Gianluca Folì is an award-winning italian illustrator who lives and works in Rome. He likes pizza but doesn't play the mandolin.
In more than 20-years of his career, Gianluca has pursued a path of study, of gaze, of search for his own intimate vocabulary. He explores the connection with things, visually referencing the objective correlative in the poetry of Thomas Eliot and Eugenio Montale which clearly represents emotions through things and the breaking of the boredom of everyday life.

Gianluca's images stem from this narrative, transformed into shapes and colours by an alchemical process, with elegant momentum and modulation of the visual. The creative force of his images is balanced by a tightrope walking technique, in a happy and magical balance between drawing and color, between reality and the surreal. The arrival at a more direct code, made of synthesis and simplification, suggesting and evoking rather than simply representing.

Clients include: Epson, Plansponsor, GoDaddy, Feltrinelli Editore, Lonely Planet, Gambero Rosso, Mondadori, Fendi, Taschen, Les Echos, Il Foglio Review, Il Corriere della Sera,
Food & Wine, Giorgetti Group, Il Sole 24 Ore, Jacobin Italia, Suzuki Italia, Boston Globe, The Wall Street Journal, L’Espresso, Rizzoli Lizard, Vinitaly, Harley-Davidson, Red Bull, GQ, Alfa Romeo.

AWARDS & HONOURS
2024
The Society of Illustrators L.A. 62nd
Bronze Medal in Editorial Category

2024
Communication Arts
Illustration Shortlist

2023
Best Illustrator 2023
Artribune

2023
The Society of Illustrators N.Y. 66rd
Selected  in Editorial and Institutional Series Category

2023
Creative Quarterly 71st
Selected  Winner

2022
The Society of Illustrators N.Y. 65rd
Selected  in Editorial and Institutional Series Category

2022
Graphic Design Annaul N.Y
Honorable Mention

2022
Creative Quarterly 68th
Selected Winner
2022
Creative Quarterly
Top 100 Illustration of the Year

2021
3x3 Show No.18
Merit Winner

2021
Creative Quarterly 66th
Selected Winner

2021
Creative Quarterly
Top 25 Illustration of the Year

2021
The Society of Illustrators N.Y. 64th
Selected  in Books and Editorial Series Category

2021
ComArts Award of Excellence 62nd
Award Winner

2021
ADCI Awards
Bronze Winner in Design Category

2021
ADC 100th Awards
Selected in Brand/Communication Design

2021
The Society of Illustrators N.Y. 63rd
Selected  in Institutional and Books Category

2021
Creative Quarterly 62nd
Selected Winner

2019
Premio Illustri
Finalist and Selected

2018
Premio Illustri
Selected

2015
The Society of Illustrators N.Y. 57th
Gold Medal in Books Category

2012
The Society of Illustrators L.A. 50th
Silver Medal in Books Category

2014
The Society of Illustrators L.A. 53rd
Selected in Books Category

2012
The Society of Illustrators L.A. 50th
Silver Medal in Books Category

2011
Creative Quarterly 37th
Selected Winner

2008
Applied Arts Annual 118th
Selected Winner