Bianca De Maio

Bianca De Maio is an italian visual artist born in Naples.
She is a self-taught artist and from a very young age she became interested in drawing and painting, while she attended high school to become a teacher, and studied pedagogy and philosophy, she continuously practiced drawing and oil painting.
In 1995 she made her first solo show in the Viviani Park in Via Girolamo Santacroce in Naples.
She began to sell paintings on commission and, after graduating, she began working in her first studio in Naples in 2014, mainly as a portraitist, alternating his artistic practice with teaching art history.
For some years she has been devoting most of her time to artistic practice, and in 2018 she moved to London, where he currently works and lives.
In her work she always tries to emphasise the qualities of the materials and their expressive potential and she usually starts to work by observing the natural world,
with a realistic approach that also feeds on personal imagination, and her visual vocabulary inspired by the surrounding world.

Degree in History of Art, Naples, Italy

March 2021 Shortlisted for Visual Art Open, UK and
International Emerging Artist Awards
August 2021 selected for International Michelangelo prize,
curated by Vittorio Sgarbi, Italy

Group exibitions
1 July – 27 August 2021,. Qube Art Competition, online
exibition
December 2016, The Artbox Project Miami 1.0. Guisan
Strasse 8, 6303, Zurich, Switzerland.
25 May – 25 June, “Maggio d'Arte”. Palazzo Tocco di
Montemiletto, Via Toledo, Naples, Italy.
21 – 30 April 2012, “all'orizzonte”, Castel dell’Ovo,
Naples, Italy.
17 -30 March 2012 “più falso del vero”, group exibition,
Castel Nuovo, Naples, Italy.
17 – 30 March 2012, “I colori dell'anima”, Chiesa di
Santa Maria delle Periclitant, Naples
SOLO EXHIBITION

Solo show
25 September - 31 December 2015, Dedalo Studio, Vico
Medici n. 9, Materdei, Naples, Italy
02 - 22 December 1999, Parco Viviani, Via Girolamo
Santacroce, Naples, Italy