My name is izn, and I’m a contemporary artist working with needle, thread, and memory.
Since 2018, embroidery has become my language — not in the traditional sense, but as a free, intimate, instinctive gesture. In recent years I’ve been exhibiting my works in international shows, but my practice has deeper roots: in family fabrics, in fragments of daily life, in the traces time leaves on objects.

Alongside my contemporary art practice, I create small series of handmade, one-of-a-kind pieces born from the same process — slow, mindful, and full of meaning. They are fragments of a personal language, tangible expressions of my way of inhabiting the world.
Each object you find here is part of my path, my identity. What I make carries the time of care and a certain density of meaning — made of matter, history, and intuition.
They are meant for those who seek authenticity, for those who wish to own not just something “handmade” in a generic sense, but something intimately lived and transformed.

Welcome to my visible workshop.

Izn (Sonia Piscicelli) was born in Naples in 1968 and graduated as a Graphic Designer from IED Rome in 1994.

She worked in various graphic design studios in Rome before beginning a freelance career (under the name Interzona), focusing mainly on artistic projects, web design, photography, and painting, while also creating stage sets and experimental works.

Her training includes oil painting, ceramic modeling and the Raku technique, large-format photographic collage, and assemblage art, before finally embracing contemporary embroidery art in 2018.

ṬILISMĀN
2025
Curated by Barbara Pavan
SCD Studio Gallery, Perugia
International group exhibition
Catalogue

RADICI, METAMORFOSI, MESCOLANZE
2024
International Biennial of Contemporary Fiber Art
Curated by Barbara Pavan
MuRTAC Museum of Ancient and Contemporary Embroidery and Textiles, Valtopina (PG)
International group exhibition
With the patronage of: Region of Umbria, Province of Perugia, Municipality of Valtopina, CEDRAV, Umbria Ecomusei, CCIAA Perugia, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Foligno, UNESCO Club Foligno and Fonti del Clitunno ODV
Catalogue

VERBA CREANT
2024
Curated by Barbara Pavan
Municipal Library Padre Ernesto Balducci, Barberino di Mugello (FI)
International exhibition promoted by SCD Studio for The Europe Challenge, European Cultural Foundation, The Hague
Catalogue

ANIMALS
2024
Curated by MonnaLisa Salvati
La Dama di Capestrano, Capestrano (L’Aquila)
Group exhibition, digital catalog
Catalogue

LOGOS 
2024
Curated by Barbara Pavan
SCD Studio Gallery, Perugia
International group exhibition
Works in catalogue

DIALOGARE IL TEMPO
2023
Curated by MonnaLisa Salvati
Centro Letture Huck Finn, San Giuseppe Ves.no, NA
Online talk/conference on “Literature and Fiber Art”
Selected artist

APPUNTI SU QUESTO TEMPO
2023
Curated by Barbara Pavan
CasermArcheologica, Sansepolcro (Arezzo)
International group exhibition

XS PROJECT II
2023
Gina Morandini Contemporary Textile Art Gallery, Maniago (Pordenone)
International group exhibition promoted by ArteMorbida Textile Arts Magazine
Selected work, digital catalogue
Digital catalogue

UNCLASSIFIABLE
2023
Curated by ArtOut Contemporary Artground
Sala delle Pietre, Todi
International group exhibition
With the patronage of: Municipality of Todi, Todi Festival
Digital catalogue

NATURALES QUAESTIONES – LA CURA
2023
Curated by Barbara Pavan
Sorgenti dell’Acqua Salata, Bobbio (Piacenza)
Project of contemporary art installations and artist talks
With the patronage of: Municipality of Bobbio, Lions Club, Touring Club Italiano

XS PROJECT
2023
Studio B49, Roma
International group exhibition promoted by ArteMorbida Textile Arts Magazine

POPARTY
2006
Villa Palazzetti, Roma
Group exhibition

INTRUDERS
2003
Curated by Riccardo Znidarcic
Private collector’s spaces, Rome
Group exhibition

STATES OF BODY AND MIND
2003
Curated by Enrico Formica
Perform Contemporary Art Gallery, La Spezia
Group exhibition

Izn (Sonia Piscicelli) was born in Naples in 1968 and graduated in 1994 as a Graphic Designer from the IED – Istituto Europeo di Design in Rome.

She worked in various design studios in Rome before starting her freelance career under the name Interzona, mainly in the artistic field, focusing on web design, photography, and painting, while also creating stage designs and several experimental projects.

Her training includes oil painting, ceramic modeling and Raku firing, large-format photographic collage, assemblage art, and the creation of collage art books — all leading to her definitive shift toward contemporary embroidery art in 2018.

• In October 2003, she took part in the group exhibition Intruders in Rome, curated by Riccardo Znidarcic, held in the private space of a well-known collector of historical artists, together with Lidia Bachis, Barbara Barbantini, Matteo Bosi, and Marina Brasili, and in States of body and mind, at the Perform Contemporary Art Gallery in Via del Torretto, La Spezia, curated by Enrico Formica, alongside Luca D’Altri and Monika Grycko. The latter exhibition was restaged in La Spezia in November of the same year;
• In July 2006, she participated in the group show PopArty at Villa Palazzetti in Rome (Via de’ Cessati Spiriti);
• From January to May 2023, she took part in the international group exhibition Appunti su questo tempo, at CasermArcheologica in Sansepolcro (Arezzo);
• In April of the same year, one of her works was selected for Xs Project II, an international collective exhibition at the Gina Morandini Contemporary Textile Art Gallery in Maniago (Pordenone);
• From July to September, she exhibited in the international group show Unclassifiable, at Artout Contemporary Artground in Todi (Perugia);
• In September 2023, she participated in Naturales Quaestiones. La cura, contemporary art installations and artist encounters in Bobbio (Piacenza);
• In December of the same year, she took part in Xs Project Roma, an international collective exhibition at Studio B49 in Rome;
• In February 2024, one of her works was selected for the group exhibition Animals, at La Dama di Capestrano in Capestrano (L’Aquila);
• That same month, she participated with another work in the international collective Logos, at SCD STUDIO in Perugia;
• In June 2024, she was selected for the international contemporary art exhibition Verba Creant, at the Ernesto Balducci Library in Barberino di Mugello (Florence);
• Also in 2024, from September to December, one of her installations was shown in the international collective exhibition Radici, Metamorfosi, Mescolanze as part of the Biennale of Contemporary Fiber Art, held at the Museum of Embroidery and Textile Art in Valtopina (Perugia)