# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/achille-bonito-oliva
# Generated: 2026-08-15T00:40:01.927Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/achille-bonito-oliva"
name: "Achille Bonito Oliva"
slug: "achille-bonito-oliva"
description: "Achille Bonito Oliva is an Italian art critic and historian of contemporary art. Since 1968 he has taught history of contemporary art at La Sapienza, the university of Rome. He has written extensively on contemporary art and contemporary artists. He originated the term Transavanguardia to describe the new direction taken in the late 1970s by artists such as Sandro Chia, Francesco Clemente, Enzo Cucchi, Nicola De Maria, and Mimmo Paladino. He has organised or curated numerous contemporary art events and exhibitions; in 1993 he was artistic director of the Biennale di Venezia."
tagline: "Italian art critic (1939-)"
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birthDate: "1939-11-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump