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Luciana Galli was born in 1942 in Bari, where she graduated in Law. She has held numerous solo and group exhibitions in which she developed the genres of reportage, industrial, and environment and lifestyle photography. She has built up a wide range of experience in the field of communication and visual language applied to issues of architectural photography, the restoration of works of art, and urban and rural landscapes.

Her photographs are held in private and public collections (Institut Lumière in Lyon, Fondo di fotografia italiana at the Pinacoteca provinciale of Bari, the Museum of Photography of the Architecture Department of Bari Polytechnic). She has also worked for la Repubblica newspaper.

SOLO SHOWS

2014
“Lucy’s Photo Led”, Galleria BLUorG, Bari

2010
“Lisbona”, Galleria dell’Istituto Portoghese di Sant’Antonio, Roma

2003
“Segnalibro”, la Feltrinelli, Bari

1996
“Accrochages”, Alliance   Française Bari

1986
“Saline”, Margherita di Savoia

1985
“Plastica, rifiuti e no”, complesso di Santa Scolastica, Bari

1983
“Toys”, Libreria dell’Arca, Bari

1977
“Puglia”, Art Directors Club, Bari

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2017
“Fare i Portoghesi a Roma”, Galleria dell’Istituto Portoghese di Sant’Antonio, Roma

2015
“Nature morte”, Alliance  Française, Bari

2012
“Rivisitazioni a cielo aperto”, Polignano a Mare
“MURART”, Bari

2011
“54esima Biennale di Venezia”, sezione Puglia, complesso di Santa Scolastica, Bari

2008
“Verde”, sala Murat, Bari

2007
“Fuori luogo”, Galleria BLUorG, Bari

2005
“Mediterranea”, Pinacoteca provinciale, Bari

1998
“Art & Maggio”, Bari

1996
“Edition/imagination”, Alliance Française, Bari

1988
“Expoarte”, Bari

1986
“Chi troppo e chi niente”, Teatro del Falcone, Genova
“Il nodo di Gordio”, complesso di Santa Scolastica, Bari
“Objetivo Italia”, Università Autonoma di Puebla, Messico

1985
“Expo Arte Fotografia”, Bari

1977
“Collettiva di design, grafica, fotografia”, Art Directors Club, Bari

PUBLICATIONS

Portfolios L’Estasi e l’Ombra (1989); Per il Teatro Petruzzelli (1991); Luci e ombre del Palazzo (1990); Bari, Lione, Hydruntum and Prague (1993).
She has illustrated various volumes, including La Città di San Nicola (Adriatica editrice, 1981); La Città, il Mercato by Cerpem, Bari (1987); the booklet San Nicola di Bari e di Myra – cronaca di una Festa di Maggio for the Mayor of Bari’s Cabinet Office (2009).
In 2012 she has published two yellow novels, Fuorigioco and All’ultimo rigo.
In 2016 she has published monograph Luciana Galli fotografie 1967-2016 (SKIRA Photography).
In 2021 she has published the book Bari non è una città italiana (Casa Editrice Quodlibet).

She has made contributions to the volumes San Nicola di Bari e la sua Basilica (Electa, 1987); L’architettura rurale in Puglia (Schena, 1989); I segni della Puglia (Edizioni Laterza, 1991); San Nicola di Bari, nuove tecniche conservative (Edizioni Pouchain, 1993); Territori del cinema (Gangemi Editori, 2013).

MULTIMEDIAL WORKS

In 1998 she created the multimedia CD-ROM Bari Type, in 2002 the multimedia CD-ROM Pixel di Puglia for the Apulian Regional administration and in 2005 the CD-ROM Per Bari – immagini da un diario privato for Bari Municipality.
In 2004, with Cam in video, she took part at the International Video Art Festival Play III held in Junin, Buenos Aires, as well as Video.game, a video art collection in Ferrara.
In 2015 the short film Lo Scivolo has access to the final of 1st Pietrasanta Film Festival.

PRIZES

First prize at the 6th Biennial exhibition of photographic art sponsored by the Bari Chamber of Commerce (1985). Antigone Award for photography (1993).