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Giovanni Scifo

Agrigento, Sicily, Italy

Giovanni Scifo is a realist figurative painter and illustrator, born in Agrigento in 1978. He began...

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Giovanni Scifo

Joined In 2010

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About the artist

Giovanni Scifo

Joined In 2010

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(331 Followers)

ABOUT
EDUCATION
EXHIBITIONS
RECOGNITION

Giovanni Scifo is a realist figurative painter and illustrator, born in Agrigento in 1978.
He began his studies at the Faculty of Architecture in Palermo and in 1999 he won a scholarship and moved to New York where he graduated in Visual Arts at the “NYFA”.
From 2001 to 2007 he lives in Rome where he works at “Panorama Films” as a storyboard artist and concept artist in various mainstream film productions.
In 2007 he was appointed delegate in charge of "Cisl Arte" for the province of Agrigento.
In 2014, together with other artists, he founded the “Artificio” studio in Agrigento.
In 2015 he followed classical painting studies in Amsterdam and the prestigious Dutch art magazine "Palet" dedicated an article on his work.
In 2016 he perfected his knowledge in the field of classical pictorial disciplines and in the drawing of the figure and portrait at the "Russian Academy of Art" in Florence, studying with some of the most important drawing teachers of the Imperial "Repin" Academy in St. Petersburg. .
He has created several pictorial works for prestigious clients and institutional bodies, some of these: "The Seven Works of Mercy", for the Caritas Diocesana of Agrigento (inaugurated on the occasion of the 2015 Jubilee), and the pa...

Russian Academy of Art in Florence nude portrait workshop 2015

2014 Portrait workshop in Amsterdam with Professor Sergey Chubirko

New York Film Academy degree 1999

Faculty of Architecture, University of Palermo until 1998

Scientific High school degree 1996.

Exhibition: "Voices" galleria DadArte Florence Italy, 6 -16 2023
a collective international exhibition with artists ex students of Russian Academy of Arts in Florence with professor Sergey Chubirko

Some Award:

Jazz Art Award, Castello di Chiaramonte, Favara 2008;
"White Night Award" Collettiva Giovani Artisti. Agrigento 2010;
Telamone Award 2010
Lucian Grigorescu 2010 Medgidia (Giovanni represented Italy in 2010, at the 'Art Camp Medgidia in Romania, in the project of European cultural interchange "Lucian Grigorescu". Some works of Giovanni Scifo are part of the permanent exhibition of the 'Hospital and the municipality of Medgidia, Romania.)

Telamone 2011 Award "the colors of the peace"

Galerie Oberkampf, Paris 2012 "L'inquiétante Etrangeté" Group show of drawings

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