“I don’t design buildings or take photographs — I construct ways of seeing. Space, light, colour and time are my materials.”
Niccolò Montesi (1977) is an artist who lives and works between Milan and Venice. Trained first as an architect at ELU and the Architectural Association in London, he later turned to photography—studying at the International Center of Photography in New York and the John Kaverdash Academy in Milan.
His practice flows from the meeting point between architecture and photography, where structure becomes image and image becomes space. In recent works, his practice expands beyond the photographic surface through interventions of colour, where paint and gold leaf introduce a new dialogue between image and material.
His works have been shown in galleries and institutions across Europe and the United States, including Bendana | Pinel Art Contemporain in Paris, Galleria d’Arte Maggiore in Bologna, The Pool NYC, Palazzo Riso and Palazzo Alliata Villafranca in Palermo, and Eternity Gallery in Miami.
Tresigallo 2 was shortlisted for the Photo London x Nikon Emerging Photographer Award at Photo London, 2025.
Pantelleria Paese 15 was selected for the J.P. Morgan Curator Highlights at Paris Photo, 2024.
In the fracture of the image, colour becomes presence
