Raised in Southern Italy, Antonio Miucci (1994) is an Italian visual artist and fashion photographer based in Milan. His artistic research, influenced by art, fashion, gender studies, humanities and pop culture, deals with the themes of Queerness, gender and personal Identity, with a focus on masculinity and its redefinition in contemporary age, in which he subverts the representation of cultural stereotypes to celebrate self-expression, bravery, individuality and beauty.
In his works, Miucci uses fashion as a medium to create imaginaries deeply inspired by the concept of infinite rebirth and metamorphosis, and by the archetypes of the Feminine and the Masculine, identified by a sense of delicacy, kindness, elegance and mystery fulfilled with an attention about lights and shadows, colours and composition. The subjects portrayed celebrate who they want or choose to be with no prejudice and boundless freedom. In front of the camera, a timeless and spaceless aesthetic dimension is born, where the characters give life to their Inner-Self in its most varied and fluid forms of expression, revealed through a profound and personal exchange between the realities of the artist and the subject.
Through the use of photography, in the studio and on location, Miucci tells the Inner-Self with a staging that triggers multiple performative and transformative actions, in which identity overlaps and interchanges between the Ego and the Self. Therefore, it takes place the artist's inner-reinvention and at the same time the reinvention of the subjects who finds themselves in front of the photographic medium. In this way, processes are implemented in which one's own appearance and the appearance of the Other changes continuously, portraying an Alter-Ego in constant evolution.
Fashion Portfolio available on request.
EDUCATION
2014/2017 - BA in Art and New Media - Brera Fine Arts Academy - Milan
2017/2019 - MA in Photography and Visual Arts - Brera Fine Arts Academy - Milan
AWARDS
2020 - Prix Picto de la Photographie de Mode 2020 by Picto Foundation, finalist. Exhibition at Palais Galliera - Paris
2020 - Palm* Photo Prize 2020 - Shortlist. Exhibition (Date TBC) at East Photographic Gallery, curated by Palm* Studios - London
2020 - New Talents by Plenum Gallery Fotografia Contemporanea, Portfolio Honorable Mention for Non ti Scordar di Me.
2019 - 100 Greatest Emerging Photography Talent in Europe by FRESH EYES (Amsterdam), on printed book - Powered by GUP Magazine. Exhibition at PhotoBasel (ArtBasel, Switzerland) and Voies Off Festival at Les Rencontres d'Arles (Arles, France).
2017 Premio Riccardo Prina: un racconto fotografico, finalist. Exhibiton at Triennale Design Museum and Galleria Ghiggini, Milan/Varese
2013 Fashion Forma Photo Contest by Fondazione Forma Meravigli, winner. The winning picture took part in the photo exhibition Condè Nast: a century of Fashion Photography curated by Nathalie Herschdorfer at Fondazione Forma Meravigli Milan
SOLO EXHIBITION
2021 - ARCADIA, Bipersonal exhibition at Sala Nicolini, InSight Foto Festival, curated by Laura Davì - Varese
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 - The Curated Fridge Summer 2021 Show, curated by Michael Behlen - Boston (USA)
2020 - Prix Picto de la Photographie de Mode 2020 at Palais Galliera, Musée de la Mode de la Ville de Paris, curated by Picto Foundation - Paris
2020 IPER ESTERNO/INTERNO - BraeraKlasse#5, at CAREOF Milano during Walk-In Studio - Milano
2020 (Exhibition Date TBC) - Palm* Photo Prize 2020 at East Photographic Gallery curated by Palm*Studios and sponsored by creativehub, Polaroid Originals, i-D Magazine and Labyrinth Photographic - London
2020 (Exhibition Date TBC) - New Talents at Plenum Gallery Fotografia Contemporanea, curated by Massimo Siragusa
2020 Nello Spazio Fa Freddo at Chippendale Studio during the Archivi Aperti and Walk-in Studio - Milano
2020 - ARCADIA, online exhibition curated by ARTDREAM FOUNDATION
2020 - DER GREIF Guest-Room: "We have no need of other worlds. We need mirrors", online exhibition on DER GREIF - curated and selected by Ashleigh Kane - Munich
2020 - ASSEMBRAMENTO, online exhibition curated by Invertebre
2019 - GQ ITALY: PASSION FOR THE PATH OF ART at Cardi Gallery, curated by Ilaria Bonacossa - Milan
2019 - 100 Best Emerging Photography Talent in Europe by FRESH EYES at Voies Off Festival at Les Rencontres d'Arles curated by FRESH EYES and GUP Magazine - Arles
2019 - 100 Best Emerging Photography Talent in Europe by FRESH EYES at PhotoBasel during Art Basel, curated by FRESH EYES and GUP Magazine - Basel
2019 - Mi Riconosco in Recondite Liturgie at FEM Laboratorio Creativo - Milan
2019 - Lievi e precisi come determinati voli - Sguardi altri sulla ricerca e la cura dei tumori - Palazzo Pirelli - Milan
2018 - NoPhoto at Paratissima Art Fair 2018, curated by Laura Tota - Turin
2018 - ContemporaneaMENTI 2018 at Fondazione l'Arsenale - Brescia
2018 Dei Nuovi Confini della Fotografia during Milano Photo Week at Fabbrica del Vapore, curated by VIAFARINI Milan
2017 Premio Riccardo Prina: un racconto fotografico, finalist. Selected group exhibition at Triennale Design Museum - Milan
2017 - Premio Riccardo Prina: un racconto fotografico, finalist. Selected group exhibition at Galleria Ghiggini - Varese
2017 Nude at Galleria Gloria Molino Milan
2015 Social Matic Polaroid in collaboration with Le Cento Facce della Musica Italiana exhibition by Giovanni Gastel at Fabbrica del Vapore, curated by Rolling Stone Italia Milan
2013 - Condè Nast: a century of Fashion Photography curated by Nathalie Herschdorfer at Fondazione Forma Meravigli Milan
BOOKS
2020 - ARCADIA by Antonio Miucci, self-published artist book.
