Giuliano Giuman biography

Giuliano Giuman is an Italian painter and sculptor, born in Perugia in 1944. He initially dedicates himself to music, starting a career as a concert performer, while simultaneously cultivating a passion for painting.
In 1964 he casually participates in an impromptu painting event that will lead him to abandon music in favor of the visual arts. He then trains in the studio of Gerardo Dottori, whom he continues to visit until his move to Rome first and then Bologna and Milan.
In 1972 he inaugurates a cycle on shadow, initially conducted with painting means, to which installations, performances, and photographs are soon added. Furthermore, from 1976 he undertakes video practice, collaborating repeatedly with the Centro Video di Ferrara.
In 1982 he embarks on a research path between music and painting, beginning to also use glass, which from now on will be the characteristic element of his artistic style.
During the same period he holds group and solo exhibitions both in Italy and abroad. At the same time, he creates some large-scale paintings.
Back in Umbria, from 1984 he begins his collaboration with Umbria Jazz, signing in 1993 the manifesto for the twentieth anniversary and many others.
From 1999 to 2013, back in Milan, he teaches at the Accademia di Brera the new language of stained glass. From 2009 to 2012 he is director of the Accademia Pietro Vannucci di Perugia.