Simona Nara

Fine Arts and Manga Technique teacher currently located in Treviso (Italy), ex comics and children's books illustrator now experimenting paint on canvas.
She is inspired by Art Nouveau, Big Eyes art, Japanese Superflat and Manga Techniques. 
It lead to a research of a new personal style, while fighting with more academical environments that have a different idea of beauty, especially if "too popular".
She honesty think that art and culture should be exoteric, so suitable for most people and with an aggregating purpose, opposed to esoteric, designed for few belonging to a close circle.
As a great fan of the so called consolatory art, she hopes the viewers feel pleased and get the spark of joy she feels while painting.

She had to fight all her life to make art, because she her family disapproved and then she had to work full time in different fields. But now she feels she was able to accomplish so much and, at the same time, never enough!

She went into fine arts and illustration after her BA in Arts, Music and Entertainment at Alma Mater University of Bologna, so, starting again from a fine arts specialized high school diploma, she decided to take summer Manga courses at Yoyogi Animation School of Tokyo and then got her Fine Arts and Technical Design teaching license at Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia (in Venice).

The complete list:

• Dicembre 2014 – Luglio 2015 PAS ovvero specializzazione per di Materie Artistiche e Disegno Tecnico alle medie e Superiori presso L’accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia.

• Novembre 2013 – Luglio 2014 TFA, ovvero specializzazione per l’insegnamento di Materie Artistiche e Disegno Tecnico alle medie e Superiori presso L’accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia.

• “Manga in Giappone” settembre 2010, corso di perfezionamento tenuto dal docente Kurita presso la prestigiosa Yoyogi Animation Gakuin di Tokyo.
• Luglio 2012 Diploma di Liceo Artistico conseguito al Liceo Statale Serale Santa Caterina di Treviso con votazione di 100/100.

• Marzo 2009 Laurea in Cinema, Televisione e Produzioni Multimediali, Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia dell’Università Statale di Bologna con votazione di 110/110 L.
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• “Irregolart”
Collective art exhibition held in prestigious location of Villa Guidini of Zero Branco (TV), Italy
April 6 - May 10 2024

• “Incipit”
Collective exhibition organized by art center Labdeau’s alumni and held at Spazio 5 Gallery, in the suggestive area of Pescheria Island in the center of Treviso, Italy.
1 – 5 February 2024

• Bologna Children’s Book Fair Illustrators’ Wall 2023
Collective exhibition for Bologna Children’s Book Fair, Bologna, Italy
6 – 9 March 2023

• “War”
Collective exhibition held at San Donà di Piave Comics Convention, Venice, Italy
8 - 9 October 2022

• Bologna Children’s Book Fair Illustrators’ Wall 2022
Collective exhibition for Bologna Children’s Book Fair, Bologna, Italy
21-24 March 2022

• “Disability and Sensuality in Advertisement”
Collective art exhibition organized by Sensuability and held at Casa del Cinema, Rome, Italy
14 February 2022 -14 March 2022

• “The Luchadoras: Lucha alla città”
Collective art exhibition to support Lucha y Siesta, Shelter for women.
held at Largo Spartaco Open Air Museum, Rome, Italy
November 2019

• “Cyrcus”
Collective exhibition organized by Granadilla Lab and held at Nautilus Club in Milan, Italy
4 March 2019

• “Isao Takahata’s Tribute Exhibition”
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