About the Artist

Lorena Lepori is an Italian painter born in Rome in 1974. She  creates figurative paintings that inhabit worlds of beauty, theatricality and deliberate wrongness. Her characters are unapologetically constructed through gesture, adornment and attitude, occupying the image rather than simply posing within it. Elegance meets extravagance, seduction meets absurdity, and the historical meets the unmistakably contemporary. At the heart of her work is an act of interference: Lepori establishes a visual world the viewer recognizes, then quietly interferes with its logic. Unexpected details, cultural collisions and displaced elements belong naturally to the image even when they shouldn’t. With a distinctly deadpan humour, she uses the convincing language of realism to make the improbable feel entirely at home.

Professional Affiliations
Represented Artist, 33 Contemporary Gallery 

Exhibitions

2026 " Correspondances" group  Show at the Curators Gallery,
20 Rue Meslay Paris
Curated by The Curators

2026 " 7 Deadly Sins" Online Solo Show on Artsy.net  through  33Contemporary Gallery curated by Didi Menendez
2026  "Postcards" Online group exhibition on Artsy.net  through  33 Contemporary Gallery curated by Didi Menendez
2026  "The New Realism" Online group exhibition on Artsy.net  through  33 Contemporary Gallery curated by Didi Menendez
2026  "The People of the Land" Online group exhibition on Artsy.net  through  33 Contemporary Gallery curated by Didi Menendez
2026  " Venus Reclaimed" : Strenght and Identity" curated by Didi Menendez and Sergio Gomez  Online group exhibition on Artsy.net  through  33Contemporary Gallery.

2025” Mini Me” Online group exhibition on Artsy.net  through  33Contemporary Gallery.
2025” International Biennial Portrait Competition “Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art, Wausau WI USA curated by David Anthony Hummer.
2025 September “Non Sequitur” Online group  exhibition on Artsy.net through 33 Contemporary Gallery Curated By April Carter Grant.
2025 November -  Solo Show “Groupiverse “on Artsy, curated by Didi Menendez for 33 Contemporary Gallery.
2025 -Palm Beach Art and Design ShowRoom - Group Exhibition "BFF The Modern Portrait" for 33 Contemporary Gallery, curated by Sergio Gomez and Didi Menenez. Palm Beach, FL, USA.
2025 August 'Self Portrait Prize"  on Artsy presented by  Ruth Borchard Collection  . The judging panel included presenter and comedian Alan Carr, Dr Sarah Turner (Director of the Paul Mellon Centre), Simon Vincent CBE (Executive Vice President & President, Hilton EMEA), cultural leader Sir Peter Bazalgette, 2023 Prize winner Colin Davidson, and grandson of Ruth Borchard, Alex Brenden.

2024 September Almenara Art Prize -Semifinalist-Online exhibition.
2024 November " Knockoffs" Online group exhibition on Artsy.net  through  33Contemporary Gallery.
2024 June “Confrontation “ Online group exhibition on Artsy.net  through  33Contemporary Gallery.
2024 January “Water” Online group exhibition on Artsy.net  through  33Contemporary Gallery.
2024 January -  Solo Show “This is not a Tragedy “on Artsy.net Through 33 Contemporary.
2024 August “Macro“ Online group exhibition on Artsy.net  through  33Contemporary Gallery.
2024  March “Feminism “  Online group exhibition on Artsy.net  through  33Contemporary Gallery.

