PROFILE

Diego Ferrari is a London-based visual artist, photographer, and educator with over 25 years of experience exhibiting and teaching across Europe. His interdisciplinary practice explores the intersection of photography, performance, and spatial experience.

Working across installation, site-specific intervention, and socially engaged art, his recent projects investigate how bodies inhabit and reinterpret space within both the natural and built environment, in the context of the ecological crisis, the age of plastic, and the Anthropocene.

At the core of his practice is an inquiry into the relationship between the body and its environment, in which photography becomes both a performative act and a perceptual tool. His installations and photographic works engage with air, sound, and memory as invisible yet structuring forces.

Ferrari’s approach draws on fine art, spatial theory, and collective memory to reframe the politics of space and material culture, situating the body as an active participant within cultural, urban, and environmental systems.

He teaches Photography as Performance at Central Saint Martins and is Senior Lecturer in Photography at Kingston University. He has presented work and delivered lectures at leading international institutions and co-programmed Urban Encounters at Tate Britain (2012–2019).

EDUCATION

MA in Art and Architecture
University of Kent, Canterbury
1993–1994

BA in Fine Art
Goldsmiths College, University of London
1987–1991

Art and Design
Escola d’Art i Superior de Disseny Llotja, Barcelona
1981–1986

Diego Ferrari collaborating with Will Dickie, We are Water, 2014