Paolo Bolpagni (born in Brescia[1]) is an Italian art historian, critic and curator.

He graduated in letters from the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Brescia, and then completed a doctorate in history of art at the same university in Milan.

From 2008 to 2011, and again from 2013, he was director of the Collezione Paolo VI - arte contemporanea [it] in Concesio, in the province of Brescia,[2][3] and in 2016 became director of the Fondazione Centro Studi sull'Arte Licia e Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti in Lucca, in Tuscany.

[4] Bolpagni has written on the twentieth-century artist Mario Ballocco [it], founder of the Gruppo Origine [it], and has also published work on the interaction between music and the visual arts.

[2] In 2011–2012, he created a channel on YouTube where he presented short videos on the history of contemporary art.