Maria Pilotto was born in Padua in 1996 and graduated in Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice. In 2022, she took part in the 59th Venice International Art Biennale after being awarded first place in a top regional prize for young artists.
Pilotto is currently focused on the creation of small, vivid watercolours on paper, taking birthday celebrations as her main theme. These rich and delicate artworks are inspired by the photographs of family and friends, and perfectly capture a fleeting moment that is at once exquisitely personal yet universal. Her subjects lack facial features, aiding the viewer’s identification with the scene and, the artist hopes, with the missing parts.
