A B O U T

V A L E N T I N A    D I E N A

Valentina Diena is an Italian artist based in Milan, Italy. Her work is mainly characterized by the technique of hyperrealism colored pencils on paper.   Her drawings contain the constant research of a mystical and also anthropological meaning in all those consumer goods that fill and decorate our everyday life. The artist searches and analyzes these objects as endless tiles of a single puzzle, the one of our collective memory but also of our contemporary identity, and then portray them through a thorough and detailed hyperrealism pencil on paper.   Valentina Diena was born in 1996 in Milan. Her interest for figurative arts leads her to the painting course at Brera Academy of Fine Arts, where she has a bachelor’s degree in 2019 and a Master of Fine Arts in 2022 with full marks (under the guidance of prof Omar Galliani). Always fascinated by the movement and technique of hyperrealism, from 2020 she works on hyperrealistic drawings colored pencils on paper, briefly combining her personal artistic production with artistic collaborations as designer and studio assistant.  In the last few years she has collaborated with many different Italian artists and has taken part in many solo and group show all over Italy, among which the group exhibition Self Portrait curated by Omar Galliani at Museo di San Pietro all’Orto in Grosseto (2021), the bipersonal Veleni Sospesi curated by Vittorio Raschetti at Galleria Lo Spazio Bianco in Milan (2022), the tripersonal Sweet Icons curated by Sofia Macchi at Galleria Punto Sull’Arte in Varese (2024). In 2024 she's been selected as finalist artist at the X Edition of the prestigious VAF Foundation Award. Her artistic production has been mentioned in art and literary journals among which the Italian Panorama and Dentrocasa Magazine. Many of her drawings are part of private collections.   Her work is represented by Punto Sull’Arte International Contemporary Art Gallery.

E X H I B I T I O N S

2026    <20 15x15/20x20 - XIII EDITION , Group exhibition, Punto Sull'Arte Contemporary Art Gallery, Varese (IT) 2025    PINK & POWERFUL , Group exhibition, Punto Sull'Arte Contemporary Art Gallery, Varese (IT) 2025    X VAF FOUNDATION AWARD , Group exhibition, MART Museum, Rovereto (IT) 2024    SWEET ICONS , Tripersonal exhibition, Punto Sull'Arte Contemporary Art Gallery, Varese (IT) 2024    X VAF FOUNDATION AWARD , Group exhibition of the 13 finalists, Stadtgalerie Kiel (DE) 2024    <20 15x15/20x20 - XI EDITION , Group exhibition, Punto Sull'Arte Contemporary Art Gallery, Varese (IT) 2023    <20 15x15/20x20 - X EDITION , Group exhibition, Punto Sull'Arte Contemporary Art Gallery, Varese (IT) 2023    PUNTO POP , Group exhibition, Punto Sull'Arte Contemporary Art Gallery, Varese (IT) 2022    FANTASIE RADICALI , Group exhibition, Galleria Lo Spazio Bianco, Milan (IT) 2022    VELENI SOSPESI , Bipersonal exhibition, Galleria Lo Spazio Bianco, Milan (IT) 2022    SUNSET JAZZ ART SECTION , Solo exhibition, Ex Convento San Francesco, Treviso (IT) 2021    SELF-PORTRAIT - SELF-REFLECTIONS BY YOUNG ARTISTS FROM THE BRERA ACADEMY , Group exhibition, Museo di San Pietro all'Orto, Grosseto (IT) 2020    INHUMANITY , Group exhibition, Galleria Club delle Idee, online 2020    INSIDE ART - ROME ART WEEK , Group Exhibition, Bauhaus Home Gallery, Rome (IT)

A R T    F A I R S

2025    ROMA ARTE IN NUVOLA , International Fair of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rome (IT) 2023    ROMA ARTE IN NUVOLA , International Fair of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rome (IT)

A W A R D S    A N D    H O N O U R S

2024    VAF FOUNDATION AWARD , Finalist of the X edition

P U B L I C A T I O N S

2024    SWEET ICONS , Exhibition Catalogue 2024    DENTROCASA MAGAZINE , Italian magazine 2024    PANORAMA , Italian news magazine 2024    X VAF FOUNDATION AWARD , Exhibition Catalogue 2024    <20 | 15x15 20x20 , Exhibition Catalogue 2023    VARESENOI , Local Newspaper 2023    <20 | 15x15 20x20 , Exhibition Catalogue 2023    ARTWORK GALLERY - ISSUE 3 , Contemporary Art Magazine 2022    FANTASIE RADICALI , Exhibition Catalogue 2021    THE PURPOSEFUL MAYONNAISE - ISSUE 3 , Art and literary journal 2021    PIGEON REVIEW , Art and literary journal

 




 

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