Stefano Canto (Rome, 1974) lives and works in Rome. He graduated in Architecture from La Sapienza University in 2003, specializing in Garden Art and Landscape Design. His research investigates the poetics of place and the social implications of the relationship between human beings and architecture. His practice stems from observing the environment as a complex and polysemic reality, composed of elements in continuous dialogue, each carrying its own identity and symbolic value.

 Through sculpture and site-specific installations, Canto works with construction materials - particularly concrete - placing them in relation to natural elements such as water, plants, and trees. The resulting interventions reflect on processes of transformation, sedimentation, and memory, activating a tension between the built and the organic, permanence and mutation.

 He has exhibited at numerous institutions and international events, including La Quadriennale di Roma, the American Academy in Rome, the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, the Dakar Biennale, Museo Macro, Museo Nazionale Romano, and Museo RISO. In 2005 he received the Premio Roma, followed in 2009 by a second prize at Terna 02, presented at MAXXI - National Museum of 21st Century Arts.