PATRIZIA GENOVESI

SHORT BIOGRAPHY

Patrizia Genovesi is a professional photographer, cinematographic director of photography, filmmaker and video artist, photography instructor, and curator.

Starting from a scientific background, Patrizia Genovesi cultivates her eclecticism and artistic sensitivity through continuous and in-depth study. In photography, she trained with masters such as Leonard Freed, Richard Kalvar, and Moises Samam of the international Magnum Photos agency. She studied art history and music and developed additional skills such as screenwriting under the guidance of acclaimed director Mario Monicelli and Strega Prize-winning writer Domenico Starnone. She studied theatrical directing with Argentine director Renzo Casali of the Actors Studio.

Since the early 2000s, she has collaborated on live broadcasts and documentary reports with television networks, radio stations, and news outlets. Her portraits of Nobel Prize laureates — including Rita Levi-Montalcini, John Nash, Richard Ernst, Robert Mundell, and Frank Wilczek — have been published on the official website of the Nobel Prize Organization in Stockholm. Her portraits of Magnum Photos photographer Leonard Freed are part of the permanent collection of the Musée de la Photographie in Charleroi, Belgium. Her portraits of prominent contemporary American painters of the Florentine Academy, including Ramiro, Nelson White, and Ben Fenske, have been exhibited by the Grenning Gallery in New York and are part of its collection. Her multimedia project Art and Science was presented at the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Rome as the central event of the opening night of the Ambassadors of Italy Worldwide Conference. Her photographic work on mathematician Andrew Wiles was published by Shinchosha. Her portraits of Rita Levi-Montalcini have been exhibited in Kamienna Góra (Poland) during the celebrations for Nobel Prize laureate Viktor Hamburger and remain part of the local collection. A portrait of Frank Wilczek was published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston.

Her cinematic and video-photographic works include: È stato solo un click, La nostra commedia, Le nozze di Figaro, La pazzia di Lady Macbeth, Trovatore, Attila e Odabella, La morte di Traviata, Codex.

Patrizia Genovesi has recently realized two experimental exhibitions: Rome Seen by Aliens and Ex Machina, a work that brings together artificial intelligence, photography, and poetry.

Her works Pandemia and Tree were featured at Milan Fashion Week and at the MIA Fair. Her pieces have also been exhibited at the ADI Design Museum and the Natural History Museum of Milan.

She is currently active in the creation, planning, editing, and organization of events, video-photographic installations, and exhibitions that explore the synergy between photography and other expressive languages traditionally considered distant. These projects have been successfully presented in various venues in Italy and abroad, including galleries, institutional spaces, and airports.

She is also engaged in curatorship, professional and academic education, and the dissemination of photographic culture through seminars and lectures on major themes related to the world of imagery.

Patrizia Genovesi is represented in the United States by the Grenning Gallery in New York. She actively collaborates with the University of Roma Tre, the Municipality of Rome, and the Mercati di Traiano for the development of projects and masterclasses. She teaches cinematographic direction of photography and directing at the University of Cinema in Rome.

Patrizia Genovesi is a Google-certified photographer and one of the leading contributors to Google Maps photography. She is Vice President of AFIP International.

Curated Exhibitions

Sculpting with Light (Mondadori, Rome 2003; Milan 2004; Temple of Dionysus at the Quirinale, Rome 2005; Torretta Valadier, Rome 2006), People of Cinema (Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome 2007), Miscellanea (Balletti Palace Hotel for Mensa International IBD, Viterbo 2008), Coriolanus by Ludwig van Beethoven (Milan Malpensa Airport 2008–2009; Biblioteca Vallicelliana, Rome 2009), Art and Science (Ministry of Foreign Affairs 2010; Ministry of the Navy 2011), Art and Science and Retrospective (Italian Cultural Institute, Budapest 2011), Image – Historic Garbatella(Galleria 3f, Rome 2012), The Women of Giuseppe Verdi (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Rome 2013; Leica Center and Art Hotel, Florence 2015), Symmetries, Rules and Patterns in the Art of Image (Rome 2017), Hildegard of Bingen (Rome 2018), Garden Misnake (Rome 2019), Rome Seen by Aliens (Open Studio Gallery, Rome 2021), Ex Machina (Open Studio Gallery, Rome 2022), Mirame (Palazzo Bastogi, Florence 2012), New York, Celebration of Culture (Rome 2012), Painters (Grenning Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY 2012; Open Studio Gallery, Rome 2022), The Man and His Harley-Davidson (Casa della Fotografia, Rome 2020), Fuorisalone (Milan, with AFIP International 2021), MIA Fair (Milan, with AFIP International 2021 and 2023), ADI Design Museum (Milan 2022), Natural History Museum (Milan 2023), Chiara Ricciotti (Open Studio Gallery, Rome), Istanti di Classica (Open Studio Gallery, Rome), ViviPerLArte (Open Studio Gallery, Rome), COSMOS (Open Studio Gallery, Rome 2025 – ongoing), IDentity (Open Studio Gallery, Rome – opening October 2025).