2023 Wonder woman Online group exhibition on Artsy.net  through  33Contemporary Gallery, Chicago USA Curated by Didi Menendez and Sergio Gomez.
2023 “Retro” Online group exhibition on Artsy.net through 33 Contemporary Gallery, Chicago USA, Curated By Arthur D. Magazu.
2023 “Pride in Art”, Group exhibition, presented by Ross Contemporary Gallery, Chicago USA  and 116 Gallery, St Charles USA Curated by Deanna Gibson and Terry Ross.
2023 “Mujer”Annual Online group exhibition on Artsy.net  through  33Contemporary Gallery, Chicago USA Curated by Didi Menendez.
2023 “International Biennial Portrait Competition” Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art, Wausau WI USA Juried  by Aaron Sidorenko.
2023 “Expressions in motion” Online group exhibition on Artsy.net  through  33Contemporary Gallery, Chicago USA Curated by Didi Menendez.
2023 “Artists painting Artists” Online group exhibition on Artsy.net  through  33Contemporary Gallery, Chicago USA Curated by Didi Menendez. 

2022 “Mujer” Annual Online group  exhibition on Artsy.net  through  33Contemporary Gallery, Chicago USA Curated by Didi Menendez.
2022 “Exertion” Online group  exhibition on Artsy.net through  33 Contemporary Gallery, Chicago USA Curated by Daniel Maidman.
2022 “Desperately seeking Madonna” Online group  exhibition on Artsy.net through 33 Contemporary Gallery Curated By April Carter Grant.
2022  IGOR  2022 Fall Salon Online Exhibition

2021” International Biennial Portrait Competition “Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art, Wausau WI USA curated by David Anthony Hummer.
2021 Suburbia  Online group exhibition on Artsy.net curated by Didi Menendez.
2021 “The Portrait”  Online group  exhibition on Artsy.net  through  Contemporary Gallery, Chicago USA Curated by Didi Menendez.
2021 “Tetrachromat, Defect and Unapologetically  man”  Online group  exhibition on Artsy.net through  33 Contemporary Gallery, Chicago USA curated by April Carter Grant.
2021 “Music Man”  Online  group exhibition on Artsy.net through 33 Contemporary Gallery, Chicago USA curated by Alessandro Tomassetti.
2021 “Mujer”Annual Online  group exhibition on Artsy.net  through  33Contemporary Gallery, Chicago USA Curated by Didi Menendez.
2021 “20 Drawings!”  Online group  exhibition on Artsy.net through  33 Contemporary Gallery, Chicago USA Curated By Jim Seale.

 Catalogues and publications

2025 Modportrait 2025 Special Catalogue
2025 Manifest for the Moon- In collaboration with the Lunar Codex Project.
2025 American Art Collector January Issue
2025 "Non Sequitur" Exhibition Catalogue
2024 Artelibre 25th Anniversary - Blue Book

2024 American Art Collector January  Issue
2024  ModPortrait 2024 Special Catalogue

2023 Retro exhibition catalogue.
2023 Poets and Artists Summer Issue
2023 American Art Collector August Issue

2022 ModPortrait 2022 Special Catalogue
2022 Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine Nov/Dec issue.
2022 Desperately seeking Madonna exhibition catalogue .
2022 American Art Collector Magazine November issue.
2022  Mujer exhibition Catalogue.

2021 Twenty Drawings! Exhibition Catalogue
2021 International Biennial Competition Catalogue, curated by David Anthony Hummer.
2021 Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine Nov/dec Issue .
2021 digital magazine IArtistas Winter issue.
2021 digital magazine IArtistas Spring issue.

Member of the International Guild of Realism 2022-2025

Prize

2025 Honourable mention in the March -Bold Brush Painting Competition 
2023 3th Prize - 2023 Pride in Art, Group exhibition, presented by Ross Contemporary Gallery, Chicago USA  and 116 Gallery, St Charles USA Curated by Deanna Gibson and Terry Ross.

Special Project

LUNAR CODEX PROJECT 2022/2023
Headed by Dr Samuel Peralta

The Lunar Codex is that dream realised, a collection of works from thousands of artists across the globe, launched in three time capsules to the Moon.
The Lunar Codex represents creative work from Canada, the U.S., China, India, the E.U., Australia, the U.K., and  indeed from 97 countries and territories from Europe, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, North America, Oceania and Asia - firsts on the Moon for many of these countries.

More info about the project on www.lunarcodex.com