MATTEO CASALI

Matteo Casali, born in Schio in northern Italy in 1994, holds a Master’s Degree in Painting from the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice. Casali has won several noted prizes for his work and is already exhibiting with international galleries.

The artist works mainly in oil and acrylic on canvas and his bold, startling style clearly draws on the influence of Francis Bacon as well as the Nordic Expressionists. Casali focuses on the human figure, using as his starting point photographs of family members and close friends. He creates intimate yet estranged images of his distorted subjects, exploiting the landscape to underscore the dominant mood of alienation and loneliness. Despite the potential for bleakness, Casali draws out a tenderness in each of the characters and situations he represents.

In 2025, at the On Art Taipei fair in Taiwan, Casali was named one of the top five young artists to watch in 2025, and one of his works was among the selection of the ten most important paintings on show at the fair.