leiden and Amsterdam.
•1994-1995: Research Fellowship, Tübingen University; Research Fellowship, The Embassy of The Netherlands.
•1996-1997: 2 Research Fellowships, Tübingen University.
Teaching Experience
•2002-2004: Research&Teaching Fellowship in Aesthetics at the University of Florence.
•2005 (Summer Semester): Professor of Renaissance Art for Michigan State University in Florence.
•2006 (Summer Semester): Professor of Art History at FUA_AUF.
•2013-2018: Adjunct Professor of Creative Writing, Fine Arts, Creative Processes for the Arts, Departments of Journalism, Fine Arts, and Art Education at FUA–AUF, Florence.
•2019 – : Full-time Professor of Creative Writing, Fine Arts, Creative Processes for the Arts, Departments of Journalism, Fine Arts, and Art Education at FUA–AUF; Florence.
Lectures and Conferences
•14 March 1996: University of Venice, Dpt of Classics: “L’impero di Atene” [The Athenian Empire].
•20 October 1997: University di Pisa, Dpt. of Foreign Languages: “Nascita di idoli nel mondo antico” [The life of Idols in the Ancient World].
•23 January 1998: University di Pisa, Dpt. of Foreign Languages: “L’artista ‘mago’ nel mondo antico” [The Magic of the Ancient Artist].
•30 November 2000: Conference “Lo sperimentalismo nella storia del teatro occidentale”, Pisa 30/11-2/12/2000: “Nietzsche. Il gioco del tragico” [Nietzsche Playing Tragic].
•20 March 2002: University of Turin: “Platone: Eros e filosofia” [Eros and Philosophy in Plato].
•8 April 2002: Liceo Classico Machiavelli, Florence: “Origini di filosofia e tragedia “[Origins of Philosophy and Tragedy].
•30 May 2002, Syracuse, Italy, literary event: “Norma e forma” [Norm and Form].
•20 November 2002: University of Turin: “Eros di linea e colore: Matisse” [Matisse And The Interplay of Line and Color].
•18 September 2010: Literary Festival “Pordenonelegge”, Conference “L’arte di scrivere d’arte”: “Gli artisti sanno quello che fanno? Fare arte, pensare l’arte” [Do Artists Know What They Are Doing? Doing Art, Speculating on Art].
•8 March 2011: Belluno, City Hall: “L’arte, la donna. Creare, generare: il respiro dell’essere” [To Generate and To Create: the Breath of Being].
•21 October 2015: Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, in the occasion of the exhibition "Divina Bellezza: tra Van Gogh, Chagall e Fontana,” special project for Universities and Academies “Holy! Holy! Holy!: “In interiore homine,” lecture on my artistic path and art process in connection with the Sacred.
•4 December 2015: annual FUA–AUF Conference “De Re Mediterranea”: “Dreaming of a City on the Water: Venice-Atlantis?”
•3 December 2016: annual FUA–AUF Conference “The Force of the Words: Oriana Fallaci, Florentine, Journalist, Citizen of the World”: “A Novel I Call my Baby.”
•14 April 2018: “Florence Writers Publishing Day,” Florence, moderator of the “Submission” panel (with Jeff Kleinmann, Beena Kamlani, Louise Lamont, Carlo Gebler).
•1 December 2018: annual FUA–AUF Conference “Rare and Universal. Leonardo’s Humanism Across Time and Space”, Student Panel coordinator, “Anatomy of the Invisible.”
•17 May 2019: Lee University in Florence, “Rhetoric, and Truth: Heritages of Greece and Rome”.
•6 December 2019: annual FUA–AUF Conference “Consumption, Gentrification, and the New Colonialism”: “The Scent of Travel Time.”
• 1-2 December 2023: Conference Coordinator of the annual FUA–AUF Conference “Gardens of Culture: Italo Calvino’s Memos for the New Millennium”
Publishing
•2001: prototype for a Lexicon of the Ancient World, Le Monnier, Florence.
