ABOUT
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Fotografa, artista visiva e docente di arte e discipline audiovisive e multimediali.
Ha condotto i suoi studi presso l’Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli, approfondendo sia la pittura che la fotografia, in un percorso volto a integrare i due linguaggi visivi. La sua ricerca artistica nasce da un accurato studio del passato, volto a restituire un immaginario complesso e stratificato del mondo interiore e dell’esperienza umana, indagando gli aspetti più intimi delle dinamiche esistenziali, con particolare attenzione ai significati sociali e psicologici. La sua poetica, intimista e visionaria, è densa di simbolismi e rimandi artistici che fondono passato e presente, generando visioni insolite e inaspettate.
Ha ricevuto diversi premi, tra cui il Premio Sette Opere di Misericordia 2015, bandito dal Museo Pio Monte della Misericordia di Napoli, la Biennale dei Giovani Fotografi Italiani 2018, Portfolio Italia 2021, New Talent Prize 2023 e il Premio Portfolio del Festival Fotografico Europeo 2024. Nel 2021 ha presentato, su invito, una personale all’interno delle Gallerie degli Uffizi, dove è tornata nel 2023 con una donazione di un’opera destinata alla Collezione contemporanea permanente degli autoritratti insieme a Giuseppe Penone e Liu Bolin.
Il suo lavoro è stato oggetto di numerose pubblicazioni su riviste di rilievo, tra cui Il Fotografo, Gente di Fotografia, Artribune, Exibart, Il Giornale dell’Arte, Finestre sull’Arte, Elle, The Guardian. E’ stata inserita inoltre da Exibart tra i 222 artisti più meritevoli su cui investire.
Ha esposto in varie gallerie d’arte contemporanea e diversi Istituti Italiani di Cultura all’estero, partecipando a numerosi festival internazionali di fotografia. Tra le mostre e i festival più importanti: Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (2018); Gallerie degli Uffizi (2021); Verzasca Photo Festival, Svizzera (2023); Maja Arte Contemporanea, Roma (2023); Format Festival, Inghilterra (2024); Alessia Paladini Gallery, Milano (2025); Centro della Fotografia di Ginevra (2025).
Ha svolto la sua attività fotografica tra Napoli e Monaco di Baviera e attualmente vive e lavora a Milano, dove insegna e prosegue la sua ricerca artistica personale.
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Photographer, visual artist, and teacher of art and audiovisual and multimedia disciplines.
She gratuated from the Academy of Fine Arts of Naples, delving into both painting and photography in a path aimed at integrating the two visual languages.
Her artistic research stems from a meticulous study of the past, to recreate a complex and layered imagery of the inner world and human experience. She explores the most intimate aspects of existential dynamics, with particular attention to their social and psychological meanings. Her poetics, introspective and visionary, is rich in symbolism and artistic references that blend past and present, generating unusual and unexpected visions.
She received several awards: the Sette Opere di Misericordia Prize (2015), organized by the Pio Monte della Misericordia Museum in Naples; the Biennale of Young Italian Photographers (2018); Portfolio Italia (2021); New Talent Prize (2023); and the European Photographic Festival Portfolio Award (2024).
In 2021, she was invited to present a solo exhibition at the Uffizi Galleries, where she returned in 2023 with the donation of a work to the permanent Contemporary Self-Portrait Collection, together with Giuseppe Penone and Liu Bolin.
Her work was published in numerous prominent magazine, including Il Fotografo, Gente di Fotografia, Artribune, Exibart, Il Giornale dell’Arte, Finestre sull’Arte, Elle, and The Guardian. She was also included by Exibart among the 222 most promising artists to invest in.
She exhibited in various contemporary art galleries and several Italian Cultural Institutes abroad, participating in numerous international photography festivals.
Among her most important exhibitions and festivals: National Archaeological Museum of Naples (2018); Uffizi Galleries (2021); Verzasca Photo Festival, Switzerland (2023); Maja Arte Contemporanea, Rome (2023); Format Festival, UK (2024); Alessia Paladini Gallery, Milan (2025); and the Geneva Photography Center (2025).
