CURRICULUM VITAE
PIETRO CATARINELLA
Born in Rome, Italy, 1983 | Based in Milan, Italy
EDUCATION
2012–2014 MA Photography, University of the Arts London – Central Saint Martins, London, UK
2010–2011 Reportage and Photojournalism, Scuola Romana di Fotografia, Rome, Italy
2003–2010 BA and MA in Architecture, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
SELECTED SOLO, TWO-PERSON AND PROJECT EXHIBITIONS
2025 Post-Human Hallucination, solo exhibition, organised by Spaghetti Boost and mc2gallery, VM12, Milan, Italy; critical text by Claudio Composti
2021 Imagomorphosis, solo project, Project Room, Prometeo Gallery Ida Pisani, Milan, Italy; critical text by Mauro Zanchi
2021 Concordia II, two-person exhibition with Iva Lulashi, Milan, Italy; organised by Viafarini in collaboration with Prometeo Gallery Ida Pisani
2019 Cave of Forgotten Dreams, solo project, Project Room, MACRO – Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome, Rome, Italy
2018 Anatomies, project room exhibition, within Prospettive dell’Infrasottile, curated by Butik Collective, The Others Art Fair – Specific, Turin, Italy
2015 (De)Construct – New Positions on Contemporary Photography from the UK, two-person exhibition with Edurne Aginaga, organised and curated by Vanja Contemporary, AV17 Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania; supported by the Lithuanian Council for Culture
2014 Out of Rome, solo exhibition, curated by Stéphane Verlet-Bottéro, Green Arcola Gallery, London, UK
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND FAIR PRESENTATIONS
2026 AOW, group exhibition, curated by Iva Lulashi & Max Logsdail, Voce Triennale, Fondazione La Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy
2026 Out of Frame, group exhibition, curated by Filippo Arnaudo, Cattedrale Ex-Macello, Padua, Italy
2026 Caducité, group exhibition, curated by Valentina Rippa, Fornace, Milan, Italy
2025 Fake Reality, two-person fair presentation with Dune Varela, presented by mc2gallery at The Phair, OGR Torino, Turin, Italy
2025 NTAA ‘25 – New Technological Art Award: Intelligence, It’s Automatic: From Surrealism to AI, finalist exhibition, curated by Thierry Dufrêne, Foundation Liedts-Meesen, Zebrastraat, Ghent, Belgium
2024 Layering the Gaze, group exhibition, presented within Extension of Selves, curated and organised by the Lumen Prize, Wuhan Art Museum – Qintai, Wuhan, China; supported by the Italian Cultural Institute of Beijing
2022 Premio Francesco Fabbri per le Arti Contemporanee 2022, group exhibition, curated by Carlo Sala, Villa Brandolini, Pieve di Soligo, Italy
2021 Image Stream, group exhibition, curated by Sara Benaglia and Mauro Zanchi, BACO – Base Arte Contemporanea Odierna, Bergamo, Italy
2020 Studio Visit – 30 artisti per 30 giorni, virtual exhibition, curated by Adrian Paci, Fondazione Adolfo Pini, Milan, Italy
2019 Premio Francesco Fabbri per le Arti Contemporanee 2019, group exhibition, curated by Carlo Sala, Villa Brandolini, Pieve di Soligo, Italy
2019 Viafarini DOCVA, group exhibition, curated by Giulio Verago, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan, Italy
2018 Liminar Archive, site-specific installation, presented within VIR Open Studio + Camouflage, VIR Viafarini-in-Residence, Milan, Italy
2018 Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize 2018, finalists’ exhibition, curated by Conrad Carvalho, Ashurst Emerging Artist Gallery, London, UK
2017 Black Light Networks, group exhibition, Nadie, Nunca, Nada, No, Madrid, Spain
2017 Present & Future, Just Across the Streets, group exhibition, curated by Marta Michelacci, MACRO Future – Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome, Rome, Italy
2017 Galla Placidia 194, group exhibition, curated by Shara Wasserman, Temple Gallery, Temple University Rome, Rome, Italy
2015 PHOTOMASTERS, group exhibition, Photomonth – East London Photography Festival, Old Truman Brewery, London, UK
2014 Pingyao International Photography Festival, festival exhibition, Pingyao, China
2014 Data Traffic, degree show, Central Saint Martins Postgraduate Art Degree Show, K Space, London, UK
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
2019 Roccagloriosa Artist Residency, Palazzo La Quercia, Roccagloriosa, Italy
2019 DOCVA, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan, Italy
2018 VIR Viafarini-in-Residence, Milan, Italy
2017 Intercambiador ACART, Madrid, Spain
SELECTED AWARDS
2025 NTAA ’25 – New Technological Art Award, Finalist
2024 Prisma Art Prize, Finalist
2022 Premio Francesco Fabbri – Contemporary Photography, Finalist
2019 Lumen Prize, Finalist
2019 Premio Ora, Winner
2019 Premio Francesco Fabbri – Contemporary Photography, Finalist
2019 Arte Laguna Prize, Longlisted
2018 Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize, Finalist
2017 Lumen Prize, Finalist
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2025 NTAA ‘25 – New Technological Art Award: Intelligence, It’s Automatic: From Surrealism to AI, finalist exhibition catalogue, Foundation Liedts-Meesen
2023 The 222 Emerging Italian Artists Worth Investing in 2024, edited by Cesare Biasini Selvaggi, Exibart
2022 Quaderni d’Arte Italiana, no. 04, “#identità”, La Quadriennale di Roma and Treccani
2022 Premio Francesco Fabbri per le Arti Contemporanee 2022, introduction by Carlo Sala, ZeL Edizioni
2020 Studio Visit – 30 artisti per 30 giorni, Fondazione Adolfo Pini, Studio Boîte Editions
2019 The 222 Emerging Italian Artists Worth Investing in 2020, edited by Cesare Biasini Selvaggi, Exibart
2014 STOP IT, Central Saint Martins catalogue, designed and printed by Ditto Press, London, UK
SELECTED ARTIST TALKS
2024 Layering the Gaze, artist talk, Wuhan Art Museum – Qintai, Wuhan, China
2017 Silent Artist Talk, artist talk, Faculty of Fine Arts, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Aranjuez, Madrid, Spain