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Valerio D’Ospina was born in Taranto in 1980. On July 14, 1999 he received an artistic diploma from Liceo Artistico Statale “Lisippo” in Taranto, where he was first introduced to the world of art.
In November of the same year he moved to Florence to further his artistic studies. There he enrolled in his first painting course under the instruction of Professor R.Giovannelli in the Accademia di Belle Arti. During his stay in Florence, he assiduously visited museums where he learned the technique of the great masters and was given permission to replicate original works of art in the Palazzo Pitti Museum. He also visited the major Italian artistic capitols frequenting, with particular interest, the museums, art fairs and art biennals.
In 2003, he moved to Paris for a short while where he studied firsthand the masterpieces of his favorite local artists.
After his return to Florence, he began to work in an antique‐painting restoration studio under the restorer Maurizio Bazzini, who gave him insight to the “character” of antique paintings.
On February 25, 2005, after preparing an experimental thesis in the study of “fisiognomica”, Valerio graduated with a degree in Painting. Impressed by the complex study of the thesis, and the correlation to his final paintings, the commission presiding over Valerio’s lecture presented him with 110 cum laude out of a possible 110 for his outstanding effort.
Upon obtaining his degree, in September of 2006 he enrolled in the COBASLID (a two‐year‐long statal course to become a professor of art) in the Accademia di Belle Arti of Florence. Only ten students were admitted into the course and in order to continue his studies, it was required for him to complete a series of examinations to secure his place. After his acceptance, he began an internship teaching pictorial discipline in the Liceo Artistico “L.B. Alberti”.
Before completing his final year of study, D’Ospina met with the chair of the college of fine art at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Impressed with his skills and artwork, he offered him a position to teach a course designed to utilize D’Ospina’s knowledge and competences of the great masters technique. Two short weeks after completing the COBASLID, D’Ospina, only 27, travelled to America to begin teaching Classical Drawing and Painting, summer session II for the fine art department at IUP. After this teaching experience he decided to focus exclusively on painting, receiving positive feedback from private collectors and galleries from around the world.
Since July 2009 Valerio is established in US where he lives and works and is ranked by several distinguished art magazines, both national and international, as one of the most significant painters of cityscapes and industrial scenarios, who live and work in America.

Exhibition Record

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2016 "Transient Glance", Mike Wright Gallery, Denver CO
2015 "Quadri d'olio e di cemento, un viaggio tra le icone del passato e le citta' del presente", Barbara Frigerio Gallery, Milan, Italy
2014 "Valerio D'Ospina", Mike Wright Gallery, Denver CO
2013 “Valerio D’Ospina”, Mason Murer Gallery, Atlanta GA
2012 “Valerio D’Ospina 2009‐2011”, Christine Frechard Gallery, Pittsburgh PA
2012 “Unknown”, Zadok Gallery, Miami FL
Two Person Exhibitions
2015 "Tempo and Pause", Valerio D'Ospina & Greg Gandy, Principle Gallery, Alexandria VA
2014 "Urban Beat", with Jeremy Mann, CH Gallery, Healdsburg CA
2012 “Archimovement”, HallSpassov Gallery, Bellevue, WA
2010 “The New Metropolis”, Skotia Gallery, Santa Fe NM, USA
2010 “Andrey Petrov & Valerio D’Ospina”, Principle Gallery, Alexandria VA, USA.
Art Fairs, Biennals, Group Exhibitions and Prizes
2017 "Seven", Stanek Gallery, Philadelphia PA
2017 "New Works", Mike Wright Gallery, Denver CO
2016 "The Invisible", Parlor Gallery, Asbury Park, NJ
2016 "Springtide", Haen Gallery, Asheville, NC
2015 "Summer Salon Show", Rarity Gallery, Mykonos, Greece
2015 "Inspirational Forms", Principle Gallery, Charleston, SC
2015 "Le tre anime della citta'", Jeremy Mann - Valerio D'Ospina - Daniele Cestari, Galleria Arte Totale, Pietrasanta, Italy
2015 "Forces of Nature", One Art Space, New York City, NY
2014 "Summer show", Barbara Frigerio Gallery, Milan, Italy
2014 "Summer salon show", Rarity Gallery, Mykonos, Greece
2014 "What Is Your Favorite City", Bonner David Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona
2013 “The City Abstracted”, Hubert Gallery NY
2013 "International Masters of Fine Art", Invitational show, Greenhouse Gallery, San Antonio TX
2012 “AAF Seattle”, art fair HallSpassov Gallery booth, Seattle WA
2012 “Streets”, gallery artists group show, Principle Gallery, Alexandria VA
2012 “Group Exhibition”, gallery artists group show, Hallway Gallery, WA
2011 “1st Opening in LA”, Skotia Gallery, Culver City, CA
2011 “USArtists”, Artfair PAFA, Philadelphia PA.
2011 “The Back Room”, Joanne Artman Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA.
2011 “PREJA‐VU”, The Rosenfeld Gallery, Philadelphia, PA.
2011 “LA Art Show”, Artfair Convention Center, Los Angeles, CA.
2010 “Drawings Exhibition”, Principle Gallery, Alexandria, VA.
2010 “Naked”, Skotia Gallery, Santa Fe NM, USA.
2008 “Intimità Quotidiane”, Galleria Geo Arte Contemporanea, Bari, Italy.
2005 “Espressioni dell’Arte”, Masseria Belmonte, Crispiano (TA), Italy.
2004 “Profezie di Bellezza 4”, Caffè Storico‐Letterario Giubbe Rosse, Florence,Italy.
2004 “Alchimie Urbane”, Villa Comunale “Peripato”, Taranto, Italy.
2004 “4 art”, Aragonese Castle, Taranto, Italy.
2004 “3rd Premio Internazionale Biennale d’Incisione”, La Spirale Centre Culturel "Le Toboggan" Décines‐
Charpieu (Lyon), France.
2003 “3rd Premio Internazionale Biennale d’Incisione”, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art. Etching and print‐making exhibited alongside Georges Rouault and Giorgio De Chirico, Villa Rnatico Martini, Monsummano Terme, Pistoia, Italy.
2003 “Profezie di bellezza 3”, Caffè Giubbe Rosse, Florence, Italy.
2003 “Omaggio a Mario Mariotti”, Limonaia di Villa Strozzi, Firenze, Italy.
2002 “Profezie di bellezza 2”, Caffè Giubbe Rosse, Florence, Italy.
2001 “Profezie di bellezza”, Giubbe Rosse, Florence, Italy.
1999 “1st Prize Hippodrome”, Ippodromo di Taranto, Italy.