Antonio Pio Saracino is a licensed Italian Architect and an artist. He was born in southern Italy in 1976. He currently works and lives between Rome and New York City. Saracino received his Master's degree in Architecture EU from La Sapienza University of Rome, where he was also an assistant professor of design. From 2002 to 2004, he worked in several architectural studios in Italy and the U.S., including the firm of Massimiliano Fuksas in Rome.
From 2004 to 2008, Antonio Pio Saracino collaborated with Steve Blatz to found the New York design firm Archlab, focused on contemporary and experimental design. Saracino has won numerous international art, architecture and design awards; his projects have been widely published in design and art magazines in Italy, U.K., The Netherlands, France, Belgium, Australia, Japan and the U.S. His design work has been featured in exhibitions at ICFF New York, NEOCON Chicago, and at the Center Gallery at Fordham University at Lincoln Center in NYC. His design of the Tibi boutique in Soho in 2007 was featured in the Best of the Year issue of Interior Design magazines and in the Global Retail Directory of Wallpaper Magazine. In addition, he was presented with a 2007 American Architecture Award from the Chicago Athenaeum and the Chicago Museum of Architecture for his design of a country house in
upstate New York.
Saracino was selected as the winner of the Agorafolly art competition for Europalia.Europa Art Festival 2007/2008 in Brussels, Belgium. The 27 artists, selected to represent each of the 27 countries of the European Union, presented installations epitomizing the future image of Europe throughout the squares of Brussels. Representing Italy, Saracino's large scale installation ‘Adolescence of Force’ was commissioned by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and was placed in front of La Gare Centrale. In Brussels, his artwork ‘Mother's Instinct' was selected as the iconic symbol for the show Agorafolly Inside Outside, a museum exhibition of works by the European emerging generation of contemporary art. Saracino's photo-based imagery has also been included in the Mythos exhibition traveling in cities throughout the Mediterranean, and ITALIDEA, exhibition of the Italian Excellence, traveling to several international museums, both curated by Renato Miracco. In 2007 he was named as one of the world's 25 most interesting trend-setters by New York 's ARTnews magazine.
In 2009 he presents a three-part solo exhibition, Myths and Rhythms for the New Millennium, taking place simultaneously in Moscow, Brussels and Rome. It functions as the broad European launch of Saracino's most recent series of artworks, design objects and architectural projects.
