Massimo Scognamiglio nel suo studio

Massimo Scognamiglio

Born in Rome, he lives and works in Rome.

Artist, photographer, and digital evangelist, he paints, photographs, and has been exhibiting since the mid-’90s. From 2006 he lived for two years in California, then for a brief period he moved to Paris where he paints, photographs, designs performances. Scognamiglio stands as a poignant figure in the landscape of contemporary art, his works a testament to the profound layers of human introspection.

In 2026 he was selected by Exibart among the “222 artisti emergenti su cui investire” (222 Emerging Artists to Invest In).

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01Museums
Rome · Prato · Vibo Valentia

Museums & Institutions

MACRO ASILO logo
MACRO ASILO

Where is the future?

In 2019, the MACRO, Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome, presents my project "Where is the Future?" consisting of a film and a series of images that depict the occupants of the houses in Cosenza.

Centro Pecci di Prato logo
Centro Pecci di Prato

Videominuto

Nel 2005 Videominuto explored the potential of new technology in short films shot with webcams and "next generation" cell phones (we were at the dawn, before the iPhone), presenting some of the first Italian authors to experiment with these new media, such as Massimo Scognamiglio.

LIMEN — Museo d’Arte Vibo Valentia logo
LIMEN — Museo d’Arte Vibo Valentia

In the collection of this Italian Contemporary art museum

The latest acquisition by a Museum is that of the Limen Museum in Vibo Valentia, which has acquired a work from 2016.

02Paintings
03Books

Five books · 1999—2026

Stories from
the other side
of the present.

Time, technology, desire and identity. Five books moving between philosophical science fiction, coming-of-age and noir.

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04Images
Art · Photography · Film · Fashion

Works &
Projects

RADICAL Fashion

A radical approach to the world of fashion

A radical and artistic approach to the world of fashion.
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Pensiero Stupendo
Hawton Space
June 2018

In an intricate world like the one shaped in our century, identity and sexuality also confirm this heterogeneity and the right to exist and manifest without the necessity to fall into predefined categorizations, which are becoming increasingly sterile, discriminatory, and regressive. As often happens, the collective framework evolves while institutions – all of them: political, religious, social – lag behind, unable to recognize changes and the de facto reality, as well as the right of everyone to be and express themselves, provided this does not infringe – and it does not! – upon the freedom and integrity of others.

Paris, Place de la République, 2016

In September 2016, Massimo Scognamiglio brought his photographic performance "Rebirth" to France, at the symbolic site of Paris and all of France, Place de la République.

Tales of humans in a landscape Imago Projects

The American countryside is the starting point... but in truth, it has little to do with it. I love only two things in the world:
human beings and everything else.

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The Magnificent Seven | Punk Aristocracy 

Thirty shots plus one printed in 99 copies; three iconographic clusters; black and white and color alternating from image to image; children who are almost adults and adults who are perpetually children; a tangle of signs and styles belonging to different eras and generations mixed and overlaid; the story of how even the most subversive movements of the past are slowly assimilated and readjusted by the establishment, then sold as luxury products. And sexuality, the body, as the theater of a silent, contemporary revolution. Look at the works published on La repubblica.

And so, tired of all this, weary of the gentrification that came with millions of pounds and/or dollars, tired of rock music traveling to exorbitantly expensive recording studios, to millionaire tours, to producers, managers, press offices of every kind, utterly sick of the gigantic and unstoppable machine that the music business had become... well, tired of all this and of a rock that had even become “symphonic,” punk was born... and thankfully so.
— Michael Pergolani, dal testo introduttivo della mostra The Magnificent Seven / Punk Aristocracy

Terra!

Hosted by the central editorial office of Quotidiano del Sud, and promoted by the Institute for Historical Studies of Cosenza and the Dodaro Foundation, a solo exhibition on the drama of immigration, experienced firsthand after spending a period on the SOS Mediterranée ship off the coast of Libya.