•2000: collaboration to G. Devoto – G.C. Oli, Dizionario della lingua italiana, Le Monnier, Florence.
•2000: G.B. Conte – E. Pianezzola – G. Ranucci, Dizionario della lingua latina, Le Monnier, Florence.
•2002: collaboration to P. Parrini – S. Parrini Ciolli, Dimensioni della filosofia, vol. I, Il mondo antico, Mondadori, Milan.
•2005: book chapters in M. Sacchetto, F. Desideri, A. Petterlini, L’esperienza del pensiero. La filosofia: storia, temi, abilità, Loescher, Turin.
•2005: editing for V. Schmid, Venire al mondo e dare alla luce, Apogeo, Milan.
•2006: Entries Barocco, Coomaraswamy, Divisionismo, Espressionismo, Fondazione Centro Studi Filosofici di Gallarate, Enciclopedia Filosofica, ed. by V. Melchiorre, Bompiani, Milan.
•2002-2011: part of the Executive Committee of “Iride. Filosofia e discussione pubblica.”
•2003-2005: collaboration to the Database Indire, sections of Aesthetics and Classics.
•2009-2011: copy editor of “Iris. European Journal of Philosophy and Public Debate.”
•2015-: academic advisor for “Blending,” FUA–AUF campus magazine and newsletter.
•2017: editor for J. Chaffee, Florence in Ecstasy, Unnamed Press.
Publications
A) Books
•Le cleruchie di Atene: caratteri e funzione, ETS, Pisa 1997 [essay reviewed by Philippe Gauthier, “Bullétin Epigraphique,” REG 111, 1998, pp. 595-596 (nr. 146); J. Roy, “The Classical Review,” 49,1, 1999, pp. 153-154; P. Payen, “Revue de Philologie de littérature et d’histoire anciennes,” 71,2, 1997, pp. 344-346; W. Schuller, “Historische Zeitschrift,” 271/3, 2000; R.S. Stroud, The Athenian Grain-tax law of 374/3 B.C., The American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Princeton 1998 (passim)].
•La zattera di mimesis: i greci, la creazione, l’arte, Marsilio, Venice 2001: narrative essay winner of the Castiglioncello – Costa degli Etruschi Philosophy Award 2002; International Literary Award Orient-Express, Rome 2002 (Special Jury Award); International Award for Non-fiction S. Valitutti, Salerno 2002 (Special Jury Award).
•Venezia inabissata. Un fantasaggio, Mimesis, Milan 2004.
•Questa non è una storia d’amore, novel shortlisted fo the Calvino Prize, Turin, 2005 (unpublished).
•Storie di latte. Quadri di una maternità, D&D, Florence 2007.
•Venise engloutie. Essai subjectif sur l’âme de Venise, Fayard, Mille et une nuits, Paris 2008 (reviewed and augmented edition, trans. M. Raiola).
•Non chiedermi niente, Aisara, Cagliari, 2012.
•Tredici anni , long-listed at the Calvino Prize, Turin, 2019 (unpublished).
B) Articles and Book Chapters
•Milziade, Atene e la conquista di Lemno, in Historie, Studi offerti dagli allievi a Giuseppe Nenci per il suo settantesimo compleanno, ed. by S. Alessandrì, Congedo, Lecce, 1994, 399-408.
•Milziade IV e il Chersoneso fra tirannide e democrazia “Atti dell'Accademia delle Scienze di Torino, Atti Sc. Mor.,” CXXX, 1996, 155-178.
•Cleruchie e trierarchie: nota a Demostene, Peri ton symmorion, 16, “Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa,” s. III, XXV, 1995, 243-247.
•Per lo studio delle cleruchie ateniesi. Considerazioni di metodo alla luce di un libro recente, Opus, XII-XIII, 1993-94.
