(b. 1984, Trento, IT) Graduate Architect at IUAV in Venice, he teaches at NABA, Milan. A visual artist, he prefers to work with images and words, occasionally with his own, at times using those of others that he makes his. His main exhibitions include those related to the project A Failed Entertainment and belonging to the 2015 Foam Talent prize cycle, with which he also exhibited in Rome at the MACRO Museum on the occasion of winning the 2016 Premio Graziadei. In 2017 he presented his first solo show entitled Impasse at the Viasaterna gallery, in which the unpublished work The Long Thing was exhibited, and which was followed by, among others, exhibitions at Palazzo Reale for the Cairo Prize in 2018, a bi-personal show at the MAXXI Museum in Rome in 2019, and the group show After Monet at Mart in Rovereto in 2020. 

In 2021 he collaborates with MSGM for the fall/winter women’s collection, returns to show at Viasaterna with the exhibition Are People Flowers? and participates in the group show Milano Piano Zero at Triennale Milano. In October of the same year, he was a guest of Villa Filanda Antonini, during the residency he developed an art project involving the design company Arper and the AIKU department of Ca’Foscari University, Venice. In 2022 he is on show at Volvo Studio Milano with a solo exhibition where he presents his new project Hierarchy of Genres. In 2023 he is on show at Palazzo Reale, Milan, for the group show 13 Photographers for 13 Museums, organized by the Regional Directorate Museums of Lombardy in collaboration with MUFOCO. He is also involved in the programming of Condominio, a space in Milan dedicated to contemporary photography.

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