Riccardo Iacono is a London based artist working with film, performance, print, drawing photography and installation.

His work is conversational and open-ended in nature, and evolves through improvisation and play.

Among his concerns are the relationships of the body and the image and experience of time, light and memory.

'Through play and metaplay Riccardo Iacono's work describes a kind of complex open system within complex systems. It becomes about the artist in relation to the world, the body of the artist in relation to the body of work, the viewer in relation to the work at the time of reception, the unique event of performance that redoubles the act of making and the re-entry of the work into the world. It is a promiscuous trans-discipline practice which may be viewed as much as dance and/or music as film and video, and with the potential to converse in the language of any other discipline, within other areas of cultural production, with other artists works.'

Extract from Open Play - The Work of Riccardo Iacono

Steven Ball, 2005

Iacono studied painting at Glasgow School of Art and electronic imaging at DJCAD, Dundee.

His work has been shown widely including on Channel 4 (1997/99), European Media Art Festival, Osnabruuck (2007) and A Century of Artists Films in Britain, Tate Britain (2003).

He was artist in residence at Acme Fire Station (2005-10), Lucca Film Festival (2007) and London College of Communication (2007).

He has received commissions and funding from The Arts Council, Scottish Film Council, STV, Scottish Screen, Channel 4 and BBC Scotland.

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Solo exhibitions and screenings include: This Orientation, Summit Gallery, London (2013); LampPosts, Project Rooms, Hull (2013); The Electric Garden, Forte Belvedere, Firenze (2007), The No Show, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester (2007); Love Songs From a Dark Body, La Enana Marron, Madrid (2005); From Memory, Kino Oko, Prague (2005); Ice in The Freezer, Pleasure Dome, Toronto (2003).

Selected group exhibitions and screenings include:

One Minute Films Retrospective, Close Up Cinema, London (2026), ELP Festival of Print (2025); The Revelator Summer Open, Glasgow (2025); Rauccus Purposeful, Cafe Oto, London 2025; Scrathching The Surface, Lux, London (2025); Contact Festival of Artists' Film and Video, London (2016); Playing With Space, Firstsite, Colchester and L.A.D.A., London (2015); Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival, Toronto (2015); Tuned Cities, Baltic, Newcastle (2013); Dead Fingers Talk, IMT Gallery, London (2010); Rencontres Internationales Paris Berlin (2002/5); Born Free, Victoria & Albert Museum, London (2006); Rotterdam International Film Festival (2003); Ann Arbor Film Festival, Michigan (2002); Images Festival, Toronto (2002); Graphic Cinema, National Film Theatre London, (2000); Abstract Art on Film, Lux Centre, London (1998); New Visions, Glasgow (1996);

Broadcasts on STV (1995/6); Channel 4 (1997/9); Sky TV (1998);