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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Sospensione, Link Studio Arte, ART CITY Bologna 2024, Italy;
2023 Fluido, Galerie Molin Corvo, Paris, France.
2022 Controlled Lives, MIDWAY: BETWEEN PAST AND FUTURE Fiumefreddo Photo Festival, Cosenza, Italy
Fluido, Galerie Molin Corvo, Paris, France.
2021 “44.6984907 - 10.629356”, Noaddress Gallery, Reggio Emilia, Italy.
General Public, solo presentation with RH, Los Angeles, USA
2020 X, Galerie Palü, Zurich, Switzerland
Controlled Lives, PHOTAUMNALES 17°edition, Le Quadrilatère-Beauvais, France
“Beyond Seeing”, Molin Corvo Galerie, Paris, France
Seguindo uma linha, Galerie Palü, Pontresina, Swiss
2019 De Finibus Terrae: Xylella Landscape with Bruna Rotunno, Emilio Colombo Gallery, European Parliament of Strasbourg, France
Lines, Noaddress Gallery, Champorchair (AO), Italy
Linee, Nuvole Arte Contemporanea Gallery, Montesarchio (BN), Italy
2018 Light Perception, Noaddress Gallery + Fai, Palazzo Tirelli, Reggio Emilia, Italy
Controlled Lives - EX Macello Space, Circuito OFF Fotografia Europea, Montecchio Emilia, Italy
2017 Get Lost, Tal Gallery, Cidadela Art District, Cascais, Portugal.
No Identity - video, Teatro Ciro Menotti, Milano, Italy.
Paessaggio Impercettibile - Casa Cavezzi, Montecchio Emilia,Italy.
Bianco Deserto - Circuito OFF Fotografia Europea, Spazio Via Dei Due Gobbi Tre, Reggio Emilia, Italy.
2015 Rio Arte Corpo Movimento, FotoRio, Biennial of Photography, Sala Baden Powell, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2013 Ballet La Doppia Notte - with Artemis Danza/Monica Casadei and Orchestra Sinfonica for
Verdi and Wagner bicentenary, scene with photographs and video - Comunale Theatre of
Bologna - Italy
Orchids - Fotografia Europea Circuito Off, Reggio Emilia, Italy.
2012 10 years Retrospective - 30° Fotofestival Castle of Montecchio Emilia, Montecchio Emilia, Italy. Ama+zônia - Sofitel
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Ama+zônia - Esther Giobbi, São Paulo, Brazil.
2011 Ama+zônia - "Corpos da Natureza”, FotoRio Biennial,CCJF – Centro Cultural da Justiça Federal, Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil
Ama+zônia - "Corpos da Natureza” Italian Embassy Brasilia, Brazil
Corpi - Kulay-Diwa, Manila, Phillipines.
