Raggi's work is founded upon the assimilation of her everyday experiences be them ordinary or extraordinary. To express her concepts she plays with life and irony as an interesting mental game, communicating through images to the audience.
Luce was born in the early 80`s in Faenza, one of the utmost ceramic cities in Italy, and grow up with a black marker pen in her pocket. She moved to Milan where she studied Illustration at the European Institute of Design (IED) and Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Brera, partaking also in a one-year exchange program at the London College of Communication (LCC) in the Surface Design and Printmaking department, University of the Arts, London.
Luce has since moved in her personal way into the circles of contemporary art with solo and group shows as well as important art residencies around the worlds. Last ones in Italy but also China, Japan, South Korea and USA.
She is now based in Faenza, where she recently opened Casa Studio Raggi in front of the MIC Museum of Ceramic with her studio and the Another Fucking Gallery, an independent space for contemporary art.

EDUCATION

  2008 MFA in Painting for Contemporary Art, Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milano, Italy

  2005 BA in Illustration, European Institute of Design (IED), MIlano, Italy

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

  2023 Paratissima Eye Contact
Cavallerizza Torino
Curated by Valentina Coppola e Valeria Cirone

  2022 2° Premio Midec per il Design ceramico
"Stanze d'estate" Luce Raggi ed Eloisa Gobbo
Villa Fumagalli, Laveno Mombello, Italy
Curated by Fabio Carnaghi

  2022 1° International Ceramic Art Biennale, Jingdezhen, China
"In bianco, la porcellana nella ceramica d'arte Italiana contemporanea"
Curated by Matteo Zauli and Xiuzhong Zhang

  2018 Paratissima, Caserma Le Marmore, Torino, Italy
"Sguardi Futuri su Mondi Passati"
Curated by Claudia Vallocchia and Morena di Pasquale

  2017 The 11th International Ceramics Competition MINO
Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu, Japan

  2017 JINGPIAO - A city in dialogue with the world
Jingdezhen China Ceramics Museum
Jingdezhen, China
Curated by Zhu Legeng

  2016 MILANO MAKERS
Salone del Mobile, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan Design Week, Italy

  2016 KEEP IT UNREAL - The ceramic movie
Argillà Italia, MIC Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche, Faenza, Italy
Curated by Claudia Casali

  2015 FAIENZA AU XXI Siècle
Argillà International Ceramic Fair, Aubagne, France
Curated by Claudia Casali

  2014 DULCISSIMA GENS MANFREDA
Permanent installation at the Biblioteca Manfrediana, Faenza, Italy
Curated by Viola Emaldi

  2013 COLLECT Ceramiche contemporanee di Faenza
Galleria Comunale d'Arte, Faenza, Itlay
Curated by Viola Emaldi

  2012 PERSONAL EFFECTSONSALE
Artefiera, Padiglione Esprit Nouveau, Bologna, Italy
Curated by Sergia Avveduti, Francesco Calzolari, David Casini, Viola Emaldi, Irene Guzman, Valentina Rossi, Marco Scotti, Sissi,

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

  2022 ANOTHER CERAMIC BRICK IN THE WALL
Casa Studio Raggi & Another Fucking Gallery, Faenza, Italy

  2021 ATTENTI AL LUPO, special guest cantiere Ceramica Off
Museo della Ceramica di Montelupo Fiorentino (FI), Italy

  2020 Luce Raggi per MCZ
Padiglione estate Museo Carlo Zauli, Faenza, Italy
Curated by Matteo Zauli

  2018 I'M NOT A CERAMIST
Museo Carlo Zauli, Faenza (RA), Italy
Curated by Matteo Zauli

  2017 NO FLOWERS UNTIL I'M DEAD
Taoxichuan Ceramic Art Avenue, Jingdezhen, China
Curated by Po-Wen Liu

  2014 CIAO NOIA
Galleria Comunale d'Arte, Faenza, Italy
Curated by Viola Emaldi e Marco Scotti

RESIDENCIES

  2023 PARATISSIMA STREET ART RESIDENCY
Cavallerizza Reale, Torino
Curated by Laura Tota e Francesca Canfora

  2019 A WAY TO CLAY - SULLA VIA DELLA CERAMICA
Fuping Pottery Village, Shaanxi, China
Invited by AICC (Associazione Italiana Città della Ceramica)
Curated by Matteo Zauli and Benedetta Falteri

