Fabio Barile was born in Italy in 1980
Graduating from FSM in Florence with a degree in photography in 2007. In the same year he was selected as one of 15 finalists of the 'Atlante Italiano 007' Award and his work was exhibited at MAXXI,in Rome.
He started his photographic research in 2005 with a project about coastal erosion that affects 1500 km of the italian coastline. This project, titled 'Among', aims to investigate natural processes of the landscape. This work is part of 'Visions and Documents', a ten-book set published by Documentary Platform. It also has been exhibited in several group shows, for example: 'Tempi Osceni. Moments de la photographie contemporaine italienne II' at the Centre d’Art Dominique Lang in 2009.
In the same year, he had his first solo show, 'Diary n°0, things that do not happen', as part of Fotografia, Festival Internazionale di Roma. This exhibition resulted in the publication of his first book, curated and produced by 3/3.
In 2017, following his solo show at Matèria, Barile exhibits a selection of works from his body of work “An investigation of the laws observable in the composition, dissolution and restoration of land” at the National Archive for Cataloguing and Documentation in Rome, Curated by Benedetta Cestelli Guidi, creating a dialogue beetween his work and the images sourced from the archive itself.
In 2019, alongside Domingo Milella, he participates in his first major museum exhibition ‘Le Forme del Tempo’, curated by Alessandro Dandini de Sylva at Fondazione Pescheria Centro Arti Visive in Pesaro.
During the last few years, he has developed a major interest in complexity, and the use of photography as a philosophical tool, in order to stimulate a conscious and deeper understanding of reality.
In 2020 a portfolio of his most recent works was published on Foam Magazine #57 In Limbo, and in the same year he was one of the five artists working with photography, chosen from UNESCO to work on the most recent italian sites entering the UNESCO World Heritage, and the resulting exhibition will travel around the world in the upcoming years.
2023
Tre-di-ci ,Sguardi sui musei di Lombardia (Group exhibition)
Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy
2022
Fabio Barile & Domingo Milella — Le Forme del Tempo
Terme di Diocleziano, Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome, Italy
Regeneration (Group exhibition)
American Academy in Rome, Italy
Di Roccia, fuochi e avventure sotterranee (Group exhibition)
MAXXI, L'Aquila, Italy
2021
Di Roccia, fuochi e avventure sotterranee (Group exhibition)
MAXXI, Rome, Italy
Works for a Cosmic Feeling
Matèria, Rome, Italy
2020
On Earth — Imaging, technology and the natural world (Group exhibition)
Le Lieu Unique, Nantes, France
On Earth — Imaging, technology and the natural world (Group exhibition)
FOAM Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2019
On Earth — Imaging, technology and the natural world (Group exhibition)
50th edition of the Rencontres d’Arles, Arles,France
Fabio Barile & Domingo Milella — Le Forme del Tempo
Centro Arti visive Pescheria, Pesaro, Italy
2018
MAPS|SPAM (Group exhibition)
Società Geografica Italiana, Villa Celimontana, Rome, Italy
Osservare la terra — a dialogue beetween contemporary photography and the historical archive of ICCD
ICCD — Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo e la Documentazione, Rome, Italy
2017
An Investigation of the laws observable in the composition, dissolution and restoration of land
Matèria, Rome, Italy
2015
Homage to James Hutton
Matèria, Rome, Italy
2014
Open Museum Open City (Group exhibition)
MAXXI — Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome, Italy
Fabio Barile & Francesco Neri — Middle-Earth a journey inside Elica
Elica Showroom, Milan, Italy
2011
Giovane fotografia di ricerca in Puglia (Group exhibition)
Museo Pino Pascali, Polignano a Mare, Italy
2010
Visions and Documents (Group exhibition)
Fotografia International Photography Festival 11, Mutation III, MACRO — Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome, Italy
2009
Diary N° 0, Things that do not happen
S. T. gallery for Fotografia International Photography Festival 09, Rome, Italy