Italian photographer, b. 1990 In 2013 Francesco Levy graduates from the Venice Academy of Fine Arts with a thesis on the aesthetics of new media and straight after enrolled on a three-year photography course at Fondazione Studio Marangoni in Florence that he will finish with honours and the scholarship as the best student. Since 2017 he actively works in the field of contemporary photography participating in various festivals with collective and personal exhibitions including Fotografia Europea and Si fest. Francesco Levy is a Celeste Prize finalist and winner of the Combat Prize Art Tracker award. In 2018 he is invited by the Italian Cultural Institute in Paris for an art residency project during which he developed the project "Random Notes for a Necessary Urban Planning", presented in the IIC as a personal exhibition curated by Laura Serani and subsequently at the San Gimignano's Modern and Contemporary Art Gallery in a solo exhibition curated by Elio Grazioli. In 2019 he is included in the catalogue "222. Giovani artisti su cui investire nel 2019 " edited by Exibart. Currently lives and works in Italy.
Selected Exhibitions.
Solo.
> 2018, “About Memory and on being Elsewhere” | Galleria d'Arte Contemporanea Raffaele De Grada, San Gimignano
> 2018, SIFEST – On Being Now | Savignano sul Rubicone
> 2018, "La Ville Fantôme" | IIC - Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Paris
Group.
> 2022 EYES ON TOMORROW | IIC Italian Institute of Culture, Addis Abeba
> 2021 RAGUSA FOTOFESTIVAL | Palazzo Cosentini, Ragusa Ibla
> 2019 “12 Artists of Tomorrow” | Galleria Mucciaccia Contemporary, Rome
> 2019 “Jeune Photographie Italienne” | IIC - Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Paris
> 2019 LUCCA ART FAIR | Art Tracker – Lucca
> 2018, “Zeropuntocinque” | Galleria Cartavetra, Firenze
> 2018 PREMIO COMBAT PRIZE, Vincitore premio Art Tracker, Livorno
> 2017 PASÓ, PERO NUNCA LO VI | Galerìa de arte Jardines de Mexico, Mexico City
> 2017 MALA YERBA | Fototeca de Cuba, L'Avana > 2017 JCE | Jeune Creation Europeenne, Mountrouge, Paris
> 2017 Questioni di Famiglie | CIFA - Centro Italiano Fotografia d'Autore, Bibbiena
> 2017 Celeste Prize | Visible White Project – In Conflict, Fondazione Studio Marangoni, Firenze
> 2017 LOOP | Giovane Fotografia Italiana, Fotografia Europea, Reggio Emilia
> 2017 International Photo Project 2017, La Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan Awards.
> 2022 Urbanautica Institute Award
> 2018 Art Tracker Prize, Premio Combat Prize