  2019 THE PLACE ON PCH INTERNATIONAL ARTIST RESIDENCY
Grover Beach, California, USA
Curated by Darcy Badiali

  2016 -2018 INTER-LOCAL ARTIST WORKSHOP
30th and 32nd Ceramics Festival Icheon, South Korea
Invited by AICC Associazione Italiana Città della Ceramica

  2017 JINGDEZHEN INTERNATIONAL STUDIO
Taoxichuan Art Avenue, Jingdezhen, China
Invited by Taoxichuan Art Avenue and AICC
Curated by Po-Wen Liu

  2016 JINGDEZHEN INTERNATIONAL STUDIO
Taoxichuan Ceramic Art Avenue, Jingdezhen, Cina
Invited by Taoxichuan Art Avenue and MIC Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche
Curated by Ryan Matthew Mitchell

  2014 50TH INTERNATIONAL CERAMIC AND SCULPTURE SYMPOSIUM
Bolesliawiec, Poland
Invited by AiCC Associazione Italiana Città della Ceramica

AWARDS

  2021 TOO BLUE TO BE TRUE
3°place PREMIO MIDEC
MIDec Museo Internazionale del Design Ceramico, Laveno-Mombello, Italy

  2017 ANOTHER FUCKING BLUE AND WHITE VASE
Honorable mention - 11th INTERNATIONAL CERAMICS COMPETITION MINO
Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu, Japan

  2016 KEEP IT UNREAL - The Ceramic Movie
Video art special award - VIDEOFRECCIA VIDEO CONTEST
Auditorium comunale di Molinella, Italy

MUSEUM ACQUISITIONS

  2021 BISTECCA
Museo della Ceramica Montelupo Fiorentino, Montelupo Fiorentino, Italy

  2020 LINEA
Museo Carlo Zauli, Faenza, Italy

  2017 ANOTHER FUCKING BLUE AND WHITE VASE
Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu, Japan Japan

  2017 JINGDEZHEN TRYPTICH
TOO BLUE TO BE TRUE
FAKE GUCCI CLEANING SET
Taoxichuan Ceramic Art Museum, Jingdezhen, China

  2015 INTO THE GAROFANO
MIC Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche, Faenza, Italy

PUBLICATIONS

  2022 IN DA HOUSE Art & Disage #2
Periodico indipendente d'arte e misfatti, Faenza, Italy

  2021 IN DA HOUSE Art & Disage #1
Periodico indipendente d'arte e misfatti, Faenza, Italy

  2018 I'M NOT A CERAMIST, solo show Catalogue, Museo Carlo Zauli, MCZ Edizioni, Italy

  2017 JINGPIAO - A city in dialogue with the world, exhibition catalogue, Jingdezhen, China

  2017 The 11th INTERNATIONAL CERAMICS COMPETITION MINO, exhibition catalogue, Japan

  2014 50th INT.SYMPOSIUM Ceramic & Sculpture, Boleslawiec, Artists in Residency Catalogue, Poland

  2014 Parco Museo Sant'Anna del Furlo / Land Art tra Conservazione e Restauro _ ARAS Edizioni, Italy

  2013 COLLECT / Opere contemporanee in ceramica di Faenza, Italy

  2012 personaleffectsonsale _ Exhibition Catalogue, DANILO MONTANARI EDITORE, Italy

  2012 Poesia della Materia – Residenza d'arte ambientale, Colle San Marco, Italy