Tony Leone

Tony Leone lives and works in Italy.
Trained as a graphic designer, he is a visual artist and photographer whose practice combines pop art, photography, and contemporary visual languages, exploring the relationship between images, objects, and collective memory.

His artistic work stems from careful observation of people and their surroundings, including portraits, everyday scenes, and symbolic details. For Tony, photography does not follow predetermined themes: every shot is an act of attentive listening, capturing the complexity of human experience with a direct, empathetic, and nuanced gaze.

In parallel, his artistic production also engages with iconic images, everyday objects, and industrial materials, following an approach inspired by pop art. Cultural symbols and recognizable imagery are reworked into assemblages, installations, and resin pieces, creating visual juxtapositions that invite reflection on the meaning of images, visual consumption, and collective memory.

His works and projects have been shown in solo and group exhibitions, often accompanied by critical texts conceived as an integral part of the work, in a continuous dialogue between image, word, and meaning. The common thread throughout his practice is the care...

Graphic Design at Art Institute -
Scenography - Academy of Fine Arts

If you are interested in exhibiting Tony Leone’s works in a gallery or other organization locally or internationally, you are welcome to contact the artist directly.

2018 Mané-Katz Museum - 2018 Not Your Toy - Haifa Museum of Art - Sacred Goods Haifa Museum of Art - 2017 Mientras la barca aguante (Un recelo habitual) - Sevilla Ottobre 2017
2016 “ 20x20x20 “ ManSourcing SpazioContemporaneo Caltagirone
2016 “HEROS” 12 - 25 marzo - ManSourcing SpazioContemporaneo Caltagirone
2016 ”le donne in 3 click” - - Palazzo della Cultura – 6 - 8 marzo Catania
2016 ”International Mail art projects” - Brazil - Italy - Spain - Portugal
2015 “Sintonie e Dissonanze” 2/11 dicembre - Teatro Machianvelli - Catania
2015 “InTarget Photolux Award 2015” - PHOTOLUXFEST - Lucca
2015 “STREET” Collettiva - ManSourcing SpazioContemporaneo - Caltagirone
2015 “"Il Sacro nel Contemporaneo" Chiesa Monumentale "San Nicolò la Rena" Catania
2015 “Medea e... “- Personale - Ortigia Siracusa
2015 "Castello Ursino liberato" Officina GammaZ, Catania
2015 “CICLOSEI” - 10/13 Aprile presso: Officina GammaZ, Catania
2014 “Biennale MarteLive” - 23/28 settembre, Spazio Factory la Pelanda - MACRO Roma
2014 “I like Catania” Collettiva fotografica - Palazzo ...