In the news
RAI Italian National Broadcasting Television on “Terra!”


Il corpo fluido

Quitapina+ the first Album by Le Stelle di S.
On Soundcloud

05Exhibitions
Public & private galleries · Museums · Art fairs

Exhibitions

  1. Supermartek & Fonazione Solares per le arti “The Space Between Us” Solo Exhibition 30 years of works
  2. Studio11 Gallery Echoes Rome Group Show
  3. Atelier Marloes Mandaat Big Big Mouth Solo Show
  4. November - Arte in Nuvola - Galleria Supermarket Rome
  5. June - Solo Exhibition Artwork Galley Rome
    2023 - April BECAUSE Group Show Reprise Dorothy Circus Gallery London
  6. March BECAUSE Group Show Dorothy Circus Gallery Rome
  7. Blooming Contemporary Art Fair Bologna
  8. Arte in Nuvola - Galleria Supermartek Rome
  9. Strappi e Profezie /// Casa 94 Gallery Rome
  10. I 12 Apostoli /// Takeawaygallery Rome
  11. MACRO Museo di Arte Contemporanea Roma - Short film “Where is the future?”
  12. Hawton Space, Rome
    "Pensiero Stupendo" (part of the project Tales of humans in a landscape")
  13. Imago Projects - Photo Festival, Orbetello
    "Tales of humans in a landcape"
  14. Palazzo Velli Expo, Rome.
    "Atto Secondo", la collettiva di fotografia a cura della Takeawaygallery
  15. Chiesa di Santa Maria di Costantinopoli Solo Exhibition
    Punk Aristocracy
    by Carlotta Monteverde
  16. Palazzo BUSCO Velli Solo Exhibition
    curated by Katy Spurrell & Nicolas Ballario
  17. Ex-Dogana Performance & photographs REBIRTH
  18. Paris, Place de la Républque Performance & photographs REBIRTH
  19. Takeawaygallery Solo Exhibition
    Punk Aristocracy curated
    by Carlotta Monteverde
  20. VARCO Pigneto
    Solo Exhibition AIDS NOT DEAD
  21. 2005 Museo Pecci di Prato Video Minuto
    Special event Solo Exhibition - "Visual thoughts on fashion magazine" Prato (Tuscany)
  22. Explorer Coffee Gallery Collective Exhibition curated by Gianluca Marziani
  23. Palazzo delle Esposizioni Roma
    Collective Exhibition curated by Mariangela Shoether La Coscienza Luccicante
  24. Extra Gallery Solo Exhibition
06Studio

Fashion Film


UNDER - The short film

UNDER

A film by
Massimo Scognamiglio Studio & Irida Production
Directed by
Massimo Scognamiglio & Fabrizio Boni
With
Miriam Consoni & Sarah Jane
© 2017 Massimo Scognamiglio

Mindfull Portrait


A portrait is forever™

Mindful Portrait commisions / Workshops & More

Ultime pubblicazioni ritratti editoriali

Impression

Portrait of Riccardo Ruini - the most important 250 creatives in the fashion industry

The Observer / The Guardian

Photo by Massimo Scognamiglio / Illustration by Eleanor Shakespeare

AGI Agenzia Giornalistica Italia

Ritratto dell’Amministratore Delegato

Mondadori

Cover per l'ultimo libro "Metti giù quel cellulare" di Aldo Cazzullo e foto editoriali per IO Donna, Oggi, Corriere della Sera, Sette.

MSS - La petite maison d'édition


Massimo Scognamiglio is the Publisher of The Magazine of Everything - undiscovered and unclassifiable contents & STUMP Magazine

The Magazine of Everything

Massimo Scognamiglio is the Creative Director and the publisher of two different magazine: The Magazine of Everything & Stump Magazine (not yet published).

