Arianna Catania

Arianna Catania is an independent curator, photo editor, and journalist. A graduate in Political Science and a diploma holder from the Istituto Superiore di Fotografia e Comunicazione Integrata in Rome, she began her career as a photographer. Since 2007 she has worked in publishing as a photo editor and writes about photography and art.

In 2016 she conceived Gibellina Photoroad, the open-air, site-specific festival in which photography and visual arts engage in dialogue with the city's architecture, and she has directed it ever since. Exhibitors at past editions of the festival include Joan Fontcuberta, Olivo Barbieri, Tobias Zielony, Valérie Jouve, Mario Cresci, Moira Ricci, Massimo Siragusa, and Stefano De Luigi, among others.

She curates the Collezione Fotografia at the Fondazione Orestiadi and has served as artistic director of Emerging Talents at the Mattatoio in Rome. In 2022 she was among the jurors of the Premio Graziadei per la Fotografia, and in 2026 she is one of the curators of Fotografia Europea in Reggio Emilia.