Grazia Imperio

My life is a puzzle of colors, sounds and smells that’s growing and taking shape through my wandering all over the world.
Born in Italy in 1970 in a small city of the north surrounded by mountains and a middle European culture, I spent more than half of my life around the globe learning new way of life, of thinking and of interacting.
My eyes got used to see and watch more and more faraway.
Pakistan, Bangladesh, Albania, Uganda, Colombia, Niger, Brazil, Switzerland and New York, different part of the world where I spent part of my life, I built my experience and my background and I planted the seeds of my future art work.
From 2009 to present time: New York
A huge never-ending firework is crackling on this universal city where nothing stops. City-island, city-ship, city-fortress, New York with its amazing energy and intensity has welcome me from the very beginning pushing me to find my way and to open the dam of my inner life.
A shine rainbow of colors, diversity and feeling is guiding me in my artwork, my favorite media is the ink, because of its power of color, its intensity and its immediacy …just like this inimitable city.
The sculpture has been and is another step on the route of my discovery and I see the colored tor...

My cultural background are classical studies
and psychology because my focus is the comprehension of the human nature.
My artistic background
I learned woodcut with the teacher Sylvio Carneiro in Brazil, watercolor with the teacher Minnie Sardinha
Here in New York I studied at the Art Student League. watercolor with the teacher Naomi Campbell, drawing and composition with the teacher Bob Cenedella and sculpture with Jonathan Shann and Arslan


Being part of the different world where I lived has always been one of my priority.
Understanding to be understood and accept the diversity to be accepted is my goal, that’s way I learned and now I speak several languages: Italian, my mother tong, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese and a “childish” knowledge of German, language of my early childhood.
Art is a kind of language, a way of expressing myself in my deepest essence. As every other language, to get fluent in it you need many, many hours of listening, observing and absorbing, all attitudes that I should never lose if I want to pursue a truth and empathic expression.

2012
Exhibition “biennale dell’acquarello e del disegno”, Castello di Levizzano (Modena)- Italy

Solo exhibition in Lazise (Verona)- Italy
Solo exhibition in Rovereto (Trento) – Italy
2012 January Collective exhibition in NY Art Student League
2013
Solo exhibition in Rovereto Italy
Collective exhibition in NY Art Student League
2014 Collective exhibition in NY Art Student League
2015 Collective exhibition in NY Art Student League
2017 Collective exhibition in NY Art Student League
2018 Collective exhibition in NY Art Student League