Flaminia Lizzani (Rome 1963). Lives and works in Rome.

Flaminia Lizzani (Rome, 1963) lives and works in Rome.
She attended the Academy of Fine Arts and the Scuola Libera del Nudo in Rome. From 1993, she dedicated herself for a long time to restoration work, contributing to significant sites in the Italian capital, including Piazza del Popolo, Palazzo Farnese, Porta Pia, Palazzo della Consulta, Teatro Marcello, the Temple of Vesta, Villa Medici, the Capitoline Superintendency for Cultural Heritage, Galleria Borghese, the National Gallery of Modern Art, Palazzo Barberini, and St. Peter’s Basilica. This work allowed her to develop an in-depth knowledge of an unexplored Rome, capturing its metaphysical dimension.

Her diverse experiences, including work in the film industry (where she served for many years as a Casting Director), have contributed to shaping the distinctive characteristics of her artistic practice: immediacy and an almost obsessive attention to detail and visual effects. Her expressive media range from installations—such as the one created in 2011 for the group exhibition Primo Centro, curated by Alessandra Bonomo at Castello Aldobrandesco in Arcidosso—to painting, where the central theme is the female body, portrayed with a rapid and calligraphic stroke (Nidi di Donna, her first solo exhibition, was held in 2018 at the Casa Internazionale delle Donne in collaboration with Asia Onlus). She has also worked extensively with photography, choosing the camera of a Huawei 10 smartphone for its almost cinematic immediacy. In her photographic work, all her previous experiences converge, resulting in images with a painterly effect in color photography and strong contrasts in black and white compositions.

Art critic Ludovico Pratesi writes:
“Flaminia Lizzani’s photographs are truly surprising in their dramatic intensity. Taken with her phone along the route between Porta Maggiore and Rampa Prenestina, they depict these locations as contemporary ruins, along a path she walks daily.”
The first of these works were exhibited in 2020/21 at the Casa di Goethe Museum in Rome. She participated for three consecutive years in the Sulmona Prize: in 2021, she presented a painting at the Contemporary Art Exhibition at the Diocesan Museum Complex in the former Convent of Santa Chiara (46th edition), where she received an honorable mention; in the following two editions, she participated with photographic works.

In 2021 and 2022, she was awarded an artist grant by the Franz Ludwig Catel Foundation. In 2023 and 2024, she exhibited at The Phair – Photo Art Fair Torino, represented by Galleria Erica Ravenna. Among her most significant exhibitions, she participated in Piranesi Oggi (2020–21) at the Casa di Goethe in Rome. From 2021 to 2023, she exhibited at the Sulmona Prize for three consecutive years, receiving an honorable mention in 2021.
Recently, Galleria Erica Ravenna hosted her exhibition Visioni, which opened in November 2023 at Banca Patrimoni Sella & C.