BIOGRAPHY

Born in Massa in 1966, she lives and works in Milan. After graduating in Painting at the Brera Academy, she continued to study and try painting techniques, even copying works from the past.The technique she developed gives her works a special depth. Meanwhile she focused on landscape painting, where the absence of inhabitants provides a metaphysical solution which allows to go “beyond” narrative and rationality to be open to wonder and mystery. The observer is thus invited to “get lost” in an interior experience and to let himself be led into a meditative dimension. She was invited at the 54th Venice Biennale (2011). She received the Cairo Award (2005). In 2016 her works were included in the famous book Vitamin P3: A New Perspective of Painting.published by Phaidon Press.

EXHIBITIONS (selected) 

2023 Italy - Milan, Luca Tommasi Gallery of Contemporary Art, "The Clouds Will Not Annihilate the Sun"

2023 Italy - Milan, Triennale, "Pittura italiana oggi" (group show) 

2019 Austria, Klagenfurt, Museum Moderner Kunst Kärnten, "Touch Wood" (group show)

2019 Austria - Bregenz, Galerie Lisi Hämmerle, "Scivias"

2019 Italy - Rome, Unosunove Gallery, "Simon Callery/ Valentina D’Amaro"

2016 Italy - Varese, Yellow Center, "Viridis – Green Variations"

2015 Italy - Milan, Dimora Artica Art Center, "Vesper"

2014 Italy - Cannobio, Parasi Palace, "Natural Unreality"

2013 Italy - Verona, Marcorossi Gallery for Contemporary Art, "Beyond the Landscape"

2013 Spain - Barcelona, N2 Gallery, "Landscape Dialogue, Valentina D’Amaro & Miguel Angel Iglesias "

2012 Italy - Monza, Villa Reale, " Italy-China Biennial" (group show)

2012 Italy - Ortisei, Ghetta Gallery, "Beyond the Landscape"

2011 Italy - Milan, MARS (Milan Artists' Run Space)

2010 Italy, Pietrasanta, Astuni Gallery, "Trees, Bushes and Fields"

2010 UK - London, Barbican Centre, "Sovereign European Art Prize" (group show)

2009 Austria - Salzburg, Hangar-7, "A force from the past" (group show)

2007 Italy - Milan, PAC Contemporary Art Pavillion, "New Painters of Reality" (group show)

2006 Italy, Milano, Antonio Colombo Contemporary Art Gallery, "Shizen"

2005 Portugal, Lisbon, Galeria Jorge Shirley, "Landscapes"

2005 Czech Republic - Prague, Karlin Hall, Prague Biennale 2, "Expanded Painting" (group show)

2000 Italy - Milan, PAC Contemporary Art Pavillion, "Sui Generis" (group show)

1999 China - Canton, Guang Dong Museum of Art, "Italian Memories" (group show)

AWARDS RECEIVED (selected)

2005 Received the Cairo Award at the Palazzo della Permanente in Milan.

Exhibit of works

UNTITLED 3 、OIL ON CANVAS、100X135 CM、2010

UNTITLED 6 、OIL ON CANVAS、100X135 CM、2018

UNTITLED 8 、OIL ON CANVAS、125X180 CM、2021