Leonardo Magrelli (1989) lives and works in Rome. After studying Design first and Art History later, he began working as a graphic and book designer. A certain openness to manipulation and reuse of images, inherent in the graphic design work, as well as a particular attention to project and research, rather than instinctuality alone, are characteristics that remain visible in the author's practice even after converting to photography. The awareness of images’ hybrid and ambiguous nature is in fact a constant subtext of his work, which varies from time to time between a more conceptual approach to photography and a more descriptive and documentary one, often mixing the two. Alongside his personal research, he collaborates with the collective Vaste Programme, founded with Giulia Vigna and Alessandro Tini in 2017, to experiment with post-photography, installations and new media.
Festivals & Awards
2023 · Premio Francesco Fabbri per le Arti Contemporanee · Winner · Pieve di Soligo · Italy
2023 · PhMuseum Days · I Don't Know How To Respond To That · Bologna · Italy
2023 · FE + SK Award · Shortlist
2023 · Premio E.ART.H. Eataly House · Finalist · Verona · Italy
2022 · Talent Prize 2022 · 2nd place · Rome · Italy
2022 · Premio Castelfiorentino · Castelfiorentino · Italy
2022 · Premio Terna · Finalist · Rome · Italy
2022 · Premio Nocivelli · XIV Edition · Finalist · Brescia · Italy
2022 · Combat Prize · Finalist · Livorno · Italy
2022 · Insight Foto Festival · Varese · Italy
2022 · PhMuseum Photography Grant x Getxophoto · Shortlist
2022 · Premio Graziadei VIII · Special Mention
2022 · Exibart Prize · Finalist
2022 · Foto Wien · Rethinking Nature · Vienna · Austria
2021 · Premio Francesco Fabbri per le Arti Contemporanee · Finalist · Pieve di Soligo · Italy
2021 · Bratislava Month of Photography · Bratislava · Slovacchia
2021 · Belfast Photo Festival · Belfast · Northern Ireland
2021 · Cortona on the Move · Cortona · Italy
2021 · Premio Michetti · Francavilla al Mare · Italy
2021 · Giovane Fotografia Italiana #08 - Fotografia Europea · 2020 · Reggio Emilia · Italy
2020 · Photo Open Up · Latitudini quotidiane · Museo Civico degli Eremitani · Padova · Italy
2020 · Spazio libero. Immagini per riabitare la città · Reggio Emilia · Italy
2019 · Premio Francesco Fabbri per le Arti Contemporanee · Finalist · Pieve di Soligo · Italy
2019 · Skinnerboox Book Award · Shortlisted · Jesi · Italy
2019 · Unseen Dummy Award · Shortlisted · Amsterdam · Netherlands
2019 · Odesa Photo Days · Odesa · Ukraine
2018 · Head On Photo Festival · Head on Screens · Sidney · Australia
2017 · If You Leave · If You Leave Showcase · London · U.K.
2017 · Riga PhotoMonth · Facts and Clarifications · Riga · Latvia
2015 · Photoville NY · 20 emerging european photographers · New York · New York · U.S.
2015 · Photo Festival Leiden · Leiden · Netherlands
Exhibitions
2023 · Follia sacra · Divario · Rome · Italy
2023 · Cascasse il cielo · 1/9unosunove · Rome · Italy
2023 · D3cam3r0n3 · Palazzo Lucarini · Trevi · Italy
2023 · But it did happen · Spazio In Situ · Rome · Italy
2022 · Senso comune · Habitat Ottantatre · Verona · Italy
2022 · Calentamiento · Fondazione smART - polo per l’arte · Rome · Italy
2023 · Small is Beautiful · Flowers Gallery · London · U.K.
2022 · Calentamiento · viaraffineria · Catania · Italy
2022 · The Expanded Body · Uno Su Nove · Rome · Italy
2021 · The Plant · Jest · Turin · Italy
2021 · New-Post Photography · MIA Fair · Superstudio · Milan · Italy
2021 · Etherea Art Prize · Etherea Art Gallery · Genova · Italy
2021 · Ascolto il tuo cuore, città · Magazzino · Rome · Italy
2020 · Observations In The Ordinary · Subjectively Objective Gallery · Detroit · Michigan · U.S.
2019 · PhC Capalbiofotografia · Il senso dello spazio · Capalbio · Italy
2018 · Norman Rea Gallery · Communal Spaces · York · U.K.
2018 · Usagi Gallery · The Vernacular of Landscape · New York · New York · U.S.
2018 · Subjectively Objective Gallery · The Vernacular of Landscape · Detroit · Michigan · U.S.
2018 · Tevere Art Gallery · Tag Prize Finalists Show · Rome · Italy
2018 · The Pupil Sphere · From Top to Bottom · Leeds · U.K.
2018 · The Pupil Sphere · From Top to Bottom · Glasgow · U.K.
2017 · Lab.174 · L'equilibrio del punto interrogativo · Rome · Italy
2016 · LoosenArt + LAB-A · Vanitas · Cagliari · Italy
2016 · Roman Susan Galley · Slideshow · Chicago · Illinois · U.S.
2016 · Darkroom Gallery · Shadow & Light · Burlington · Vermont · U.S.
2015 · A Smith Gallery · Open · Johnson City · Texas · U.S.
2015 · Black Box Gallery · Luminous: Light and Space · Portland · Oregon · U.S.
Publications
Private Photo Review · Yet Magazine · Archive Collective Magazine · Dodho Magazine · P Magazine · Positive Magazine · C 41 Magazine · R0P Magazine · Pool Resources Zine · Artwort · Ignant · Pleat Gallery · This isn’t happiness · Pample-mousse · It’s Nice That · Subjectively Objective · PhotoArtMag · Archilovers · Acrimònia · Float Photo Magazine · Pictura Gallery · Lancia TrendVision · il Post · Aye Mag · For Example · The Pupil Sphere · CUS Photo · Kaltblut Magazine · Coeval Magazine · Waterfall Magazine · Humble Arts Foundation · Phroom Magazine · Mull it Over · Minimal Zine · GUP Magazine · Of The Land & Us · Phosmag · Super Massive Black Hole Magazine · Osso Magazine · Exibart · Foundry Journal · FotoRoom · Paradise Magazine · ELLE · Booooooom · Aint–Bad Magazine · LensCulture · Fubiz · Palm* Studios · Landscape Stories · Broad Magazine · The Heavy Collective · Vulgaris Magazine · Index. · Life Framer · Lenscratch · Pellicola Mag · Fotocrazia (La Repubblica) · Huffington Post · Collateral · Antinomie · Isit Magazine 2001#003 ·
leonardo.magrelli@gmail.com