Reflecting the photographer’s truly professional spirit, Lia Stein’s activity has always taken two different directions: work on commission and artistic photography. For her, these two, apparently distant, spheres are two parts of the same modus operandi, which, starting from curiosity requires great discipline to obtain results that are always very precise. The most evident characteristic of her output is her versatility, which has led her to work for leading Italian magazines, such as AD, Specchio, Amica, Anna, Arte e Antiquariato and Donna Moderna, and publishers like Rizzoli, Mondadri and Electa, in a variety of areas, including photojournalism, fashion, portraiture, architecture, animals for books, calendars, encyclopedias and advertising campaigns, and photographic decorations for interiors. The same versatility is also found in her artistic work that has always comprised a broad range of themes, extending from the study of printing techniques of the past to that of the relationship between the descriptive and interpretive image in the digital field applied to the urban and natural landscape. These are aspects that are to be found in the numerous solo and group exhibitions of her work that have been staged in galleries and as part of artistic events in Italy and elsewhere. She lives in Milan and works in her Atelier.

EXHIBITIONS

2020       IL RIGORE DELLO SGUARDO, MILANO PHOTOFESTIVAL 2020, Palazzo Castiglioni – Photos from Archivio Fondazione 3M – Curated by Roberto Mutti
2020       IL RIGORE DELLO SGUARDO, FESTIVAL PENISOLA DI LUCE, Sestri Levante, Genoa – Photos from Archivio Fondazione 3M – Curated by Roberto Mutti
2020      LA RIGUEUR DU REGARD, ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI CULTURA PARIGI – Photo from Archivio Fondazione 3M – Curated by Roberto Mutti
2019       MATERA MATERICA, FORME NELLO SPAZIO, PIANETA TERRA, NHOW MILANO 
2019      FORME SOSPESE, FOTOFEVER PARIS 2019 – Parigi
               The photo FORME SOSPESE #1 has been selected for the exhibit “nell’Appartamento del collezionista”
2019      IL MIO MONDO, PHOTOFESTIVAL – L’ATELIER di LIA STEIN, Milano
2018      FORME NELLO SPAZIO, FOTOFEVER PARIS 2018  – Parigi
2018       PIANETA TERRA, MIA MILANO – Galleria Spaziofarini6, Milano
2018      PIANETA TERRA, SPAZI DI LUCE, GEOMETRIE CROMATICHE, MATERA MATERICA, STANZA DI GIBELLINA, PHOTOFESTIVAL – Palazzo Sormani, Milano
2018      PIANETA TERRA, MIA PHOTO FAIR MILANO – Galleria Spaziofarini6, Milano
              The photo PIANETA TERRA #3, has been selected by BNL (bank group) for “CURATOR’S GUIDE” 2018
2018       MATERIA DIVINA, PIANETA TERRA – Galleria La Stanza del Vento, Montemarcello, La Spezia
2018      L’ATELIER DI LIA STEIN, INAUGURAZIONE DI INIZIO LAVORI, Milano, Aprile
2017      PIANETA TERRA, FOTOFEVER PARIS, Carrousel du Louvre – Galleria Spaziofarini6, Milano
2017      SPAZI DI LUCE – PALAZZO COMUNALE, Sala Virgilio Carbonari – Seriate (BG)
2017       PIANETA TERRA, WOPART – Lugano
2017      SPAZI DI LUCE e GEOMETRIE CROMATICHE, WOPART – Lugano 
2017      SECOLARI PRESENZE – LA STANZA DEL VENTO, Sculture viventi, Montemarcello (Ameglia, La Spezia)
2017      MILANO PHOTO WEEK – Galleria Spaziofarini6, Milano
2017      URBAN LIGHTS, GEOMETRIE CROMATICHE E SPAZI DI LUCE, MILANO PHOTOFESTIVAL  – Galleria Spaziofarini6, Milano
2017      SPAZI DI LUCE, MIA PHOTO FAIR MILANO – Galleria Spaziofarini6, Milano
2017      GEOMETRIE CROMATICHE – Affordable Art Fair, Superstudio Milano
2017      GEOMETRIE CROMATICHE, AFFORDABLE ART FAIR – Gallery Spaziofarini6, Milano
               The project was mentioned in the magazine Artribune
2017      MATERA MATERICA – INARTE WERKKUNST GALLERY, Berlino
2016      MATERA MATERICA – NOWART INARTE WERKKUNST GALLERY, Bergamo – Padova
2016      SPAZI DI LUCE, FOTOFEVER PARIS, Carrousel du Louvre – Galleria Spaziofarini6, Milano
2016      MATERA MATERICA, MIA PHOTO FAIR, Milano – Galleria Spaziofarini6, Milano
              The photo MATERA MATERICA #2, has been selected by BNL (bank group) for “CURATOR’S GUIDE”
2016      MATERA MATERICA e LUCE RIFLESSA, AFFORDABLE ART FAIR – Galleria Spaziofarini6, Milano
2015       MATERA MATERICA – Il Giardinetto, Milano
2015      MATERA MATERICA – Galleria Spaziofarini6, Milano
2015      MATERA MATERICA, FOTOFEVER PARIS, Carrousel du Louvre – Galleria Spaziofarini6, Milano
2015      MILANO D’ARGENTO, PHOTOFESTIVAL – Showroom Orissa, Milano
2015      MILANO D’ARGENTO e LUCE RIFLESSA EXPO – Showroom Dabbene, Milano
1993      CALENDARI, 9 BEST SELECTION OF 1993 – Galleria Diaframma, Milano
1987      OMAGGIO ALL’ARTE DI GIBELLINA – Palazzo Sormani, Milano
1985      LIA STEIN, DAL REALE AL POSSIBILE – Museo di Milano, Palazzo Morando, Milano
1985      LIA STEIN, FOTOFUSIONI – Galleria Agrifoglio, Milano