Pietro Catarinella (Rome, 1983) is an artist based in Milan.

His artistic research began with an investigation into contemporary visual pollution and the accelerated production and consumption of images. Through installation, software, and digital media, he explored how images produced and circulated across the internet, social media, and artificial intelligence saturate perception while becoming increasingly ephemeral—designed to inform, circulate, and disappear.

As this inquiry evolved, it gradually led to The Aftergaze – On the Persistence of Images, where painting offered a new way to address these questions. Catarinella develops layered oil paintings in which photographs, film stills, found imagery, and AI-generated visuals lose their original identity, becoming inseparable parts of a single pictorial field. These paintings remain open to duration, transformation, and emotional engagement, inviting viewers to experience meaning as something unfolding through perception, memory, and time.

His work has been exhibited internationally at institutions including MACRO – Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome, Wuhan Art Museum (Qintai), Foundation Liedts-Meesen / Zebrastraat (Ghent), Fondazione Pini, and BACO – Base Arte Contemporanea Odierna. He has been a finalist for the Lumen Prize (2017, 2019), the Premio Francesco Fabbri (2019, 2022), and the New Technological Art Award (2025), and received the Premio Ora in 2019.