Vincenzo Bartoli was born in the municipality of Barcelona in Sicily
on November 14th 1968 he lives and works in Rome. His artistic career
began in 1982 with attendance at the free school of nude at the Academy
of Fine Arts in Rome. In 1994 his first solo show at the Galleria
Vittoria of Enrico Todi in Rome. From 1995 to 2001 he perfected himself
in realist painting especially in portraiture. In 2002 he began an
in-depth study of the history of art. In 2003 he approached the painting
of Giorgio De Chirico and began to study metaphysics. In 2004, soloist
at the Galeriè Deridad in Paris. In 2005, personal exhibition at the
Galleria della Tartaruga in Rome. In 2007 a solo show at the Soucces
Dane Gallery in London. In 2008 he approaches Kubin's drawings and
begins to study surrealist painting. In 2009 he began to read Greek
philosophy and Freudian psychoanalysis in particular the interpretation
of dreams. In 2010 he painted twenty paintings entitled "Fragments
Onirici". In the same year he exhibited at the Stellanholm Gallery in
New York. In 2011 he exhibited at the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow. Since
2015 he is present as a permanent artist in the DWY Art Gallery of New
York. In 2016, the president of the jury Prof. Luca Beatrice awarded him
the Creativity award and € 10,000.00 at the Triennale of Contemporary
Art at the Palaexpo in Verona. In the same year, three works by the
artist were awarded in public auction, one at Mecenate Aste in Milan and
two at Sotheby's in London. Also in the same year he took part in MAG
in Montreaux in Switzerland. In 2017 he participated in the
Mediterranean Biennial in Palermo, in the Biennial in Barcelona in
Spain, in the DWY Art Gallery in New York, in the Birla Millenium
Gallery in London In 2018 he participated in the collective exhibition
at the Wikiarte Gallery in Bologna, in the collective show "The Dream"
organized at the Blom gallery in Stockholm, at the collective exhibition
organized by the Farini Concept gallery in Bologna at the Arthill
Gallery in London. In 2019 a personal exhibition at the Giglio gallery
in Torino, a personal exhibition at Palazzo Velli in Rome, a personal
exhibition at the DWY Art Gallery in New York and Art Fiera in Padova.
