Manuel Cosentino is an Italian artist working with photography. He graduated from the Istituto Europeo di Design in Rome, and moved to London where he lived and worked several years before basing his practice in Italy.
He is interested in the role of the individual—and collective responsibility—in contemporary society, and on the function of art as an agent of change. His work unfolds onto the retina of the mind to make visible, one at the time, the threads that connect us to one another and the walls setting us apart. His series pierce physicals and imaginary boundaries to reconnect the public not only with but through art.
His work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Venice Arsenal (Italy), the Museo F. Gonzaga (Italy), the Museo G. Fattori (Italy), the Griffin Museum (USA), The Fence (Brooklyn Bridge Park, NYC), Festival de la Luz (Buenos Aires), Head On Photo Festival (Sidney), Galerie Huit during “Les Rencontres d’Arles”, and has been featured on L’Espresso (Italy), WIRED (USA), The Huffington Post (USA), PDN (USA), Blink Magazine (S. Korea), iGnant (Germany), the Colossal (USA), Lenscratch (USA) and L’Oeil de la Photographie (France). In recognition for his work, he has received several international awards. In 2013, he was the recipient of the Premio Combat Prize for contemporary photography (Italy). His work resides in several private and public collections, including the permanent collection of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France.
