Bio

Nicoletta Cerasomma is a photographer and pop surrealist artist with a background in staged photography. After studying photography since 1997, she realized her love for storytelling so, in the latest years, she had evolved from fashion photographer to independent artist focused on production of nuanced photographic tableaux.

Her work is highly conceptual and complex: as surrealist artist, she incorporates archetypes and cultural iconography with satirical narratives inspired by the collective unconscious. Leaning into the visual language of pop surrealism, she stages narrative compositions that expose the underbelly of modern life.

Nicoletta is inspired by the dichotomy Beauty and Decay themes that she loves to incorporate into her works in order to evoke contemplation and debate on human condition, through a vivid and provocative still imagery and a cinematic technique.

Her images come from personal place of exploration where she dreams to live a thousand lives in one.

Since 2020 she won a lot of nominations and awards thanks to her work which depicts women placed in evocative scenarios. Presented for the first time to Sony World Photography Award her work was selected as a winner finalist in the creative category. She also won the Julia Cameron Award, the Pollux award and currently she is a chosen winner of the American Photography and nominated Fresheyes and Gup Magazine talent of the year 2021.

Her work was exhibited in New York, London, Milan and continues to show in international galleries. She is currently working on new dyptich projects.

 
 
Exhibitions
 
2022
NOV - American Photography Ai-Ap 38 - New York City USA
NOV – Kühlhaus Berlin - Germany
SEP – Berlin Photo Week with BBA Gallery - Berlin Germany
SEP – ImageNation Milan Italy
SEP -  Spazio FMF - Fondo Malerba per la Fotografia - Milan Italy
JUL  - Space Millepiani Rome Italy
MAR - AW Galerie - Frankfurt Germany 
FEB – Decode Gallery - Tucson Arizona USA
FEB – House of Lucie Gallery - Budapest Hungary
JEN – Las Laguna Art Gallery - Laguna Beach CA USA
2021
DIC – 6th Biennal of Fine art Barcelona - Julia Margaret Cameron Award 2021
DIC – 6th Biennal of Fine art Barcelona - Pollux Award 2020
NOV - American Photography Ai-AP 37 - New York City USA
NOV - Blank Wall Gallery - Athens Greece
OCT – Haute Photographie Rotterdam - Netherlands
SEP – The Line Contemporary Art Space - London UK
AGO - Photo Place Gallery - Middlebury Vermont USA
AGO - Praxis Photo Art Center - Minneapolis USA
AGO – Phest - Monopoli Italia (video presenting the FreshEyes talents)
JUL – House of Lucie Budapest Gallery - Hungary
JUN – Foley Gallery New York City USA
JAN - Sony World Photography Organisation - online exhibition - Somerset Gallery London UK  
JAN - The Moscow International - Crimean Republican Universal Scientific Library - Russia
2020
SEP - The Moscow International - ProPhoto Studios Moscow Russia
JUN - Sony World Photography Organisation - Sony Imaging Gallery Tokyo Japan
MAY - Sony World Photography Organisation - On Screen Exhibition 
2018
SEP - Imago - festival ImagOrbetello - Orbetello Italy
2015
NOV - Solo exhibition - Circuito Off Photolux Festival -  Lucca Italy
APR - Pisa in Fiore - Garden Art Project - Corso Italia Pisa Italy
AUG - Solo exhibition - LuccaOperaFestival - Lucca Italy
2014
MAY - Il Trauma - Mario Tobino Foundation - Palazzo Ducale Lucca Italy
2013
OCT - Le Felicità Visibili - Pisa Italy
OCT- Le Mura di Lucca 500 anni - Fondazione Cassa Risparmio di Lucca - Italy
2012
AUG - Solo exhibition - I Concerti degli Angeli - Lucca Italy 
2011
APR - Puro & Impuro - Palazzo Vittelli Pisa Italy
2006
APR - Scattidivini - Firenze Italy
MAY - Scattidivini - Siena Italy
 
