Michele Castagnetti

“Art is not a mirror held up to reality

but a hammer with which to shape it.”

― Bertolt Brecht

Born in Italy in 1972, Michele Castagnetti spent his formative years in Rome, studied graphic design in Milan and received a Bachelor’s Degree of Fine Arts at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. He currently lives and works in Los Angeles where his work has appeared in numerous exhibitions curated by notable curators and critics such as Peter Frank, Mat Gleason and David Pagel of The Los Angeles Times.