Cinzia CAMPOLESE

Profile

Cinzia Campolese is born in Italy in 1987.  Based in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal (Canada). 
She is a multidisciplinary artist working across installation, sculpture, video, and web. Her work has been presented at major institutions and festivals internationally, including BIAN International Digital Art Biennial in Montreal, Goethe Institut, Biennale Chroniques, York Art Gallery, and venues across Europe, Asia, and North America.

Recent exhibitions and activities
2025 "Hyper – Myths, Counter–Rituals," Artemis Gallery, Vienna
2024 "BIAN International Digital Art Biennial," Arsenal, Montreal, Canada
2024 “Hyper Nature”, Ice Culture Cargo - PRECTXE, Pohang-si, Korea
2024 “Equilibrium”, Match Gallery, Ljubljana
2024 “Noise Media Art Fair”, Istanbul

Awards
2026 Fellowship & Fully Funded Residency in AI, Sporobole, Sherbrooke, Canada
2023 Residency, Atelier Mondial - Christoph Mérian Foundation, Basel, Swisserland
2019, Art Collector Prize, Paris

About works

Cinzia Campolese’s practice explores perceptual phenomena and how they shape our understanding of reality. She is especially interested in how material, movement, and spatial experience can reveal the shifting boundary between digital and physical worlds. Working across installation, video, web, and print, she creates situations where digital processes, symbolic tropes, and physical matter converge, forming hybrid spaces for escape and reflection. In these works, she examines how emerging technologies gradually and quietly reshape belief, agency, and collective imagination. In doing so, she pays close attention to time, motion, and shifting perspectives, often focusing on those brief moments when materials, systems, or images seem to reorganize right in front of us.