About
Paola Ruvioli’s love for photography began immediately after receiving her first camera, a Polaroid SX-70 on her seventh birthday. Since then she has studied and made photographs around the world, enriching the content and narrative potential of her artistic vision. She holds a degree in Political Science from the University of Cagliari in Sardenia, Italy.
Ruvioli’s work focuses on the intimate relationship between individuals, and their unique psychological perspectivein the worlds we inhabit, with particular sensitivity to human behavior. Her images investigate the myriad sensations and perceptions encountered in our daily surroundings, with the intention of reflecting back more acutely to viewers their emotionally resonant potential . By referencing specific moods viewers are inspired to revisit sensations and passages into parallel realities typical of the world of dreams and their interpretation, creating emotional pathways that attempt to reveal the secrets of who we are in our inner and outer worlds.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2018 “Diarios de Camara : un viaje fotografico por America Latina” Università degli studi di Cagliari
2014 ” The Colours of Senses” in collaborazione con Franco Nonnis “White Lounge cafè” Cagliari, IT
2013 “La Settimana del benessere Psicologico” Centro Culturale d’ Arte Ex Lazzaretto Cagliari, IT
2013 “Soul and Shadow” Art Gallery Palais de l’Europe, Strasbourg FR
2012 “LightLife in NY” L’Opoz Art Cafè, Cagliari, IT
2012 “NightLife in NY” Art Cafè a cura della Needream Entertainment, Cagliari, IT
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2023/2024 “To the Sea”, Saint Gilles Croix de Vie, France
2021 Praxis, Photo Art Center, The Found Object, Minneapolis, USA
2019 HybridArt Space Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2019 FotoNostrum Art Gallery, Barcellona, Spain
2019 “Shadow is a Color”, Sala Siroco Madrid, Spain
2019 Ex-Abrupto Festival, Moià, Spain
2019 Exibition “Intimacy Section” of IPC2018 at NYFA of New York
2019 Exibition “Intimacy Section” of IPC2018 at Latitude Life, International Think Tank, Pravisdomini, IT
2019 “The Censored Exhibition” Copenaghen Photo Festival, Copenaghen, Denmark
2019 “Search for Beauty” Lenzburg Fotofestival, Switzerland
2019 “Shadow is a color” Projeckteria, Art Gallery, Barcellona, Spain
2019 ArtRooms Fair London 2019, Melià White House, London, UK
2018 ArtRooms Fair Roma 2018, The Church Palace, Roma , IT
2017 “Mente Unanime” Exart, Piazzetta Dettori , Cagliari, IT
2010 Mostra Collettiva allievi Fine Art, Ex liceo artistico Piazzetta Dettori, Cagliari, IT
GRANTS + AWARDS:
Winner of 1st place of People-Self Portrait 21st.Pollux Award 2024
Winner of 1st place of People-Self Portrait 23rd. Julia Margaret Cameron Award for Women Photographers 2024
Honorable Mentions at Prix de la Photographie Paris (Px3) Categories Portraiture/Self-Portrait 2021
Winner of 3rd place of People-Self Portrait International Photo Awards 2020
Winner of 1st place of People-Self Portrait Moscow International Foto Awards 2020
Honorable Mentions at 14th Julia Margaret Cameron Award Categories Nature Trought People 2020
Winner of 3st place of People-Self Portrait Tokyo International Foto Awards 2019
Winner of 1st place of People-Self Portrait Budapest International Foto Awards 2019
Winner of 3rd place of Editorial – Personality Moscow International Foto Awards 2019
Honorable Mentions at 13th Julia Margaret Cameron Award Open Theme 2019
Winner of the 2nd place of the Intimacy Section of the International Photography Competition Hysotical City of Pravisdomini 2018.
Selezionata alla XXXII trofeo fotografico Internazionale Andrea Pollitzer Trieste
PUBLICATIONS:
2014 Sankei Shinbun, the web version is a part of MSN (http://sankei.jp.msn.com) Sankei Shimbun Co., Ltd. Tokyo, Japan
2014 Progetto “Sardegna in Vespa” per la rivista Alfresco pubblicata da St. Gabriel Media Ltd, London, UK
2014 F-stop magazine issue #66 NY, USA
2013 “Introduzione alla Topologia generale” casa editrice Aracne
EDUCATION:
2009/2010 School of Fine Arts, Cagliari, Sardinia
2011 Certification of PADI of Digital Underwater Photographer
2012 ICP, (International Center of Photography di NY), Saul Robbins, Edward Keatingand, Flora Hanitijo, NY
2012 Photography Workshop, Lois Greenfield, NY
2013 Contemporany Photography, Tim Porter ,Tokyo, Japan
2013 Contemporaney photography, Yu Kanbayashi e Mariko Sakaguchi , Tokyo, Japan
2014 Introspective Photography, Saul Robbins NY,
2015 Commercial Photography, Joanna Moorhouse, Helsinki
2015 Contemporany Photography, Jarvis Dooney Galery, Berlin
2015 Architecture Photography, Des Harris, Paris
2015 Eyes in Progress: “The Sensitive eye”, Caludine Doury, Paris