Luca Motolese 19.10.1974 Turin, graduated as an advertising graphic designer at the Albe Steiner school in Turin. He attended the Multidams (multimedia and disciplines of art, music and performance) in Turin and the Université Stendhal in Grenoble, France.
In 1999 he founded Engine Motore creativo. He worked as Art Director and designer at Engine and other Italian and foreign agencies until 2008. In 2008 he founded Bottega indaco with Ciro Palumbo in Turin. In 2009 he founded the Atelier d’arte Zakamoto.
From 2007 to 2025, through Zakamoto’s heteronyms, he worked on a series of artistic projects documented through exhibitions in Italy and abroad. In 2015 he won the international B.ART prize, Turin’s international public art call.
In 2016 he won, together with Ciro Palumbo and Alessandra Carloni, the Fondazione esperienze di cultura metropolitana prize, Ecomuseo del Freidano in Turin.
In 2018 he won the 24th Satura Arte national contemporary art competition in Genoa.
In 2019 he won the 25th Satura Arte national contemporary art competition in Genoa.
Art critics and cultural figures have dealt with Motolese’s work on several occasions, including: Marcella Magaletti, Daniele, Isabella, Luca Atzori, Edoardo Di Mauro, Massimiliano Sabbion, Paolo Levi, Stefania Bison, Vincenzo Dalle Luche, Laura Colombini, Francesca Bogliolo, Elisa Basso, Fabio Carnaghi, Carlo Gavazzi, Nicola Davide Angerame, Rosanna Dell'utri.
Motolese’s artistic work has appeared in newspapers and magazines, on book covers, on television, in cinema and other media.
In 2023 he founded LMC1 - Online project consultancy.
In 2024 he published the book Umano Disumano with the publisher NullaDie. In 2024 he founded the association Made in Sansa, of which he is president. In 2024 he became a partner of ArtUp srl.
In 2025 he published the second volume of the book Umano Disumano with the publisher NullaDie.

Zakamoto was born much loved.
He keeps a friend, imagined, unproved,
who carries out deeds of great renown,
called Luca Motolese, talk of the town.
He paints and invents frivolous stuff,
on the beach with wine and mussels enough.
He reads a great deal and writes very little,
he’ll die before or after — life is brittle.