me in 2017 with
very cool hair


2021 super mini-portfolio randomly generated by google search...


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selected awards

2021   Finalist Premio Mestre di Pittura
2021   Recommended Premio Combat
2018   Finalist Premio Fabbri
2017   Nominee Award International Photogrvphy Award
2017   Winner Premio Nocivelli
2016   Shortlisted Premio Celeste
2014   Finalist Premio Yicca
2014   Shortlisted Premio Celeste
2010   Finalist Premio Terna 03

selected exhibitions

2021   group Premio Mestre di Pittura, Centro Culturale Candiani, Venezia (catalog)
2021   group Come se niente fosse, Artfarm Pilastro, Verona
2020   group Per quanto tempo è per sempre, Officina Giovani, Prato
2020   solo Detriti / E le città saranno ripopolate e le rovine riscostruite, SACI Studio Arts College International, Firenze  
           - due to coronavirus the exhibition has been deleted
2019   group Ars Gratia Artis, Galleria ArteSì, Modena
2019   group Collateral Beauty, Paratissima 15 Art Fair - N.I.C.E, Ex Accademia Artiglieria, Torino (catalog)
2018   solo Il cielo non importa, curated by Maurizio Bernardelli Curuz, Spazio Contemporanea, Brescia (catalog)
2018   solo Amor loci, curated by Cristina Muccioli, Galleria ArteSì, Modena
2018   group Premio Francesco Fabbri, curated by Carlo Sala, Villa Brandolini, Pieve di Soligo (catalog)
2017   group Premio Nocivelli, Chiesa della Disciplina, Verolanuova (catalog)
2017   group Topoi, L’Appartamento, Firenze
2017   group Streamers, curated by Irene Alison, Officine Fotografiche, Roma (catalog)
2017   group Confini_14, Galleria VisionQuest, Genova
2014   group Yicca Prize, LIL Lugano Innovation Lab, Botti Buildings, Lugano (catalog)
2010   group 25th Chelsea Int. Fine Art Competition Exhibition, Agorà Gallery, New York

Publications

monographs

2018   “Il cielo non importa”, Franco Monari, Silvana Editoriale
2008   “Memore”, Franco Monari, Mucchi Editore


books and catalogues (selected)

●  “Premio Mestre di Pittura 2021”, exhibition/prize catalog, p.58 (2021)
●  “Premio Combat 2021”, prize catalog (2021)
●  “Il Mostro #12”, exhibition catalogue, pp.55-55 (2019)
●  “Premio Francesco Fabbri per le Arti Contemporanee 2018”, exhibition/prize catalog, p.41 (Zel Edizioni, 2018)
●  “Premio Nocivelli: dieci anni del concorso per la promozione dell’arte contemporanea in Italia”, exhibition catalog (2018)
●  “Premio Nocivelli 2017”, exhibition/prize catalog (2017)
●  “Streamers”, exhibition broadsheet catalog (2017)
●  “Premio Cascella 2015 - La Cura (fotografia)”, exhibition/prize catalog (2015)
●  “Yicca 2014”, exhibition/prize catalog, pp. 12-13 (2014)
●  “Environmental Protection and Mountains”, P.Quillacq and M.Onida, cover (Secretariat of the Alpine Convention, 2011)
●  “Le stanze del sale”, Patrizia Dughero, cover + pp.7,10,28,52,69 (Le voci della luna, 2010)
●  “Premio Terna 03”, exhibition/prize catalog, pp. 146-147 (Silvana Editoriale, 2010)
●  “Chelsea International Fine Art Competition Exhibition”, exhibition catalog, p.13 (Agora Gallery, 2010)
●  “Bunker”, Aa.Vv., p.66 (ed. Tapirulan, 2009)
●  “Foto_01”, exhibition/prize catalog, pp. 10-11 (ed. Tapirulan, 2009)
●  “Il tempo scorre nella fabbrica ritrovata”, G.Oliva, E.Pignotti (XY Editore, 2009)
●  “La villa e il giardino dei Sorra”, P.Bergonzini, S.Cavicchioli, A.Di Paolo, p.42 (2008)


web, magazines and blogs (selected)

●  “Franco Monari”, Blur Magazine (issue 61 - June/July 2018)
●  “Magnitudo”, Phases Magazine (week 21- 2018)
●  Group exhibition on F-Stop Magazine - Issue N°88 (April-May 2018)
●  “The sky doesn't matter / Il cielo non importa”,Latent Image Magazine - Issue N°12 (November 2017)
●  “Guest Room: Images Vevey”, Der Greif (October 2017)
●  “Il cielo non importa: Franco Monari osserva il paesaggio terremotato”, Artwort (September 2017)
●  “Guest Room: Hester Keijser”, Der Greif (July 2017)
●  “Franco Monari”, Float Magazine (February 2017)
●  “E poi verrà la nebbia / And then will come the fog”, Latent Image Magazine - Issue N°8 (May 2016)
●  “Série « And Then Will Come The Fog » De Franco Monari”, Plateform Magazine - Issue N°88 (May 2016)
●  “Franco Monari”, New Landscape Photography (24-03-2016)
●  “E poi verrà la nebbia”, ArtAbout (19-02-2016)
●  “And then will come the fog”, Posi+Tive Magazine (10-02-2016)
●  Group exhibition on F-Stop Magazine - Issue N°72 (August-September 2015)
●  Urbanautica Open Call: Sport (February 2013)
●  “Franco Monari - Hardcore vending machines”, CFYE (13-12-2011)
●  “New Prehistories / Nuove Preistorie”, Audis (November 2011)
●  “Franco Monari”, Troppo Tardi (31-10-2010)
●  “7am | Franco Monari”, FrizziFrizzi (29-10-2010)
●  “Franco Monari”, The Velvet Cell - Issue N°5 (October 2010)
●  “Vis-à-vis #19: Franco Monari”, Art-Rehab (12-01-2010)
●  “Franco Monari”, (Not) Common People (09-01-2010)
●  “Franco Monari - Memorabilia: Industrial”, Slightly Lucid (07-01-2010)
●  “Intervista con... Franco Monari”, Posi+Tive Magazine Italy (05-01-2010)
●  “Interview Franco Monari”, Ilovethatphoto Magazine (01-12-2009)


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