Marina Misiti is an Italian artist and author specialised in abstract collage, with a background in cultural and visual anthropology and a long career in documentary journalism and in photographic and illustrated reportage.
Her creative process is based on abstract assemblage: she weaves memory, places and stories into evocative works, often commissioned by hotels, restaurants or private individuals, alongside covers and editorial illustrations, collaborations with design and fashion brands, and abstract collage courses that she holds at Studio73 of which she is co-founder.
From word to image: collage as a form of reportage
The Roman artist over the years has transformed the principles of narrative journalism — observation, collection of sources, selection, storytelling — into visual art. In her collages the images are never purely decorative: they are fragments of memory and emotional geographies. Her journalistic and anthropological training is very evident in her art: maps, letters, texts and paper materials such as the pages of old books and magazines, become complex visual narratives in her hands; newspaper headlines, typographic texts, gestural calligraphy often recur as materials in her works, evoking the craft of writing.
The collage for Marina Misiti is a way to tell stories without words, but with the same precision and intensity of an investigation or a report. Her path is an example of how the written narrative can evolve into a visual narrative, while maintaining content, ethics, beauty and journalistic sensitivity.
In the last two decades her works have been selected, purchased and exhibited in Italy and abroad in galleries, museums, festivals, Italian Cultural Institutes, private collectors and luxury hotels, obtaining recognition and awards. For the Orient-Express, La Minerva Hotel in Rome has recently created an entire collection of abstract collages on the idea of physical and inner travel. She currently works in Rome at Studio73, a creative laboratory of which she is one of the founders.
EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS:
GROUP SHOW
Italia, Torino, Palazzo Carignano, “Dreaming Architectures”, Mostra Internationale di Collage, 2024
Italia, Napoli, Palazzo Gravina, Università Federico II, Architettura, 99Files Archive _ Operative Atlas for Balkan City (Skopje)/ Landscape_inprogress, Collage, 2023
Italia, Roma, Palazzo Velli Expo, "Together We Art", Collage, 2022
Italia, Roma, Portuense 201/Open House Roma, "Still Moving, Nuove Prospettive”, Collages, 2022
Italia, Roma, Impact Art Gallery, "Equilibrismi", Collages, 2022
Belgio, Hotel de Ville Saint-Gilles (Bruxelles), “Scrivendo la Divina Commedia”, 2022
Belgio, Hasselt, La Dante di Hasselt, “Scrivendo la Divina Commedia”, 2021
Italia, Castello di Terrarossa (MS), “Scrivendo la Divina Commedia”, 2021
Belgio, Anversa, La Dante di Anversa, “Scrivendo la Divina Commedia”, 2021
Belgio, Bruxelles, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, “Scrivendo la Divina Commedia”, 2021
Egitto, Alexandria, Biennale Internazionale del Libro d’Artista, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, IIC Cairo, 2018
Macedonia, Skopje, “#99FILES, Landscape_inProgress”, Collage, Museo di Arte Contemporanea MoCA, 2018
Italia, Roma, “Risonanze”, Arteealtro Nomadic Gallery, via Giulia, Palazzo Ricci-Parracciani, 2018
Italia, Roma, “Mod’Arte”, Arte in Regola Gallery, 2018
Egitto, Luxor, Luxor Cultural House, IIC Cairo, 2017
Egitto, Il Cairo, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, “Scrivendo la Divina Commedia”, International Exhibition, 2017
USA, New York, Callahan Gallery, St. Francis College Brooklyn, mostra fotografica, “Perspectives On Time”, 2011
USA, New York, Durst Gallery, mostra fotografica “New Visions”, 2011
Brasile, Brusque, photographic project “Rome-by-bus 87/70″, 2011
USA, New York, Macy’s Herald sq, women photographers for “A Woman’s World”, 2011
Italia, Latina, Laranarossa Gallery, "Affari di cuore", 2011
USA, New York, Manhattan Borough President Gallery, women photographers in “The Art of Commerce”, 2010
Italia, Sabaudia (LT), Museo Emilio Greco, “MadPhoto Donna”, 2009
Italia, Festival Internazionale di Fotografia di Corigliano Calabro, “MUP Project”, 2008
SOLO SHOW
Italia, Roma, RAW/Laboratorio Antonella Argenti, "Tracce”, Assemblage/Collage, 2022
Italia, Roma, Gallery/Store Alessandra Giannetti, #grafieurbane per la capsule collection Wardrobe #1, 2022
Italia, Villapiana (CS), Digital Doors Festival, “#grafieurbane”, Solo show and Workshop, 2017
Spagna, Madrid, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, “#grafieurbane” Artist Residency/ Event, 2016
Brasile, Florianopolis, photography, “Strati velati”, 2011
Italia, Roma, Sala1 e Via Giulia 95, Raccolta di Racconti IV/“MUP Project”, 2010
EVENTS
Italia, Roma, MACRO (Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma), workshop/event “In & Out”/”In-Visible People”, 2019
Spagna, Madrid, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, performance on Artist’s Books, 2019
Spagna, Madrid, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, performance on Artist’s Books, 2018
Gran Bretagna, Londra, “fLIP”/ London Indipendent Photography Event, 2011
OPEN STUDIO
Italia, Roma, RAW/ Open Studio e inaugurazione del nuovo laboratorio creativo Studio73, 2025
Italia, Roma, RAW/Rome Art Week, Open Studio e workshop, 2024
Italia, Roma, RAW/Rome Art Week, theunique.space Open Studio, 2023
Italia, Roma, RAW/Rome Art Week, theunique.space Open Studio, 2021
Italia, Roma, Open Studio, Atelier Lungaretta, 2005/2006/2007
(Credits Photos: Crippi and Victoria Semykina)