•Atene e i Greci d'Asia nel Panegirico di Isocrate, “Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa,” s. IV, I, 1996, 41-60.
•Lo storico e l’espansione di Atene nel IV secolo: osservazioni sul libro di Jack Cargill, Athenian Settlements of the Fourth Century B.C., Leiden-New York-Köln, E.J. Brill, 1995, Opus, n.s., I, 1998.
•Tucidide, in Introduzione alla storiografia greca, ed. by di M. Bettalli, Carocci, Roma 2001, 69-92.
•Il tragico e l’esserci. Nietzsche, “aut aut,” 307-308, 2002, 133-154.
•Nietzsche. Il gioco del tragico, in L’officina del teatro europeo, Atti del convegno Lo sperimentalismo nella storia del teatro occidentale, ed. by A. Grilli and A .Simon, Pisa 30 novembre - 2 dicembre 2000, Edizioni Plus - Università di Pisa 2002, vol. I, Performance e teatro di parola, 457-464.
•Acqua e psiche. Chateaubriand a Venezia, L’instinct voyageur. Creazione dell’io e scrittura del mondo in Chateaubriand, ed. by F. Martellucci, Unipress, Padova 2001, 155-168.
•La realizzazione di sé. Etty Hillesum, “Klaros,” 15, 2002, 52-79.
•Phobos. Radici antiche della paura, “Atque,” 23-24, 2002, 43-57.
•Percorrere la notte. Mulholland Drive di David Lynch, “Iride,” 37, 2002, 634-638.
•Norma e forma, “Estetica,” 2, 2003, 113-126.
•Erotica Elenctica Ironica. Amore platonico, in Lo sguardo di Eros, ed. by M. Vozza Mimesis, Milan 2003, 23-37.
•Intelligenza tragica, in Ermeneutica e pensiero tragico. Studi in onore di Sergio Givone, ed. by C. Ciancio et al., Il Melangolo, Genoa 2004, 123-141.
•Venezia al di là del mito, in “Nuova informazione bibliografica,” 4, 2004, 789-804.
•Il cane e il sacro. Su Vergogna di J.M. Coetzee, “Iride,” 59, 2010, 173-176.
•The Mirror of Power (discussion with M. Pezzella on Vincere by M. Bellocchio) “Iris,” 2,3, 2010, 222-227.
•Il corpo della politica, “Iride,” 59, 2010, 125-137.
•Il cane e il sacro (discussion with G. Origgi on Vergogna by J.M. Coetzee), Ibid., 173-176.
•Lo specchio del potere (discussion with M. Pezzella on Vincere by M. Bellocchio), Ibid., 675-678.
•Les artistes savent-ils ce qu’ils font?, in Merleau-Ponty entre philosophie et art, ed. by L. Vinciguerra and F. Bourlez, Reims, Presses Universitaires de Reims, 2011, 45-53.
•De-individuazione (discussion with L. Vinciguerra on Io sono l’amore by L. Guadagnino and L'amante inglese by C. Corsini), “Iride,” 62, 2011, 183-185.
•Scrivere, vivere, reinventare: dove scavano le radici di un romanzo, guest post of "Scrittore Computazionale", Arturo Robertazzi’s blog, 10.12.2012:<http://www.arturorobertazzi.it/2012/12/10/scrivere-vivere-reinventare-dove-scavano-le-radici-di-un-romanzo-guest-post-di-nicoletta-salomon/>.
•"Speculating While Making Art,” “Blending Magazine,” F/W 2014/15, 22-25.
C) Book Reviews
•Michel Foucault, Discorso e verità nella Grecia antica, Donzelli, Rome 1996, Opus, n.s., I, 1998.
•María Zambrano, L’uomo e il divino, ed. by V. Vitiello, Edizioni Lavoro, Rome 2001, “Iride,” 38, 2003, 215-216.
•María Zambrano, Luoghi della pittura, Medusa, Milan 2002, “Estetica,” 3, 2003.
•Mario Vegetti, Quindici lezioni su Platone, “Iride," 2004, 229-230.
•Edith Stein, Vie della conoscenza di Dio. La “teologia simbolica” dell’Areopagita e i suoi presupposti nella realtà, with an essay by R. De Monticelli, Dehoniane, Bologna 2003, “Theoria,” 2005.
D) Translations
from English:
•G.W. Most, Memoria e oblio nell’Eneide, in VV. AA., Memoria e identità. La cultura romana costruisce se stessa, ed. by M. Citroni, Florence 2001.
•G.W. Most, Heidegger’s Greeks, I Greci di Heidegger, “Belfagor,” LVII, 2, marzo 2002, 129-140.
•R. Bodei, La presunzione dell’Occidente: non esiste una civiltà superiore, «La Repubblica», 30 May 2009, p. 47.
•M.P. Lara, Political Imagination ad Feminism, “Iride,” 59, 2010, pp. 87-98.
•R. Fry, Cézanne, Ananke, Turin 2009 (translated and edited, with introduction Due pittori, pp. 7-20).
from French:
•C. Orrieux – P. Schmitt Pantel, Storia greca, il Mulino, Bologna 2003, pp. 1-573 (translated and edited).
•P. Ricoeur, Ricordare, dimenticare, perdonare, introduction by R. Bodei, il Mulino, Bologna 2004.
•G. Therborn, Le società d'Europa nel nuovo millennio, il Mulino, Bologna 2011 (texts both from French and English).
from German:
•Hermann Hesse, Glück, hrsg. V. Michels, Frankfurt a. M. 2000, La felicità, Mondadori, Milan 2002.
Art Exhibitions
I am a featured artist at the Immaginaria Arti Visive Gallery, Florence. My paintings are in private collections in Europe and in the US. A permanent collection of my paintings, “Inner Cosmos” is showcased at FUA–AUF, Florence.
Solo Exhibitions
•2005: Florence, La Corte Arte Contemporanea Gallery, “Amor sacro.” Catalogue by Nicola Nuti
•2006: Belluno, Galleria De Luca, “Amor sacro.” Catalogue by Davide Gasparotto
•2006: Florence, Grand Hotel Minerva, “Artour-o”, with Artesì, Art over Art Gallery
•2009: Florence, FUA–AUF, “Writing in Painting.” Catalogue by Nicola Nuti
•2009: Florence, Lo Spirito della Rive Gauche, "Il percorso della forma. Dipinti”
•2009: Belluno, Colophonarte, “Scrittura, scritture”
•2010: Florence, Cuculia, “Rosso tra le pagine”
•2011: Belluno, Palazzo Crepadona – Cubo di Botta, “Nel colore. Opere 2010-2011”
•2011: Florence, Etoile Toy Visual Arts – Florence Dance Center, "Respiro. Opere 2011”
•2012: Florence, Immaginaria Arti Visive Gallery, “Trasformare.” Catalogue by Sonia Zampini
•2013: Florence, Teatro Verdi, "Per la danza,” with Scuola di danza Hamlyn
•2014: Florence, "Frediano al numero 8,” "Per Pratolini,” concept by E. Mascherini
•2014: Florence, FUA–AUF, "Inner Cosmos”
•2016: Florence, Immaginaria Arti Visive Gallery, “Abisso”
•2018: Pontremoli, Atelier-Laboratorio E. Donadel, Palazzo Dosi-Magnavacca, “Opere”
•2020: Pontremoli, Galleria Spazio4arte, “Opere”
•2021: Pontremoli, nõgallery, “Opere”
•2021: Florence, FUA–AUF, via Ricasoli 21, “Almost Nothing”
•2024: Florence, Cartavetra Gallery, “Sospensione” (dual show with Mitsuko Hoshino)
