Tatiana Cardellicchio
Tatiana Cardellicchio, Born in 1988
Salento Region - Italy
Visual Artist / Photographer
Education:
Italian Institute of Photography (IIF), Milan — Diploma in Photography, 2011
CFP Bauer, Milan — Diploma in Photography, 2009
Vision Academy, Rome — Advanced Training in Color Correction & Post-Production
University of Salento, Lecce — B.Sc. in Psychological Techniques, 2024
ARTIST STATEMENT
Tatiana Cardellicchio explores the construction of identity through the body, using photography as a space where presence and fiction, vulnerability and control coexist. Her practice is rooted in self-portraiture, transforming her own body into a visual field where cultural expectations, aesthetic codes, and personal mythology intersect.
In The Dictatorship of Petals, floral elements act as devices of seduction and domination. Petals conceal, frame, or replace the face, suggesting beauty as an imposed system. An attraction that simultaneously hides and controls. The series reflects on femininity as a visual construction, where the body becomes surface, ornament, and resistance.
In Impact, her research shifts toward the relationship between body and landscape. Created within natural reserves in Southern Italy, the works merge human presence with environment, dissolving the boundary between skin and territory. The body becomes embedded in landscape, absorbing its memory, fragility, and transformation.
For Cardellicchio, self-portrait is not autobiography but method. A way to inhabit multiple identities and stage the self as both subject and object. Her current research expands into still-life compositions and fragmented body imagery, developing a broader visual language of constructed perception.
Through carefully staged imagery, she creates suspended moments where the body becomes sculpture, landscape becomes theater, and photography becomes a ritual of unveiling.
ARTIST BIO
Tatiana Cardellicchio is an Italian fine-art photographer based in Salento, Southern Italy. She worked for over a decade as a professional photo retoucher for fashion and commercial brands in Milan before transitioning fully into artistic photography.
She studied at the Italian Institute of Photography in Milan and completed advanced training in color correction and post-production in Rome.
Her practice combines photography, performance, costume, and sculptural elements, often working through limited-edition fine-art prints.
Cardellicchio’s work has been exhibited internationally across Europe and the United States and has received multiple photography awards and recognitions. She lives and works between Lecce and Milan.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2025
– Imagenation London, London, UK
– Endless Spring, Paratissima, Turin, Italy
– I Am – Io Sono. Photography and Feminine Identity, National Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia, Rome, Italy
– Impatto (solo exhibition), LAB Ex Macello, Taranto, Italy
2024
– Imagination, One Art Space Gallery, Tribeca, New York, USA
– Naked – Part of You, Medina Gallery, Rome, Italy
– Nuovi Corpi. Silent Dialogues Between Body and Nature, Rome, Italy
2023
– Free Bodies, Imagination Paris, Galerie Joseph Le Palais, Paris, France
– Impatto (solo exhibition), Porto Cesareo Film Festival, Italy
2022
– New Eyes, Imagination Milan, Fondazione Luciana Matalon, Milan, Italy
AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS
– Honorable Mention, 1839 Awards – Art of Storytelling, 2025
– Honorable Mention, Best Photography Awards, 2025
– Silver Medal, Prix de la Photographie Paris (PX3), Portrait / Self-Portrait, 2024
– Finalist, Autoportrait Photography Prize, 2025
– Official Selection, Trieste Photo Days, 2025
View Tatiana Cardellicchio’s available artworks here