Luca Bosani (b.1990, he/they) is a multimedia artist whose practice combines sculpture, fashion, and performance to question and challenge traditional gender roles.Throughout 2024, he has been the Victoria & Museum x Adobe artist-in-residence, where he has been researching the history of heels and platform shoes. In December 2024, his research culminated in a post-gender installation featuring nine sculptural shoes and a large scale performance on view until November 2025 in the V&A South Kensington Museum main galleries.
In 2017 – during their Contemporary Art Practice MA at the Royal College of Art – disappointed and constrained by existing gender and artistic categorisation, Bosani conceived the concept of UPOs: Unidentified Performing Objects, artworks that reject categorisation and sit in between definitions (shoes/sculptures – garments/paintings); ever changing, fluid and queer, they aim to transform both the wearer and the viewer. In this non-coded, non-binary, non-prescriptive space, Bosani’s creativity now grows and flourishes. Collaboration and group performances are at the core of Bosani’s practice, and their UPOs are practical and conceptual tools for gender non-conforming individuals (LGBTQI+), neurodivergent communities and young people to feel seen, heard, included and supported.
Bosani has exhibited nationally and internationally including: V&A Museum (UK), Tate Britain (UK), NMMCA (South Korea), QAH (GER), Francesco Fabbri Foundation (IT), Uppsala
Konstmuseum (SWE). Selected grants and awards: V&A Museum x Adobe Artist in Residence (2024), Grow and Flourish, Nine Elms and Wandsworth Council public art commission (2023),
National Lottery Project Grants, Arts Council England (2022), a-n bursary: Time, space, money (2022), Freelands foundation fund (2020), Royal College of Art bursary (2015-2017).
2024 Adobe Artist in Residence at the V&A Museum London, UK.
© Luca Bosani.
