Jacopo Valentini

Jacopo Valentini was born in Modena in 1990, he lives and works between Modena and Milan. He approached photography from an early age, studying first at the Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio (Switzerland) and then at the IUAV in Venice, where he attended a Masters in photography. In 2015 he was selected to participate in the Foto Factory Modena project in collaboration with Sky Arte HD and the Modena Visual Arts Foundation. In 2017 he won the 101st Collective Young Artists of the Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation, Venice. In 2019 he was selected for Young Italian Photography # 07, within the European Photography circuit, in Reggio Emilia, and won the Nocivelli Award. In 2020 he is a finalist for the Leica Oskar Barnack Award Newcomer and is the winner of the Refocus call of the MiC - Ministry of Culture, in collaboration with Triennale Milano and MUfoco | Museum of Contemporary Photography. In the same year he was selected for Cantica21 organized by the MiC and the MAECI for the Concerning Dante - Autonomous Cell project, published in a volume published by Humboldt Books.

He has exhibited at institutions and private spaces both in Italy and abroad, including: Chiostri di San Domenico, Reggio Emilia; Milan Triennale; Luigi Pecci Center for Contemporary Art, Prato; Giovanni Fattori Civic Museum, Livorno; Royal Institute British of Architecture, London; Francesco Fabbri Foundation, Pieve di Soligo (Treviso); Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation, Venice; Ragghianti Foundation, Lucca; La Volonté 93, Saint Ouen (France); A Showcase, Rome; Border Line for Contemporary Photography, Rubiera (Reggio Emilia); festivalfilosofia Modena; Cavour Civic Gallery, Padua; Governor's Palace, Parma; Civic Gallery of Modena; Italian Cultural Institute, Addis Ababa; Italian Cultural Institute, Moscow.

His works are present in both public and private collections, including: Institute for artistic, cultural and natural heritage of the Emilia-Romagna Region; Civic Gallery of Modena | FMAV; Palazzo Rasponi 2, Ravenna; Ragghianti Foundation, Lucca; Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation, Venice; MUfoco | Museum of Contemporary Photography, Milan.