Ilaria Del Monte

Born in Taranto in 1985, she grew up in Montescaglioso, a town a few kilometres from Matera. From a very young age, she showed a particular enthusiasm for drawing and music. At the age of 11, she entered the Conservatory of Music in Matera, where she studied piano until the age of 16, after which, attending the Liceo Artistico, she decided to devote herself to drawing and oil painting. He then moved to Milan, where he graduated in Visual Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Brera. Since 2010, he has participated in numerous group and individual exhibitions.

In 2011, her first solo exhibition, composed only of drawings and an oil painting entitled Vento dal Nulla (Wind of Nothingness), took place in Venice and she was selected as a finalist for the Arte Laguna Prize in Venice, followed by another solo exhibition, Window's Tales, in Como, at the Roberta Lietti Gallery. In 2012, in Berlin, she exhibited Boarding Pass, a solo exhibition of small paintings. The following year, in Milan, Quando Teresa si Arrabbiò con Dio, an exhibition curated by Martina Cavallarin, and in 2014, at Antonio Colombo Arte Contemporanea in Milan, she inaugurated Out of This World. In 2015, it will be in Varese to welcome Sussurri, curated by Alessandra Redaelli, at the Punto Sull'Arte art gallery. In 2017, still at Antonio Colombo in Milan, he presented You May Not Believe in Magic, and in 2019 he exhibited in his hometown of Matera with Spazio Vitale, a solo exhibition curated by Ivan Quaroni. He has exhibited in group exhibitions abroad, including in Russia, Korea, Belgium and Germany.

Group exhibitions and awards include the Credere la Luce Prize, in 2019, residency at the Giulianova Museum of Art and Splendor, and the Marina di Ravenna Prize-Residency, at the Museo MAR in Ravenna; Ten Women's Soul, at the Liquid Gallery in Capri; in 2017 Un'Altra Realtà, at the Castel dell'Ovo in Naples; she is present at the 56th Venice Biennale with the event Italia Docet Laboratium.