About Us

About US

From Pigment to Pixel:

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Colonna Contemporary is a gallery born from conviction: that artists shape how we understand ourselves, and that art must keep pace with the times without losing its soul. Located on the Philadelphia Main Line, we represent artists working across disciplines, painting, sculpture, digital media, and conceptual installation, who blur boundaries and ask urgent questions.

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We exist to surface voices that matter, regardless of trend, medium, or market mood. Our model is hybrid. Our commitment is human.

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Our Vision

Bridging Contemporary Art and Cultural Futures 

 

Colonna Contemporary is a curatorial platform and hybrid gallery committed to shaping the future of art history. Based in the Philadelphia region, we work at the intersection of traditional practice and technological innovation, bridging analog and digital mediums, physical exhibitions and blockchain authentication, pigment and pixel.

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Our program champions artists whose work grapples with the emotional, philosophical, and speculative dimensions of the human experience in an age of intelligent systems. As museums expand their definitions of materiality, authorship, and permanence, Colonna Contemporary offers a generative space for inquiry, preservation, and dialogue.

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Through rigorous documentation, deep artist relationships, and a commitment to emerging cultural formats, we serve as a trusted source for collectors and institutions looking to engage with the next chapter of contemporary art.

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Who We Are

Founder & Director: Michele Colonna

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Colonna Contemporary was founded by Michele Colonna, a contemporary art collector turned gallerist, who saw a widening gap between the art world’s traditional institutions and the rapidly evolving tools, ideas, and identities shaping contemporary life.

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Michele launched the gallery with a simple belief: that art should not only reflect culture, but also shape it. With a career spent navigating the intersections of storytelling, technology, and aesthetics, he envisioned a space that could hold both the texture of oil paint and the trace of a blockchain record. A place where the artist’s hand matters as much as their questions. A gallery that isn’t afraid to ask what comes next.

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Since its founding, Colonna Contemporary has championed artists working across mediums, analog and digital, whose work engages deeply with emotion, memory, technology, and the speculative futures of being human. Michele’s approach to curation is personal, intentional, and grounded in long-term belief in the artist’s voice.

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Today, Colonna Contemporary is more than a gallery. It’s a platform for cultural inquiry, a home for artists charting new ground, and a bridge between institutions and the art of the future.