Born in 1983 in Venice, Renato D’Agostin began photographing in 2001, drawn to the way urban space reveals unexpected forms and relationships. After a journey through the capitals of Western Europe, he moved to Milan, then relocated to New York, where he became assistant to Ralph Gibson for six years.

It was in New York that he refined a highly personal approach to silver gelatin printing and composition. By dislocating subjects from their reality, he developed a visual grammar that is stark, often abstract, shifting the gaze toward a more sensory perception of space. The relationship between architecture and the human figure becomes the engine of a visual dynamic shaped by tension, absence, or resonance.

His work has been shown in numerous exhibitions across Europe, the United States, and Asia. Several of his series have been published in photobooks, and his prints featured in major public collections including the Bibliothèque nationale de France, LACMA in Los Angeles, the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, the International Center of Photography in New York, the Library of Congress in Washington DC, the Phillips Collection in Washington DC, the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris, and the George Eastman Museum in Rochester.

In 2018, after thirteen years in New York, he returned to Italy and set up his studio in a warehouse on the outskirts of Venice, continuing his formal investigations with a spirit of autonomy and experimentation.

SOLO SHOWS

2022 ”Veni Etiam”, Bigaignon, Paris, France
2019 ”Harmony of Chaos”, Bigaignon, Paris, France
2018 “Metropolis”, Leica Gallery, Bangkok
2018 “Metropolis”, Kahmann Gallery, Amsterdam
2018 “7439”, Leica Gallery, Bologna
2017 ”The Beautiful Cliché - Venezia”, Carnegie Hall, New York
2017 “7439”, Bigaignon, Paris, France
2017 “7439”, Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, San Dona’ di Piave, Venise
2017 “7439”, Leica Gallery, Milan
2017 “7439”, Villa Firenze, Washington DC

GROUP SHOWS

2025 “Ligne(s) de mire”, exposition hors-les-murs au Bonisson Art Center, Bigaignon, Rognes, France
2024 “What if it was all just a mirage?”, Bigaignon, Paris, France
2023 ”A Black & White Journey”, Bigaignon, Paris, France
2023 ”La Dialectique de l’Ombre”, Bigaignon, Paris, France
2023 ”Chair de temps”, Bigaignon, Paris, France
2020 United, Bigaignon, Paris, France
2013 ”Next Stop : Italy”, Phillips Collection, Washington, United States of America
2011 ”Mélancolie”, Jardin Raymond VI du Musées des Abattoirs, Toulouse, France
2010 ”One”, Exposition collective, Randall Scott Gallery, New York, United States of America
2010 ”.IT – Italian Art Today”, Exposition collective, Italian Cultural Institute, San Francisco, United States of America
2009 ”Giovani Maestri”, mc2gallery, Milan, Italy
2009 ”Interessi Personali”, Romberg Artecontemporanea Gallery, Rome, Italy
2009 ”Italidea”, Mandato Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico
2008 ”Italidea”, Instituto Cultural Cabañas, Guadalajara, Mexico
2008 ”SiFest”, Savignano Sul Rubicone, Italy
2008 ”Echoes From the Street”, Domeischel Gallery, New York, United States of America
2008 Oeuvres choisies et ”Photographie couleur”, Photo 4, Paris
2007 Oeuvres Récentes, Photo 4, Paris, France
2007 ”The (sub)Urban Landscape”, Ross Art Museum, Ohio, United States of America
2007 ”Postcards from Paris”, Leica Gallery, New York, United States of America
2007 ”Mythos.Miti ed archetipi nel mare della consocenza”, National Gallery of Arts, Tirana Evagoras & Kathleen Lanitis Foundation, Limassol, Chypre
2007 ”Blanche et noir est la rue”, Exposition collective, Galerie Photo 4, Paris, France
2006 ”Mythos.Miti ed archetipi nel mare della consocenza”, Byzantine and Christian Museum, Athens, Greece

DISTINCTIONS

2017 La Nuit du Livre, Paris, France
2012 Fotofusion Rising Star, Palm Beach, United States of America
2010 Art Directors Club Annual Award, New York, United States of America

COLLECTIONS

BnF, Paris , France Paris LACMA, Los Angeles, United States of America
ICP International Center of Photography, New Yor, United States of America
Library of Congress, Washington, United States of America
The Phillips Collection, Washington, United States of America
Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, United States of America
MEP, Paris, France
George Eastman House, Rochester, New York, United States of America
HIGH Museum of Art, Atlanta, United States of America