Biography
Marianna Iozzino was born in Nocera Inferiore (SA) in 1988.
She graduated in Painting from the Brera Academy of Fine Arts and in Conservation and Restoration from SUPSI in Lugano. Since 2019, she has been fully dedicated to art, continuing a research journey of nearly twenty years, exploring the dialogue between her drawings—originally created in small sketchbooks—and her painting, which unfolds on large canvases using oil as her medium of choice.
In 2024, following an artist residency at the Giardino Liberato di Materdei, a former monastery now a community space in Naples, she held two solo exhibitions in the city.
At the Church of Le Scalze, with The Birds, she juxtaposed two large oil paintings and a 12-meter drawn and cut canvas against the monumental setting of the church. At the National Library of Naples, with Carousel of Hours, she created an installation dedicated to the manuscript of Ovid's Metamorphoses preserved there, allowing a painting and sketchbooks to engage in dialogue with shaped drawings that playfully weave among the library’s shelves.
That same year, she was also invited to exhibit at the Sacro Monte of Varese with a series of paintings on the theme of the Crucifixion.
In May 2025, at the Church of Sant'Aniello in Caponapoli, she presents The Fall, a series of oil paintings and works on paper dedicated to the myth of Demeter. This exhibition introduces a new pictorial exploration focused on movement and fragmentation, in a dialogue between the ancient and the modern that gains vitality in this oldest part of Naples, where the acropolis once came to light.
Other solo exhibitions include The Broken Ones (2021) at Atelier Zenith in Mendrisio (CH), Restless Anatomies (2022) at the Little Drawing Gallery in Cuvio (VA), and Who Am I? (2025) at Atelier Cartesio in Milan.
Among her group exhibitions are shows at: Spazio Oberdan, Milan; Gino and Gianna Macconi Foundation, Chiasso; Palazzo della Racchetta, Ferrara; and the Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation, Venice.
She has participated in several artist residencies, including Rd’A at Villa Greppi in Monticello Brianza in 2022, and most recently, in February and March 2024, at the Giardino Liberato di Materdei in Naples, where she now lives and works.
Exhibitions
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2025
Chi sono?, Atelier Cartesio, Milan (MI), solo exhibition
La Caduta, Church of Sant’Aniello a Caponapoli, Naples, solo exhibition
2024
The Birds, Church of Le Scalze, Naples, solo exhibition
Carosello delle Ore, National Library of Naples, solo exhibition
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2023
Inquiete Anatomie, Piccola Galleria del Disegno, Cuvio (VA), solo exhibition.
Cantautori di frontiera, Binario 7, Monza (MB), group exhibition
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2022
“This is not my flesh anymore”, Atelier Montez, Rome, 10 February – 6 March, collective exhibition
"Artist's residencies", Villa Greppi, Monticello Brianza (LC), 10-31 December, collective exhibition,
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2021
“How will we live together?”, Creators of our time 2021, Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation, Gallery of Piazza San Marco, Venice, collective exhibition.
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"The broken" - Atelier Zenith - Mendrisio (Canton Ticino - CH) - personal exhibition
2020
Orazion de Na Striga, Theater Festival Between Sacro and Sacro Monte, XI edition, national debut July 2020, Sacro Monte di Varese, performance.
2019
Young Artists Award 2019, "Synesthesia in the world of art", Gino and Gianna Macconi Foundation, Chiasso - CH, collective exhibition.
Authors Travel Diaries, Palazzo della Racchetta, Ferrara, collective exhibition.
2016
City of Marsciano Creativity Award, Dynamic Brick and Terracotta Museum, Marsciano (PG), collective exhibition.
Young Artists Award 2016, "Memory in art", Gino and Gianna Macconi Foundation, Chiasso - CH, collective exhibition.
2013
Young Artists Award 2013, Gino and Gianna Macconi Foundation, Chiasso - CH, collective exhibition.
Ricoh Prize for young contemporary artists, III edition, Painting section, Spazio Oberdan, Milan, collective exhibition.
2012
Ricoh Award for young contemporary artists, II edition, Video Art section, Spazio Oberdan, Milan, collective exhibition.
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Artistic residencies
2022
Artistic residency at Villa Greppi, Monticello Brianza (LC) – June – July 2022
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2020
Carte Vive Residence, Small Radio Theater in Meda. Theatrical residency for the realization of the performance Orazion de Na Striga.
2018
Urban Sketchers Symposium, Porto, Portugal. International Workshop of Urban Sketchers.
2017-2015
Naples Urban Sketchers Workshop, Aragonese Castle, Ischia (NA). Urban Sketchers Workshop.
2011
A fresco workshop: young artists in Maglia, MACAM, Maglia (TO).
2010
Icon making workshop, Monastery of San Benedetto, Dumenza (VA).