B. 1976, Turin, Italy, where she lives and works.

She began her art studies at the R. Cottini Art Institute in Turin – Fine Arts section, after which she graduated in Painting at Turin Academy of Fine Arts in 2002 and subsequently continued to deepen her artistic research through drawing and painting. The overall artistic journey traces and highlights the main stages of this ongoing extensive research, production and experimentation carried out in nearly 30 years:

She has recently taken part in several group exhibitions among which: Had to do it at the Galerie Bessaud in Paris, with an installation made up of both paintings and drawings; Visiones at the Cappella Nuova del Sacro Monte di Orta (Orta San Giulio), with a site-specific installation; Evasions artistiques at Galerie La Tour – Château d’Oupeye (Liège, Belgium); Art in Motion/1 – Nuove acquisizioni 2017-2024 at the Civica Raccolta del Disegno [Public Drawing Collection] of the MuSa (Museo di Salò); Multa Facies – Indagini sul volto – la gipsoteca di Antonietta Raphaël & le opere su carta di Mancini, Viani, Ziveri, de Canino, Fanelli e Filomena at the Aleandri Arte Moderna Gallery in Rome. Moreover, she has also participated at the Piscina’s Art residency of the Le Dune hotel in Sardinia.

In 2023, the monographic work Elisa Filomena. Un atto creativo [A creative act] has been published, as well as the Elisa Filomena – Endeavour catalogue of the eponymous solo exhibition inaugurated at the Hyperbien Galerie in Montreuil (Paris), Moreover, the La camera delle solitarie installation has been inaugurated at Flashback Habitat in Turin, a site specific experimentation set around the Le Solitarie (1923) 100yr old work of Mario Sironi, within the Sironi, disegnatore furioso – Opere e cenacoli 1901-1961 exhibition. The 2023 edition of the Contemporary Art Collectors Book – Volume I featured some of her works.

2022 has seen her being chosen to receive the grant awarded by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation of New York City, she has participated in the following events: the Painting Symposium held at the Lac o Le Mon Foundation in San Cesario di Lecce; in Landina, an en plein air painting experience in northern Italy; in the RWS Open group exhibition at the Bankside Gallery & Royal Watercolour Society in London.

In 2021, the group exhibition entitled An ego of her own has been inaugurated in both New York City and Milan venues of Kaufmann Repetto, featuring a Filomena’s site specific work at the NYC venue. Over the course of the same year she inaugurated the Eden site specific solo exhibitions at Casa Vuota in Rome.

Filomena’s works have been featured internationally on the covers and pages of contemporary art magazines such as ArtMaze Magazine, The Drawer, Moth Magazine, Bagarres, London Paint Club and Artsin Square Magazine.

She has been the recipient of several awards throughout her career including the Matteo Olivero Painting Prize and the Alida Epremian Scholarship, as well as of several national and international art contests: The Moth Prize, Prisma Art Prize, Exibart Prize, O.R.A. Prize, Combat Prize.

From 1997 onwards, both in Italy and abroad (Germany, France, Belgium, U.K., U.S.A.), numerous key galleries and museums such as the Tornielli Museum in Ameno, Kommunale Galerie in Mörfelden-Walldorf (Frankfurt), Luigi Varoli Public Museum – Palazzo Sforza in Cotignola, Affordable Art Fair in Milan, Giovanni Fattori Public Museum in Livorno, ARCOS Contemporary Art Museum in Benevento, Fondazione Circolo dei Lettori in Turin and Venice Biennale International Art Exhibition – Piedmont Region, have widely featured Filomena’s works as well.

Some of her works belong to museums, foundations, public and private collections, both in Italy and abroad, among which: Fondazione Lac o Le Mon, San Cesario di Lecce; Civica Raccolta del Disegno [Public Drawing Collection], Salò Museum, Salò; Luigi Varoli Public Museum, Cotignola; Fondazione Giorgio Amendola, Turin; Banca Popolare Valconca, Rimini; Collezione Permanente della Fondazione CRC, Cuneo.