2009 Simplesmente eu, Clarice Lispector - with Beth Goulart, scene with photographs and video, Brasilia,
São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Eye - Via dei Gonzaga, Reggio Emilia, Italy
2008 Eye - Le Chatêlet Theater, Paris, France
Eye - Festival International of Literature, Mantova, Italy
Eye - Fotografia Europea, Bonioni Arte Gallery, Reggio Emilia, Italy
Silent Music - Salone Del Mobile, Milan, Italy
Silent Music - Agnus Dei Gallery, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Silent Music - Casa da Bola, São Paulo, Brazil
Eye - Theater Ponchielli, Cremona, Italy
2007 Corpos Líquidos - Ateliê da Imagem Gallery, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Eye - Degli Arcimboldi Theater, Milan, Italy
Eye - Municipal São Luiz Theater, Lisbon, Portugal
Eye - Towol Theater, SI Dance Festival, Seoul, South Korea
Eye - Duse Theater, Bologna, Italy
Eye - Theater Wolubilis, Brussels, Belgium
2006 Corpos - Mônica Filgueiras Art Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil
Eye - IM Pfalzbsu Theater, Ludwigshafen, Germany
Eye - IM Forum Theater, Ludwigsburg, Germany
Eye - Lucent Dans Theater, Haia, Netherland
Eye - Comunale Theater, Modena, Italy
Eye - Vittorio Emanuele Gallery Max Mara, Rome, Italy
Moto Sospeso - Casa Cini, Ferrara, Italy
Corpi all’ Infinito - Max Mara Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
2005 Corpi all’Infinito - RED Festival Theater, Reggio Emilia, Italy
Corpos - FOTORio Anita Schwartz Gallery, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Corpi all’ Infinito - Festival International of Literature - Mantova, Italy
Corpi all’ Infinito - Theater Due - Parma, Italy
2004 Poesia del Corpo - Brera Gallery, Milan, Italy
Silent Music - Orvieto Fotografia Festival at Palazzo dei Sette - Orvieto, Italy
Silent Music - La Torre Gallery - Pisa, Italy
2003 Silent Music - Bergamo, Italy
Silent Music - Chiostri della Ghiara - Reggio Emilia, Italy
2002 Silent Music - 20º Fotofestival Castle of Montecchio Emilia, Italy
Nude look, Il corpo e la Moda - Montecchio Emilia, Italy
2000 Silent Music - Milan, Italy
The Documentary - Milan, Italy
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Beyond Horizons: An Artistic Expedition, Galerie Palü, Pontresina, Swiss
Ateliê Aberto, Exhibition Expanded Field Residence program, Rio de Janeiro,Brazil
Ruina in Fabula, No Address Gallery, ex-officine Rubertelli, Montecchio Emilia, Italy
2024 SALON MEISELBERG, Meiselberg Castle, Carinthia, Austria
Ouro Liquido, Centro Cultural Correios, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Art&Vault, Times Square Billboard, International Women’s Month
325 screens in Melbourne, Australia in collaboration with Art Crush and Clear Channel
2023 Inspire Art Show, Langelinie Pavilion Copenhagen, Nordic Blockchain Conference 2023
Sloika World Photography Day Exhibition, Superlative Gallery, Bali
17th edition Laguna Art Prize, Arsenale, Venice, Italy
Drawing Space, Galerie Molin Corvo, Paris, France
“The Color White, a serene oasis in a world of chaos” Galerie Palü, Pontresina, Swiss
Collective Summer, Galerie Molin Corvo, Paris, France
Le GODMICHÉ No address Gallery, Reggio Emilia, Italy
2022 Beyond Photography, Mia Photo Fair, curated by Domenico de Chirico, Galerie Palü, Milano, Italy
Ciao Tchau, Noaddress Gallery, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
February Exhibition, Galerie Molin Corvo, Paris, France
Gazes and abstractionism,TRENTO ART FESTIVAL,Trento, Italy
2021 Bienvenue Art fair Paris, Noaddress gallery
Art Site Fest, Palazzina Reale di caccia di Stupinigi, Torino, Italy
Gazes and Abstractionism, Galerie Molin Corvo, Paris, France
Art week, Galerie Molin Corvo, Paris, France
Permission to Breathe, Albertini/Casadei, Medesano, Italy
No Identity, Albertini/Casadei, Medesano, Italy
