Solo Exhibitions
2014
Liminality, La Fabrique Galerie d'Art, CIAM, Centre d'Initiatives Artistique de l'Université de Toulouse, France
2008
The Kiss Hoarder, The Old Operating Theatre Museul, London
2007
In the Dark Closet, Art Café Gallery, Human Rights Nights Festival, Bolgna, Italy
2014
In Loving Memory, Le Giubbe Rosse Historic Art Café, Florence, Italy
2005
In Loving Memory, The Old Operating Theatre Museum, London
2001
Big Sensuality, Sesto Senso Art Galley, Bologna, Italy
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023
Dark, GUM museum, Gent, Belgium
2021
Resten, St. Franciscuskerk, Menen, Belgium
2019
Traces: Valentina Lari & Chantal Pollier, Drongenhofdkapel, Gent, Belgium
2018
Egosophy, CON-TEMPORARY Art Observatorium, Lavagna (GE), Italy
2017
Buul, Horebeke, Belgium
2016
Photokabinet: Valentina Lari & Wil Mathijs, De Buck Gallery, Ghent, Belgium
2015
Post Mortem, University of Ghent, Rommelare, Ghent, Belgium
Fabrica Vitae (touring exhibition), Stradins Museum, Riga
Pius XII Library Saint Louis University, USA
Emory Health Sciences Library, Atalanta USA
2014
Fabrica Vitae (touring exhibition) Andreas Syggros Museum, Athens Library Art Gallery, Zakynthos, Greece
The Body is the Instrument of the Soul, Old Operating Theatre, London
Over the Hill, Create Gallery, Photography Biennale Brighton, UK
2013
ArtWorks Open, Artworks, Barbican Arts Trust, London
Histories of Thought, Saint Bavo's Abbey, Ghent, Belgium
2012
Electric, Electric Pictures House, Cheshire, UK
In Paradisum, Rich Mix Studios, London
Panic III, Apiary Studios, London
2011
Letting Go, Campo Santo, Ghent, Belgium
Panic II, Old Abbattoir, London
2008
12 Steps Down: JG Ballard's Drowned Giant, Shoreditch Town Hall, London
2004
lllustration 67, ArtGallery67, London
1998
Middle East Festival Photographic Show, Cineteca di Bologna, Bologna, Italy Children in the City, Archiginnasio Library, Bologna, Italy
Selected film screenings, Lectures & Conferences
2021
Partire per poter raccontare, guest speaker, film conference, AIACE, Aosta Italy
2016
Remains To Be Seen, film screening, Barts Pathology Museum, London UK
2015
Post Mortem Conference, guest speaker artist, University of Ghent, Rommelare, Ghent, Belgium 2014
Brighton Fim Festival, Cinecity, screening, Brighton, UK
Nuit du Patrimonie ENVT, guest speaker artist, Toulouse, France
Dido's Lament: Victorian Rituals of Death and Mourning, guest speaker artist, Preston Manor, Brighton UK
Stillness and Whispers, guest speaker artist, Death Salon UK. Barths Museum, Queen University, London
Creepy Victorians? Victorian and Contemporary Post Mortem Photography, lecturer, The Old OperatingTheatre Museum. London UK
2013
Kino Der Kunst Art Film Festival, guest speaker and film screening, Munich, Germany
Arte Quantistica e Realtà Aumentata (Quantistic Art and Augmented Reality Conference, guest speaker and film screening, Casciano Terme Town Hall, Pistoia, Italy
2012
Valentina Lari and The Mutter Museum, screening,The Last Tuesday Society, London Memento Macabre: Sketches from the Mutter Museum.
Films by Valentina Lari and The Quay Brothers, guest speaker and screening, King's College London UK
Celebrating 150th anniversary of the Mutter Museum, screening, Philadelphia USA
Selected filmography
2014
Liminality HD, colour, 14', France
Dido's Lament: Victorian Rituals of Death and Mourning, HD, b&w, 18' 03'', UK
2011
The Deformity of Beauty. A Last Dance With The Mütter Maidens, HD, B&W, 20' USA/UK (Best Experimental World Cinema shortfilm, Amsterdam Film Festival 2012 & Merit Award, Lucerne Film Festival 2012)
2008
Post Mortem Souvenir, Super8mm & Minidv, Colour,10’ , UK
2005
In Loving Memory, super8mm, 16mm, photographs, B&W, UK 11', UK
2001
Giochi D'Ottobre (October Games)16mm, B&W, 12’ Italy (Best Short Film at MAP VIDEO Visioni Italiane Film Festival in Bologna)
1998
Scheinruhe, HI8, minidv B&W/Color, 11’ Italy (2nd Prize Best short film at the Horror Film Festival, Turin, Italy & Special mention at the VIDEO DONNA FESTIVAL, Bologna, Italy)