Leonardo Magrelli (1989) lives and works in Rome, where he first studied Design and later History of Art. The awareness of the hybrid and ambiguous nature of photography represents a constant subtext of his work. Open to manipulation and reuse of images, his practice is characterized by post-photographic and installative approaches. Alongside his personal research, since 2017 he collaborates with the artistic duo Vaste Programme, to try new forms of artistic experimentation.
Festivals & Awards
2025 · Gibellina Photoroad · UN:IT fotografie del patrimonio immateriale · Gibellina · Italy
2025 · Images Vevey Book Award · Finalist
2025 · Combat Prize · Finalist · Livorno · Italy
2024 · Le 10 Porte del Futuro · Spazio Taverna · Rome · Italy
2024 · Dear Dave Fellowship · Special Mention
2024 · Charta Award · Shortlist
2024 · BUP Book Award · Shortlist
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
2024 · 57 giorni di immagini · Nuova generazione · MAD - Murate Art District · Florence · Italy
2024 · Escape Strategies · Via_Watt_Projects · Milan · Italy
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
Skira · Viaindustriae · Silvana Editoriale · 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