Maria Romano

I’m a contemporary figurative artist exploring identity, memory, and emotional transformation through layered portraits, symbols, textures, and digital distortions.
My work blends traditional painting techniques with contemporary visual language: glitch effects, pixel fragments, raw textures, and fragmented surfaces become part of the emotional narrative. I’m interested in what exists between presence and disappearance, clarity and imperfection.
Working mainly with oil, mixed media, and soft pastels, I create pieces that move between figurative intimacy and visual disruption. Faces emerge through layers, scratches, pixels, faded details, and symbolic elements, reflecting vulnerability, resilience, femininity, and introspection.
Each painting begins with an inner dialogue. I paint emotions that are difficult to explain: what lingers behind silence, what survives through memory, what breaks and rebuilds itself over time.

Born in Italy, Maria Romano is an artist who has always been captivated by the world of art. After completing her education at High Art School in Sorrento, she embarked on a journey of self-discovery through drawing and painting. With a relentless pursuit of vibrant colors, luminous lights, and diverse materials, Maria's artistic endeavors were momentarily put on hold due to a work transfer abroad. However, her unwavering passion for art continued to thrive, filling the gaps in her free time. Upon her return to Italy in 2015, Maria once again immersed herself in the realm of art, delving deeper into the art of portraiture. Among the various techniques she had acquired, she found solace in using soft pastels, oil and acrylic colors to bring her subjects to life.

I have recently been considering exhibiting and selling my work.
Here below:

2021
Galerie l'Atelier (CH) Art International Paper

2022
Artexpertise Gallery Exhibition, Merlino Art Workshop Galleries Art Symposium

2023
Acqua ,Origine & Vita, Collective Exhibition Cannigione Sardinia (Italy)

2023
10th Oct. International Exhibition of Contemporary Art MOOD . SUBJECTIVITY, INTROSPETIOCN AND SELF-AWARENESS Andria- Puglia (Italy)

2024
Contemporanea-Mente- Collective Exhibition Grottaferrata (Rome) 13th-23rd January 2024

2024
Collective International Exhibition of Contemporary Art called, In Principio fu l'Arte from 13th -23rd January 2024 ,Udine (Italy)

2024
Art contest participation called Where is love?
from 13th til 28th February 2024 ,Volterra, Tuscany (Italy)

2024
Collective International Exhibition of Contemporary Art called La Grande Bellezza, from 27th September until 20th October 2024 ,Kunsthaus Burg Obernberg -Austria