Carlo D'Orta is born
in Florence in 1955. He has been a traveller and photographer by passion for
over 40 years. In 2004-2009 dedicating himself to the study of contemporary art
and refining his skills with advanced courses in painting within the Rome University of Fine Arts (RUFA) and
a master's degree in photography at the IED
in Milan. Since 2009 he began
doing art photography for work. In 2015 he opened his ArtStudio/Gallery in
Rome, where every month he organize a different two-person exhibition togheter
with a different artist.
He has been
exhibiting his photography artworks since 2009 in solo exhibitions at public
institutions and private galleries in Italy, Germany, Singapore, and other
countries, as well as at art fairs in Italy, England, France, and Belgium.
In 2013 he held his
first individual exhibition in a museum institution: Biology of the Inorganic, in the Museum of Contemporary Art in the
Collicola Palace of Spoleto. In 2015 the Venice Zattere Workshop hosted his
solo exhibition Beyond the Lens next
to the Guatemala Pavilion at the Venice Art Biennale. The same exhibition was
then also taken to the Temple of Pomona in Salerno. In January 2017, The
National Museum of Singapore hosted an event dedicated to his Vibrations series, and the exhibition
was shown again at the Bruno Art Group Gallery in Singapore in the following
months. In 2018 the Museum of the Central Archives of the State in Rome, and
then the Orbetello Photography Festival and the Gallery of the IPSAR-Portuguese
Institute of St. Anthony in Rome hosted his exhibition dedicated to 80 years of
architecture in the EUR district of Rome. In 2023 his personal exhibitions have
been hosted in Museum of Chiostro Santa Sophia of Benevento and in 2024 in
Palazzo Scacciaricci of Viterbo.
He has won, been a
finalist or short-listed in numerous national and international awards,
including: First Photography Prize in 1° Edition of Art Biennale of Roman
Riviera 2023, AIPAI Prize 2023, Arte Borgo First Prize 2022, PX3 Paris 2020
section Industrial Architectures, 3rd Biennale of Contemporary Art in Genoa
2019 Second Prize, The Colleferro Art and Architecture Award 2019 Finalist,
Malamegi Vision Art Contest 2019 Finalist, Rospigliosi Prize 2018 First Prize,
Satura International Contest 2018 Third Prize, The Arteam Cup 2018, The Linx
Prize 2017, Abate Zanetti School of Glass prize, Murano (as a
photo-designer)and The Enegan Art Prize; Sony World Photography Award 2012,
Urban Photo Award. The Celeste Prize 2010,
His artworks are in
many important Public and Institutional Collections including: The Museum of
the Central Archives of the State (Rome), The Congress Centre of the Bank of
Italy in Rome, The Italian Chamber of Deputies(Rome), The Bar Association of
the Hall of Justice of Milan, The Regional Council of Campania, The Communications
Authority (AGCOM, Rome), EUR Spa (Rome, President’s office), Confindustria
(Rome headquarters, President’s Office), The Carabinieri Officers’ School
(Rome), Architektenkammer Baden-Württemberg (Stuttgart, Germany), LUISS
University Guido Carli (Rome), ENI (Rome
headquarters), The Italian Institute of Culture in New York, The Consulate
General of Italy in New York, The Italian Institute of Culture in Munich, The
Portuguese Institute of S.Antonio (IPSAR, Rome), Abate Zanetti School of Glass,
Murano (Venice), Polyclinic Hospital Umberto I (Rome), Negri-Clementi Law
Partners (Milan), The Dario Mellone Foundation (Milan) and DeA Capital RE
(Rome).
And many his artworks
are also in private collections.
Additionally, between
2015-2017 his projects "(S)Compositions-Metaphor
of Life", "Vibrations", "Liquidance" and "EUR 42/Today: Different Visions"
were chosen to become part of the Archive of the Malerba Photography Fund, a
prestigious institution dedicated to the promotion of photography at national
and international level, which in 2019 also displayed the photographs of the Vibrations series in exhibitions
organized in Tokyo and Cuba.
