Martina Cirese (b. 1988, Rome) is an Italian photographer, visual artist, and educator based in Rome. She studied at ISFCI in Rome and completed a Master’s degree in Contemporary History at Paris-Sorbonne University. In 2014 she was awarded a scholarship at FABRICA, Benetton’s communication research center, where she worked on global campaigns for the UNHATE Foundation. Her work has been exhibited across Europe and featured in The Guardian, Time, National Geographic, GEO, The Wall Street Journal, and Burn Magazine, among others. Her work is held in private collections including Donata Pizzi and Benetton.

Her research-driven practice is rooted in an ongoing inquiry into knowledge as a source of vision and becoming. In dialogue with philosophical and scientific thought, it seeks to bridge personal experience with broader, universal structures. Moving across body, matter, and language as intertwined expressions of a shared continuum, her work explores how meaning takes form, where it begins to fracture, and how perception is continuously reconfigured. At its core, it returns to a persistent question: what is human?

Alongside her artistic practice, she is engaged in teaching, curatorial work, and the development of educational and exhibition programs. She is co-founder and educational director of Page Blanche in Paris and Kina in Rome. After ten years between Berlin and Paris, she has been based in Rome since 2022.