Isabella Salvo (b. 1995) is an Italian-American artist based in Berlin.

Her practice exists at the intersection of architecture, computational design, and material research. Working across installation, wall-based assemblage, and computational drawing, she investigates how non-manifold geometries, optical materials, and architectural systems can propose alternative ways of perceiving and inhabiting space.

Digital modeling is an active participant in Salvo's process. Rather than treating the computer as a tool for representation, she uses it as a collaborator in developing new spatial logics before translating them into meticulously handcrafted objects and environments. This dialogue between computation and craft forms a central tension within her practice: highly technical processes are ultimately resolved through manual fabrication, material experimentation, and sustained observation.

Salvo develops perceptual environments in which light, darkness, reflection, and movement continuously transform the experience of space. Underlying these formal investigations is an interest in cultivating a slower mode of attention. By stripping architecture of narrative and reducing experience to subtle shifts in light, darkness, and material, her work invites viewers into a contemplative encounter with space, where perception itself becomes the primary subject

EDUCATION

2018 Rhode Island School of Design — Bachelor of Architecture

(B.Arch), Dual Degree Program

2018 Rhode Island School of Design — Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024 Eigenlicht -- Hilleckes Gallery, Berlin

2019 Gravitas -- Hit Gallery, San Francisco

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025 Fragile Constructs -- Gezwanzig Projects, Vienna

2025 Position+ -- Gezwanzig Projects, Vienna

2024 Unattached -- Hilleckes Gallery, Berlin

2018 Abstract Realities -- Gelman Gallery, Providence

2017 Un-Touchable -- Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, Brown University, Providence

2015 Acts of Resistance -- Woods-Gerry Gallery, Providence

2013 California State Summer School for the Arts Exhibition, Valencia

HONORS

2018 University Honors Scholar, Rhode Island School of Design

2015 Kakehashi Program Scholar, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan

2013 Governor's Medallion, California State Summer

School for the Arts

ARTIST TALKS

2024 Artist Talk, Hilleckes Gallery, Berlin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M__RfVmRaWE

SELECTED PRESS

2024 Leitman, Marissa. Eigenlicht – Isabella Salvo. Kunstleben Berlin.