Fabio Giampietro is an Italian artist who lives and works in Milan. He is considered one of the pioneers of immersive art, thanks to his virtual reality installations that go beyond the “tangible world,” connecting it definitively to the “metaverse.” He is also among the very first artists to work with VR headsets in order to move beyond the two-dimensionality of the canvas.

His research merges painterly tradition with the most innovative technologies, combining the dimensions of space and time and eliminating the contemplative distance between the viewer’s senses and the reality of the artwork. In 2016 Fabio won the Lumen Prize Gold Award and is one of the 50 artists featured in the Rizzoli book Crypto Art Begins. Active in the art scene for more than 20 years, Fabio Giampietro is among the pioneers of the NFT revolution and one of the leading figures in the Italian and international digital art scene.

He has exhibited in cities such as London, Berlin, Bologna, Istanbul, Los Angeles, Shanghai, and Toronto. Major institutions include Palazzo Reale in Milan, Palazzo Cipolla in Rome, and MEET in Milan. Other projects include AIORA, an interactive swing exhibited alongside works by artists such as Refik Anadol and Krista Kim, and renowned masters like Escher, Boccioni, de Chirico, and Piranesi in the exhibition Ipotesi Metaverso in Rome, as well as URBAN SINGULARITY, a pictorial and installation project exploring the concept of singularity applied to architecture, through impossible geometries and post-human urban visions.