Paolo Pellegrin

Paolo Pellegrin was born in 1964 in Rome. He studied architecture at L’Università la Sapienza, before studying photography at Istituto Italiano di Fotografia. Between 1991 and 2001 Pellegrin was represented by Agence VU in Paris.
In 2001 he became a Magnum Photos nominee and a full member in 2005. He was a contract photographer for Newsweek for ten years.
Pellegrin is a winner of many awards, including eleven World Press Photo awards and numerous POY awards, a Leica Medal of Excellence, an Olivier Rebbot Award, the Hansel-Meith Preis, the Dr. Erich Salomon Award and the Robert Capa Gold Medal Award. In 2006, he was assigned the W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography.
In thirty years of work he has been focused on issues connected to the human condition, from wars to the effects of global climate change, trying to be a witness for our times.
He lives in London.
His books include Alps – Aosta Valley (Forte di Bard editore. Italy, 2019); Paolo Pellegrin, curated by Germano Celant (Silvana Editoriale, Italy, 2018), Terre Spezzate (Contrasto, Italy, 2016); 100 Photos of Paolo Pellegrin for Press Freedom (Reporters Sans Frontières, France, 2013); Paolo Pellegrin (Kunstfoyer der Versicherungskammer Bayern, Germany, 2012); Dies Irae (Contrasto, Italy, 2011); Photo Poche (Actes Sud, France, 2010); As I Was Dying (Actes Sud, France, 2007); Double Blind (Trolley, UK, 2007); Kosovo 1999-2000: The Flight of Reason (Trolley, UK, 2002); L’au-delà est là (Le Point du Jour, France, 2001); Cambogia (Federico Motta Editore, Italy, 1998), Bambini (Sinnos, Italy, 1997).

www.magnumphotos.com/photographer/paolo-pellegrin

Main solo exhibitions

• 2020 – Paolo Pellegrin. Un’antologia. Reggia di Venaria, Venaria Reale, Turin, Italy
• 2019 – Paolo Pellegrin. Un’antologia. Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
• 2018 – Paolo Pellegrin. Un’antologia. MAXXI – Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome, Italy
• 2016 – Another Country. Fotografia Europea, Reggio Emila, Italy.
• 2016 – Great Performers. F11 Photographic Museum, Hong Kong.
• 2015 – Another Country. Leica Galerie. Milan, Italy
• 2015 – Sevla. Fotografia – Festival Internazionale di Roma. Macro, Rome, Italy
• 2015 – Hafen. Flo Peters Gallery. Hamburg, Germany
• 2014 – Gaza Portraits. Perspektivet Museum. Tromso, Norway
• 2014 – As I was Dying. Photobastei. Zürich, Switzerland
• 2013 – Another Country. Fotografia – Festival Internazionale di Roma. Macro, Rome, Italy
• 2012 – As I was Dying. Städtische Galerie, Iserlohn, Germany
• 2012 – Paolo Pellegrin. Magnum Gallery, Paris, France
• 2012 – Paolo Pellegrin. Galerie Italienne, Paris, France
• 2011 – Paolo Pellegrin Retrospective. Kunstfoyer der Versicherungskammer Bayern, Munich, Germany
• 2012 – Dies Irae. Maison de La Photographie, Paris, France
• 2011 – Paolo Pellegrin. Spazio Forma. Centro Internazionale di Fotografia, Milan, Italy
• 2011 – As I Was Dying. Palacij Ljublijankega Gradu, Ljubljana, Slovenia
• 2010 – Paolo Pellegrin. Galerie de l’Instant, Paris, France
• 2010 – Retrospective. Galerie Fait et Cause, Paris, France
• 2009 – Black Mountains. Reportage Atri Festival, Italy
• 2008 – As I Was Dying. Western Australian Maritime Museum, Perth, Australia
• 2008 – Iraqi Diaspora. Visa pour l’Image, Perpignan, France
• 2008 – Paolo Pellegrin. Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York City, NY, USA
• 2008 – As I was Dying. Zephyr Weltkulturen Museum, Mannheim, Germany
• 2008 – As I was Dying. Magnum Gallery. Paris, France
• 2008 – As I was Dying. Rencontres d’Arles, Arles, France
• 2008 – Nero Avorio. Casa della Confraternita, Udine, Italy
• 2008 – As I Was Dying. Leica Galerie, Solms, Germany
• 2008 – Double Blind. Fovea exhibitions. New York City, NY, USA
• 2007 – Double Blind. CVZ Contemporary, New York City, NY, USA
• 2007 – Darfur. Holocaust Museum, Berlin, Germany
• 2007 – Broken Landscape. Museo di Roma in Trastevere, Italy
• 2006 – Traces. Galleria Santa Cecilia. Rome, Italy
• 2006 – Traces of War. Malmo Museer, Sweden
• 2005 – The War of Desires. House of Photography, Moscow, Russia
• 2004 – Israel and Palestine. Bildens Hus Fotomuseet, Sundsvall, Sweden
• 2002 – Traces of War. Mercati di Traiano, Festival Internazionale di Roma, Rome, Italy
• 2002 – Traces of War. Hasselblad Center, Goteborg, Sweden
• 2001 – Paolo Pellegrin. Leica Gallery, New York City, NY, USA
• 2001 – Kosovo 1999-2000. Parson School of Design, New York City, NY, USA
• 2000 – Kukes. War in Kosovo, Swedish Parliament, Stockholm, Sweden
• 1999 – Cambogia. Convento S Chiara Napoli, Italy
• 1999 – Bosnia. The Heritage of War. Chiesa di Santa Monaca, Firenze, Italy
• 1999 – Cambodia. Visa pour l’Image, Perpignan, France
• 1998 – Cambodia. Galleria Sozzani, Milano, Italy
• 1997 – AIDS in Uganda. EFTI, Centro de Imagen, Madrid, Spain 1997 – Bosnia. Palazzo Renzo, Bologna, Italy
• 1993 – The Homeless. Visa pour l’Image, Perpignan, France
• 1996 – AIDS in Uganda. Visa pour l’Image, Perpignan, France
• 1997 – Emergency. Galleria Grazia Neri, Milano, Italy

