Salvatore Vitale

Salvatore Vitale is a Swiss-based visual artist, editor and educator. In his multi-layered artistic practice and research, Vitale’s work focuses on the development and complexity of modern societies exploring power structures, visual politics and technology, whilst making use of expanded documentary analysis, including elements of fiction, speculative storytelling and the use of multiple visual forms. His work incorporates photography, video, sound, writing, and oral discourse, communicated through books, talks, editorial contexts, teaching, and exhibition design.

His work has been awarded internationally, including the Swiss Arts Council grant (2015-2016), Foam Talent (2018), Punctum Award (2018), Bally Foundation Award (2020) and MAST Photo Grant (2022). Vitale’s work has been exhibited widely, with solo shows at the FMAV – Fondazione Modena Arti Visive (2022), MBAL Le Locle (2022), Camera – Centro Italiano per la Fotografia (2021), Swiss Foundation for Photography Winterthur (2019), Hamburg Triennale of Photography (2018), the Photoforum Pasquart Biel/ Bienne (2017 and 2023).