•2024: Florence, FUA–AUF, “Epoché”
Group Exhibitions
•2005: Castelnuovo Val di Cecina (Pisa), Ex Cinema Tirreno, “Voci da Marte.” Catalogue by Sibilla Ferrara
•2005: Florence, Galleria La Corte Arte Contemporanea, “Per Soccorso Clown”
•2006: Florence, Artesì, “Art over Art”
•2006: Pietrasanta, “La Marguttiana”
•2009: Florence, Saschall, “Progetto Polioplus,” Rotary International
•2009: Florence, Sam – Spazio Arte e Mestieri, “IoAbito,” curated by Cristina degl'Innocenti
•2009: Florence, Immaginaria Arti Visive Gallery, “Spazi e linguaggi”
•2011: Florence, Immaginaria Arti Visive Gallery, “Viaggio al termine della forma”
•2011: Florence, Florence Design Week
•2012: Fiesole, Studio QUADRO 0.96, "110 pittori per i 110 anni di Cesare Zavattini,” curated by Paolo di Bella and Aldo Frangioni
•2014: Florence, Florence Dance Center, “Passaggio”
•2017: Pordenone, Galleria Sagittaria, ”L'arte di scrivere d'arte, 2007-2017: un progetto in forma di dialogo,” curated by Fulvio Dell'Agnese.
•2018: Florence-Pisa-Pontedera-Carrara- Pontremoli, ”Libro d'Artista Toscana Tour 2018”
•2019: Pontremoli, Spazio4arte, site specific urban installation
•2021: Florence, Immaginaria Arti Visive Gallery, “Pagine Volanti”
•2021: Florence, Immaginaria Arti Visive Gallery, “Dante in figura: 53 contemporary artists”
•2022: Pontremoli, Villa La Cartiera, “Oscillazioni”, curated by Gianni Neri
International Art Fairs
•2012: Scope Basel 2012 (Immaginaria Arti Visive Gallery)
•2012: Art Gent – Flanders Expo Gent (Immaginaria Arti Visive Gallery)
•2013: Art Karlsruhe (Immaginaria Arti Visive Gallery)
•2017: Art Karlsruhe (Immaginaria Arti Visive Gallery)
•2017-2019: Art Vilnius, 8-11/6-2017 (Immaginaria Arti Visive Gallery)
Publications of the Painted Work
•Catalogue of the Painted Work, 2008-2012, curated by Sonia Zampini, Immaginaria Arti Visive Gallery, Florence 2012.
•Nuovo Corriere di Firenze, "Asilo politico,” 1 dicembre 2011, Gallery on paper.
•“Blending”, 3/2, Fall 2013, N. Salomon, “Desire for Colors”, (3 paintings and a narrative text), p. 16.
•"Blending", 4/8, Fall 2014, “Inner Cosmos: A Permanent Art Collection for FUA,” pp. 1-2 <http://issuu.com/fuaflorence/docs/blending_f14__2>
•”Blending," 5/7, Fall 2015, pp. 11-12 <https://issuu.com/fuaflorence/docs/5.7_blendingnewsletter>.
•"L'arte di scrivere d'arte, 2007-2017: un progetto in forma di dialogo,” Galleria Sagittaria, 20/5-17/9-2017, curated by Fulvio Dell’Agnese, pp. 40-41.
•"Libro d'Artista Toscana Tour 2018,” pp. 86-87.
• “Blending”, 11/1, Spring 2021, “Art in the time of the coronavirus. An interview with Nicoletta Salomon” <https://issuu.com/fuaflorence/docs/bm_11.1>
• Catalogue “Almost Nothing”, 2021, <https://corridoiofiorentino.it/almost-nothing-by-nicoletta-salomon/?lang=it>
• Catalogue “Sospensione”, 2024, Cartavetra Gallery, Florence
• Catalogue “Epoché”, 2024, FUA–AUF, https://corridoiofiorentino.it/nicoletta-salomon/