Fabio Romano (b. 1988) is an Italian artist based in Düsseldorf. He studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome, where he was a finalist for the PNA – Premio Nazionale delle Arti in 2010, and received a scholarship from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp the same year. Working primarily in painting, Romano creates layered compositions in which figuration and abstraction converge, shaped by cultural memory, landscape and contemporary experience.
In his works, the human being and the natural environment are bound together by a mycelial network of impulses: a structure of subterranean exchange in which the painterly gesture acts as a probe. Adopting the logic of a compound eye, Romano dismantles any singular perspective in favour of complex mosaics. Within this visual thickness, figurative elements and abstract fields of colour coexist,compelling the viewer to continuously renegotiate their distance from the painting.

His recent research activities and collaborations include:

• LiDAR Remote Sensing, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki
• University of Cologne / Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
• Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium
• (Awards), PNA, Rome, Italy