Augusta Lardy Micheli (b.1994, Geneva) is a painter working and living between Neuchâtel, Switzerland, and Paris, France. She holds a degree in Philosophy from Kings College London, and a degree in Fine Arts from City and Guilds of London art School. She was awarded the Freelands foundation painting prize in 2021, and has presented her first solo institutional show in 2025 at the Musée des Beaux Arts Le Locle, Switzerland. Augusta’s work has been shown in Madrid (Galeria Belmonte) Vienna (VIN VIN) Mexico City (Karen Huber) Paris (Galerie DS) and in Switzerland with Galerie Lange+Pult.
Education
BA in Fine Art City and Guilds of London Art School, London, UK 2018-2021
BA in Philosophy, King’s College London, London, UK 2013-2017
Solo exhibitions
Walk with me, Galerie Lange+Pult, Auvernier, Switzerland, 2026
Vol de Nuit, VINVIN, Vienna ,2025
Metaxu (les rives où vivent mes songes), Musée des Beaux Arts le Locle, Switzerland, 2025
Quiero hacer contigo lo que la primavera hace con los cerezos, Galerie DS, Paris 2024
Calix ex Calore, Karen Huber, Mexico City 2023
Kérosène, Belmonte, Madrid 2023
Contrappunto, VINVIN, Vienna 2022
Group and two person exhibitions
Memory Shelf, Gritli Faulhaber and Augusta Lardy Micheli, Galerie Lange Pult, Geneva, Switzerland, 2025
Dialogue sur fils de cuivre, Marie Hazard and Augusta Lardy, Galeria Belmonte, Geneva, Switzerland, 2025
Querida tierra que oscurece, group show curated by Chus Martinez, Belmonte, Madrid 2023
Babele, Spazio Musa,Torino 2023
Verzura, Giulia Mangoni and Augusta Lardy Micheli, C.G. Williams, Siena, Italy, 2023
Adesso Noi Viviamo Così, C.G. Williams, Siena 2022
Lo otro maravilloso, Intersticio, Madrid 2021
Nature /Nurture, Aora, virtual exhibition 2021
Dreamlands : P2, Ohsh Projects, London, UK 2021
Dreamlands : P1, Ohsh Projects, London, UK 2021
Degree show, City and Guilds of London Art School, London, UK 2021
Life On Venus, The Tub, Hackney, London, UK 2021
Distinction
Winner of the 2021 Freelands Painting Prize
Collections
Musée des Beaux Arts, Le Locle, Switzerland
Collection d’art de la ville de Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Residencies
Residency in Casa Lu, Mexico City, MX 2022
Publication
Le Temps 2025
Mousse Magazine 2025
ArtTribune 2025
Notch Magazine 2025
FAD Magazine 2024
Soldes Almanach n.9, Les presses du réel 2025
Hans Ulrich Obrist, Das Magazin 2023
Soldes Almanach n.8, Les presses du réél 2023
El Pais, El retorno de lo surreal 2022
FOCUS magazine, Freelands Foundation 2021
Teaching and Talks
Metaxu, in conversation with Lorraine de Thibault, Musée des Beaux Arts Le Locle, 2025
Guest lecturer at City and Guilds of London Art School, 2021-2023