Mary Cinque

"Mary Cinque is an Italian painter, graphic designer and blogger working and living in the Amalfi Coast. Her works – joyful, bright, colourful painting and drawings – are inspired by this place, as well as her heritage, background and travels. Mary spent her childhood between Italy and Ethiopia. Before moving back to the Amalfi Coast in 2019, she has lived in Naples and Milan, where she attended academies of fine art; and Philadelphia, New York and London where she improved her artistic skills and style. Alongside making art, she works as an illustrator and graphic designer, collaborating with selected brands, working on artistic commissions such as illustrations, labels and showroom design.
Cinque’s art develops themes connected with what makes us essentially humans: our habitat – the buildings, the streets, the cities – our bodies, what we eat and how we socialise. Art, in Mary’s paintings, becomes a powerful instrument of philosophical investigation which reveals who we really are by questioning our habits, observing those characteristic traits we share as a species, often without realising it. The artist looks at human beings from a different perspective, making interesting and significant what can seem normal or banal to us i...

2010 Capturing the elusive here, workshop by Isidro Blasco, Areaodeon, Monza
2009 ISCED 3, graphic design and photography, “U. Boccioni” Art Institute, Naples.
2008 Workshops: Lorenzo Bruni, Gianni Caravaggio, Bianco-Valente, William Stok, Lucio Pozzi

Two years program in contemporary art, Academy of Fine Arts, Milan. Advisor: Francesco Poli, professor in Art Economics. Thesis title: “Die Reise. Today Berlin art scene”, 110/110 with honors

2002 One-year program in Illustration and comics, Comix school, Naples

2001 BFA, painting. Academy of fine arts, Naples. Advisor: Massimo Bignardi, professor of art history. Thesis title: “A history of graphic design in Region of Campania: the last thirty years”, 110/110 with honors

1996 Four year humanities studies, Amalfi, Italy.

Solo exhibition:
2021
My favorite things
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2019 St. Moritz, A Winter's tale, GALERIE PALÜ, Pontresina (CH)
2019 L’illusione di Dedalo, curator Massimo Bignardi, Museum FraC, Baronissi IT
2017 L’illusione di Dedalo, curator Massimo Bignardi, Italian cultural Institute, Cologne, Germany
2016 L’illusione di Dedalo, curator Massimo Bignardi, Centro Luigi Di Sarro, Roma
Eco-, curator Massimo Sgroi, Fornace Falcone Cilento Outlet Village, Eboli (SA)
2015 Un'idea di Parigi, curators Chiara Reale e Lara Carbonara, French Institute, Napoli
2013 Urban Stories, curator Ada Patrizia Fiorillo, MARTE, Cava de' Tirreni (SA)
2011 Acque d'Italia, curator Marcella Ferro, Architecture faculty Federico II University library with an introduction by professor Massimo Bignardi
Città in istanti, curator Massimo Bignardi, Chiostro di San Galgano, Literature and philosophy faculty, Siena University
2010 Cover, curator Ciro Cacciola, MADRE museum cafè, Napoli
2009 Acque Chiare, curator Massimo Bignardi, Palazzo Sasso, Ravello (SA)
Giramondo, curator Pasquale Ruocco, The foundry, London
Aereo, curator Valentina Rippa, Largo Baracche, Napoli
2007 Il mARTtedì del Magenta, curator Silvia Pettin...