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.
Between 2019 and 2020 Barile participates in the major touring museum exhibition ‘On Earth - Imaging, technology and the natural world’ held at 50th edition of the Rencontres d’Arles, FOAM Museum in Amsterdam and at Le Lieu Unique in Nantes.
In 2020 a portfolio of his body of work, “Works for a Cosmic Feeling” 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.
In 2021 the book “Works for a Cosmic Feeling” is among the finalists of the MACK First Book Award, now published by Witty Books.
2025
No Place Like Home — Italian Photography since the 1980s (Group exhibition)
Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
On the Edge of the Eyelid (Group exhibition)
Nivola Museum, Orani(Nu), Italy
2024
The Secret of the Deep Time (Group exhibition)
Verwey Museum, Haarlem, The Netherlands
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
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
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, Italy