Claudio Sorrentino

I'm Claudio Sorrentino and I was born in Naples (Italy) where I live and work. My city, with all contaminations and typical influences of various dominations alternated over the years, is like my way of making art: not only technique or an unique style with a recognition value, but experimentation between various media and research. Therefore brightness and liveliness of colors expressed with acrylic painting, oil on canvas/wood, synthetic enamels, but also videos, installations and crayons and pen drawings. I feel the entire Neapolitan and Italian pictorial tradition within me. My second city is Munich where I go occasionally to work and be inspired by the great German and Bavarian culture. I worked for Sol LeWitt foundation, to create "Wall Drawing#1267: Scribbles" at the Fondazione Morra Greco in Naples (Italy). I was the assistant of the artist Thomas Kilpper to realize his project "A lighthouse for Lampedusa" in Naples (Italy), Poznan (Poland) e Lodz (Poland).
My paintings are being sold in Italy and Germany. I’m very happy to be here, facing the whole world and included in Saatchi Art Online Gallery.

2013 - Guest student at Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Münich at Peter Kogler class

Workshop with Daniel Buren.

Master's Degree in New Media Art at the Real Academy of Fine Art in Naples

2011 - Bachelor’s Degree in Painting at the Real Academy of Fine Art in Naples

2017 - Buona Mescolanza, Kapera, Naples. Curated by Idnty.

2016 - Rock! PAN, Palazzo delle Arti di Napoli, Naples. Curated by Carmine Aymone e Michelangelo Iossa.

2015 - Se il dubbio nello spazio è dello spazio, Macro, Rome. Curated by Nemanja Cvijanovic.

2014 - Premio Arte, Palazzo della Permanente, Milan.

Painting Biennale, Baselice (BN). Curated by Enzo Battarra.

2013 - Mediterranean NorthSouth: Mapping Hospitality, Fondazione Merz, Torino. Curated by Francesco Poli, Francesco Bernardelli e Mario Gorni.

2011 - National Art Award, Academy of Fine Art, Naples.


2010 - II Concorso Nazionale Società Umanitaria, Milan. Curated by Gabi Scardi and Roberto Pinto.