Maria Costanza Alvarez De Castro

Costanza Alvarez de Castro was born in Rome in 1989, the daughter of an Italian father and a mother from El Salvador. After completing her Baccalaureate from a French school, she studied Economics for International Cooperation and Development at University of Rome (La Sapienza), where she graduated in 2010. Costanza discovered that her studies left her thoroughly unfulfilled, and soon decided to pursue her true passions – painting and dance. Soon after, Costanza started working in Scenography both for Cinema and Theatre. In particular, in 2011 she worked as Production Designer Assistant to Jean Rabasse in the movie You and Me, directed by the famed director Bernardo Bertolucci. The encounter with Jean was extremely important for Costanza; in 2012 she was admitted to the Institut Superieur de Peinture Van Der Kelen et Logelain in Brussels achieving excellent results. In 2013 she worked at the Opera Theatre in Rome dedicating herself with passion to the learning of background painting technique. This experience allowed her to acquire new painting tecniques and skills, and exposed her to very big formats. Subsequently, She decided to focus exclusively on painting on canvas, where she feels free to combine her technical capabilities wi...

PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS
2017 - Giorno di Festa | Spazio Meneza, Via Montoro 3 - Roma, Italia
2016 - Natura in Scena a cura di Giovanni Argan | Spazio makemake - spazio e arte - Via del Boschetto 121, 00184, Roma, Italia
2015 - Ritratti a cura di Valentina Moncada | Spazio Cerere - Via degliAusoni 3, 00185, Roma, Italia

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016 - Sumarte 2016, Subasta de arte | MARTE Museo de arte El Salvador - San Salvador, El Salvador
2016 - Francesco da Paola nel seicentenario della nascita a cura di Roberto Bilotti | Palazzo della Prefettura, Cosenza, Italia
2015 - Sumarte 2015, Subasta de arte | MARTE Museo de arte El Salvador - San Salvador, El Salvador

SPECIAL EVENTS
2017 - a painting for Marguerite | Via degli Orti d'Alibert - Roma, Italia
2016 - Costanza per Telethon - BNL Gruppo BNP Paribas | Via Flaminia 411, Roma, Italia
2016 - Opere in mostra | Via dei Gracchi 122, Roma, Italia

COMPETITIONS
2016 - Sumarte 2016, Subasta de arte | MARTE Museo de arte El Salvador - San Salvador, El Salvador
2016 - BP Portrait Award 2016 | National Portrait Gallery - Londra
2015 - Sumarte 2015, Subasta de arte | MARTE Museo de arte El Salvador - San Salvador, El Salvador