Cloe Galasso
Discovered oil painting during the pandemic - not as a hobby, but as the thing she had apparently been building toward her whole life. She was supposed to be waiting out a lockdown in Miami. Instead she flew to New York, started painting seriously, and never really went back to before.
Born in Buenos Aires in 1995 and raised by a painter, she had already earned a Masters in Design from the University of Palermo and spent years exploring ceramics, sculpture, photography, and digital media. Oil painting brought it all together. Her work investigates what she calls the Portrait of Energy - the attempt to make invisible forces visible, to paint what cannot be touched.
She has been selected twice by the Consulate of Argentina in New York to represent her country - most recently with a solo exhibition during International Women's Month- and regularly exhibits there as one of Argentina's leading voices in the New York art scene. In 2024 she was granted the US Artist O-1 Visa, reserved for individuals of extraordinary ability. She has shown work in New York, London, Milan, Madrid, Punta del Este, and Buenos Aires.
