Irene Dionisio is an Italian film director, screenwriter and visual artist born in Turin in 1986. She currently works between Turin and Rome.
Irene Dionisio's work meanders between film and visual arts, including video installations, documentaries and fiction films.
Her works have been displayed in solo and group exhibitions at prestigious venues in Italy and abroad such as IIC, New York; PAC, Milan; PAV and Castello di Rivoli, Turin; OCAT, Shanghai; Palazzo Grassi, Venice; Museu Berardo, Lisbon; MamBo, Bologna; and Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva.
Her films have taken part in numerous international festivals (amongst which the Venice Biennale, the Turin Film Festival, Visions du Réel and Taiwan Film Festival) and have received numerous awards (amongst which the Premio Solinas and the Nastro d'Argento in Italy; Prix Scam in France; the jury prize at Ciné-Vérité in Iran).
Irene Dionisio has also won a grant for the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg Nipkow Programm (2020), an ArtOmy grant, New York (2020), the Premio Bertolucci (2020) and American Dream Fellowship for Artists (2021).