CONTACT

battifora@battifora.com

BIO

I am an Italian American artist that established my craft in Miami, and Los Angeles over the last 15 years.  My work is in private collections of high-net-worth individuals in Los Angeles, Miami, Dallas, and New York.

I received my artistic education under artist Edwin Montalvo. Still, most of my work is empirical, and the techniques I utilize are self-taught. From 2005 to 2008 I was a realistic portraitist. Today I consider myself a figurative rococo. Juxtaposing distinct brushstrokes of acrylics over the canvas.

For the last 7 years, I have been working on my successful series Marie Antoinette. She is the original influencer and embodies our views today of equality, individuality, self-determination, and the power of reinvention. As a metaphor, her head can be cut off a hundred times, but she keeps coming back on every generation.

Like an artist showing his work of art, My muse is being examined and judged; but we don't look at her, she is looking at us as if she says “yes, and?”. Do we have to like it? no. Do we have to deal with it? Oh! yes.

Selected Exhibits

MASH Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2023-2024

Tracy Park Gallery, Malibu, CA 2023

Tracy Park Gallery, Malibu, CA 2020

Florence Biennale, Florence, Italy, 2019

Skidmore Contemporary Art Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 2018

Gallery 825 LAAA, Los Angeles, CA 2018

Las Lagunas Art Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA 2018

Mark Borghi Fine Art Gallery, New York, NY 2018

Sebastopol Center For The Arts, Sebastopol CA 2018

Apero Fine Arts Gallery, CA 2017/2018

Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, FL 2016

Vu New River Gallery, Fort Lauderdale, FL 2016

Coral Springs Museum, Coral Springs FL 2016

ArtServe Gallery, Fort Lauderdale, FL 2014/2016

NSU Museum-Artopia Fort Lauderdale, FL 2015

Artist Haven Gallery, Fort Lauderdale, FL 2010/2013

The Red Bull Art Of Can, Dallas, TX 2010

The Parker Play House, Fort Lauderdale, FL 2009

The Nude Show, Orlando, FL 2009