Main group exhibitions

• 2019 – Romanias. National Museum of Art of Romania, Bucarest, Romania
• 2019 – Mountains by Magnum Photographers. Forte di Bard, Bard, Aosta Valley, Italy
• 2016 – Desperate Crossing. Istituto Italiano di cultura New York. New York City, NY, USA
• 2015 – Speak Truth to Power. Kunst(Zeug)Haus. Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland
• 2015 – Congo. Magasin Electrique – Rencontres d’Arles 2015. Arles, France.
• 2015 – Terres dévastées. Festival Photo Peuples et Nature de La Gacilly. La Gacilly, Morbihan, France
• 2015 – A occhi aperti. AuditoriumExpo – Auditorium Parco della Musica di Roma. Rome, Italy
• 2014 – Congo. Atelier Richelieu, Paris, France
• 2013 – Deutschlandreise. ZEPHYR – Raum für Fotografie in Mannheim. Mannheim, Germany
• 2010 – Disquieting Images. Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy
• 2010 – Magnum. Shifting Media. New Role of Photography. C/O Berlin, Germany
• 2010 – Haiti Earthquake. Reportage Atri Festival, Atri, Italy
• 2009 – Georgian Spring. Magnum Photos traveling exhibition: Uferallen, Berlin Germany; Teatro Circo Price, Madrid, Spain; Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France.
• 2008 – Access to Life. Corcoran Museum, Washington D.C., USA
• 2008 – Disposable People. Hayward Gallery, London, UK
• 2007 – Darfur/Darfur – George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, Rochester, NY, USA
• 2007 – Altri mondi, FotoGrafia. Festival Internazionale di Roma. Rome, Italy
• 2007 – Berlin 1946 – 2006 – Camera Work AG, Berlin, Germany
• 2007 – Vor den Augen der Welt. Jüdisches Museum Berlin, Germany
• 2007 – Degrees of Separation. Michael Mazzeo Gallery. New York City, NY, USA
• 2007 – Indianscope. Maison de la Photographie. Lille, France
• 2007 – Euro Visions. Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels
• 2006 – Off Broadway. Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
• 2006 – Katrina, An Unnatural Disaster. Noorderlicht Gallery. Groningen, Holland
• 2004 – 11th Noorderlicht Photofestival 2004. Stichting Fotografie Noorderlicht. Groningen, Holland
• 2003 – Confronting Views: Nine Phtographers on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. The Photographers’ Gallery, London, UK
• 2003 – Exhibitions at Dokument 03. Bildens Hus. Fotomuseet. Sundsvall, Sweden

Acquisitions from museum and institutions

• MEP – Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France
• SFMOMA – San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California, USA
• MFA – The Museum Of Fine Arts, Houston
• MUAC – Universidad National Autonoma De Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico
• MAM – The Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI, USA
• ICP – International Center of Photography, NYC, NY, USA
• Cité nationale de l’histoire de l’immigration, Paris, France
• MAXXI – Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo di Roma, Rome, Italy
• Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation, Eschborn, Germany