Giulia Parlato (b. 1993, Palermo) is a visual artist working between Rome and Palermo. After twelve years in London, where she studied Photography at London College of Communication and earned a Master’s degree from the Royal College of Art, she returned to Italy to reconnect with her Mediterranean roots and deepen her conceptual and aesthetic practice.
Her work, which includes photography, video, and sound, explores how fiction and history intertwine. Through carefully constructed images, she reflects on the ways knowledge is formed, recorded, and sometimes distorted.
Her practice engages with shifting notions of time, focusing on distant pasts and speculative futures as imagined and unreachable domains. Subterranean spaces, both literal and symbolic, are a recurring site of inquiry, embodying hidden memory, transformation, and the possibility of alternative narratives.
Giulia’s work is shown nationally and internationally in group and solo exhibitions, including Palazzo Esposizioni (Rome, 2025, Italian Institute of Culture of Stockholm (2025) and London (2024), MAXXI (Rome, 2024), Triennale (Milan, 2023), Have a Butchers (London, 2022), Athens Photo Festival (Greece, 2024), and Photo Fringe (Brighton, 2020).
She is the recipient of the Luigi Ghirri Award (2022), the Innovate Grant (2020), the Camera Work Award (2020), and the Carte Blanche Étudiants Award (2019).
She was nominated for C/O Berlin Talent (2023), the Foam Paul Huf Award (2023), and shortlisted for the Grand Prix Images Vevey (2025/2026). Her work is held in both public and private collections such as the The Sir Mark Fehrs Haukohl Collection of European Women Photographers at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Brooklyn Museum, Donata Pizzi, Biblioteca Panizzi and Pier Luigi Gibelli.
Giulia Parlato (b. 1993, Palermo) is a visual artist working between Rome and Palermo. After twelve years in London, where she studied Photography at London College of Communication and earned a Master’s degree from the Royal College of Art, she returned to Italy to reconnect with her Mediterranean roots and deepen her conceptual and aesthetic practice.
Her work, which includes photography, video, and sound, explores how fiction and history intertwine. Through carefully constructed images, she reflects on the ways knowledge is formed, recorded, and sometimes distorted.
Her practice engages with shifting notions of time, focusing on the distant past and speculative futures as imagined and unreachable domains. Subterranean spaces, both literal and symbolic, are a recurring site of inquiry, embodying hidden memory, transformation, and the possibility of alternative narratives.
Giulia’s work is shown nationally and internationally in group and solo exhibitions, including Palazzo Esposizioni (Rome, 2025, Italian Institute of Culture of Stockholm (2025) and London (2024), MAXXI (Rome, 2024), Triennale (Milan, 2023), Have a Butchers (London, 2022), Athens Photo Festival (Greece, 2024), and Photo Fringe (Brighton, 2020).
She is the recipient of the Luigi Ghirri Award (2022), the Innovate Grant (2020), the Camera Work Award (2020), and the Carte Blanche Étudiants Award (2019).
She was nominated for C/O Berlin Talent (2023), the Foam Paul Huf Award (2023), and shortlisted for the Grand Prix Images Vevey (2025/2026). Her work is held in both public and private collections such as the The Sir Mark Fehrs Haukohl Collection of European Women Photographers at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Brooklyn Museum, Donata Pizzi, Biblioteca Panizzi and Pier Luigi Gibelli.