Image Credit: Sarabande Foundation 

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Giulia Grillo aka Petite Doll is a surrealist artist practising across photography, video and performance. Her work focuses on the fusion of self-portraiture and surrealism, exploring photography in a contemporary context.

She turns familiar situations into extraordinary visual narratives by blending the beautiful with the disturbing.

Petite Doll performing at the V&A museum, 2025 Image Credit: ©Hydar Dewachi

Petite Doll at 229 Lab, Paris, during her Solo Show, 2024

Image Credit: The Untitled Space

Petite Doll at The Untitled Space, NY, during her Solo Show, 2022

Images Credit: Deutsche Welle

Image Credit: In Place of War

Awakening II, Petite Doll x AURORA, Mixed Media, Music Shaped, 2024

  • - The Crab Girl Escaped from the Freak Show, artist performance, V&A Friday Late, V&A Museum, London, 2025

    - Sarabande Foundation, artist residency, London, 2024/2025

    - Delphian Gallery Open Call Winners Exhibition, group show, Unit 1 Gallery Workshop, London, 2025

    - Minor Attractions Fair, Mandrake Hotel, House of Bandits, Frieze week, London, 2025

    - Echo Soho Fair, Artist’s House, House of Bandits, Frieze week, London, 2025

    - The Crab Girl Between Tides, artist performance, Sarabande Foundation, London, 2025

    - Sincerely, group show, Sarabande Foundation, London, 2025

    - House of Bandits x Roof Gardens Pop Up, 2025

    - Photo London 10th Edition, Discovery section, House of Bandits, 2025

    - House of Bandits x Selfridges Pop Up, 2025

    - Petite Doll and the Grotesque Beauty, Solo Show, 229 Lab, Paris, 2024

    - Inspiring Through New Expression, Artist Talk, Host, 299 Lab, Paris, 2024

    - Petite Doll x AURORA, Music Shaped, private fundrasing event hosted by Brian Eno, In Place of War, London, 2024

    - Aesthetica Art Prize Exhibition,York Art Gallery, York, 2024

    - Serendipity, curated by Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, Haven Gallery, NY, 2023

    - ImageNation Paris, International Group exhibition, Paris, 2023

    - Make Art Not War Exhibition, private fundrasing event hosted by Brian Eno, In Place of War, London, 2022

    - Cluster Contemporary Fair, London, 2022

    - Infinity Festival ART+TECH, Hollywood, 2022

    - Giulia Grillo Solo Show, The Untitled Space, New York, 2022

    - REBEL, Group exhibition, The Untitled Space, New York, 2022

    - ImageNation Milan, International Group exhibition, Milan, 2022

    - The Other Art Fair, Summer Edition, London, 2022

    - INNOVATE, Group exhibition, The Untitled Space, New York, 2021

    - Past, Present, Future Perfect, Group exhibition, Turner Contemporary, Margate, 2020

  • -Objects Magazine, Tra il sogno e il grottesco nella fotografia di Petite Doll, 2026

    -DAZED, Art to see this week if you’re not going to Frieze, 2025

    - ArtEvol 2025: Voice from the Undefined, London Art Collective, Shortlisted, 2025

    - The Wick Culture, Spotlight: Giulia Grillo, 2025

    - The Guardian, It’s a knockout! Punchy images from Photo London, 2025

    - BBA Photography Prize 2024, Longlisted

    - Creative Eye, The Royal Photographic Society, Beyond the Expected: When Photography Meets Surrealism, Print Issue + Cover, 2024

    - Tush Magazine, TUSH 54, Print Issue + Cover, 2024

    - Aesthetica Art Prize 2023, Longlisted

    - Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, Petite Doll’s Dreamlike Dimension, exclusive interview, 2023

    - Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize, 1st Prize Winner INPRINT Photography Award, 2023

    - Pretence Magazine, The Surreal World of Petite Doll, Issue 04, Print Issue + Cover, 2023

    - Shondaland, Five Women Empowering New Ways to Escape, 2023

    - Creative Boom, Subverting expectations and solo exhibitions: Petite Doll on the art of the self portrait, 2023

    - Interlocutor Magazine, PETITE DOLL’S alluring grotesqueries, 2022

    - The Untitled Magazine, The REBEL Issue, Print Issue, 2022

    - Euromaxx, The surrealistic world of artist Giulia Grillo, Deutsche Welle Production, 2022

    - Public Offerings Magazine, Giulia Grillo: Grotesque Beauty, Online Feature, 2022

    - 365 Art + Magazine, Case 21 Century/Fire, Print Issue, 2022

    - MOCO ROOF, Modern Contemporary (MOCO) Museum, Issue 01, Print Issue, 2022

    - The Untitled Magazine, The INNOVATE Issue, Print Issue, 2021

    - Aesthetica Magazine, Issue 102, Print Issue, 2021

    - Aesthetica Next Generation Award, 2021, Shortlisted

    - Warriors Within Collective, Volume 3, Print Issue, 2021

    - Visual Atelier 8, Petite Doll Creates Radiant Allusions Of A Surreal Time And Place, 2020

    - Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize, 2020, Shortlisted