Sobre el Artista

Visual artist, cultural manager and artistic director at her school “7 Vidas / Bellas Artes”, founded in San José, Costa Rica. Patrizia is Uruguayan-Costa Rican and comes from a family of musicians and dancers. Provides international virtual classes and seminars to places such as Ecuador, Dubai UAE, Argentina, Panama, El Salvador, Honduras, Chile, Poland, etc. She has extensive and solid international training in academic drawing and realistic painting. A well-known portraitist, she creates portraits in oil and charcoal, as well as portraits of animals. She also works as a curator and restorer of pictorial art. She is a member of ACAV: Costa Rican Association of Visual Artists, affiliated with AIAP, International Association of Plastic Artists, UNESCO. Royal member and Patreon, Art4You Gallery, Dubai UAE. Ambassador for Costa Rica. FIAG, Fantapia International Art Group, South Korea. World Federation of Cultural Managers, card #CRPG01. Vision Art Media, New York, USA. Ambassador for Costa Rica. Since 2023 she has been an honorable member of the Consell Internacional de les Arts, of United Nations Arts & Sciences, UNOTA-UNESCO. Card #70,102. She has recently participated in the “International Salon of Contemporary Art” at the Carrousel du Louvre and in the “Self-Portrait Biennial” in Albania organized by Vizart and IWS. She has 15 individual exhibitions and about 154 group exhibitions counted until 2022. She has received several international awards, including: Leonardo Da Vinci International Award, January 2018, Florence, Italy. International award for merit and contribution to culture awarded at the Qatar International Art Festival 2018. November 2018. Obtained the 2020 Ray Tico International Prize awarded by the Costa Rican community in Mexico, February 2020. Best Foreign Artist in the artistic competition Claudia Ivanovna Shulzhenko, Ukraine, 2021. Pratibha Award (talent award) at Thoughts exhibition, organized by Bangiya Kala Kendra, India, May 2022. Chosen as one of the 200 most prominent figures in Costa Rican culture, by the Spain Cultural Center in Costa Rica, part of the International Spanish Cooperation. September 2023. Winner, “No Limits” competition, Golden Duck Gallery, Budapest, Hungary, September 2023. First place, “International Art Contest Season #49”, organized by Golden Time Talent, London, England, in the Painting category. September 2023. +506 7151 3072 whatsapp patrizia.prodanza@gmail.com FB: Patrizia Gallo Artist IG: @patrizia.gallo.artist Twitter: @PGallo_Artist Linked In: Patrizia Gallo Web: www.patriziagallo.art https://www.youtube.com/@patriziagalloartist