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Born in Bologna on 17 March 1935, is, in four years in Milan, where the family moved. Very young, began to paint in Venice with Felice Carera.
1951 record of two key meetings for his life as an artist: meets, and attend, Oscar Kokoschka and began to study drawing with Achille Funi at the Accademia di Brera in Milan. 1952 is the first trip to Paris where he will reside at least part of the year, since 1960, began a long series of stays that will lead, among other things, London (1958) and New York (1966), city will return several times to Cuba (1967), in Caracas (1969), in Bavaria (1974), India (1977), Israel (1979), Tokyo (1983), Scandinavia (1988), Argentina (1994). There are many visits and friendships with rich exchange of experiences and insights, which meanwhile is developing with artists, writers, musicians, researchers in many fields of knowledge. There are two exhibitions in 1958, marking the debut exhibition Adami: one at the Institute of Contemporary Art in London and one in the Galleria del Naviglio in Milan. Since then, numerous personal exhibitions and group, in public museums and private galleries, with catalogs of particular importance, with texts by critics, writers and philosophers. There are numerous committees Adami to produce works in public spaces.
Valerio Adami lives between Paris and Meina, on Lake Maggiore.