OLIVIA PEGORARO, a freelance printmaker and painter from Vicenza.
Born in Schio in 1975, she lives and works in Piovene Rocchette (VI).
She earned her high school diploma in art from the Liceo Artistico U. Boccioni in Valdagno under the guidance of teacher G. Fabbris, and began exhibiting at the age of seventeen.
She continued her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice, where she immediately developed a passion for engraving and printing techniques. In 1999, she wrote her thesis on the history of these techniques, supervised by teacher G. Quaresimin.
That same year, she took a short course on the techniques of H. Goetz at the International Center for Graphics in Venice, and from 2000 to 2002, she attended the two-year specialization program in graphic
art (with a scholarship in the second year) at the Fondazione e Scuola Internazionale II Bisonte in Florence, directed by teacher R. Ceccotti, where he obtained the qualification of printmaker.
Since 2003, she has taught art, first through the cultural association "The Little School of Art" which she founded in Piovene Rocchette (VI) and then as a freelancer.
Meanwhile, he continues his exhibition activity in Italy, including: the rooms of San Pier Scheraggio - Uffizi Gallery, the Academy of the Arts of Drawing, the Bisonte Gallery, the Bellini Museum in Florence, the 51st Venice Biennial, the Agostiniana Gallery in Rome, the Casa dei Carraresi Museum in Treviso, the House of Memory in Milan, the National University Library of Turin and Bologna, the Stelio Crise Library in Trieste, the San Paolo Museum Complex in Monselice, the Rocca Paolina and the Diego Donati Museum in Perugia, the Spazio Bipielle in Lodi, the former Pescheria Vecchia, the Cloister of San Francesco and the former Church of the Annunziata in Este, the Printing Museum in Soncino (CR), the Raffaello College in Urbino, Palazzo Sturm - Remondini Museum in Bassano, Casa Gallo di C. Scarpa in Vicenza, Palazzo La Loggia in Motta di Livenza (TV), Ziino Palace in Palermo and in Europe, obtaining several prizes and awards.
Since 1996, she has engraved and printed over 360 plates herself, using all traditional chalcographic techniques, although in recent years she has favored etching, soft etching, and especially drypoint, which allows her to express herself directly.
Many of her artworks are held in public and private collections in Italy and abroad in:
Sofia, Madrid, Chamalières, Porto, Douro, Bitola, Tarragona, Valencia, Bucharest, Paris, Cologne, Nassau, Bonn, Diez, Weissenthurn, Kobern-Gondorf, Hunibach, Providencia-Santiago de Chile, Barcelona, Buenos Aires, Guanlan-Shenzen, Tokyo, Nagasaki, Kiev, Amsterdam, Yokohama, Utrecht, New York, London, etc.
In 2019, she was selected and in 2024 participated, along with 83 other women from around the world, in the exhibition "LINKED IN NYC – WOMEN OF THE WORLD" in New York.
From 1996 to 2008, she engraved abstract subjects, then began creating portraits at the end of the same year, driven by a growing interest in the gazes and emotions evoked by people's faces and inspired by the exhibition "Venice and the Poets" organized by the Aqua Fortis Gallery in Treviso. She subsequently created artworks related to empathy and advocacy for women and disadvantaged groups such as the homeless or, conversely, pieces focused on literary interpretation or the preservation of beauty, expressed through a landscape, a face, or, occasionally, an animal.
For several years, her artworks and quotes have been published in "Grafica d'Arte" (Annual of Engravers, Featured Prints, "Artists' Profiles," etc.), "Archivio" (pages on the students of the Scuola del Bisonte, engraved showcase, exhibitions, etc.), in the Garcoes-Gubbio editions "Libertà bene comune"; "Album Aspetti dell'Arte" published in Milan. The Michelangelo Prize published by Overart editions of Florence; the C.A.I. Catalogue published by Centro Diffusione Arte and the Catalogue "The Best Modern and Contemporary Artists 2014" published by EA publishers in Palermo and Rome. He is included in many catalogues published by the National Association of Contemporary Engravers. His works have been published in several catalogs published by the National Association of Italian Engravers of Vigonza, in the Sartori Catalogue of Modern and Contemporary Art 2018 and 2020, and in "World of Art Magazine" 2020, distributed in major museums and galleries worldwide. In 2025, she joined the Artist's Map created by Marco Poma and the Mapping Printmaking World Book of Douro created by Nuno Canelas.
She was a member of the Venetian Engravers Association of Venice, directed by Giorgio Trentin, and of Anna Virgilio Rosso's "II Quadrato" Gallery-Association in Chieri (Turin), until its closure. She has been included in the National Yearbook of Italian Engravers of Bagnacavallo (Ravenna) since 2004. She is a member of The National Association of Contemporary Engravers, founded by Antonio Luciano Rossetto. She was a member of the National Association of Italian Engravers of Vigonza (Padua), of "Massenzio per l'Arte" in Rome and of the "Mega Art Association" of Corchiano (Viterbo).
