Since moving from Milan to Los Angeles in the 1990s Gianluca Galtrucco has added extensively to his experience as a fine art photographer. He also wrote, produced and directed the award-winning short film Blind Spot (2007).
Galtrucco’s artworks have been showcased in numerous venues, including the groundbreaking group show, "New Italian Landscape,” curated by Maria Grazia Torri, which toured throughout Italy in 1999, and “7 Artists Meet,” mounted in 2000 at the Sharjah Art Museum. His one-person exhibition, “Metamorphosis,” curated by Giovanna Zamboni Paulis and Alma Ruiz, was displayed at the Italian Cultural Institute in Los Angeles in 2000. He has had solo shows in Milan, Barcelona, and New York. Galtrucco also participated in the Florence Biennale and the MIA Photo Fair in Milan.
His images have appeared in publications including Art in America, Flash Art, Rolling Stone, Wired, Der Spiegel and La Repubblica. Galtrucco has published two books of his photography, Sea Stories (1999) and For Your Consideration (2017).
