Simone Trovato Monastra was born in Catania in 1989, he took his high school diploma in Industrial Design at the “Istituto Statale d’Arte di Catania” (2007). In 2011 he took a Bachelor’s Degree in Graphic Design at the Academy of Fine Arts of Catania with a score of 110/110 cum laude and a Master’s Degree in Photography of Cultural Heritage at ISIA of Urbino with a score of 110/110 cum laude in 2015.

  

Workshops and Exhibitions:

 

Collective exhibition “Timpaviva 2010 “, Acireale (CT) – 2010

 

Staff of photography documentation at the “PNA 2012 – Premio Nazionale delle Arti 2012″, Urbino – 2012

 

Collective exhibition “Il museo invisibile” at the “Museo Oliveriano” in Pesaro – 2012-2013

 

Publication of photos for interview to the artist Nino Migliori on “Foto.it” – March 2013

 

Collective exhibition “Agorà” for “Slow photo / Savignano Immagini” – 2013

 

Coordination and realization of virtual tour in old Santa Chiara convent in Urbino – santachiara360 – 2013

 

Workshop and collective exhibition at the “Cortona on the move ” festival, with Antonio Manta – 2013

 

Workshop with Gioberto Noro at the ISIA Urbino – 2013

 

Staff of photography documentation and books reproduction at the ISIA Urbino – 2014

 

Staff member for the set up of the exhibition “Fotografie di Giuseppe Vaccaj (1838-1912)” from the Giuseppe Vaccaj’s photographic archive – at “Biblioteca Oliveriana” in Pesaro – May 2014

 

Collective exhibition at the “4ª Biennale dei Giovani Fotografi Italiani” in Bibbiena – 2014

 

Stage at ASAC – Historical photographic archive of “La Biennale di Venezia” – September 2014

 

Collective exhibition “Fahrenheit 39” in Ravenna – March 2015