Upcoming Projects

• 2025 street art mural "Universo" Università della Svizzera Italiana - USI 

• 2025 street artwork "Astro Girl" at Palazzo Crendivest Bank Lugano

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Ongoing Projects

• 2024 street art mural "Generoso Family" Rovio Val Mara 

• 2024 street art installation "Lvgaxy Astro Lake" at Palazzo dei Congressi commissioned by Municipality of Lugano 

• 2024 street art exhibition "Jazz Off the Wall" feauturing 40 murals in Ascona Switzerland

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Recent Projects

• 2024 art show "Yuri in Wonderland" Art Zurich at Kongresshaus

• 2024 mixed media solo exhibition "New Orleans Journey" at Museum of Modern Art in Ascona Switzerland

• 2023 street art giant installation "Lvgaxy Astro Flowers" at Palazzo dei Congressi commissioned by Municipality of Lugano

• 2023 mixed media public artwork "Lvgaxy Astro Bee" at NFT Festival Lugano commissioned and donated to Municipality of Lugano

• 2023 street art solo exhibition "IMPERFECT" commissioned by Fondazione IEO-Monzino in Milano.

• 2023 photography solo exhibition "Moonlit Garden" Erarta Museum Saint Petersburg Russia curated by Olga Danieli 

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Milestone Projects

• 2022 mixed media art solo exhibition "The Night After"  CasaGalleria.ART Rovio Switzerland curated by Silvia Torricelli

• 2022 photography solo exhibition "The Night After" WopArt Lugano Switzerland curated by Paolo Manazza

• 2022 art show "American Flag VideoGame " Volta Basel Switzerland curated by Kamiar Maleki

• 2022 art show "Black Flowers Secret Garden" Volta New York USA curated by Kamiar Maleki

• 2022 art show "Black Flowers Secret Garden" Koln Art Fair Germany

• 2022 photography & NFTs solo exhibition "My Generoso" Fiore di Pietra top of Monte Generoso curated by Patrizia Cattaneo

• 2022 collective NFT art exhibition Global Art Roma Palazzo Merulana Roma Italy

• 2021 film documentary on the art project I Gatti di Rovio by Yuri Catania directed by Kevin Mertz for RSI TV Switzerland 

• 2021 collective exhibition at SIFest Savignano sul Rubicone Italy curated by Alessandro Curti Still Gallery Milano

• 2021 art show "Black Flowers Secret Garden" Mia Photo Fair Milano Italy, WopArt Lugano CH and Art International Zurich CH

• 2021 street art installation Street Art Festival Maroggia Switzerland curated by Patrizia Cattaneo 

• 2021 photography solo exhibition "Black Flowers Secret Garden" Artrust gallery Melano Switzerland curated by Patrizia Cattaneo 

• 2021 mixed media art solo exhibition "American Flag Video Game" Artrust gallery Melano Switzerland curated by Patrizia Cattaneo 

• 2021 land art solo exhibition "I Gatti di Rovio" over 120 paste up installations in the Val Mara curated by Patrizia Cattaneo 

• 2018 mixed media artworks solo exhibition "No Fashion Places of America" at Candiani Museum in Venice curated Elisabetta Da Lio

• 2018 published photography book "Marfa, Marfa, Marfa" 

• 2017 Yuri has been started a trip around all the 50 United States of America by an Airstream. 

 

Early Career Highlights 

• 2017 special mention for "Asia Argento, un'attrice, un set e il cinema" at Centro Culturale Candiani in Venice Italy

• 2017 mixed media artworks solo exhibition "No Fashion Places of America" at Officine Fotografiche in Milan Italy

• 2017 selected by the curator Fabio Castelli to show "American Flag Black Neon" at Mia Fair in Milan Italy

• 2016 photography collective exhibition "Art is Hope" Galerie Perrotin in Paris curated by the curator Renè-Julien Praz

• 2016 photography book titled “Forgotten Nepal"

• 2016 gold mention for the "American Flag" installation by Art Fair Colonia

• 2016 selected by the curator Fabio Castelli to show "American Flag" at Mia Fair in Milan

• 2016 selected by the curator Adrian Ehrat to show "Forgotten Nepal" at Maag Hallen in Zurich

• 2015 published his first photography book titled “No Fashion Places of America"

• 2014 awarded the Best Fashion Movie of the year at Milan International Film Festival

• 2013 co-founder of Yuri Catania SA Switzerland. He moved all business and family from Italy to Switzwrland

• 2013 photography collective exhibition "Art is Hope" Palais de Tokyo in Paris curated by Renè-Julien Praz

• 2012 co-founder of Yuri Catania LLC, photography studio production in New York, US

• 2008 started a professional career as director in the fashion industry

• 2008 awarded the Honorable Mention award for the Premio Fotografico Italiano

• 2007 awarded the Premio Fotografico Italiano for the best still life  

• 2006 co-founder of Videoracconti creative communication agency leaded in the fields of fashion based in Milan, Italy

• 2005 began career as professional photographer 

• 1994 studied Industrial Design at Polytechnic University of Milan Italy

• 1989 graduated from the School of Art in Milan, Italy

• 1975 born in Milan, Italy