Education and Training
2014-2015: Master with Merit of Fine Art UCA, Canterbury (U.K)
2011-2013: Bachelor with Merit in History of Art University Paris1, Sorbonne, Paris (France)

Work Experience
2022
Director of Photography, Cinque Marzo dir Stefano Malchiodi, Roma
2021
1st assistant director, Story of your life – dir. Salvatore De Chirico, Roma
2020
1st assistant director, Apartment Story – dir. Salvatore De Chirico, Roma
1st assistant director , Alps – dir. Andrew Matthew, Nice
2019
Co-director, Bru, Tales from the North, Norway
2017
Artist assistant, Guillermo Bert. www.gbert.com, Los Angeles
Artist assistant, Alberto Di Fabio.www.albertodifabio.com, Roma
Artist in Residence at ESMoA. www.esmoa.org/about-us/ artist-in- residence/ Los Angeles
Mentor, advanced photography class at Venice Art Center. www.veniceartcenter.com/ Los Angeles 2016
Photographer assistant. M.Anelli.www.marcoanelli.com. New York City
Photographer assistant. R. Kern. www.richardkern.com. New York City
Studio assistant, Circus Studios. www.circustudios.com. Milan
Intern, Ca’ d’Oro Gallery New York.www.ca-doro.com, New York City
2015
Mentor, Summer Art project. Porchlight, Canterbury
2014
Intern, Villa Medici.Villa Medici, French Academy in Rome (Italy)

Awards[/b]
2022 Winner, Grant “Italian Council” promoted by Ministry of Culture, Italy
https://creativitacontemporanea.beniculturali.it/en/italiancouncil-edizione11/
2021 Winner, Grant “Lazio Contemporano”
http://www.lazioinnova.it/bandi-post/lazio-contemporaneo/
2023 Winner, artist in Residence, University Paris 8


Selected Exhibitions
2021
“Babies are knocking”/ Studio Stefania Miscetti /studiostefaniamiscetti.com/ Rome
“This Is Us” / billboards spaces along the n. 19 th tram route in Rome / thisisusproject.com/ Rome
2019
“Rouge”/ Roma Europa Festival”/ romaeuropa.net/festival-2019/rouge/ Rome
“Poesia e Destino,La fortuna Italiana del Werther” /Casa di Goethe Museum, www.casadigoethe.it/ Rome
2018
“She Devil”/ Studio Stefania Miscetti, studiostefaniamiscetti.com/ Rome
“Maria Di Stefano, Meet me under water”/ One Room, .oneroombooks.com/ Rome
“Maria Di Stefano, DISTRACTION”/ Daforma gallery, www.daformagallery.com/ Rome
“Maria Di Stefano, Entertainement”/Una Vetrina MAXXI ,www.theindependentproject.it/it/events/ Rome
“Now and Forward ”/ Temple Gallery, www.rome.temple.edu/ now-and- forward/ Rome
2017
“Maria Di Stefano No Human Trace”/Avenue 50, Los Angeles, .avenue50studio.org/ Los Angeles
“Experience 27: Elsegundissimo”/ ESMoA (CA).esmoa.org/ Los Angeles
2015
“Donkey Art Prize”/ VIOPHILA Gallery, donkeyartprize.com / Miami
“Creative Challenge”/The Ugly Duck, creativechallenge.info / London

Selected Publications
Vanity Fair, “anche noi siamo Italia”
Repubblica, “This is Us” alla fermata, scatti di italiani in attesa”
Id Italy “This is Us, Maria Di Stefano”
Perimetro: “This is Us” perimetro.eu/dicembre-2021/this-is-us/
Freeda: “Women Crash: Maria Di Stefano ” facebook.com/freedamedia/videos/
GQ Italy: “Maria Di Stefano, Entertainment”.gqitalia.it/ragazze/portfolio//maria-di-stefano- entertainment/
C-heads Magazine:“Way out and shining under blue lights”heads.com/2016/12/14/way-out-and-shining-under-blue- lights ”
Stick and stones agency: “The End” /www.sticksandstonesagency.com/the-end-maria-di- stefano/