Between 1989 and 1990 he lived in New York where he has his first solo show
Rocce. In the 1990s he exhibited in numerous group shows in Los Angeles at the art gallery of
Otis Parsons College of Art and Design, in Paris, in Kiev at the Soros Center for Contemporary Art, Vienna at the
Vienna Secession, Frankfurt, in Dublin at the
IMMA Irish Museum of Modern Art, Geneva, Taiwan, Liege as well as in Bologna, Rome, Milan, Prato, Naples, Spoleto, Venice. In 1999 the participation in the
XIII Quadriennale Palazzo delle Esposizioni Roma. In the next years his work is featured in numerous solo exhibitions. In 2000 in Rome at the Galleria Stefania Miscetti and in Bangkok Center for Academic Resources,
Chulalongkorn University. In 2001 in Paris at the Galerie Cent8 and in Siena at the
Palazzo delle Papesse Centro Arte Contemporanea. In Milan in the Galleria Christian Stein in 2002, 2005 and 2010. In 2002 the publisher Charta devoted a monograph with essays by
Andrea Camilleri,
Mario Codognato,
Doris von Draten,
Chrissie Iles and
Valerio Magrelli to Canevari. In 2004 the solo project "Welcome to Oz" at the
Center for Contemporary Art PS1, New York curated by
Alanna Heiss and the show “A Couple of Things I Have to Tell You” in the Sean Kelly Gallery, New York. In 2006 the solo project “Rubber Car” in the
MART – Museo d’Arte contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto and the participation in “
The Peace Tower Project” in the
Whitney Biennial at the
Whitney Museum of American Art. In 2007 the solo show “Nothing from Nothing” curated by
Danilo Eccher at the
MACRO, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma, for the show a catalog is published by Electa with text by
Danilo Eccher,
Alanna Heiss,
Klaus Biesenbach,
Chrissie Iles. In 2007 Canevari participates at the 52nd
Biennale Internazionale di Venezia curated by
Robert Storr with the video "Bouncing Skull" which will become in 2008 part of the
MoMA permanent collection in New York. Other solo exhibitions in 2008: “Decalogo” at the
Calcografia Nazionale,
Istituto per la Grafica Roma,
MoMA New York “Raw-War” curated by
Klaus Biesenbach. In 2010 the solo show “Nobody Knows” curated by
Germano Celant at the
Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, in occasion of the show Electa published a comprehensive monograph curated by
Germano Celant. Also in 2010 the show “Odi et Amo” at the
GNAM Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna Rome. In 2011 the solo show “Decalogo” at
The Drawing Center, New York.In 2014 Out of Left Field, 4th Quadrilateral Biennial, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia. In 2015 Arts&Foods. Rituals since 1851, curated by Germano Celant. Triennale Milano. In 2016 he took part in the show Challenging Beauty– Insights of Italian Contemporary Art, Curated by Lorand Hegyi at the Parkview Green Contemporary Art Museum, Pechino, China. In 2018 the participation in the first Bangkok Biennale with the installation: "Monuments of the Memory, the Golden Room" and in November of the same year his drawings from the nineties series "Memoria Mia" accompany the short story book "I tacchini non thank "by Andrea Camilleri. In 2019 the retrospective of nine main cycles of works from 1990 to 2020 at the Christian Stein gallery in Milan. In 2020 the personal exhibition "Dark Matter" in the Gallery of Modern Art "G. Carandente" Palazzo Collicola Spoleto curated by Marco Tonelli and Lorenzo Fiorucci. In 2021 the solo show: “Self-portrait/Autoritratto”, Cardi Gallery, London. The solo show “Good-Year” in 2024 inside the evocative Umbrian archaeological area Carsulae, curated by Costantino D’Orazio. In 2025, solo exhibitions will be held at the Stein Gallery in Milan and “God Year” at the Pinacoteca Comunale, Palazzo Vitelli alla Cannoniera in Città di Castello, curated by Lorenzo Fiorucci. His works are present in private and public collections including: Luigi Pecci Center for Contemporary Art, Prato; Museum of Modern Art MoMA, New York; Louis Vuitton pour la Creation, Paris; Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami; Macro, Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome; MART Museum of Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto; Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg; National Institute for Graphics National Chalcography, Rome; GNAM National Gallery of Modern Art, Rome; Perna Foundation, Capri, Olnick Spanu Art Program Garrison NY. MAXXI, National Museum of XXI Century Arts, Rome, "G. Carandente" Modern Art Gallery Palazzo Collicola Spoleto. In April 2006, after a ten-year relationship, he married Serbian artist Marina Abramović; they divorced in 2009. ==Exhibitions==