Born in Schio in 1975, she lives and works in Piovene Rocchette (VI).
She earned her high school diploma in art from the Liceo Artistico U. Boccioni in Valdagno under the guidance of teacher G. Fabbris, and began exhibiting at the age of seventeen.
She continued her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice, where she immediately developed a passion for engraving and printing techniques. In 1999, she wrote her thesis on the history of these techniques, supervised by teacher G. Quaresimin.
That same year, she took a short course on the techniques of H. Goetz at the International Center for Graphics in Venice, and from 2000 to 2002, she attended the two-year specialization program in graphic
art (with a scholarship in the second year) at the Fondazione e Scuola Internazionale II Bisonte in Florence, directed by teacher R. Ceccotti, where he obtained the qualification of printmaker.
Since 2003, she has taught art, first through the cultural association "The Little School of Art" which she founded in Piovene Rocchette (VI) and then as a freelancer.
Meanwhile, he continues his exhibition activity in Italy, including: the rooms of San Pier Scheraggio - Uffizi Gallery, the Academy of the Arts of Drawing, the Bisonte Gallery, the Bellini Museum in Florence, the 51st Venice Biennial, the Agostiniana Gallery in Rome, the Casa dei Carraresi Museum in Treviso, the House of Memory in Milan, the National University Library of Turin and Bologna, the Stelio Crise Library in Trieste, the San Paolo Museum Complex in Monselice, the Rocca Paolina and the Diego Donati Museum in Perugia, the Spazio Bipielle in Lodi, the former Pescheria Vecchia, the Cloister of San Francesco and the former Church of the Annunziata in Este, the Printing Museum in Soncino (CR), the Raffaello College in Urbino, Palazzo Sturm - Remondini Museum in Bassano, Casa Gallo di C. Scarpa in Vicenza, Palazzo La Loggia in Motta di Livenza (TV), Ziino Palace in Palermo and in Europe, obtaining several prizes and awards.
Since 1996, she has engraved and printed over 360 plates herself, using all traditional chalcographic techniques, although in recent years she has favored etching, soft etching, and especially drypoint, which allows her to express herself directly.
Many of her artworks are held in public and private collections in Italy and abroad in:
Sofia, Madrid, Chamalières, Porto, Douro, Bitola, Tarragona, Valencia, Bucharest, Paris, Cologne, Nassau, Bonn, Diez, Weissenthurn, Kobern-Gondorf, Hunibach, Providencia-Santiago de Chile, Barcelona, Buenos Aires, Guanlan-Shenzen, Tokyo, Nagasaki, Kiev, Amsterdam, Yokohama, Utrecht, New York, London, etc.
In 2019, she was selected and in 2024 participated, along with 83 other women from around the world, in the exhibition "LINKED IN NYC – WOMEN OF THE WORLD" in New York.
From 1996 to 2008, she engraved abstract subjects, then began creating portraits at the end of the same year, driven by a growing interest in the gazes and emotions evoked by people's faces and inspired by the exhibition "Venice and the Poets" organized by the Aqua Fortis Gallery in Treviso. She subsequently created artworks related to empathy and advocacy for women and disadvantaged groups such as the homeless or, conversely, pieces focused on literary interpretation or the preservation of beauty, expressed through a landscape, a face, or, occasionally, an animal.
For several years, her artworks and quotes have been published in "Grafica d'Arte" (Annual of Engravers, Featured Prints, "Artists' Profiles," etc.), "Archivio" (pages on the students of the Scuola del Bisonte, engraved showcase, exhibitions, etc.), in the Garcoes-Gubbio editions "Libertà bene comune"; "Album Aspetti dell'Arte" published in Milan. The Michelangelo Prize published by Overart editions of Florence; the C.A.I. Catalogue published by Centro Diffusione Arte and the Catalogue "The Best Modern and Contemporary Artists 2014" published by EA publishers in Palermo and Rome. He is included in many catalogues published by the National Association of Contemporary Engravers. His works have been published in several catalogs published by the National Association of Italian Engravers of Vigonza, in the Sartori Catalogue of Modern and Contemporary Art 2018 and 2020, and in "World of Art Magazine" 2020, distributed in major museums and galleries worldwide. In 2025, she joined the Artist's Map created by Marco Poma and the Mapping Printmaking World Book of Douro created by Nuno Canelas.
She was a member of the Venetian Engravers Association of Venice, directed by Giorgio Trentin, and of Anna Virgilio Rosso's "II Quadrato" Gallery-Association in Chieri (Turin), until its closure. She has been included in the National Yearbook of Italian Engravers of Bagnacavallo (Ravenna) since 2004. She is a member of The National Association of Contemporary Engravers, founded by Antonio Luciano Rossetto. She was a member of the National Association of Italian Engravers of Vigonza (Padua), of "Massenzio per l'Arte" in Rome and of the "Mega Art Association" of Corchiano (Viterbo).