She worked between Naples and Munich and currently lives and works in Milan, where she teaches and continues her personal artistic research.
GALLERIES
Rome – Maja Arte Contemporanea
Milan – Alessia Paladini Gallery
AWARDS
2024
Portfolio Prize – European Photography Festival – Winner
Umane Tracce Prize – Honourable Mention
2023
New Talent Prize – Winner
Passepartout Photo Prize – Finalist
Photosynthesis Festival, Faliro, Greece – Finalist
Photopolis Agrinio Photo Festival, Greece – Finalist
Verzasca Foto Festival, Switzerland – Finalist
Maja Arte Contemporanea Gallery – Art Residency – Winner
2021
Portfolio Italia – Winner
Aurelia Josz Prize, Milan, Italy – Winner
Portfolio dello Strega, Italy – Winner
2019
Musa Prize, Italy – Finalist
2018
Fotoconfronti, Bibbiena, Italy – Winner
Portfolio Italia – Finalist
Biennale of Young Italian Photographers – Winner
Present & Future, MACRO Museum, Rome, Italy – Finalist
Don Franco Patruno Art Biennale, Ferrara, Italy – Finalist
2016
Sette Opere di Misericordia Prize – Pio Monte della Misericordia Museum, Naples, Italy – Winner
2015
Ariano International Film Festival – Photography Award – Winner
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025
Crisalidi – Curated by Danaé Panchaud, Maison de l’Enfance et de l’Adolescence (HUG), Centre de la Photographie Genève & Fondation Convergences, Geneva, Switzerland
Piena di grazia – Porta Portello, Padova, Italy
Piena di grazia – Alessia Paladini Gallery, Milan, Italy
2024
Piena di grazia – Civic Museum of Foggia, Italy
Crisalidi – Italian Photography Festival, Palazzo Giorgi, Arezzo, Italy
Piena di grazia – Biblioteca del Todi Circle, Todi (PE), Italy
2023
Herstory – Maja Arte Contemporanea Gallery, Rome, Italy
Crisalidi – Curated by Denis Curti, Arturo Ghergo Museum, Montefano (MC), Italy
2021
Lo Sfregio. Ilaria Sagaria / Gian Lorenzo Bernini – Curated by Chiara Toti, Uffizi Galleries, Florence, Italy
2018
Il dolore non è un privilegio – Curated by Federica Cerami, The Gallery Studio, Naples, Italy
Imago Imaginis – Parentesi Gallery, Bibbiena (AR), Italy
2016
Sibylla – In collaboration with the Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Naples, Italy
GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND FESTIVAL
2025
The Winter Show, Alessia Paladini Gallery, Milan, Italy
Fragile/Fragments – Curated by Angelo Gioè, in collaboration with Italian Culture Institute of Beirut, Lebanon
European Photography Festival, Legnano, Italy
2024
Fase Festival – Curated by Alessia Locatelli, Otranto, Italy
Insight Foto Festival – Curated by Chiara Del Sordo and Daniela Domestici, Varese, Italy
Format Festival, Leicester, UK
2023
Paratissima/ Nice & Fair – Curated by Lucrezia Caliani, Turin, Italy
Verzasca Foto Festival – Curated by Alfio Tommasini, Switzerland
Photosynthesis Festival, Faliro, Greece
Photopolis Agrinio Photo Festival, Greece
Budapest Photo Festival in collaboration with Italian Culture Institute of Budapest, Hungary
2022/2023
FORESTART – In collaboration with Madre Museum, Naples, Italy
2022
Piena di grazia – Ancona Photo Festival, Ancona, Italy
Piena di grazia, SIFEST – curated by Alex Majoli, Italy
