Diego Dattola

I am an Italian artist based in Milan,Italy. My work explores the human figure and the loss of identity in the contemporary world. Through portraits and full-body figures, often female, I examine how memory, emotion and external pressures shape the way we see ourselves and others.
Working primarily in oil, I use layered surfaces, blurred forms and directional marks to create figures that seem to shift between presence and disappearance. My paintings invite viewers to reflect on identity, vulnerability and the experience of being seen.

Academy of Fine Arts of Reggio Calabria

2025
- Paratissima Kosmos – Unpredictable, Real Collegio Carlo Alberto, Moncalieri, Turin, Italy, 29 October–2 November.
- Biennale di Messina 2025, Chamber of Commerce, Messina, Italy, 27 September–23 November.
- TRANSITUS (group exhibition), Palazzo Bevilacqua, Curinga, Italy, 30 August–4 September.

2024
- ExpoArte 2024 Messina, Chamber of Commerce and Palazzo Zanca, Messina, Italy, 4 October–3 November.
- Mente Liquida (solo exhibition), Porto Bolaro Shopping Center, Reggio Calabria, Italy, 4 September–23 October.

2021
- Storie di donne (group exhibition), Telesia Museum, San Roberto, Italy, 20 August–2 September.

2019
- Finalist, Premio Arte 2019, Cairo Editore; exhibition at Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy, 21–27 November.

2018–2019
- Herstory is Ourstory, organised by Imago Mundi, Spazi Bomben, Treviso, Italy, 25 November 2018–6 January 2019.

2018
- Il corpo nel mito – alla ricerca delle radici (The Body in Myth – In Search of Our Roots), group exhibition, Titok Galéria, Budapest, Hungary.
- Winner of the Public Jury Prize for Painting, Premio Nazionale d’Arte Città Metropolitana di Reggio Calabria, Aragonese Castle, Reggio Calabria, Italy, 22–29 April.
- Premio Internazionale Lìmen Arte 2017, LIMEN Museum of Art, Vibo Valen...