Paola Rizzi
Paola Rizzi, born in Vigevano in 1964, graduated in Art and Visual Communication. Her photographic work is divided between commissioned projects and personal artistic endeavors, through which she expresses herself using diverse techniques and dynamics each time. Every project she undertakes is a dreamlike journey in search of emotion and suggestion. She rejects the objectivity of color, using it subjectively in her works to maintain a balance in the photographic image, creating an indefinable mix of realism, abstraction, illusion, and truth, where everyone can find themselves.
For over ten years, she has been conducting research on self-portraiture, which led to her first solo exhibition in Milan with the show Io sono qui (Here I Am), curated by Paola Riccardi. She was also selected by art critic and historian Giorgio Bonomi as a prominent female artist specializing in self-portraiture.
She has exhibited in Italy and abroad, participating in the China-Italy Biennale in Beijing, the XIII Florence Biennale, the Milan Photofestival, Paratissima, Photissima Art Fair, MIA PHOTO FAIR editions 2023 and 2024.
She has received numerous international awards and recognitions (BWA, LYNX, MIFA, IPA). In 2024, she won the Eliana Lissoni Award, was a finalist for the Basilio Cascella Award, and won the Sirene Award and Trieste Photo Day with her project Personal Constellations. She was among 17 photographers selected for the commemorative exhibition marking the 50th anniversary of the Piazza Fontana massacre, 17Graffi.
Paola is also the creator and curator of the social photography project Io sono il futuro (I Am the Future), which, in collaboration with artist Mauro Pinotti, aims to convey a message of awareness and action through photography. The project always concludes with the planting of trees in abandoned areas.