Piena di grazia – Portfolio Italia Prize circuit: Colorno Photo Life – Galleria FIAF, Turin – Fotoincontri, San Felice sul Panaro – Garfagnana Fotografia, Castelnuovo, Lucca – Una penisola di luce Festival, Sestri Levante – Corigliano Calabro Festival – FacePhotoNews, Sassoferrato
Silente, Florence, Italy
2021/2022
Epifanie/03 – curated byAntonio Biasiucci: Bottega Cecé Casile, Milan – Photolux Festival, Lucca – Galleria del Cembalo, Rome – Arcos Museum, Benevento – San Domenico Maggiore Convent, Naples, Italy
2021
Portfolio Italia 2021, Bibbiena (AR), Italy
Fotografia al femminile – Bresciani Visual Art Prize, Rome, Italy
2019
Il Rumore del Silenzio – National Archaeological Museum, Naples, Italy
Contemporary Photography Festival, Ancona, Italy
Mediterraneo: fotografie tra terre e mare – Curated by Patrizia Varone, Naples, Italy
2018
Portfolio Italia, Bibbiena (AR), Italy
Biennale of Young Italian Photographers, Bibbiena (AR), Italy
2016
Officina Reporter, Salerno, Italy
Biennale of Young Italian Photographers, Bibbiena (AR), Italy
Corpo – Curated by Yvonne De Rosa, Magazzini Fotografici, Naples, Italy
Sette Opere di Misericordia, Curated By Maria Cristina Antonini, Naples, Italy
2014
Lìmen Art International Prize – Curated by Lara Caccia, Vibo Valentia, Italy
2013
Carlo Bonatto Minella Prize – Curated by Vittorio Sgarbi, Rivarolo Canavese (TO), Italy
2011
Diari di un incipit – Parisio Photographic Archive, Naples, Italy
ART FAIR
2026 Mia Photo Fair – Milan
2025 The Phair – Turin
ART RESIDENCIES
2025
Fragile/Fragments – in collaboration with Italian Culture Institute of Beirut, Lebanon
2023
Una stanza tutta per sè – Maja Arte Contemporanea Gallery, Todi, Italy
2022
Silente, Florence, Italy
2020
Paesaggi in movimento, Buonalbergo (BN), Italy
COLLECTION
2023
Uffizi Galleries – Self-Portrait Collection
Galleria a Cielo Aperto, Municipality of Pratovecchio Stia, Italy
2015
Pio Monte della Misericordia Museum, Naples, Italy
MUSINF – Museum of Modern Information and Photography Art, Senigallia, Italy
PUBLICATIONS / CATALOGUES / MAGAZINES
2024
Gente di fotografia #82
Yogurt Magazine
2023
Nice & Fair Contemporary Visions 2023, exhibition catalogue
See Zeen No. 9
Passepartout Photo Prize 2023 – ISBN 9788894267853
Art Doc Magazine
Gente di Fotografia, January 2023
2021/2022
FotoIT No. 12-01 (Dec 2021 / Jan 2022)
Epifanie 03
2021
ELLE Weekly No. 45
Lo Sfregio. Ilaria Sagaria | Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Uffizi Galleries, Giunti Publisher – Exhibition Catalogue – ISBN 9788809955653
2019
Mediterraneo: fotografie tra terre e mare – Exhibition Catalogue
FotoIT No. 02 – FIAF
2018
Il Fotografo No. 317
Riflessioni No. 42 – Italian Center for Author Photography
2017
Il corpo solitario – Self-Portrait in Contemporary Photography, Vol. 2 – Giorgio Bonomi, Rubbettino Publisher – ISBN 9788849850512
Don Franco Patruno Biennale – Exhibition Catalogue
Triennale della Fotografia Italiana – Exhibition Catalogue – ISBN 8899449074
Present & Future – Exhibition Catalogue
2016
Riflessioni No. 37 – Italian Center for Author Photography
2014
Lìmen Arte International Prize – Exhibition Catalogue, Romano Publisher
2013
Carlo Bonatto Minella Prize – Exhibition Catalogue, Lizea Arte Publisher
