Gianluca Mainiero is a visual designer and a photographer. He is based in Ancona, Italy. In 1987 he graduated in Visual Communication Engineering. Since 1997 he has been a professional visual designer and photographer.
In 2002 he realized his first solo exhibition.
In 2003 he won with Francesco Pirro the Premio Pratomedialab Prize at the Luigi Pecci Contemporary Art Centre of Prato (Italy) for The Harbour Project, a net-art project based on an artistic research about the relation between image and sound.
In 2005 he was appointed Warranty Testimonial at the Poliarte Design Academy (Ancona, Italy).
In 2007 he exhibited a photographic project at the Festival del Viaggio in Pisa (Italy) and an audiovisual work (Blue, Dark) with the collaboration of Francesco Pirro at Abstracta Cinema International Festival in Rome (Italy).
In 2008 he worked as a guest photographer at the XXVIII Festival del Caribe de Santiago de Cuba.
His artistic project Nemo e io was exhibited in 2009 at the Nuove Sviste Contemporary Art Exhibition (Jesi, Italy) and in 2011 at the Alexander Museum Palace Hotel (Pesaro, Italy).
In the last few years he has participated in group exhibitions in Italy and abroad.
