Marisa Culatto was born in the Canary Islands, and lives and works the UK.
Culatto has spent the last decade almost exclusively working with digital photography preoccupied with pushing – blurring – the boundaries of photography into the language and practice usually associated with other mediums.
Constraints, domesticity and daily rituals are at the centre of her practice. Culatto is also interested in the notion of reality being a construct, and, therefore, much of her work addresses contradictions, misperceptions and/or a degree of visual ambiguity. And because of her ambivalent relationship with the photographic medium, she is interested in exploring photography itself as subject. Lockdown has had a big impact in Culatto’s practice which has turned back to works on paper, mostly employing ink, markers and watercolour and recently combining all these with photography.
Culatto has exhibited her work mostly in Spain and the UK in numerous solo and group exhibitions. In 2011 she won the AlNorte Grant within the X National Contemporary Arts Week of Asturias, Spain. She was finalist in the 2015-2016 "Contemporary Talents" competition of the Fondation François Schneider, France, Juror’s Special Commendation of the XXI International Photography Prize Rafael Ramos García, Tenerife, Spain, and in 2017 was finalist of the VIA Arts Prize, London . Recently her work has been acquired by Soho House collection for permanent display, and her body of work Flora was published by The
