Claudia Amatruda (1995, Foggia, IT) is a visual artist who lives and works in Bologna, IT.

She has a MA in Photography and Visual Design from the NABA school in Milan. Her work focuses on the representation of the body through photography and video installations, dealing with social issues with particular attention to the creative process supportedby research on scientific and literary texts, working on the creation, production and post-production of her projects. In 2019 she published the photographic book Naiade, presented through talks in Italian schools and Photography Festivals to raise awareness on the theme of invisible diseases. From 2021 until today her project When you hear hoofbeats think of horses, not zebras is exhibited in Italy, Greece, France, Holland and England. In 2022 she won the Special Mention for the Emerging Photography section of the Francesco Fabbri Prize. According to Il Giornale dell’Arte she’s among the 30 artists under 30 in 2023 and produced NFT works during a PhotoVogue x Voice.com Art Residency. In 2023 she worked as studio assistant to artist Francesco Jodice. Now she is among the finalists for the Luigi Ghirri Prize exhibiting her work Good Use of My Bad Health at the European Photography Festival at the Fotografia Europea Festival in Reggio Emilia in April 2024. In 2025 she will exhibit at the Gibellina PhotoRoad Festival and enter the permanent collection of the Orestiadi Foundation in Sicily.

 

Next Exhibitions:  26 April – 9 June 2024  Fotografia Europea XIX Festival – Reggio Emilia, Italy
                              28 July – 30 September 2024  Gibellina PhotoRoad Festival – Gibellina, Italy

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Selected Exhibitions
Pink Bum Bam, Lignano Sabbiadoro (2023, IT)
Mesnographies Festival, Les Mesnuls (2023, FR)
FORMAT23 Festival, Derby QUAD (2023, UK)
Haute Photographie, Rotterdam (2023, NL)
Francesco Fabbri Foundation, Treviso (2022, IT)
PhotoVogue Festival, Milan (2022, IT)
Pananti Atelier Gallery, Milan (2022, IT)
Athens Photo Festival, Athens (2022, GR)
Insight Photography Festival, Varese (2022, IT)
Ragusa Photo Festival, Ragusa Ibla (2022, IT)
Capability Festival Palazzo delle Arti, Napoli (2022, IT)
National Arts Award PNA XV – Contemporary Art Museum Mas.Edu, Sassari (2021, IT)
PhEst International Photography Festival, Monopoli (2021, IT)
Biennial of Female Photography, Mantua, (2020, IT)
Historical Museum of Lecce MUST, Lecce (2019, IT)

Books
2019 – Naiade – self-publishing 1000 copies