MARIO SANTORO - WOITH

Mario Santoro


Born 1968
Lives and works in Rome, Todi, New York

Education

- 1995 International Center of Photography (NY) - Certificate course in studio photography
- 1995 School of Visual Arts (NY) - Certificate course in darkroom tecniques
- 1993 University of Rome "La Sapienza" - Master degree in the Anthropology of Visula Communication

Solo exhibitions

- 2005 Tokyo - "Heisenberg's Snapshots II" (Dazzle Gallery)
- 2002 New York - "Heisenberg's Snapshots" (M.Y. Art Prospects Gallery)
- 1999 Milan - Galleria "Il Diaframma" (Curator Lanfranco Colombo)
- 1998 Losanne - Musée de l' Elysée (Curator William Ewing)
- 1997 Milan - Giovenzana "Images on the road" (Curator Lanfranco Colombo)
- 1996 Boston (MA) The Wallace Library (Curator John Grady)
- 1995 Rome - Studio "S" Arte Contemporanea (Curator Carmine Siniscalco )

Group Shows

- 2004 New York - " The Wizard's House " (M.Y. Art Prospects Gallery)
- 2001 Miami - Art Miami - (M.Y. Art Prospects Gallery, N.Y.)
- 2000 Koln (Germany) - Kunst Koln (M.Y. Art Prospects Gallery, N.Y.)
- 2000 Rome - Egyptian Academy (five roman photographers)
- 2000 Milan - Villa Borromeo (curator Evelina Schatz)
- 1999 Bolognano - La casa di Lucrezia - Joseph Beuys Foundation
- 1999 Rome - Palazzo delle Esposizioni - (Curator Lucrezia de Domizio Durini)
- 1999 Frascati - Wine Museum - ( Curator Franco Posa)
- 1999 Rome - Acquario Romano - Landscape Architecture (Curator Adriana Polveroni)
- 1998 Rome - Sheraton Hotel - Riparte - ( Curator Antonio Presti)
- 1998 Rome - Opera Paese
- 1997 Rome - Zero Art Gallery - a cura di Lidia Reghini di Pontremoli
- 1997 Rome - Accademia delle nuove arti e tecnologie( Curator Carmine Siniscalco)
- 1997 Milan - Triennale di Architettura
- 1995 Rome - Egyptian Academy
- 1994 Berlin - Novotel - "Reichstag, Variationen eines motifs"

Lectures on photography

- 2003 Wheaton College (MA) - Lecture: " A retrospective of my work"
- 1999 University of Rome - Lecture on Architectural Photography
- 1997 American University of Rome - Lecture on "techniques of experimental photography"
- 1997 University of Bologna - IVSA Meeting - "Family album as judicial evidence"
- 1995 Wheaton College (MA) - "Visiting Lecturer": Photography in Italy 1842 - 1915
- 1994 University of Padua - Visual Anthropology: researches of G. Bateson and M. Mead
- 1993 University of Amsterdam - "Eyes across the water" - photography and etnography

Work experience

- Documentary photography for International Red Cross and Caritas including colera epidemic in Peru, refugees in former Jugoslavia and Civil War in Angola.
- Continuing Photographic Documentation of various artist's work including Beverly Pepper, Breda Ennis, Arnaldo Pomodoro, Lorenzo Guerrini, Luigi Mainolfi, Paolo Schiavocampo.
- Stage photography for "La Piramide" and "Il Vascello" theatres, "Villa Medici" Festival.
- Architectural photography for Hugo Consuegra, Bill Whistler, Cesare Rovatti and others.
- Photographs included in the sets of a Theatre Piece called "A come Alice" directed by Giancarlo Nanni.