2020 - NON TI SCORDAR DI ME by Antonio Miucci, in collaboration with Chippendale Studio.
Dummy photobook in edition of 10 copies, numbered and signed by the artist.
WEB/PAPER PUBLICATIONS AND FEATURES
2021 - WITNESS book curated by Efrem Zelony-Mindell, collected by Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) Library and New School Library (New York City, USA)
2021 - Undisclosed Resource, curated by Efrem Zelony-Mindell
2021 - We show you 17 emerging Italianxs photographerxs you need to know - on EMC Magazine
2021 - ARCADIA on Perimetro - Milan
2020 - ARCADIA x STEFANO, storia di una Drag Queen - on Rolling Stones Italia/BLACK CAMERA, by Alessandro Curti
2020 - Non ti Scordar di Me & ARCADIA - takeover on Emc Magazine
2020 - ARCADIA on FRISEUM - Hair Fashion through the Ages - on next museum.io, Düsseldorf
2020 - What Makes Me Happy featured on Vogue Italia
2020 - ARCADIA on Mixed Media: The Constructed Self on ARTCONNECT Magazine, Berlin
2020 - RE-DREAMING THE FUTURE by INTERNI Magazine - June 2020, on print magazine
2020 - Palm* Photo Prize 2020 Shortlist - on Palm*Studios, London
2020 - Non ti Scordar di Me on Uncoated Platform - Berlin
2020 - Icarus - DER GREIF Guest-Room: "We have no need of other worlds. We need mirrors", on DER GREIF, selected by Ashleigh Kane - Munich
2020 - IF I CAN'T ARCHIVE I DON'T WANT TO BE PART OF YOUR REVOLUTION paper zine curated by the artist Dafne Boggeri
2020 - La Sposa on STILL YOUNG FOTOGRAFIA, curated by Alessandro Curti
2020 - Non ti Scordar di Me, takeover on FRESH EYES by Gup Magazine
2020 - Non ti Scordar di Me on THE VENOM MAGAZINE - Paris
2020 - Stay Creative // The Love Series, on NSS Galleria by NSS Magazine
2020 - Sguardo Italiano, on Italy Photo Award
2020 - Creativity in time of self-isolation, featured on KonetCreative
2020 - Art Resistance Kit by That's Contemporary
2020 - CreativityStaysAwake, featured on Fashion Film Festival Milano
2019 - After Nicholas Winding Refn on Frizzifrizzi
2019 - PASSIONE È ARTE PER GQ: 11 Talenti per celebrare i suoi 20 anni, on printed magazine by GQ ITALIA - 20th Anniversary 1999-2019: PASSIONI DA UOMO-POWER OF LOVE
2019 - 100 Best Emerging Photography Talent in Europe on printed book by FRESH EYES - Powered by GUP Magazine - Amsterdam
2019 - An investigation of the concept of masculinity, L'UOMO VOGUE
2019 - La Bottega della Fotografia, on paper journal Repubblica Bari
2017 La Resistenza dei Ricordi, on paper journal Corriere Della Sera
2017 Il Cielo tenue sopra i Giardini, on paper journal Corriere Della Sera
2016 - Organiconcrete
2013 - Frizzifrizzi
2011/on going - PhotoVogue - Vogue.it
WORKS AND WORKSHOPS
2021 - Editoria come Curatela - Publishing as Curating, workshop with Elisa Medde (FOAM Magazine) - Milan
2021 - Il fotolibro nel panorama dell'editoria indipendente, workshop with Tommaso Parrillo (Witty Books) - Milan
2020 - Anselm Kiefer: Art is for the Essence - video. Art direction by Alessandro Turci
2019/2020 - Politiche della Sessualità e Culture Visuali, research workshop curated by Simone Frangi and Dafne Boggeri
2019 - Dummy Photobook, workshop with Luca Panaro at Chippendale Studio - Milan
2019 - Fashion Photography workshop with Charles Fréger at ARMANI SILOS - Milan
2018 - Flavio Lucchini: la Moda in altro modo - direction and art direction by Giovanni Gastel / video footage and editing by Giuseppe Biancofiore / assistant on set - Milan
2018 - Romeo Gigli: una vita tra Arte e Moda, video. Art direction by Alessandro Turci
2018 IRCCS foundation - National Cancer Institute - Milan
2017 A Regola dArte, Mediafriends Onlus - Milan
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