Mariaceleste Arena

Mariaceleste Arena lives and works in Sicily. She mainly painting and drawing fantastic and surreal subjects, combining traditional and digital techniques and mainly inspired by fantastic animals and the outsider art.

She had exhibited and published in national and international exhibitions and art magazines.

Bachelor's degree earned on September 27th 2023 at the Academy of Fine Arts of Reggio Calabria in Painting course, with score of 107/110

2025

Participation in the Peru Art Collectors Fair exhibition, held from 25th to 28th November at the Centro Cultural Mansión Eiffel, Lima, Perù

Participation in the art collective The Impossibles, curated by the Lumen Art Gallery held at the “Arya Kamali” International Culture and Arts Centre from 11 to 18th October 2025, Izmir (Turkey)

Participation in the Intercontinental Bienal 2025 exhibition, Museo Nacional de la Republica and Centro Cultural Tres Poderes (Brazil) from 4th to 12th July, 2025

Participation as finalist in the Art Collide's Fall 2025 “Winter Open Theme" Award with the artwork Primitive Sicily I

2024

Participation to the fifth edition of the art event Glitch Art Br 2024, held in Brasil from 1st to 23rd December, 2024

Participation in the virtual collective exhibition Inktober, curated by the Artwork Gallery and Magazine

Participation to the first edition of Biennale di Sondrio (Sondrio’s Art Biennal, happened in Palazzo Muzio, from 4th to 13rd October 2024

Participation in the virtual exhibition Love curated by the Barbagelata Contemporary Art Foundation with a dedicated interview from July 26th to August 8th 2024
2023

Participation in the collective exhibition Text-ure 2023 held to the CICA Museum (Czo...