Riccardo Banfi

Photographer

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Riccardo Banfi is an Italian photographer based in between Milan and Venice.

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Riccardo Banfi completed his studies in 2012 with a MA in Visual Arts at the IUAV in Venice. After exploring themes linked to youth and club culture, his practice turned to the impact of digital technologies on the process of conception and post-production of images and a social and contextual investigation probing the relationship between reality and imaginary. Riccardo Banfi's work has been exhibited in public institutions including Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Casa dei Tre Oci, Serra dei Giardini (Venice); Fonderia Artistica Battaglia, Conversation Piece (Milan); Cneai (Paris); Agora (Berlin); Fotomuseum Winterthur (Winterthur); Loop Video Art Festival (Barcelona); Landskrona Foto Festival (Landskrona); Lagos Photo Festival (Lagos); Assam State Museum (Guwahati, India). In 2011 and 2012 he was in residence at Fondazione Spinola Banna, Turin, in 2012 at Fondazione Bevilacqua la Masa, Venice. In 2013 at Dena Foundation for Contemporary Art, Paris, with a grant from Milan's Municipality. In the same year, he was the recipient of DE.MO/MOVIN'UP, a fellowship, granted by the Italian Ministry of Arts and Culture in collaboration with GAi. In 2015 he attended the Guwahati Research Program, India, and published his first photobook: "Tnx". In 2020 he published "Sunshine Noir", and he is among the finalist of Premio Francesco Fabbri per le Arti Contemporanee 2020 (Treviso).

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