Group Show Winter 20/21,Galerie Palü, Pontresina,Switzerland
Duo#3, Galerie Molin Corvo, Paris, France
Piú Nuovo, Palazzo dei Musei Civici, Reggio Emilia, Italy
Miraggi Possibili, Ateliers viadeiduegobbitre, Reggio Emilia, Italy
Umanità, Aula Magna, Montecchio Emilia, Italy
The last/2021, Galerie Molin Corvo, Paris, France
2020 Group Show Winter 20/21,Galerie Palü, Pontresina,Switzerland
A penny for your thoughts, Noaddress Gallery, Reggio Emilia, Italy
Flutua, Galeria Mamute, Porto Alegre, Brasil
The color of the sky, Artland online exhibition, No Address Gallery, Italy
2019 PhotoLux Festival, Lucca Italy
Art site fest 2019, Royal Castle Of Govone,Italy
Life-Framer, London
Life-Framer, Milan
Projections Discovery Awards, Encontros da Imagem Festival, Braga, Portugal 2019
Como Falar Com As Àrvores, Z42 Arte Gallery, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2018 Geste Paris, Photo Projection, Paris, France
Art in the City, View Point, Paratissima, Torino
Controlled Lives by Urs Stahel, Der Greif- Guest Room
Controlled Lives by Monica Allende, Der Greif- Guest Room
Controlled Lives by Lorenza Bravetta, Der Greif- Guest Room
Controlled Lives by Diane Dufour, Der Greif- Guest Room
No Address Gallery, Away, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
So Far, Landskrona Foto Festival, Landskrona, Sweden
Another Time. Another Space - Noaddress Gallery- Arles, France
Laguna Art Prize, Arsenale, Venice, Italy
Fake/Truth - Rotterdam Photo Festival, Netherlands
2017 Winter Exhibition, LensCulture
NoPhoto, Paratissima, Torino, Italy
Projections Discovery Awards, Festival Encontros da Imagem, Braga, Portugal
Swipe, Baby Swipe, Tal Gallery, Cidadela Art District, Cascais, Portugal
2015 EFÍGIE, Ateliê da Imagem Gallery, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
SER CARIOCA DA GEMA, Solar Grandjean de Montigny, PUC - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2012 Art Takes Times Square - Electronic billboards Exhibition, See Me - New York, US
Verão Carioca - Galeria da Gávea, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2011 54th Biennale di Venezia "Lo Stato dell’Arte nel 150º dell´Unita d’ Italia" Padiglione
Italia, Venice, Italy
"Ama+zônia" Italian Embassy, Brasilia, Brazil
BEA, Brazilian Endowment for the Arts - New York, EUA
2010 FotoAtiva, São Paulo and Belém, Brazil
2008 Ponto de Vista, DASLU Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil
2007 Silent Music - Maison et Objet Paris, France
2006 Fabian e Mapplethorpe a confronto, La Spina Gallery, Pisa, Italy
Nano Expo, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Nano Expo, Bogotá, Colombia
2005 Video Performance, MAC, Museum of contemporary art, Niteroi, Brazil
2004 Area10 - Residence Arts Biennial London, UK
Purifying Process - Performance video with Gabriela Maciel, Domotov Festival, Sapporo, Japan
Eletrolise, Performance video with Gabriela Maciel and Marquinhos Mescita, Atelie da Imagem,
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Mostra o seu que eu mostro o Meu, Casa França Brasil, Rio de Janeiro,Brazil
2003 FotoRio, Biennial of Photography, Anita Schwartz Gallery,Rio de Janeiro,Brazil
1998 Rumors festival, by city of Milan and Region of Lombardia,Italy
1996 Portraits for Emergency, Via della Spiga, Milan,Italy
SELECTED PRESS + INTERVIEWS
2025 OpenEye Magazine
2020 French Magazine
2018 Aint-Bad, Seguindo uma Linha by Nicole Hawkins
Latent Image Magazine, issue 13, Seguindo uma Linha [following a line]
PHMUSEUM, Story of the week, Controlled Lives by Laurence Cornet
2016 Doc! Photo Magazine, issue 38 talks interview
CATALOGUES/BOOKS
2024 JUST BE, Snap collective, Copenhagen Denmark
2019 X, Self-published
2016 Manual de Fotografia de moda em 30 passos
2011 RIO Arte Corpo Movimento, Brazil, text by Angel Vianna
