Matteo Galvano, born in 1983, is a visual artist who intertwines structure and sensitivity, technique and intuition, in a pictorial exploration where geometry dialogues with gestures and color becomes landscape. His most recent works are exhibited in New York, a city that for him represents a destination, an obsession, and a promise, and which has profoundly transformed his vision and his artistic practice.

In 2018, Matteo Galvano coined the concept of architAMORfosi, the cornerstone of his poetics: a fusion of architecture and emotional metamorphosis that takes shape through precise, architectural black marks. These geometric elements delineate real-world structures, urban juxtapositions, and fragments of reality that transform into visual environments that are never rigid, always open to the interference of gestures.

Galvano’s work is constructed on geometric patterns from which controlled yet fluid layers of color emerge: drippings and explosions of color capable of creating atmospheres where geometry becomes landscape. The splashes of color in his works evoke clouds seen from above, light formations moving over landscapes, architecture, and paths mapped on canvas. It is the experience of flight—a suspended moment in which altitude increases and the world opens like a map—that nourishes this vision: fear transformed into concentration, the gaze sharpened as it traverses space.

The connection with New York marked a turning point in Galvano’s research. The American metropolis is not just a place of exhibition but a source of constant inspiration, a mental space where painting becomes both journey and vision. When the plane lifts off the runway and the city begins to shrink, the sensation remains of having traveled into a larger space, one in which structure and emotion coexist in dynamic equilibrium.

Since 2009, he has exhibited in numerous group and solo shows in Italy and abroad, building a reputation both nationally and internationally. His works are part of permanent collections at the Paneum Museum (Austria), Interface Hub/Art (Milan), and Museo Villa Bernasconi (Cernobbio), and are on permanent display in New York at Unregular Pizza. He has also collaborated with the Sant’Egidio Association on solidarity projects and created illustrations for publications.

Selected Exhibitions and Awards

2026

• Solo show at Paneum Museum (Asten, Austria); “Possibility Zones” at Como Lake HUB

2025

• “Endgame” and “Body Theatre” at Loy Luo Space (New York); selection at the Guggenheim Museum with the work “The Blue Color Is Real Nightlife”; permanent exhibition at the five Unregular Pizza locations in New York; solidarity performance with Associazione Sant’Egidio at Central Station

2022

• Wundercammer at ARES Contemporary (Lugano)

2021

• • Work in the permanent collection at the Paneum Wunderkammer des Brotes Museum (Asten, Austria); “Ar(T)resti domiciliari” at Villa Olmo (Como) with an installation next to a work by Michelangelo Pistoletto 

2019

• Work in the permanent collection at Interface Hub/Art (Milan); solo exhibition “architAMORfosi”

2018

• Solo exhibition “architAMORfosi” at the Villa Bernasconi Museum (Cernobbio)

2017

• Work in the permanent collection at the Villa Bernasconi Museum; participation in JCE-Jeune Création Européenne (Italy, Spain, Portugal)

2016

• JCE-Jeune Creation Europeenne, curated by ALBERTO DI GENNARO and DAVIS KANEPE – Science and Art Center “Bruzis” – Cesis – LATVIA.

• JCE-Jeune Creation Europeenne, curated by EWA SULEK – Wroclaw Congress Center Centennial Hall – POLAND.

• JCE-Jeune Creation Europeenne, curated by HENRIK GODSK – Kunstbygningen Museum – Vra Hjorring – DENMARK.