Marco De Mirto

Marco De Mirto was born in San Cesario di Lecce in 1979. In 1998 he graduated from the "Giuseppe Pellegrino" Art Institute in Lecce. He moved to Rome for a short period, to study Caravaggio and the Caravaggeschi in particular Jusepe De Ribera.

Art Institute Lecce 1998

Mistico Pagano, Personal painting, Fondazione Palmieri, Lecce, with the patronage of the University of Salento, curated by R. De Giorgi (April 2016); The convex mirror. The naturalism of Marco De Mirto, personal painting exhibition at the Sant'Anna Conservatory, Lecce, with the patronage of the municipality of Lecce, curated by L. Galante (July 2016); The fertile art of the south. Lyrical color in the forms of the works of ten artists from Salento, collective, Louvre Museum-Decorative Arts, Paris, September 2017; Contemporary Italian masters and colonial art, collective, Carstens Gallery, Boca Raton (US-FL), October 2017