Mattia Paoli

Mattia Paoli (b. 1991) is an Italian artist based in Florence. His practice moves between painting, photography, and digital experimentation, exploring the tension between physical matter and its visual translation. Trained in Design at the University of Florence, his background informs an approach where artistic intuition and structural thinking coexist.

Paoli’s work investigates transformation, instability, and the transient nature of form through layered surfaces, material contrasts, and hybrid techniques. Traditional media intersect with 3D design and digital processes, generating images and objects that oscillate between the real and the constructed, the organic and the artificial.

Alongside his artistic practice, he is a university lecturer in visual communication, photography, and digital design, a role that reinforces his research-driven and experimental approach. His works have been exhibited internationally, including at the Venice Architecture Biennale, and are held in private collections worldwide.

Paoli’s research does not aim to represent reality, but to question it using the image as a site of tension, mutation, and visual negotiation.

Master Degree in Design at University of Florence.

5/1/21 - Design Exhibition at "Biennale di Venezia", Venezia.

2/15/20 - Art Exhibition at "Galleria la Fonderia", via la Fonderia, Firenze.

9/30/2019 - 10/4/2019 StraDesign, University of Florence, Thesys Exhibition, Sant'Ambrogio Florence old Town.

9/21/2019 - 10/3/2019 57° Cardo d'Argento Prize at Galleria Gadarte, Via S.Egidio, Florence old Town.

6/14/2019 - 6/27-2019 "E-state insieme" Art exhibition at Galleria Gadarte, Via S.Egidio, Florence old Town.

3/8/2019 - 03/21/2019 "Donna Oggi" Art exhibition at Galleria Gadarte, Via S.Egidio, Florence old Town.

12/6/2019 - 01/6/2019 "Arte a Natale" Art exhibition at Galleria Gadarte, Via S.Egidio, Florence old Town.

12/3/2018 - 12/10/2018 Titled of art exhibition "The water between us", during Art Basel Miami Art Week 2018, art gallery DAC (design art concept), location - Miami, 360 NE 75th Str Miami Fl 33138 #123.

11/23/2018 "Generation Gap" artistic interview in Florence at bar restaurant Rifrullo.

10/5/2018 - 10/7/2018 56° Cardo d'Argento Prize, Sala del Basolato, Fiesole.

5/19/2018 - 5/31/2018 My first great art exhibition "Tracce nel Tempo" at Galleria Gadarte, Via S. Egidio 27/r, Florence Old Town.

3/24/2018 - 4/5/2018 "Spring Art Exhibition" at Galleria Gadarte, Via...