Giuliano Giuman biography

Giuliano Giuman is an Italian painter and sculptor, born in Perugia in 1944. He initially dedicated himself to music, embarking on a career as a concert performer, while simultaneously nurturing a passion for painting.
In 1964, he accidentally participates in an impromptu painting event that will lead him to abandon music in favor of visual arts. He then trains in the studio of Gerardo Dottori, which he continues to attend until his move to Rome first, and then Bologna and Milan.
In 1972, he inaugurated a cycle on shadow, initially conducted with pictorial means, to which installations, performances, and photographs were soon added. Furthermore, from 1976, he began the practice of video, collaborating repeatedly with the Centro Video di Ferrara.
In 1982, he embarked on a research path between music and painting, also starting to use glass, which from now on would be the defining element of his artistic signature.
During the same period, he holds both group and solo exhibitions in Italy and abroad. At the same time, he creates several large-scale paintings.
Back in Umbria, since 1984 he began his collaboration with Umbria Jazz, signing the 20th-anniversary poster in 1993 and many others.
From 1999 to 2013, having returned to Milan, he teaches the new language of stained glass at the Accademia di Brera. From 2009 to 2012, he is the director of the Accademia Pietro Vannucci di Perugia.