Bio

Donatella Marcatajo, born in 1990, is an Italian-based painter and translator.
She’s self-taught and she inherites from her grand-father her painting skills. Her paintings are focused on the interiority of her soul, getting through and exploring depression, mental health and grief.

She’s graduated in Languages & Literatures from the University of Padua and is pursuing a master’s degree in Postcolonial studies in European & American Languages and Literatures, while continuing attending training courses in Translation studies.

With her husband Claus Word, she is Co-Founder of Hyperrealism Magazine, an international magazine about contemporary realism.
She is Founder of Sylvia Plath Italy.

Press: Beautiful Bizarre 016 issue (2017 March) and in Poets Artists Portrait issue #83 (2017, April).

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2019
“Premio Mestre di Pittura“, exhibition finalist, Centro Culturale Candiani, Mestre, IT, September 18 – October 13, 2019
Award Ceremony, Teatro Toniolo, September 27, 2019

2018
“Epeolatry” Group Exhibition, Auxilium Haus, Oregon, US, 7-30 December, 2018

Gallery exhibition finalist, Lethbridge 10000 Small Scale Art Award
Lethbridge Gallery, Paddington, Australia, 12 – 22 July, 2018

2017
Women Painting Women 5th Annual Exhibition in RJD Gallery, NY – among 20 winners worldwide
October 7 to November 5, 2017

Art Lab Munich with Galerie Benjamin Eck – September 2, 2017

II Figurative, Portrait & Hyperrealism Festival – Civitavecchia, Italy – September 16-24, 2017

2016
“Red & Black”, group exhibition in Gallery X, Dublin. From December 2nd to 23.

Selected for the SWA (Society of Women Artists, Mall Galleries) 2016 exhibition

2015
IPER-Realtà, solo exhibition with Claus Word, Museo del Castello di Castelmola, Italy

2014
“Isole Contemporanee: Japan vs Sicily”, group exhibition, Palazzo Duchi di S. Stefano, Taormina, Italy

“Arte, Ieri Oggi e Domani”, Galerie Unique, Turin, Italy

2013
Padua Art Fair, Padova, Italy

Art Fair, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, France

Group exhibition, Studio 71 Gallery, Palermo, Italy

“IncantArti”, group exhibition, Galleria Domus, Rome, Italy

2012
Group exhibition, Monteleone Gallery, Palermo, Italy

PRESS
Hyperrealism Magazine
Beautiful Bizarre (016 issue) 2017, March
Poets Artists (Portrait issue #83) 2017, April
Online publications:
Moments Journal
Nuncalosabre
Supersonic Art
The Curious Brain
Hyperrealism Post
Lyrical Gipsy
Burning Ear
Artists Inspire Artists
Por Amor Al Arte
Art Attacks
Supersonic Art