Born in Varese in 1993, he graduated in New Technologies of Art (Art and Media) at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, Milan, with a thesis on public commissions in Italy. He is currently enrolled, in the same institution, to the Master degree in Photography and Visual Arts. After graduating he obtained a Merit Scholarship to finance his artistic research. In 2017 he was selected for the Canon Student Program, held in Perpignan, in France, during the festival Visa Pour L’image, in which he participated to workshops and meetings with internationally renowned authors such as Jerome Sessini, Shannon Ghannam and Nick Nichols.
In December of the same year he was selected for the exhibition Abitare - 999, Aacollection of questions on contemporary living, at La Triennale di Milano curated by Stefano Mirti and was one of the finalists of the international festival of photography SIFest in Savignano sul Rubicone.
In 2018 he won the international photography festival in Sardinia BìFoto in Mogoro and was selected among the winners of the award XXV ORA! - Against femicide induced by the Luna Rosa Association in which they will create a traveling exhibition that will see the cities of Milan, Rome and Crotone. Finally, in June 2018 he won the Premio Photo Prize at the international photography fair Paratissima Milano that led him to exhibit at Paratissima Torino in October at the Caserma la Marmora where he won the PRS Talent Prize.
He is currently involved in the collaboration between the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera and the National Cancer Institute of Milan, where he will begin a personal and collective project within the institute itself.
In 2019 he won the PR2 Camera Work award and will make his first personal exhibition at Palazzo Rasponi 2 in Ravenna.
Awards & Residences
2019 - Camera Work - Slow Photo, Palazzao Rasponi 2, Ravenna
2018 - Premio Equita per Brera, Sala Napoleonica, Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milan
2018 - PRS Talent Prize Paratissima Torino, Caserma La Marmora - Turin
2018 - Photo Prize Paratissima Milano, BASE Milano - Milan
2018 -
XXV ORA! Prize - Contro il femminicidio, Luna Rosa Association, Ex Church of San Carpoforo - Milan
2018 -
BìFoto Prize, International Festival Of Photography in Sardinia - Mogoro
2017 - Visa Pour L'Image - Selected for the Canon Student Residency Masterclass with Magnum - Perpignan
Solo Exihibition
2019 - Camera Work – Palazzo Rasponi 2, Ravenna
Selected Group Exhibitions
2019 - Centrale Fotografia, curated by Luca Panaro, Rocca Malatestiana - Fano
2019 - Still Young Gallery/MIA Photo Fair, curated by Alessandro Curti - Milan
2019 - Lievi e precisi come determinati voli, Sguardi altri sulla cura e la ricerca dei tumori - Sala Pirelli/ Grattacielo Pirelli - Milan
2019 - Other Identity - Altre forme di identità culturali e pubbliche - Palazzo Ducale, Sala Dogana - Genoa
2019 - Apophènia - curated by Leel Project, Macao - Milan
2018 - NoPhoto at Paratissima Art Fair, curated by Laura Tota - Turin
2018 - ContemporaneaMENTI, L'Arsenale foundation - Iseo
2018 - Tenute Orestiadi, Permanent collection at Barriques Museum- Gibellina
2018 - Riccardo Prina Prize, Un racconto fotografico - Ghiggini Gallery - Varese
2018 - Riccardo Prina Prize, Un racconto fotografico - La Triennale di Milano - Milan
2018 - ICI Venice, Magazzini del Caffè - “Cinematic Vision ImageNation”, curated by Martin Vegas - Venice Film Festival Days - Venice
2018 - Voies Off Festival, ImageNation, curated by Martin Vegas - Arles
2018 - SEDICI - Ultra // Cronache Inaudite - Prato
2018 - Winners of the Luna Rosa Prize - Palazzo Poli - Rome
2018 - Winners of the Luna Rosa Prize - Museum/Archaeological park of Capo Colonna - Crotone
2018 -
MIA Photo Fair, With Giorgio Lotti, Represented by Caielli Fine Art whit his project Unreal - Milan
2018 - La Triennale di Milano, ABITARE - 999 Una collezione di domande sull'abitare contemporaneo, with the
collaboration of MUFOCO and MiBACT curated by Stefano Mirti - Milan
2018 - Dei Nuovi Confini Della Fotografia - Lotto 15, Fabbrica Del Vapore - Milano Photo Week - Milan
2018 - Paratissima Milano Art&Photo Fair - Through The Black Mirror, at BASE Milano during the Milano Photo Week - Milan
2018 - Studi Aperti, Studio Brusa Pasquè - La fotografia d'autore incontra l'architettura, with Luca Andreoni & Roberto Caielli - Varese
2018 - Novegro Photo Day - Represented by Caielli Fine Art with Giorgio Lotti and Roberto Bernè - Novegro
2017 - SI FEST, Finalist - Savignano
2017 -
Ex Studio Piero Manzoni - Milan
Talks & Interviews
2018 -
Paratissima Milano Art&Photo Fair at BASE Milano during the Milan Photo Week, with Roberto Caielli - Milan
2018 - Studio Brusa Pasquè -
La fotografia d'autore incontra l'architettura, with Roberto Caielli and Luca Andreoni - Varese
2018 - PHROOM, Dialogue - Roberto Caielli&Giacomo Infantino
2018 - Interview for Darlin Magazine
2017 -
Speaker for company training for Canon Imaging Partner Event during the Cortona on the move - Cortona
Selected Publications
2018 - Phroom Magazine (IT)
2018 - EXIBART (IT)
2018 - Fubiz (FR)
2018 - Rivista Segno (IT)
2018 - Interview for Darlin Magazine (IT)
2018 - FP Mag (IT)
2018 - IGNANT (DE)
2018 - Aesthetica Magazine (UK)
2018 - Phosmag (IT)
2018 - C41 Magazine (IT)
2018 - Rop Magazine (IT)
2017 - Landscape Stories (IT)
2017 - Artpil (FR)
Paper
2017 -
Vittore Frattini / Nulla Dies Sine Linea / NOMOS EDIZIONI with Philippe Daverio.
2017 - STOP MAGAZINE / Issue Two.
Collections
2018 - Tenute Orestiadi, Permanent collection at Barriques Museum, Gibellina
2018 - Luna Rosa Association - Crotone
Private collections in Italy
Selected Works and Workshop
2018 -
Workshop | Ecosistema Olona: Territorial reading, Soundscape, Photography. With the collaboration of Polytechnic of Milan - Induno Olona
2018 - IRCCS foundation - National Cancer Institute - Milan
2017 - A regola d'Arte, Mediafriends Onlus - Milan
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Giacomo Infantino
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