Matteo Valerio (Tampa, Florida 1989) graduated from the Venice Academy and obtained a Master’s in Fine Arts at Central Saint Martin’s London. His research explores the tension between craft practices and the hectic contemporary production, verging on the understanding of the evocative qualities incorporated in the materials that become a container and part of a broader narrative and in constant dialogue with his painting. Valerio’s work has an immediate impact in which the different nuances of the pictorial signs are transversely combined and the fabrics, the travel-related patterns, the use of wood and cement, pigments and natural dyes create refined and decisive material flows with a deep symbolic value. He was awarded the Art for the Environment Residency by Lucy Orta at Fondazione Zegna, the Mona Hatoum scholarship, The NOVA Awards, the Fondazione Francesco Fabbri Premio TRA, Shanghai Prize by Fondazione Garuzzo, Art Reasearch project at Fondazione Paolo and Marlene Fresco, 99 Collettiva Fondazione Bevilacqua la Masa, Aiku Project/Ca Foscari Foundation/Antica Tessitura Luigi Bevilacqua.