Massimo Damico

I was born on Amalfi Coast (Italy), currently living and working in Prague; took courses in painting at Academy of Fine Arts in Naples. Around twenty-three years I left Italy, and follows different routes, including: Barcelona, London, and then I reached New York City, where I displayed and worked for the gallery Monkdogz Urban Art in Chelsea on 27th street. But after a while I replaced it, with long sessions of sketches made in the subway, in the crowded streets of Manhattan and outlying stations and other underprivileged suburbs of NY, which led myself to launch a new and more personal style of painting.
My style is a combination of semi-abstract and expressionist large figurative portraits of Poets, Esotericists and 'Maudit' (Artist living a life outside or against the society) that treat philological and uncataloged areas. The images are mostly structures and machines, capable of collecting energy and matter; All those energies or forces disrupted, with a degree of vibrational intensity of which matter consists. However being owned by a strong quest for psychological purity, that allows my images to be often pure acts of violence against the so-called ultra modern commercial world, the Western policy, which often forgets th...

2004 Graduated Academy of Fine Arts NAPLES –Italy

2021 Parallax Art Fair, Kensington Town Hall, in London.

2020 Mall Galleries London, Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition

2020 Artists of the Year 2020 winner, for annual SAA Artists of the Year competition, SAA Newark, UK.
2019 Emozioni in Mostra, international group show, in Naples - Italia-

2019 Selected for the international Project and Symposium “Don`t Bite me” , in Naples organized by Blue Rihno Art and Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli.

2018 Exhibition "Nur kelbetti Astana" in the National Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan

2018 International Symposium in Struga, Macedonia

2017 December: Featured in CAP project Group Show Canvas Art Gallery, Melbourne - Australia

2017: Asilo Filangieri Galleria Comtemporanea, Project Inferno Napoletano, Naples - Italy

2017 New Jorg Gallery, group exhibition , Antwerp-Belgium

2017 Featured in Contemporary Vision 7 group exhibition open call, Beers London Gallery

2016 Featured Artist in Artoo Arts Visibility Gallery, Kaohsiung - Taiwan; collaboration with Rose Chen Art Director

2015 International Art Project 'Luz', in Liuwke Loth Art Gallery, Competa- Malaga

2014 Affordable Art Fair in Hamburg showcased by the Gallery French Art Studio ...