Monia Lippi was born near Bologna, Italy. From her formal education in Interior Design in Milan, she arrived to photography and video through different experiences in Italy, then she moved to live and work in Paris for 5 years and then in New York from 2005.

She started shooting black and white street photography, while she worked 4 years as still photographer for many experimental Italian theater companies around Bologna and she started to participated in numerous group shows and several independent and collaborative entries have been included in a number of Italian and German International Film Festivals and expositions. In these 4 years she did also an apprenticeship with Roberto Salbitani in Tuscany.

Her main cultural influences come from the Italian and European arts, interested specially in architecture, painting, theater, cinema, but also in archeology and anthropology in general, developing a general curiosity in the human being differences related to places and culture. Traveling by herself was always her favorite thing, even before to became a photographer.

She has always been interested to the versatility of the U.S. American landscapes and cityscapes and their cultural identities and how different life-styles reflect themselves in architecture. This was one of the reason she moved from Paris to New York. Exploring different environments with different personal projects, shooting with color film on medium format 6x9 camera and showing series of large C-Prints, of the “Nocturnal Brooklyn”, “Doors“, “The Last Vintage American Cars”, “Floating Winona” and other projects.

Then she started digital projects, like the aerial series “At 36000 Feet” of the South West American deserts and the Vietnam Projects; “White Skin”, “Chau Doc Stilts”, “Floating Cat Ba” and others.

She shown these projects at “The Sixth Minnesota National Print Biennial 2008” Dept. of Art, University of Minnesota, at the Katherine E. Nash Gallery, Minneapolis; “By Night” exhibition curated by Thomas Rajnai Studio at - Huset under Bron - Stockholm, Sweden; several times at Mpls Photo Center, Minneapolis; “Nocturnal Brooklyn“ solo show at Gallery Nine5, New York; “Capture Brooklyn” New York Photo Festival, Powerhouse Arena in Brooklyn and others.

A part of “At 36000 Feet” project was shown at the “SPRING/BREAK Art Show” - PUBLIC/PRIVATE - Old School, “New York City’s Curator-Driven Art Fair “, 2014. Her work was curated by Eve Sussman and Simon Lee. In Italy, at “Contemporaneita’ e Fotografia”, Friuli - Venezia Giulia Fotografia 2015. Palazzo Polcenigo, Cavasso Nuovo. Organized by CRAF, Centro di Ricerca e Archiviazione della Fotografia, Spilimbergo (PN).

Some images, of one of the Vietnam Project, have been selected for the 4th Berlin Biennial of Fine Art and Documentary Photography, October ’16.

Monia lives in Brooklyn and she likes to collaborate with different people, from filmmakers, photographers to musicians: like HABITAT PROJECT, based in Italy, showing at the “Turin Photo Festival” 2012, “Triennale di Milano” 2013, “SIFEST #23 Savignano Immagini Festival” 2014. In other different projects, like “whiteonwite: algorithmicnoir”, the “Car Wash Incident” and others, shooting stills for Eve Sussman / Rufus Corporation, exhibiting at the Haunch of Venison Gallery, London, at Cristin Tierney Gallery, NYC 2011, at “TIME - Lapse” SITE Santa Fe’ and at the Musee d’Art Contemporain de Montreal, Canada, 2012 and others. She did different photography, video and video installations projects also with Nike, in Paris, Berlin, Milan, Portland.

Monia still be very interested, to continue to explore different realities and developing projects related to the architecture in different ways and other social and environmental thematics. Especially, in particular communities or cities of the Asian Countries.

More info: www.monialippi.com