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Pietro Costa is known for his work with glass, neon and his own blood. He has exhibited his work in one-person and group exhibitions in New York (at the Penine Hart Gallery, The Sculpture Center, David Beitzel Gallery and Hudson River Museum, among others) as well as in Italy (at Piano Nobile in Perugia and Galleria Il Ponte in Rome). Costa’s work can be found in the Guggenheim Museum in New York and in private collections in New York and Italy. He has worked closely and in collaboration with many artists, most notably with Richard Serra, and with art institutions such as the Guggenheim Museums in New York and Bilbao, DIA in New York, and MOCA in Los Angeles. During the planning stages of the Guggenheim Bilbao in Spain, Costa consulted with Frank Gehry’s office to coordinate the art installations in the new museum.

Costa’s work has been reviewed in the New York Times, Village Voice, and Art in America, as well as in newspapers, magazines, on radio and television in Italy. He has taught at Parsons School of Design and published a book of his work from the 1990’s. Costa was born in Sant’Arsenio, Salerno, and now lives in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn.