Designers Paolo De Biasi

PAOLO DE BIASI was born at Feltre in 1966.  He lives and works in the city of Treviso.  An architect, he studied under Arduino Cantafora at Venice University, and together with the Treviso UP3 Studio, where he is an associate, he took part in the 2012 edition of the Venice Biennale of Architecture.  He began his career as an artist relatively late; after reaching the final of the Premio Celeste he met Ivan Quaroni, who included him in the original nucleus of the Italian Newbrow scenario, resulting in a series of exhibitions and publications to which he contributed with paintings and collage works.  In 2011 the Italian Newbrow movement and Paolo De Biasi were explicitly mentioned in the film ‘I Soliti Idioti’, starring comedians Fabrizio Biggio and Francesco Mandelli and directed by Enrico Lando (2011).  He took part in national and international exhibitions, including, to name just a few: the Prague Biennale (2009); the Pecci Museum Maretti Prize, Prato (2011); Impresa Pittura at the Genazzano International Contemporary Art Centre (CIAC) (2010); Italian Newbrow at the Como Pinacoteca (2012); at the Fortino, Forte dei Marmi (2012); the Italy-China Biennale, Villa Reale, Monza (2012); the first edition of Contemporary Dolomites (2011); Selvatico 13 at Palazzo Pezzi, Cotignola; Caroline Corbetta’s virtual art gallery, Il Crepaccio Instagram Show; and the most recent Italian Newbrow at the St. Augustine Complex, Pietrasanta (2021).  In 2012 he was awarded the Paolo Parati National Painting Prize, and was a finalist in the Premio Terna, Premio Celeste (2007) and the Lagoon Art Prize (2007), as well as being selected in the London International Creative Competition (2012).  He has exhibited in several Italian art galleries: Area/B, Milan; Carini e Donatini, San Giovanni Valdarno; Andrea Arte, Vicenza; Galleria Flavio Stocco, Castelfranco Veneto; Antonio Colombo Arte Contemporanea, Milan; Labs Gallery, Bologna; and in Germany and Hungary with the Hamburg CCA&A Gallery.