The Magazine of Everything" originates as an artistic work even before being a traditional magazine because it aims to negate editorial intervention; it deals directly with artists – photographers, sculptors, and other representatives of the arts – but with one rule: once the author hands over their works, they lose the right to veto. In other words, the works are recontextualized, analogical associations are constructed, they undergo modifications with overlapping elements, graphic, visual, typographic, and can be mixed with other images, creating a new concept from the initial material. My own works are subject to the same violence. The first issue is entirely experimental, with a variety of themes and surprising sequences. From the subsequent issues, I start with the title and come to understand what the magazine wants to express only after making this series of associations. Unlike a political act, where one starts with a corollary and demonstrates it, the work takes on meaning afterward, following the stream of consciousness between the various works.

Buy your copy here!

STUMP Magazine
Soon on the newstands near you

STUMP Magazine, work in progress

Tokyo/ Snapshots


Focus on "Tokyo / Snapshots" published by Street Photography Magazine (September 2018)

My Big Fat Street Photography Camera on Street Photography Magazine

07Diary
Diary · selected news

Focus

Cover of 222 artisti emergenti su cui investire 2026

222 artisti emergenti su cui investire 2026

I’m pleased to share that I’ve been included in the volume “222 Emerging Artists to Invest In 2026” published by Exibart.

A recognition that reflects years of continuous research, experimentation, and dedication to exploring the boundaries between art, technology, and human emotion.

I’m grateful to be part of this selection, which highlights artists shaping the contemporary landscape, and I look forward to continuing my journey through new projects and exhibitions in the coming months.

Arte in Nuvola, Rome International Art Fair

2023/24/25 Rome International Art Fair

Supermarket Gallery

Booming Contemporary Art Show, Bologna

2023 Bologna International Art Fair

Supermarket Gallery

Painting by Massimo Scognamiglio featured by Exibart and Artribune

Exibart on Massimo Scognamiglio

Scognamiglio works with acrylic paint, pencil and oil pastels, painting on ripped pieces of fashion magazines. He carefully selects close-ups of models, frontal cuts, simple and clean. He carelessly tears the pages from the magazines and "re-paints" them, with an expressionist intent, distant from pop, to delve beyond the surface of his characters. From this clash between the polished and the unconscious, between a prescient past - the canvases that talk about prophecies - and today's ragged edges full of rage, the vital energy of the subjects of Scognamiglio's painting and photography is born."

Exibart on Massimo Scognamigllio read here

Artribune on Massimo Scognamiglio read here

Diary · writings · fragments

Diary

Art, exhibitions, photography, publishing and studio notes.

Fotografia di Massimo Scognamiglio dal progetto Punk Aristocracy

Il punk ha cinquant’anni. Punk Aristocracy ne compie dieci

Nel 1976 il punk tagliò i ponti con il rock istituzionale. Dieci anni fa, con Punk Aristocracy, fotografai ciò che era successo dopo: la ribellione assorbita dalla moda, dal lusso e dalla televisione, senza perdere del tutto la propria forza. Presto il progetto tornerà a Cosenza in una riedizione per il decennale.

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Articolo del Quotidiano del Sud sulla mostra Terra! di Massimo Scognamiglio a Cosenza

Ceuta, il futuro sospeso dopo il mare

Migliaia di giovani migranti aspettano ancora a Ceuta, fra spiagge, boschi e rifugi provvisori. Il reportage di ARTE parla di un futuro sospeso. È la stessa domanda che attraversava il film e le fotografie che presentai al MACRO Asilo nel 2019.

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2015—today

From the archive

Strappi e Profezie, Casa 94 Gallery, Roma

Strappi e Profezie · Casa 94 Gallery

Una installazione site-specific, trenta lavori su carta e cinque tele trasformano Casa 94 Gallery in un visionario e ironico padiglione psichiatrico.

“Painful but never gloomy, always ironic and with a special light.” Exibart

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Terra!

Sono molto felice perché “Terra!”, la mia mostra personale sul dramma dell’immigrazione ha avuto un grande successo.

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