Nicola Rotiroti was born in 1973 in Catanzaro and lives and works in Rome. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts of Catanzaro, directed by Tony Ferro, attending Luigi Magli’s painting school and Salvatore Brancato’s graphic courses. In 1992, during his academy years, together with a group of young Calabrian artists, he founded the group “Senzà,” recovering debris found on the beaches of the Calabrian coast and transforming them into a series of sculptures placed on the beaches themselves.
In 1998 he moved to Rome. Driven by Rome’s creative vitality, in 2006 he founded “Studio 54,” a laboratory for artistic experiences where artists share their research. Studio 54 still hosts and proposes projects by artists from across the country. In 2014, together with other artists (Paolo Assenza, Arianna Bonamore, and Germano Serafini), he opened “Spazio Y” in Rome, an independent exhibition center for contemporary art in the Roman suburbs, where artistic work is experimented as an intervention in the territory.

In 1996 he won the Critic’s Prize, painting section, at the Fiera del Levante in Bari. The work is currently in the Collection of the Chamber of Commerce of Bari. In 2004 he created Watercolor, a painting cycle based on underwater photographs depicting subjects connected to the artist’s personal life, from friends to family. In 2011 he participated in the 54th Venice Biennale, and in the same year his work Figurati entered the Farnesina Collection of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 2013, his work Untitled was selected for the collection of the Museo Magi 900 in Pieve di Cento. Later, in 2016, he produced the work LO RE, entering Baroque churches in Rome with the aim of capturing the essence of visual ecstasy.