Giacomo Costa was born in 1970, he lives and works in Florence.
His computer landscapes have been exhibited internationally in public institutions.

In April 2009 the editor Damiani published an anthological monography "The Chronicles of time" on his work, with a preface by Sir Norman Foster.
His work has been reviewed by: El Pais, Es (cover), Digital Photo, Ru (cover), Silver Shotz, Uk (cover), Exit, Es (cover), Evolo, Usa, Photography, Korea, Photo magazin, D., Art, D., Frame, A, C-Photo magazine, Uk.

He gives lectures in architecture at several universities. 

His work is in important permanent collections such as Centre Pompidou Paris, Museo Pecci, Prato and has been exhibited with landscape masters such as Turner, Monet, Nolde, Munch, Warhol and many others.

 

Selected one-man shows

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2021 Private Garden, Guidi & Schoen, Genova.
 

2020

NO.W.HERE, Sala Borsa, Bologna, Italy

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2018

Time (e) scapes, Galleria Guidi & Schoen, Genova

Timelapse, NM Contemporary, Monaco

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2017

Welcome, Guidi & Schoen, Genoa, IT

Biennali- Le latitudini dell'arte- Vigado Museum, Budapest, Romania

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2016

Biennali - Le latitudini dell'arte- Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, Italy

2015 

Subjective and Surreal, Fabrik der Kunste, Triennal of Photography, Hamburg
Persitent Time, Galerie Clairefontaine, Luxembourg

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2014

Trilogia della Rivoluzione, Spazio Cubo, Bologna

2013

Traces, Galerie Voss, Düsseldorf, Germany 
Visioni Apocrife, smArt, Rome, Italy
Giacomo Costa, Natoli & Stefane Mascarenhas, Principauté de Monaco

2012

Landscape 2012, Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney
Landscape 2012, Galerie Clairefontaine, Luxembourg
Landscape 2012, Guidi&Schoen, Genoa, Italy

2011

Private Garden, Cavallerizza Reale, Turin, italy
Imagine Earth, Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul, South Korea
Post Natural, Galerie Voss, Düsseldorf, Germany

2010

Arene, Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydeny, Australia
Postnatural, Galleria Emmeotto, Rome, Italy

2009

Seoul International Photography Festival, , Seoul, South Korea
Foto Art Festival, Galeria BWA, Bielsko-Biala, Poland
The Chronicles of Time, Galerie Clairefontaine, Luxembourg

2008

Secret Gardens, Guidi&Schoen, Genoa, Italy

2006

Cyber Cities, Galerie Clairefontaine, Luxembourg
Atti Metropolitani, Guidi&Schoen, Genoa, Italy

2005 

Passages, Quarter, Florence, Italy

2003

City(end)Scapes, Guidi&Schoen, Genoa, Italy

2002

Megàlopolis, Sergio Tossi, Florence, Italy

2000

Land(E)Scape, Photology, Milano
Land(E)Scape, Laurence Miller Gallery, New York

1999

Land(E)Scape, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans
Architetture Fuori Controllo, Galleria No Code, Bologna, Italy
Architectures, Photology, London, UK

1997

Personale, Galleria Marsilio Margiacchi, Arezzo, Italy

Selected group shows

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2022 Visiones Expandidas, Fotografia y experimentación. A group show from the Centre Pompidou Collection, Caixa Forum, Madrid.

 

Nowhen Nowhere, bi-personal exhibition, Museo di Villa Croce, Genova

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2021 Korea International Photo Festival, Main Exhibition, Seoul

 

Venice Biennale of Architecture, Italian Pavillion, curated by Giuseppe Melis

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2019 Futuruins, Fortuny Museum, Venice, curated by Dimitri Ozerkov (Director of Contemporary section at Hermitage, San Pietroburgo) and Daniela Ferretti (Director of Museum Fortuny, Venice).  

 

Photolux Festival, Palazzo Guinigi, Lucca, Italy
 

L'Arte del Gol, Chiostri di San Domenico, Reggio Emilia, Italy

 

2017

Le Latitudini dell'Arte, Museo Vigado, Budapest

 

2016

Photography, Natoli & Mascarenhas, Principauté de Monaco

2014 

Ritratti di Città, Villa Olmo, Como, Italy
No Place Like Home, UQ Art Museum, Brisbane

2013

Fraterraecielo, Castello di Susan, Udine
Clouds Fleeting Worlds, Leopold Museum, Wien

2012

Avesta Art 2012, Avesta, Sweden
Il Fuoco della Natura, Salone degli Incanti, Trieste

2010

Ostrale '010, Dresden, Germany

2009

53rd Venice Biennale, Padiglione Italia, Venezia

2008

Art Italien, Marlborough Gallery, Monaco

2007

CPhoto Action, Phillips de Pury, New York

2006

Peintres de la vie moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris
X Biennale dell'Architettura di Venezia, Padiglione Italia, Venezia
Photomeetings, Abbaye de Neumunster, Luxembourg
Sound&Vision, Palazzo della Penna, Perugia

2005

Italian Camera, Isola di S. Servolo, Venezia
Paesaggio Italiano Contemporaneo, Palazzo Ducale, Gubbio

2004

Medioevo Prossimo Venturo, Palazzo Pretorio, Certaldo
Anteprima XIV Quadriennale, Promotrice delle Belle Arti, Torino

2003

Futuro Italiano, Parlamento Europeo, Bruxelles
Enter, Premio Ermanno Casoli, Serra S.Quirico
Mito Contemporaneo, Basilica Palladiana, Vicenza
cARThusia 2003 - Citt? dis-continua, Certosa di Pontignano, Siena
Italian Six, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston
Interrogare il luogo, Studio La Citt?, Verona
Alto Impatto Ambientale, Chiostri S.Domenico, Reggio Emilia

2002

I Luoghi Invisibili, Photology, Milano
42. Premio Suzzara, Gall. Civica di Arte Contemp, Suzzara
Mountain Way, Palazzo Frisacco, Tolmezzo

2001

Premio Cairo, La Posteria, Milano
Fic??o - Fotografias e Videos, Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro
Art Files, Pescheria, Pesaro

2000

Sui Generis, PAC, Milano
Photography Now, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans
Alternative Realities, Laurence Miller Gallery, New York
Art Beat 2, Acquario romano, Roma

1999

VIII Biennale Internaz. di Fotografia, Palazzo Bricherasio, Torino
XIII Quadriennale di Roma, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Roma
Effetto Notte, Napoli Sotterranea, Napoli
Alta Definizione, Centrale Montemartini, Roma

1998

Fuori Uso, , Pescara
Versus IV, ex lanificio Bona, Carignano
Blue, Cineplex, Genova
Futurshow, , Bologna

1997

Cyber-realismo, Photology, London
Cyber-realismo, Photology, Milano

1994

Equinozio d'autunno, Castello di Rivara, Rivara