Federica Armstrong is a visual artist born in Italy and currently living in Palo Alto, California.

Her storytelling practice includes documentary and fine art works focused on environmental issues as well as personal narratives related to intimacy and belonging. Armstrong works with analog, digital as well as alternative processes.

With a background on photojournalism and documentary reportage, Armstrong has worked on social and environmental stories. Her project 'In Plain Site' explores the superfund sites located in Silicon Valley, the toxic sites vestige of microchips and semiconductor manufacturing era. Photographed with medium format film camera, the eerie images convey the stark reality of ubiquitous suburban locations of offices and strip malls still subject to decontamination. The project was featured on The New York Time's Lens blog as well as the exhibit 'Devour the Land' held at the Harvard Art Museum in 2021.

 Since the pandemic Armstrong has explored alternative processes, pursuing a more tactile and intimate approach to image making.

In her latest project, 'The Dowry', images from her family photo archive are transferred to vintage textiles through cyanotype process and toning, bringing back to life the intimate nature of the images.

Her creative process continues to evolve including textiles and alternative processes that ground her practice and expand her photographic vision into the physical and tactile.

Her work has been exhibited in numerous venues in the US and Europe including the de Young Museum in San Francisco,The Griffin Museum in Boston, the North Carolina Museum of Art, the Rotlicht Festival in Vienna Austria, among others.

Armstrong images are part of the Harvard Art Colletions and have been featured in numerous publications, she was a 2022 Critical Mass Finalist.