Renato D’Agostin was born in 1983. He started his career in photography in Venice, Italy in 2001. The atmosphere of city life nourished his curiosity to capture life situations with the camera. For this, in 2002, he journeys through the capitals of Western Europe. After a period in Milan, he moved overseas exploring photography in New York. In the dynamic city life he had the chance to meet photographer Ralph Gibson and later on become his assistant.
His works have been exhibited in several exhibitions in Europe, United States and Asia and published in numerous books. Some of his prints have in the years become part of public collections such as the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris, The Library of Congress and The Phillips Collection in Washington DC, the International Center of Photography in New York, as well as LACMA in Los Angeles, the Center for Creative Photography in Arizona and the Maison Europeenne de la Photographie in Paris among others.
Dislocating subjects from their realities, he depicts his perception of the space around him, the relationship between the architecture and people, opening a new portal in the spectator’s imagination.
After 13 years living and working in New York, D’Agostin in 2018 has returned to his motherland Italy, setting up a studio in a warehouse in the outskirts of Venice.
2022 ”Veni Etiam”, Bigaignon, Paris, France
2019 ”Harmony of Chaos”, Bigaignon, Paris, France
2018 “Metropolis”, Leica Gallery, Bangkok
2018 “Metropolis”, Kahmann Gallery, Amsterdam
2018 “7439”, Leica Gallery, Bologna
2017 ”The Beautiful Cliché – Venezia”, Carnegie Hall, New York
2017 “7439”, Bigaignon, Paris, France
2017 “7439”, Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, San Dona’ di Piave, Venise
2017 “7439”, Leica Gallery, Milan
2017 “7439”, Villa Firenze, Washington DC
2016 “7439”, Leica Gallery, Washington DC
2016 ”7439”, Conde Nast Gallery, Freedom Tower, New York
2015 “Kapadokya”, Leica Gallery, Tokyo
2014 ”Iter”, Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, San Dona’ di Piave, Venise
2013 ”The Beautiful Cliché – Venezia”, Leica Gallery, San Francisco
2014 ”Iter”, Embassy of Italy, Washington DC
2014 ”Etna”, Mondo Galeria, Madrid
2014 ”Etna”, mc2 Gallery, Milan
2013 “Tokyo and Shangai”, Hôtel de Nupces, Toulouse
2013 ”The Beautiful Cliché – Venezia”, Italian Cultural Institute, Madrid
2012 ”The Beautiful Cliché”, Palazzo Ducale and Palazzo Franchetti, Venise
2012 ”Tokyo Untitled” Phos Center, Chieri, Turin
2012 ”The Beautiful Cliché”, mc2 Gallery, Milan
2012 ”The Beautiful Cliché”, Galeria Rita Castellote, Madrid
2011 ”The Beautiful Cliché”, The Chinese Porcelain Company, New York
2011 ”The Beautiful Cliché”, Galerie Photo 4, Paris
2011 ”Tokyo Untitled”, Vision Quest Gallery, Gênes
2010 ”Tokyo Untitled”, Randall Scott Gallery, New York
2010 ”Tokyo Untitled Video” presented by MC2 Gallery, Montecarlo
2010 ”Tokyo Untitled, FORMA” presented by MC2 Gallery, Milan
2010 ”Un giorno con Lucia”, Italian Cultural Institute, Washington DC
2009 ”Tokyo Untitled”, Leica Gallery, New York
2009 ”Tokyo Untitled”, Leica Ginza Salon, Tokyo
2009 ”Tokyo Untitled”, Galerie Photo 4, Paris
2009 ”Metropolis”, Public library, Rostov-on-Don
2009 ”Metropolis”, Vision Quest Gallery, Gênes
2009 ”Un giorno con Lucia”, Palais des Institutions Italiennes, Tanger
2009 ”Un giorno con Lucia”, Palazzo Roberti, Bassano del Grappa
Fondation Lorin, Tanger
2008 ”Un giorno con Lucia”, Pinacoteca di Ancona, Ancona
2008 ”Metropolis”, PhotoFestival, Yaroslavl
2008 ”Metropolis”, Leica Gallery, Istanbul
2008 ”Metropolis”, Italian Cultural Institute, Washington DC
2008 ”Metropolis”, Leica Gallery, Solms
2007 ”Un giorno con Lucia”, Italian Cultural Institute, New York
2025 Paris-Photo, Bigaignon, Paris, France
2025 “Atto 1/3, Sotto la luce”, Rhinoceros Gallery x Bigaignon, Rome, Italie
2025 “Ligne(s) de mire”, exposition hors-les-murs au Bonisson Art Center, Bigaignon, Rognes, France
2024 “What if it was all just a mirage?”, Bigaignon, Paris, France
2023 ”A Black & White Journey”, Bigaignon, Paris, France
2023 ”La Dialectique de l’Ombre”, Bigaignon, Paris, France
2023 ”Chair de temps”, Bigaignon, Paris, France
2020 United, Bigaignon, Paris, France
2013 ”Next Stop : Italy”, Phillips Collection, Washington, United States of America
2011 ”Mélancolie”, Jardin Raymond VI du Musées des Abattoirs, Toulouse, France
2010 ”One”, Exposition collective, Randall Scott Gallery, New York, United States of America
2010 ”.IT – Italian Art Today”, Exposition collective, Italian Cultural Institute, San Francisco, United States of America
2009 ”Giovani Maestri”, mc2gallery, Milan, Italy
2009 ”Interessi Personali”, Romberg Artecontemporanea Gallery, Rome, Italy
2009 ”Italidea”, Mandato Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico
2008 ”Italidea”, Instituto Cultural Cabañas, Guadalajara, Mexico
2008 ”SiFest”, Savignano Sul Rubicone, Italy
2008 ”Echoes From the Street”, Domeischel Gallery, New York, United States of America
2008 Oeuvres choisies et ”Photographie couleur”, Photo 4, Paris
2007 Oeuvres Récentes, Photo 4, Paris, France
2007 ”The (sub)Urban Landscape”, Ross Art Museum, Ohio, United States of America
2007 ”Postcards from Paris”, Leica Gallery, New York, United States of America
2007 ”Mythos.Miti ed archetipi nel mare della consocenza”, National Gallery of Arts, Tirana Evagoras & Kathleen Lanitis Foundation, Limassol, Chypre
2007 ”Blanche et noir est la rue”, Exposition collective, Galerie Photo 4, Paris, France
2006 ”Mythos.Miti ed archetipi nel mare della consocenza”, Byzantine and Christian Museum, Athens, Greece
BnF, Paris , France Paris LACMA, Los Angeles, United States of America
ICP International Center of Photography, New Yor, United States of America
Library of Congress, Washington, United States of America
The Phillips Collection, Washington, United States of America
Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, United States of America
MEP, Paris, France
George Eastman House, Rochester, New York, United States of America
HIGH Museum of Art, Atlanta, United States of America
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