Marisa Portolese

Marisa Portolese is an Italian Canadian visual artist. Her artistic practice centres on portraiture, representations of women, and autobiography, exploring familial and cultural heritage through photography, video, and writing. Her large-scale colour photographs examine identity, spectatorship, and human experience within psychological and physical environments. She has authored numerous essays and published three monographs: Un Chevreuil à la Fenêtre de ma Chambre, Antonia’s Garden, and In the Studio with Notman, and co-authored a fourth with Vincent Bonin, Goose Village.