Fabrizio Ruggiero
Visitors at The Transformative Power of Art exhibition, United Nations Headquarters, New York

Portrait Archives

Effigies · Civic Memory · Public Image

The Portrait Archives gathers a body of fresco portraits dedicated to figures whose lives have contributed to shaping the moral and cultural imagination of our time.

Executed in fresco — a technique historically associated with public space and collective memory — these portraits engage with the long tradition of civic imagery while re-examining the role of representation in contemporary culture.

Maya Angelou portrait by Fabrizio Ruggiero
Maya Angelou — fresco portrait
Wole Soyinka portrait by Fabrizio Ruggiero
Wole Soyinka — fresco portrait
Joan Baez portrait by Fabrizio Ruggiero
Joan Baez — fresco portrait
Edgar Morin portrait by Fabrizio Ruggiero
Edgar Morin — fresco portrait