2025
Chiara De Zan
Artist Curriculum VitaeArtistic Education2001–2006
Diploma in Advertising Graphic Arts and Photography,
Istituto Statale D'arte – Italy2007–2024 (continuous and advanced training)
Independent and interdisciplinary path, with over 100 courses completed via international platforms, academies, and online universities (MOOCs).
Completed professional masterclasses and specialized training in:
– Contemporary painting and mixed media techniques
– Experimental collage and fine art photography
– Digital art and AI-based visual creation
– Chromotherapy and color perception in art
– Art, disability, and inclusive practicesExhibitions
Selected Exhibitions:2025Scrivia, temporary exhibition on balconella (urban planning act in Friuli, and online): site-specific ephemeral installation. Domestic urban intervention that reflects on the boundary between intimacy and shared landscape, with documented digital extension.2025Solo Exhibition (Virtual)
VirtualGallery.com
Online solo exhibition dedicated to the presentation of recent works, exploring the intersections between analogue collage and digital experimentation.2023Da Vinci Selection – Paris
On-Off Studio
Participation in the international selection promoted by NWFG CALLS, with works that investigate identity and memory through the language of contemporary collage.Cultivate – MIXTAPE No.5 & No.6
Organ Thing (virtual exhibition)
Inclusion in two consecutive editions of the British curatorial review, focused on emerging artists and visual experimentation in the digital context.2022Da Vinci Selection – Brussels
Galerie Anspach, Brussels
International group exhibition curated by NWFG CALLS, hosted in a prominent exhibition space in the heart of the Belgian capital.CONTEMPORA 2
Make Art Gallery (virtual exhibition)
Participation in a digital exhibition that explores contemporary trends in visual art, with a focus on hybrid and interdisciplinary practices.2018Percorsi di Colore – Collettivo d'Arte "Incontri di Colori"
Antico Ospedale dei Battuti, San Vito al Tagliamento (PN)
Collective exhibition in a historical space, focused on chromatic research and the interaction between light and matter in contemporary pictorial language.ResidenciesGrants & AwardsPublications
Selected Publications and Interviews2023Revue Collé – Issue No. 60
The international collage magazine has dedicated an in-depth feature to Chiara De Zan, highlighting her ability to blend geometries and photographs into engaging visual compositions. Her works, such as Di notte quando scendono i battiti and Suspiria, have been presented as examples of a collage that connects mind and soul, stimulating imagination and memory.2022Interview on New & Abstract – "Five Questions to Chiara De Zan"
An in-depth interview that explores Chiara's artistic evolution, from her beginning in painting in 2009 to her expansion into collage and digital art around 2020. The artist discusses her creative process, the integration of traditional and digital materials, and her inspiration from photography and architecture.2024The Flying Fruit Bowl – Artist Profile
An article introducing Chiara De Zan as a contemporary artist and digital designer, highlighting her background in advertising graphics and photography, enriched by insights into visual arts, floriculture and holistic therapy. The article highlights her innovative approach, which unites past and future in art, expressing a dynamic and ever-evolving digital creativity.Artist Talk Magazine, Issue 25, UK, 2023
Contribution: Selected artworks .Kolaj Magazine, Issue 36, USA, 2023
Contribution: Short interview.Gallery M.se Art Magazine, No. 15, Sweden, 2025
Contribution: Selected artworks.Panta Rei. The magazine that flows. Vol. 0, Psicografici Editore, 2023
Contribution: Artistic collage.Panta Rei. The magazine that flows. Vol. 1, Psicografici Editore, 2024
Contribution: Digital illustration.ERA Novel, Psicografici Editore, 2024
Contribution: sentence inserted in a collective narrative work.SOLO – Collage, Psicografici Editore, 2023
Contribution: Selected collage.SOLO – Digital Illustration, Psicografici Editore, 2023
Contribution: digital illustration.SOLO – Color Illustration, Psicografici Editore, 2023
Contribution: color illustration.Make Art Gallery – Art Catalogue Make Art Vol. 1, Make Art Gallery, 2023
Contribution: digital work.Szerelem Artist Catalogue, Szerelem Project, 2023
Contribution: selected visual works.SOLO Annual – Psicografici Editore
Annual anthology of the best works published by the publishing house during the year.
Includes selected works by visual artists, including collage, illustration, photography and design.Notable Projects and Commissions2022HEY! Imaginable Design Guide – Artist Card Project
Official selection of the work “04-3DZ9 UDINE” for the international participatory art project. The cards, distributed on request through the official Instagram profile of the project, represent a global visual collection of contemporary artists who explore the concept of imagination and urban identity.CollectionsRelevant work experienceAward & MembershipsMember of the International Collage Guild.Member of the Visual Artists Association (VAA).Member of AIAPI – Associazione Internazionale Arti Plastiche Italia, official partner of UNESCO.Slowflower, IAOTH.Online art platformsRegistered and present with my works on:
Plogix Gallery, Saatchi art, Singulart, Artmajeur, Gigarte.LanguagesItalian – Friulian – English – Spanish – FrenchReferences
About meChiara De Zan
Multidisciplinary visual artistChiara De Zan (born 1987 in Pordenone) is an Italian artist who lives and works in Casarsa della Delizia, Friuli Venezia Giulia. Her artistic practice develops between collage, painting, photography and digital media, exploring themes related to memory, disintegration, identity and human fragility.Using recycled materials, worn fabrics, pigments and digital tools, Chiara creates layered works that combine past and present, art and fragility, nature and technology, in a poetic and minimal aesthetic. Her research is characterized by a sustainable and sensitive approach, rooted in the present but oriented to the deep time of emotions.With a background in advertising graphics, photography and floriculture, enriched by insights into the visual arts and holistic practices, Chiara integrates poetic visions with well-being practices, leaving room for intuition and the symbolic. Her works have been presented in group exhibitions in Italy and published in international magazines such as Kolaj Magazine, Artist Talk Magazine and Gallery M.se Art Magazine.Member of the International Collage Guild, the Associazione Internazionale Arti Plastiche Italia (AIAPI) and the Visual Artists Association (VAA), Chiara continues her independent artistic research, actively collaborating with artistic and cultural realities related to sustainability and inclusion.Artist Statement – Chiara de Zan
In my work I explore the fragility and strength of the human being through an artistic practice that intertwines recycled materials, traditional techniques, digital media and artificial intelligence. Each work is born from a conscious and intuitive gesture: I superimpose images, words, objects and textures to evoke memories, interior landscapes, unspoken stories.My approach is sustainable and sensitive, rooted in the present but aimed at the deep time of emotions. I prefer tactile surfaces, imperfect signs, fragments that tell of disintegration and rebirth, diversity, illness, care.As an artist, florist and holistic operator, I intertwine poetic visions and wellness practices, leaving room for intuition and the symbolic. Art, for me, is an act of gentle resistance: a way to listen to the world and respond with authenticity, affirming a gaze that claims complexity, presence and the right to expression.
