Mario Santoro Woith

• Name — Mario Santoro – Woith • Born — 23 March 1968 • Birthplace — Havana, Cuba • Education — Sapienza University of Rome • Known for — Photography, printmaking, artist's books • Movement — Experimental photography, xerography, xerox art, fine-art photography, conceptual photography • Website — http: www.santoro-woith.com/

Santoro-Woith studied Visual Anthropology at the University of Rome "La Sapienza" from 1988 to 1993. In 1996, during a Visual sociology seminar held in Viterbo, he met Professor John Grady, who invited him to present his first solo photography exhibition at Wheaton College in Massachusetts. The show was held shortly afterwards at the Wallace Library.

Santoro-Woith and William A. Ewing conceived the Todi Circle after Ewing, then director of the Musée de l'Élysée in Lausanne, visited Todi in 2005 at Santoro-Woith's invitation; the first edition was held in 2012. Twelve international guests — among them curators, collectors, dealers, publishers, photographers and scholars — are invited each year for five days of round-table discussions; the sessions are not recorded and no report is published. By 2024 the Circle had held eleven editions with 135 participants of 35 nationalities, and has been supported by the Fondation Carène, the Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography (FEP) and the MUUS Collection. The thirteenth edition took place from 7 to 13 June 2026 under Santoro-Woith's direction. He also directs the Todi Circle library in Todi, which hosts a public lecture series on photography. Santoro-Woith is president of PHOTODI, a Todi cultural association devoted to photography and the visual arts. In 2021 PHOTODI organised the first Italian solo exhibition of the Swiss landscape photographer Richard de Tscharner, Il canto della Terra, curated by Ewing and shown in three Todi venues from 12 June to 22 August 2021.

• Illustration — The logo of Mario Santoro Woith • 2024 – "Uno scultore e un fotografo" ("A Sculptor and a Photographer"), with Sebastian Schadhauser, Chiesa dei SS. Filippo e Giacomo, Todi Festival, Todi; • 2020 – "Simbo-logia", PHOTODI, Todi; • 2015 – Klaus Urbons Copymuseum / Makroscope / Medienhaus, Mülheim an der Ruhr; • 2015 – Nun Relais e Museum, Assisi; • 2014 – "Senza tregua", Acta International, Rome (curator Francesca Pietracci); • 2014 – Castello di Sismano, Todi; • 2012 – "Archi-Texture", Jadite Gallery, New York; • 2011 – Umbrian Pavilion, Venice Biennale, Palazzo Collicola, Spoleto; • 2006 – "Empire, Decadence, Darkness", Italian Academy at Columbia University, New York; • 2005 – "Heisenberg's Snapshots II", Dazzle Gallery, Tokyo; • 2003 – "The Wizard's House", M.Y. Art Prospects Gallery, New York; • 2002 – "Heisenberg's Snapshots", M.Y. Art Prospects Gallery, New York; • 1999 – Galleria "Il Diaframma", Milan (curator Lanfranco Colombo); • 1998 – Musée de l'Élysée, Lausanne (curator William A. Ewing); • 1996 – Wallace Library, Wheaton College, Massachusetts (curator John Grady).