 
Awards
 
 
2022
AI-AP 38 American Photography - winner
Editor's pick - Juror Alessia Glaviano - The indipendent Photographer - The color award
Finalist Photo Lucida Critical Mass 2022
Finalist Color Awards - professional - Fine Art and Abstract category
Gold Winner Muse Photography Awards professional
Gold Winner London Photography Awards professional - Conceptual category
Honorable mention IPA - International Photography Awards - Professional - Collage category
Official selection IPA One shot color- International Photography Awards - Professional - Collage category
2021
GUP Magazine & Fresheyes – Talent of the year 2021
Ai-AP 37 American Photography - winner
AAP All About Photo - Colors Awards - Winner
IT's Liquid - 8th edition - winner
Editor's pick - Art photography award Lensculture
Editor's pick - Open call award - The indipendent photographer
Editor's pick The emerging talent award - The indipendent photographer
Editor's pick - Juror Barbara Davidson - The portrait award (gala award)
First Place Julia Margaret Cameron Award
Second Place BIFA Budapest Photography Awards - Professional - Portfolio category
Gold Medal BIFA Budapest Photography Awards - Professional - Portfolio category
Silver Medal New York Photography Awards - Professional - Fine Art category
Silver Medal Tokyo Foto Awards - Professional - Portfolio Fine Art category
Silver Medal BIFA Budapest Photography Awards - Professional - Fine Art category
Silver Medal MIFA Moscow Photography Awards - Professional - Portfolio/Fine Art category
Finalist The Royal Photographic Society
Finalist Photo Lucida Critical Mass 2022
Finalist Fine Art Photography Awards -  Professional - Concetual category
Honorable mention ND Photography Awards - Professional - Conceptual & People category
Honorable mention IPA - International Photography Awards - Professional - Fine Art category
Honorable mention Winner Pollux Awards
Honorable mention Px3 Paris Photo  
Honorable mention Color Awards - Professional - Fine Art category
Honorable mention MIFA Moscow Photography Awards - Professional - Fine Art Other category
Honorable mention MIFA Moscow Photography Awards - Professional - Portfolio/Fine Art & Fine Art Other category
Honorable mention Monovision Photography Award - Professional - Fine Art category 
Honorable mention Minimalist Photography Award - Professional - Conceptual category
2020
AAP All About Photo - Colors Awards - winner
First Place Winner Pollux Awards
Second Place PORTFOLIO PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR - MIFA Moscow Photography Awards
Second Place PORTFOLIO - BIFA Budapest Photography Awards - Professional
Gold Medal MIFA Moscow Photography Awards - Professional - Portfolio/Fine Art category
Gold Medal BIFA Budapest Photography Awards - Professional - Portfolio/Fine Art category
Gold Medal BIFA Budapest Photography Awards - Professional - Culture/People category
Silver Medal BIFA Budapest Photography Awards - Professional - Portfolio/Fine Art category
Bronze Medal Px3 Paris Photo 
Bronze Medal MIFA Moscow Photography Awards - Professional - Portfolio/Fine Art category
Finalist Sony World Photography Organisation - Professional - Creative category
Finalist Fine Art Photography Awards -  Professional - Concetual category
Honorable mention ND Photography Awards - Professional - Conceptual category
Honorable mention IPA - International Photography Awards - Professional - Fine Art category
Honorable mention Px3 Paris Photo 
Honorable mention Chromatic Awards 
Honorable mention Minimalist Photography Award - Professional - Conceptual category
2019
Bronze Medal Tifa Tokyo International - Fashion/Editorial category
 
 
Publications
 
2022
2021
Dic - All About Photo Magazine
Sep - Inside Artist
Feb - Aesthetica Magazine
Feb - Equal Lens
2020
Dic - All About Photo Magazine
Nov - Fotonostrum Magazine
Oct - Aesthetica Magazine
2019/15
Each issue - JSH Insight - Hotels Magazine
2013
Oct - Il Tirreno
 
 
Education
 
2015 - Fashion Photography course - Fondazione Studio Marangoni Firenze
2009 - Photography course - Pisa University 
 
 

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