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Ilaria Sagaria
Photographer, visual artist, and teacher of art and audiovisual and multimedia disciplines.
She completed her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples, deepening her knowledge of both painting and photography in a journey aimed at integrating the two visual languages.
Her artistic research stems from a careful study of the past, aimed at restoring a complex and layered imagery of the inner world and human experience, investigating the most intimate aspects of existential dynamics, with particular attention to social and psychological meanings. Her poetic style, intimate and visionary, is dense with symbolism and artistic references that blend past and present, generating unusual and unexpected visions.
She has received several awards, including the 2015 Seven Works of Mercy Prize, organized by the Pio Monte della Misericordia Museum in Naples, the 2018 Biennale of Young Italian Photographers, Portfolio Italia 2021, the New Talent Prize 2023, and the Portfolio Prize of the 2024 European Photography Festival. In 2021, she presented a solo exhibition by invitation at the Uffizi Galleries, where she returned in 2023 with a donation of a work for the permanent contemporary collection of self-portraits alongside Giuseppe Penone and Liu Bolin.
Her work has been featured in numerous prominent publications, 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 noteworthy artists to invest in for 2026.
She has exhibited in various contemporary art galleries and several Italian Cultural Institutes abroad, participating in numerous international photography festivals.
Among the most important exhibitions and festivals: National Archaeological Museum of Naples (2018); Uffizi Galleries (2021); Italian Cultural Institute of Budapest (2023); Verzasca Photo Festival, Switzerland (2023); Maja Arte Contemporanea, Rome (2023); Format Festival, England (2024); Alessia Paladini Gallery, Milan (2025); Geneva Photography Center (2025); Italian Cultural Institute of Beirut (2025).
She has carried out her photography work between Naples and Munich and currently lives and works in Milan.