ALESSANDRO TOMASSETTI
b. Toronto, Canada, 1970
www.tomassetti.art
hello@tomassetti.art
@sosayssandro

Education
2000-2003 Fashion Design, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, USA
1994-1995 Post-Grad Specialization, Computer Animation, Sheridan College, Oakville, Canada
1991-1994 Honors B.F.A., Art & Art History, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

Selected Exhibitions

2022 Painting The Figure Now, Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art, Wausau, WI
2021 The Chemistry Between Us (solo), 33 Contemporary, Chicago, IL
2020 Creator and Muse, online exhibition, Zhou B Art Center, Chicago, IL
2020 Shelter, online exhibition, 33 Contemporary, Chicago, IL
2019 Inside Out/Outside In, RJD Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
2019 Painting The Figure Now, Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art, Wausau, WI
2019 20x20, Artelibre 20th Anniversary Invitational Show, MEAM, Barcelona, Spain
2019 I Observe, Rehs Contemporary Gallery, New York, NY
2019 Adorn Me, PoetsArtists, online exclusive
2018 Gallery Artist Show, Carolyn Kramer Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2018 Studio 54, Jo Hay Open Studio Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2018 Painting The Figure Now, Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art, Wausau, WI
2018 Visions of Venus, Zhou B Art Center, Chicago, IL
2014 Blood Brothers (solo), M.O.B., Barcelona, Spain
2013 Sex, Anagligos Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
2013 Bedtime Stories, Mitte Artspace, Barcelona, Spain

Juried Exhibitions

2021 The Salt Spring Island National Art Prize, Salt Spring Island, BC, Canada
2021 Modportrait, MEAM, Barcelona, Spain
2020 ARC Salon, Sotheby’s, NewYork, USA
2019 ARC Salon, MEAM, Barcelona, Spain
2019 International Biennial Portrait Competition, Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art, Wisconsin, USA
2018 ARC Salon, Sagamundi Club (New York)/Sotheby’s (Los Angeles) /MEAM (Barcelona)
2017 ARC Salon, Sagamundi Club (New York)/MEAM (Barcelona)

Awards
2019 14th Annual ARC Salon, Honorable Mention Figurative, Lie To Me
2018 13th Annual ARC Salon, ARC Staff Award, How Soon Is Now?
2018 13th Annual ARC Salon , ARC & FWSD award, The Queen is Dead
2014 Tom of Finland Emerging Artist Competition, 3rd place, single figure

Bibliography

American Art Collector. Painting the Figure Now, Issue 201, July 2022
American Art Collector. 10 Contemporary Realists, Issue 194, Dec 2021
American Art Collector. The Art of the Nude, Issue 181, Oct/Nov 2020
American Art Collector. 10 Portrait Artists to Know Now, Issue 178, Aug 2020
Fine Art Connoisseur. Great Art Nationwide: The Creator & The Muse, May/June 2020
American Art Collector. The Creator & The Muse, Issue 175, May 2020
Fine Art Connoisseur. Three To Watch, Feb 2020
American Art Collector. Inside Out, Issue 169, Aug 2019
Goss183.Painting The Figure Now, PoetsArtistsMagazine, issue 104, July 2019
Vogue Living. May/June (Australia), 2019
Architectural Digest. Volume 9 (USA), 2018
Architectural Digest. Number 140 (Spain), 2018
Architectural Digest. Number 151 (France), 2018
Goss183. I Observe, show catalogue, Feb 2019
Goss183. Adorn Me, PoetsArtists Magazine, issue 101, Feb 2019
Goss183. The New Nude, PoetsArtists Magazine, issue 97, August 2018
Goss183. Painting The Figure Now, PoetsArtists Magazine, issue 95, July 2018
Goss183. Visions of Venus, PoetsArtists Magazine, issue 92, April 2018
Stewart, Jessica. Artist Challenges Gender Norms Through Sensual Paintings of Men, MyModernMet April 12, 2018
Goss183. Eros’ Gaze, PoetsArtists Magazine, issue 93, April 2018
Piowaty, Deanna. Handsome Devils: Tomassetti On Painting the Sensual Man, Combustus March 24, 2018
Goss183. 10th Anniversary Edition, PoetsArtists Magazine, March 2018
Menendez, Didi. 50 Bad Ass Figurative Painters to Follow on Instagram, BuzzFeed November 17, 2017
Menendez, Didi. Men Painting Men, BuzzFeed October 7, 2017
Menendez, Didi. The Top 100 Figurative Painters Working Right Now, BuzzFeed September 16, 2017
Kloosterboer, Lorena. Kloosterboer on Tomassetti, PoetsArtists September 1, 2017
Poets/Artists.Alessandro Tomassetti Catalogue, ISBN 978-1-38-969252-9, 2017
Goss183. The New Nude, PoetsArtists Magazine, issue 86, July 2017
Fundacion De Las Artes. Figurativas 15 Catalogue, ISBN 978-84-943838-4-7, 2015

Collected
Los Angeles, Cape Town, New York, Madrid, Toronto, Palm Springs, Geneva, London, Seattle, Princeton, Oslo, Chicago, Munich, Brooklyn, Amsterdam, Washington, Atlanta, Ottawa, Dallas