Chiara De Zan

Chiara De Zan develops an artistic practice that intertwines painting, collage and digital media in a coherent and radically contemporary vision. Her work is based on the interaction between matter and sign, where each fragment – of paper, fabric or pixel – becomes part of a layered and tactile visual narrative.

Through a conscious use of mixed media, De Zan builds dense surfaces, animated by lively textures and calibrated gestures. Her compositions are distinguished by a subtle balance between randomness and control, where imperfection is an integral part of the visual language. The digital intervention, never invasive, integrates as a conceptual extension of the manual gesture, generating a dynamic tension between analog and artificial.

The artist addresses the theme of disintegration as an aesthetic and conceptual process: what is fragmented is never lost, but is recomposed in new forms of meaning. Her works evoke a diffuse, silent memory, constructed through superimpositions, erasures, transparencies and chromatic glazes.

Chiara De Zan fits into the research line of an art sensitive to matter, transformation and the limit between image and object. Her works are places of observation, silence and perception, in which the sur...

2001–2006
Diploma in Advertising Graphic Arts and Photography
Istituto Statale D'arte – Italy
2007–2024 (continuous and advanced training)
Independent and interdisciplinary path, with over 100 courses completed via international platforms, academies, and online universities (MOOCs).
Completed professional masterclasses and specialized training in:
– Contemporary painting and mixed media techniques
– Experimental collage and fine art photography
– Digital art and AI-based visual creation
– Chromotherapy and color perception in art
– Art, disability, and inclusive practices