2009 Ama+zônia, Brazil, Poetry by Marcia Theophilo
2007 Eye, Italy, Aterballetto, text Domenico Montalto e Mauro Bigonzetti
2006 Moto Sospeso,Italy, Artemisdanza/Monica Casadei, text Franco Patruno, Dino del Vecchio e Valentina Bonelli
2005 Corpi all’infinito,Italy, Artemisdanza/Monica Casadei, text Massimo Mussini
2002 Silent Music,Italy, text Massimo Mussini
2000 The Documentary,Italy, Tibetan Buddhist culture
PRIZES
2023 Laguna Art Prize (finalist)
2019 Street Photography Awards Lens Culture (finalist)
2019 Discovery Awards - Festival Encontros da Imagem
2019 COLORS by Life Framer jury Richard Mosse (winner)
2019 Special Prize Photolux by Laguna Art Prize (winner)
2018 Laguna Art Prize (finalist)
2018 Prix Carmignac (shortlisted)
2018 Fine Art Photography Awards Nominee with Seguindo uma linha and Light Perception
2018 Athens Photo Festival ( shortlisted)
2017 Discovery Awards - Festival Encontros da Imagem
2017 Athens Photo Festival ( shortlisted)
2010 Prize Un Bosco Per Kyoto, Capitol, Rome, Italy
2007 Marella, Max Mara Fashion Group won the Award “Sole 24Ore” at the tenth edition of the Enterprise and Culture Prize
with the project “Meeting of Fashion, Dance and Photography”
2004 Prize Pisa Poesia e Immagine, Italy
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
2025 Campo Expandido, Tech Art Lab , Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2024 Casa Voa , Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2023 No Address Gallery, Reggio Emilia, Italy
2018 LABVERDE, Art Immersion Program in the Amazon, Brazil
2017 Hotel Pestana Cidadela Art District, Cascais, Portugal, Invited to create one of the 17 Designer rooms as part of the art and design residency
2004 Area10 - Residence Arts Biennial London, UK
ADDITIONAL PROJECTS
2025 Simplesmente Eu, Clarice Lispector, with Beth Goulart
As visual artist: photographs and video used as scenography in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2021 HBO MAX Ellen's Next Great Designer ( with Ellen Degeneres)
2020 Begins a collaboration with General Public Art (founder Portia De Rossi) and RH, CB2
2019 Curator of the exhibition “Non resta che guardare il cielo” by Mirko Frignani
Part of Fotografia Europea - Circuito OFF, held at EX-Macello, Montecchio Emilia, Italy
2017/18 Curatorial Project – “Profeti In Patria”
October 2017 – July 2018, Montecchio Emilia (Italy)
Invited by the Department of Culture of Montecchio Emilia as a curator, in collaboration with Juliana Curvellano, for the contemporary art space Ex-Macello, as part of the annual event Profeti In Patria. The curatorial program
spanned five exhibitions:
#selfiemontecchioemilia
Lab Photo Residence
Americhe
Varal
Artist Residence
2016 Ballet Carmen K, with Artemis Danza / Monica Casadei and Orchestra Sinfonica (Georges Bizet)
As visual artist: photographs and video used as scenography at Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Italy
2003 Curator of the group exhibition" 4 photographers from Brazil at the 21st Fotofestival in Montecchio Emilia
Marco Antonio Portela, Patricia Gouvêa, Eduardo Dias da Rocha, Simone Rodrigues
1994 Director of photography “Maya’s play” movie, presented by Festival del cinema, Florence, Italy
EDUCATION & BACKGROUND
1991/1992 Istituto Italiano di Fotografia, Milan, Italy
1993/1995 Assistant Photographer, Superstudio 13, Milan, Italy
1995/2010 Fashion Photographer, Published work in international magazines, including:
Glamour Italia, Grazia, Vogue Pelle, Vogue Gioiello, GQ Italia, Elle France, BIBA, W, Max France
2004/2016 Teacher of Photography : Ateliê da Imagem, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
IED – Istituto Europeo di Design, São Paulo e Brasília, Brazil
2010-Present Conducted various workshops and coaching courses in Brazil and Italy