Alessandra Pagliuca

Alessandra Pagliuca was born in 1988 in Chivasso (Turin, Italy); she moved to Lucca in 2017, and later to Camaiore, where she currently lives and works. She graduated from an art high school and decided to devote herself to painting and self-taught artistic experimentation.
Her "debut" took place in 2012, when she exhibited her first personal collection of artworks based on hyper-realistic research and study of faces and human expressions.
She has exhibited in several fairs and galleries, in Italy and abroad, and participated in different competitions that have seen her as a finalist on several occasions; she was the winner of the award announced by Elio Fiorucci in 2014 and Marchionni Prize in 2019, and a finalist in the Michelangelo Buonarroti Prize. Some of the main cities that hosted her artworks are Florence, Turin, Venice, London, Montecarlo and Laguna Beach, California.

Her work is based not only on personal and collective exhibitions, but also on commissioned artworks for private clients and public companies.

"Research in figurative and realism has always been my prerogative. I have often tried to" break "the classical canons and turn towards something more conceptual, but I came to the conclusion that the best way to c...

2023 - Workshop with Eloy Morales
October 2023, Madrid (ES)

2023 - Individual session with Giovanni Strino
February 2023, Pozzuoli (IT)

2003 / 2008 - Liceo Artistico Piero Martinetti
Diploma, Caluso - Torino (IT)

Solo Exhibitions

2024 - TRE ARTISTE (Camaiore, IT) Fondo Cervelli
2019 - FRAGMENTS (Lucca, IT) Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Banca del Monte Foundation
2018 - ONLINE EXHIBITION (IT) Venderequadri.it
2012 - LOOKS (Chivasso, IT) Santa Chiara Palace
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Group exhibitions

2024 - QUI, DOVE TU VIVI (Casoli - Camaiore, IT), Murabito Museum
2022 - ART GENOA 2022 (Genoa, IT), Satura art gallery, Genoa exhibition center
2020 - ALCHEMIC BODY (London, UK) Itsliquid Group, The Line Gallery
2018 - MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI AWARD, Villa Bertelli (Forte dei Marmi, IT)
2018 - ARTROOMS (London, UK), Melia White House Hotel
2017 - DeNudo (Florence, IT), OnArt Gallery
2015 - PARALLAX ART FAIR (London, UK), Chelsea Town Hall
2015 - WOMEN IN ART (Laguna Beach, USA), Las Laguna Gallery
2014 - KEEP ART & DREAM (Rome, IT) Cloister of San Cosimato
2013 - PARATISSIMA 9 (Turin, IT) Paratissima Art Fair