About

Born in Rome, where currently lives and works.
The work focuses on pencil drawings and water-soluble graphite on handmade Amatruda paper.
The research is centered on the representation of everyday life.
Drawing is used as a tool for inner investigation, capable of conveying an authentic image of daily life and creating a space for deep reflection with the viewer.
The aim is to develop an increasingly pure and essential visual language, able to engage in dialogue with the tradition of drawing and, at the same time, to respond to contemporary aesthetics.
In these works, people are portrayed in informal moments: conversations, waiting, moments of rest or intimacy. These are scenes of social interaction or emotional connection, sometimes arising from personal experiences, sometimes inspired by the media and the surrounding reality.
Through the exploration of human relationships, vulnerability, and relational dynamics, the intimate dimension is transformed into a visual narrative.

CV

Name: Ennio
Surname: Benaia
Place of birth: Rome
e-mail: info@enniobenaia.it
web: www.enniobenaia.it

SOLO EXIBITION

• 2014
  Rome - Breathe: Ennio Benaia. BrasilAsia: Monica Cosimi. Cultural Ass. Gallery ABC art. Bi-personal.

• 2009
  Roma - Living colours - ass. culturale - Spazio Officina - Solo exhibition.

• 2002
  Roma - Due Pittura Personali: Marta Scatarzi, Benaia Ennio - ass. culturale Nabel Art Cafè.
  Roma - Concreto Astratto: Marta Scatarzi, Benaia Ennio - ass. culturale Kukkumiao.

GROUP EXIBITION

• 2019
  Piacenza - Twenty x twenty - Jelmoni studio gallery
  2017
  Calolziocorte (Lc) - Premio Brianza - Exhibition Space of the Monastero del Lavello.

• 2015
  Venice - Photissima art Fair. Cloister of the Frari.
  Genova - Tra il bianco e il nero. Satura Art Gallery.

• 2014
  Genova - SaturARTE 19th national contemporary art competition. Satura Art Gallery.
  2014
  Rome - Premio arte per Oggi - Museo dell'Alto Medioevo.

• 2013
  Ferrara - Il Segno Award 2013 Palazzo della Racchetta. .
  Oslo - Oslo City Collective Exhibition - S9 Gallery.

• 2011
  Béziers- 55th edition of the Salon International de la Société des Beaux-Arts de Béziers Salon international arts plastiques.

• 2010
  Lisbon - Arte e Emoção Colorida Galeria De Arte e Design.
  New York - The International Artists at Home and Abroad Exhibition - The Broadway Gallery NYC.

• 2009
  Ancona - Premio Artemisia 2010 - Mole Vanvitelliana.
  Rome - Rinassence open gallery - Rassegna "Lungo il tevere-chakra caffè".
  Genoa - III Biennale of Contemporary Art GenovARTE - Palazzo Stella.
  Palestrina - Natale di Praeneste - International Competition of Contemporary Art.
  Rome - "ecCesso"-Studi Panama.
  Rome - Emozioni - Exhibition of Contemporary Art and Literature ass. culturale - Spazio Officina

• 2008
  Rome - Rinassense - ass. culturale Happening.
  Ancona - Artemisia Prize 2008 - National exhibition of contemporary figurative painting.

• 2003
  Roma - Il Locale incontra l'arte - ass. culturale Il Locale.

• 2002
  Roma - Il locale incontra l'arte - Collettiva - ass. culturale Il Locale

AWARDS AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

• 2017 - Winner Premio Brianza - Spazio Espositivo del Monastero del Lavello.

• 2010 - Artist finalist Premio Artemisia - Rassegna nazionale di pittura figurativa contemporanea Ancona.

• 2009 - First Classified - Emozioni - II° Concorso Di Arte Contemporanea e Poesia e Letteratura -Spazio Officina.

• 2008 - Finalist Artist Artemisia Prize 2008 - National Review of Contemporary Figurative Painting Ancona.