Hellory Ponte

Passionate about oil painting from a very young age, since 1992 studies and works on Japanese "Moku Hanga" printmaking. She masters luxury printmaking techniques, she has held practical demonstrations in Italy and conferences among the most important is IMC 2017 Honolulu and 2021 Nara. Since 2015 she held workshops on traditional Japanese woodcut sponsored by the Italy-Japan Foundation in Rome. Founder of XiLover Academy in Turin for the teaching and dissemination of Moku Hanga, has collaborate with the International School of Turin.
She actually works in Italy and has lived in Sicily, Liguria, Cote d'Azur, Paris and London.

Self taught artist from very youngh age.
Following her move from Sicily to Liguria at the age of 15 she meet the Italian oil painting artist Livio Sebastiani and the Moku Hanga woodcut master Ligustro Giovanni Berio and start with them a practical art school collaborating with artists as it was used in the italian Renaissance.

Her works - paintings and woodcuts - have been exhibited in Italy, Canada, Japan and the United States, in October 2018 the print "Just Me" acquired in the collection of TAMA Art Museum Tokyo. In 2015 she won a prize at AIMPE 2015 Mini Print Biennial in Japan with the print "Cherchez la Femme".
SWE Centenary Exhibition from February 2020 - Bankside Gallery - London - UK
Flutti solo exhibition December 2019/January 2020 - S'Arte sartoria e arte Gallery - Imperia - Italy
Iconic Beauty solo exhibition - November 2019/January 2020 – Gallery delle Donne - Turin - Italy
TAMA Tokyo International Mini-Print Triennial - October/December 2018 - Art Museum Tokyo
Botanik solo exhibition - August 2018 - Barattolo Art Gallery - Imperia - Italy
For Your Eyes Only solo exhibition - March/April 2018- Alembic Art Gallery - Rome - Italy
Being in Art - October 2017 - Together Mansion & art Gallery - Rome - Italy
Beauty of Moku Hanga: Discipline and Sensibility" IMC2017 Hawaii - Aug/Oct 2017 Honolulu - USA
AIMPE - Awagami International Moku Hanga Exhibition Biennal - July/October 2017 - Japan
The art Box Project – Temporary show at Basel Airport - June 2017 - Basel - Switzerland
ImperiArte - October 2016 - Imperia - Italy
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