EDUCATION AND TRAINING
2014-2015 Master with Merit of Fine Art UCA, Canterbury
2011-2013 Bachelor with Merit in History of Art University Paris1, Sorbonne, Paris

AWARDS
2024 Winner, Strategia Fotografia Grant promoted by Ministry of Culture, Italy
2023 Winner, Artist in residence Programe, Universitè Paris 8
2022 Winner, Italian Council Grant promoted by Ministry of Culture, Italy
2021 Winner, Lazio Contemporano Grant promoted by Ministry of Culture, Italy

WORK EXPERIENCE
Co-director, Bru, nature People, Norway
2017
Artist assistant, Guillermo Bert, Los Angeles
Artist assistant, Alberto Di Fabio, Roma/New York City
Artist in Residence at ESMoA, Los Angeles
Mentor, advanced photography, Venice Art Center, Los Angeles
2016
Photographer assistant, M.Anelli, New York City
Photographer assistant. R. Kern, New York City
Studio assistant, Circus Studios, Milan
Intern, Ca’ d’Oro Gallery, New York City
2015
Organizer, Summer Art project. Porchlight, Canterbury
2014
Intern, Villa Medici.Villa Medici, French Academy in Rome

EXHIBITIONS
2025
Tana Bru, tales from the North, Photo Vogue Festival,(Milan)
Terre Rouge, Sarajevo Photography Festival
This Is Us Berlin, Bachkhouse Gallery, Berlin
This Is Us Berlin, Kunsthaus Kule, Berlin
This Is Us Berlin, Museo dell'Arte Contemporanea MLAC – Sapienza, Roma
2024
Personal Belongings, FOTO TALLIN, Tallin
Personal Belongings, Fast Forward Women in Photography, London
2023
Personal Belongings, Vasli Souza Gallery, Oslo
People in Landscapes/Landscapes into People, Studio Stefania Miscetti, Roma
This is Us Paris, The Room, Paris
This is Us, Nordic Light Festival, Kristiansund
This is Us, MZIN, Leipzig
Tana Bru, Museo dell'Arte Contemporanea MLAC – Sapienza, Roma
2021
This Is Us, billboards spaces along the n.19th tram route, Rome
Babies are knocking, Studio Stefania Miscetti, Roma
2019
Rouge, Roma Europa Festival, Roma
Poesia e Destino, La fortuna Italiana del Werther, Casa di Goethe Museum, Roma
2018
She Devil, Studio Stefania Miscetti, Roma
Maria Di Stefano Meet me under Water, One Room, Roma
Maria Di Stefano Entertainement, Una Vetrina MAXXI, Roma
Now and Forward, Temple Gallery, Roma
2017
Maria Di Stefano, No Human Trace, Avenue 50, Los Angeles
Experience 27: Elsegundissimo, ESMoA (CA), Los Angeles
2016
Queer Week, Paris
2015
Donkey Art Prize, VIOPHILA Gallery, Miami
Creative Challenge,The Ugly Duck, London

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Tagesspiegel “Fotoprojekt This is us, von jugend, identitat und Herkunft”
Vanity Fair, “anche noi siamo Italia”
Repubblica, “This is Us” alla fermata, scatti di italiani in attesa
Frizzi Frizzi “This is Us” in mostra per le strade di Roma
Id Italy “This is Us”, Maria Di Stefano
Perimetro: “This is Us”
Cafè Babel “Maria Di Stefano” cafebabel.com/it/article/maria-di-stefano-catturo-le- contraddizioni-culturali-del-capitalismo-
Freeda: “Women Crash: Maria Di Stefano”
Flewid Book vol.2 “Courage Paradise”:
GQ Ital .gqitalia.it/ragazze/portfolio/2017/08/09/maria-di-stefano- entertainment/
C-heads Magazine c-heads.com/2016/12/14/way-out-and-shining-under-blue- lights
Stick and stones agency, the-end-maria-di- stefano/
Aurora Photography, aurorafotograf.com/maria-di-stefano/
OSSO Magazine: ossomagazine.com/FOTOGRAFIA / Benvenuti nello strano mondo di Maria Di Stefano
Bulletin No62: www.romeaccueil.com/ Maria Di Stefano artiste Italienne