Gianfranco Pezzot, b. 1969, is an Italian conceptual photographer interested in the ways we shape, use and experience the environments we create. In his series Resorts, depicting various abandoned holiday locales post-vacation season, Pezzot emphasizes the relationship between our economical need for tourism and the lasting effects it plays on the environments we inhabit.
Gianfranco Pezzot's work has been published in several books, catalogs and magazines, including K*MoPA's "Photographs by the Next Generation" museum book, New York Magazine, Eyemazing, International Biennial of Contemporary Art Exhibitions, and Tiger Magazine, and can be found in the permanent collection of the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts (Japan). Pezzot is a graduate of the Drama Academy of Venice, Italy.
SELECT EXHIBITIONS
2010 The Human Figure, MadridFoto, Spain
2009 Resorts, Sous Les Etoiles Gallery, New York, NY
2008 Spazio FVG Project, Center for Contemporary Art, Villa Manin, Italy
2007 International Photography Festival "Transphotographiques," Lille, France
2006 Summertime, MOCL Gallery, Victoria, Canada
Human Being, Primo Piano Contemporary Art Gallery, Lecce, Italy
2003 Labyrinth of Light, National Centre for the Arts, Mexico City, Mexico
2002 Mifav, Temporaneo Contemporaneo for Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy
2001 International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Florence, Italy
2000 Center for Photographic Art, Carmel-By-The-Sea, CA