Joann Biondi is the creator of Lorenzo the Cat, a pop culture figure and internet sensation based on her photographs of a real cat wearing real clothes in real settings.



Feature stories about her feline art photography have appeared in over 50 major media outlets throughout the world including: the Associated Press, USA Today, Miami Herald, Chicago Tribune, Seattle Times, Baltimore Sun, New York Daily News, Boston Globe, Seattle Times, Palm Beach Post, ABC News, CBS Sunday Morning, Univision, MSNBC, Huffington Post, YAHOO! News, China Daily News, and The Times of India,



In 2014 her work was part of Cat Art Show Los Angeles, a major exhibition that represented one of the largest showings of contemporary feline art in the world. She has had group and solo gallery exhibits in Massachusetts and Florida, and has had her work displayed in the Cornell Museum of Art and the Coral Gables Museum. Also, a print of Lorenzo is on exhibit in the Permanent Collection of the Feline Historical Museum in Alliance, Ohio.



Simple yet strange, Biondi’s photos challenge preconceived notions of what a cat will or will not do. They lie outside the grid of convention, and deliver a new perspective on the cliché of cats being stubborn and aloof. It is the juxtaposition of human clothing on a cat’s body that renders them startling, and at the same time, enchanting, intriguing, and compelling. A testament to the inherent beauty in the feline form, they spark the imagination, force us to smile, and speak to the bond among all sentient beings. And they are thump on the head to anyone who believes that animals don’t have souls.