With a degree in Painting from the Academy of  Fine Arts in Rome and another in Art History from the University of Rome, Stefania Pinsone is a skilled artist who has developed her own unique style of digital-realistic painting. Using acrylic paints with a fine brush and juxtaposing intense colors with geometric lines, she is able to reproduce her chosen subject with photographic expertise. She has been strongly influenced by the art of Gerhard Richter, whose paintings celebrate the photographic image with all its shakes and blurs, and she pays similar homage to the digital image with its disturbances such as jpeg effects, glitches, chromatic aberrations, “like,” “play,” and loading symbols, etc. Reproducing images taken from social media sites, dating websites and mass media, she has created a series of paintings, which are entirely made by hand and one of a kind, and yet they are wholly in dialogue with modern technology. Another field of artistic research is the digital painting: the artworks are created using software dedicated to reproduce the painting technique and then using the modern printing processes in order to create artworks using unconventional surfaces like aluminium. The artwork gets a completely different sense not obtainable with classical surfaces like canvas.

Exhibitions

2017      Selected artist for EWAAC-Artist in Residence in UK 2017 with final exhibition in London (Bedford University, 29 July -12 August 2017)

Nominated candidate artist for "Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize 2017", London 31/12/16

Artworks featured in “Average Art Magazine”, London, in the December 2016 and January,  February and March 2017 issue (Cottage industry Press)

                Selected artist for Personal Exhibition at Onepeak Hubei Culture Media Co., Ltd., TS1 Gallery, Hongshan District of Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China (2016-2018), with the agency Amalart S.r.l. (for 2 years, 2017-2018)      

2016      “AAF, Affordable Art Fair”, with Galerìa Gaudì (exhibition with 4 artworks), 26–29 February, Brussels

                Representation at Atkinson Collection Gallery, Elmhurst, IL, United States

                Personal Exhibition in Centrepoint, Lohnhof, April-July, Basel

                “Modern Woman In Art”, International Exhibition for modern and current art, Basel Art Center, 27-29 June, Basel

                LISTE 21/Art Basel - art fair, represented by Kaskadekondensator & Dr. Kuckucks Labrador, 14-19 June, Basel

                Representation at Le Dame Art Gallery, June-December, London, UK

                Awarded artist at EWAAC 2016 (EAST WEST ART AWARD COMPETITION- London) in the category painting, with the Encouragement Price; exhibition in London: La Galleria Pall Mall, 18 - 22 October 2016

                “Seeking Peace: Figurative or Abstract Art?”, international collective exhibition in Basel Art Center , Curated by prof. Antonio Russo, 9-11 November

                Representation at Gateway Art Center NYC, Manhattan, (USA), exhibition with 3 artworks, 12 -25 December

2015      “Hiver 15” collective exhibition, Place Suisse des Arts,  January, Lausanne

                Double exhibition in the art Gallery Haus am Bach, April, Sissach (CH)

                “Kölner LISTE” art fair, with A-Space gallery 15–19 April, Cologne

                Solo Exhibition with catalogue, Art & Context 101, Art Gallery, curated by Dr. Bernard Reuter, October-November, Basel

                “Satellit 15”, collective exhibition with SGBK Basel,  November, Liestal (CH), in collaboration with “Kultur Nacht Liestal”

                Personal Exhibition in the Town Hall of the town Lausen (CH), December

2014      “Under One Roof” collective exhibition, Gum Gallery, May, Moscow

                “Cutlog NY” Art Fair, May, New York

                “Frisch Gestrichen” double exhibition, Galerie Eulenspiegel, Aug.-Sept., Basel

                “Copenhagen Art Contemporary art fair”, September, Copenhagen

2013      “Sommerausstellung” collective exhibition, Galerie Schöneck, Riehen, Basel

                “Selection” collective exhibition, Galerie Schöneck, Riehen, Basel

2004      “Collocazioni domestiche: percorsi urbani” collective exhibition. Show Room SMIT, curated by B. Martusciello, Rome

2003      “Blerò” Personal Exhibition. Fondazione Katinca Prini and Contini Gallery, curated by A. Contini, Bardonecchia (IT)

2002      “Nuovo Quadro Contemporaneo” collective exhibition. Palazzo Cedir, Reggio Calabria

2001      “Hellzapoppin” collective exhibition. Galleria d’Arte Mascherino, curated by S. Dello Schiavo und A. Gianvenuti, Rome

                “Match” collective exhibition. Galleria d’Arte F. Russo, Rome

2000      Collective Exhibition. Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Roma, curated by “Mecenate 90”

1999      Personal Exhibition. Studio D’Arte Cannaviello, curated by E. Cannaviello, Milano

1998      Personal Exhibition, with catalogue, Galleria d’Arte Mascherino, curated by G. Marziani, Rome

Work experience

Exclusive Contract with the art gallery, Galleria d'Arte Mascherino, Rome, as a painter 1998-2008

High school teacher in art history and drawing in the private school San Sisto Vecchio, Rome, 2002-2009 and in state schools

Private teacher in drawing and acrylic painting, Basel, since October 2010

Project collaborator in the project "Vivre Leben Vivere" of Université de Genève, 2011-2012.

Work order: double portrait of the client and his wife, December 2014

Education

High School: Pedagogical School San Sisto Vecchio, Roma, 1990

Diploma in visual arts. Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma, 1997

Certificate: qualification as a high school teacher in art history and drawing, 2000

University Diploma: Bachelor course in Cultural Services, Università degli Studi di Firenze, 2004

Degree in Art History, M.A. with honors, Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata, 2007

Scholarships

Scholarship "ADISU" for the Academy of fine arts awarded top marks, 1997

Study Scholarship at the University of Tor Vergata for the academic years 2005/07

Languages

Italian (mother tongue), English and German (both full professional proficiency)     

Memberships

Member of the Swiss Society of Visual Artists (SGBK)

Newcomer at visarte

Publications

Sant’Urbano alla Caffarella: nuove indagini e scoperte, Rivista dell’Istituto Nazionale d’Archeologia e Storia dell’Arte, no. 59, 2010

“Stefania Pinsone”, Catalogue for the personal exhibition, curated by G. Marziani, Rome, 1998

“Violence and Perception”, Catalogue for the personal exhibition, curated by Dr. B. Reuter, Basel, 2015

Inclusion in the art book: International art today – 2016 and 2017, curated by Dr. Ingrid Gardill, (May 2016, May 2017), IKH-Publishing Martina Kolle - www.internationalekunstheute.com