Teresa Giannico

A graduate in Fine Arts from the Accademia di Belle Arti in Bari, she specialised in Drawing and Painting while developing a strong interest in set design and theatre, gradually moving closer to photography. In 2012 she moved to Milan, where she attended the Master in Photography and Visual Design at NABA (Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti) and worked as an assistant to the photographers Paolo Ventura and Toni Thorimbert. After taking part in Plat(t)form 2015 at the Fotomuseum Winterthur (Switzerland), she was invited to show her work at the FotoFotopub Festival in Novo Mesto (Slovenia) and at Circulation(s) (Paris, 2016). In 2015 she was a finalist for the Premio Francesco Fabbri with the series of works entitled Lay Out, which she exhibited in 2016 in the group show Sulla Nuova Fotografia Italiana (Viasaterna, Milan). In 2018 she was selected among the photographers of Futures, the photography platform curated by Camera, and exhibited at Unseen (Amsterdam) and at Camera (Turin). She was artist in residence for the Casino Palermo project (Viasaterna, Palermo, June–July 2018) and later took part in the group show of the same name in the gallery’s Milan spaces (October–December 2018), followed by her first solo show, Kaleidos, at Viasaterna (January 2019) and by the group shows Erosioni at the Fundació Enric Miralles (Barcelona, 2019), Sguardo Lucido at Fotohof (Salzburg, 2019), Photo Israel (Tel Aviv, 2019) and the Premio Cairo (Milan, 2019). In 2022 she won the VANNI #artistroom prize at Artissima, for which she designed a limited-edition pair of glasses. In 2023 she presented the solo exhibition Archives of Empathy at Viasaterna. She was selected for the Vaf-Stiftung Prize 2024, which supports Italian contemporary art in Germany, and as part of it she took part in a group exhibition at the Stadtgalerie in Kiel (June–September 2024).