Olivia Pegoraro

Engraver, freelance. My works since 1992 have been exhibited in many Italian cities and abroad and acquired from museums, public and private collections in: Sofia, Madrid, Chamalieres, Porto, Douro, Bitola, Tarragona, Valencia, Bucharest, Paris, Cologne, Nassau , Bonn, Diez, Weissenthurm, Kobern-Gondorf, Hunibach, Providencia-Santiago de Chile, Barcelona, Buenos Aires, Guanlan-Shenzen, Tokyo, Nagasaki, Amsterdam,Yokohama, Utrecht,Linked in Nyc - Women of the World", ​​New York.


I was born in 1975 and grew up in Piovene Rocchette, a small town in the province of Vicenza, in Veneto-Italy, known for the Rossi wool mill, in a family where artistic stimuli were not lacking. At the age of 11, during a vacation in Florence, I was enchanted by Michelangelo's David and I realized that art would always be part of my life. In my artistic training I was particularly influenced by Renaissance drawing and Expressionism and when, at 21, in the 3rd year of the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice, I met engraving, I fell in love with it and I realized that it would be it was my path, my job.
So, even if I continue to paint, the engraving on zinc and methacrylate and the subsequent printing on paper have become my life. At the age of 25, after finis...

Accademy of Fine Arts of Venice - Italy. Thesis in engraving techniques.
Short techical specialization H.Goetz at the Atelier Aperto in Venice.
Biennial Specialization of printmaking at the Il Bisonte Fondation, Gallery and International school of Florence- Italy.

Among the personal exhibitions, we remember:

2024. Piove di Sacco (PD)."Beyond the image" XX Molin Prize.
2022-2023 Schio(VI), Il Leoncino. "Dialogues between faces and nature"
2019 Soncino (CR), Press Museum- House of printmaking. "Tra chiaro e scuro". Edited by G.Cavalli and M.Gobbato.
2018 Poppi (AR), “Luci e ombre” Cultural Circle “ Le stanze”. Edited by G.Giovannetti.
2016 Este (PD), “ 20 anni di incisione: volti, figure e paesaggi interiori", The Medusa Gallery – Cloister of San Francesco. Edited by D.Piazza.
2015 Thiene (VI), "Opere incise 1996-2015", Modern Art Gallery. Edited by R.Ceccotti e D.Piazza.
2014 Urbino, “Non solo sguardi” Federico Barocci Gallery – Raphael College. Edited by V.Angelini. 2009 Bassano del Grappa (VI).“Verso il visibile”- Little Church of the Angel. Edited by F.Casagranda and G.Quaresimin.
2008-2007 Soncino (CR), “Il segno e l’emozione” Press Museum. Edited by G.Trentin, R.Ceccotti, L.Bassignana, G. Quaresimin and C.Giacomello. 2004 Firenze, “Olivia Pegoraro-incisioni” Il Bisonte Gallery. Edited by G.Trentin.
2004 Bassano del Grappa (VI), “Olivia Pegoraro” Incontri Scrimin Gallery. Edited by G.Trentin and G.Quaresimin.

Among the c...