Ozzir - contemporary painter

Andrea Rizzo was born in Pisa on January 6, 1998. After graduating from the Franco Russoli Art School in Pisa in 2017 he moved to Florence to continue his academic studies.

In the academic year 2019-20 he obtained a bachelor's degree in Visual Arts at the Free Academy of Fine Arts in Florence with a score of 110/110 with the thesis "Viaggio interiore".

In 2020 he moved to Venice where he enrolled in the second level specialist degree course in painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice.

An early artist, already in 2015 some of his works were exhibited at the Palazzo dei Priori in Volterra together with works by established artists such as Eugenio Piraccini and Olivero Toscani.

In the same year, the Arpa Foundation included Andrea Rizzo among the young emerging artists of the Foundation.

In 2017 he won the 2nd individual prize in the national competition of Florentine Colloquiums in the art section held in Florence from 2 March to 4 March with the work ALTER EGO.

In 2017 he was commissioned by the Arpa Foundation to create a work within the International Robotics Festival.

The work entitled "Future and Nature" was exhibited at the Arsenali Repubbli¬cani in Pisa from 7 to 13 September 2017.

In 2018 he was selected for a communication project by the Antinori company for the promotion of Santa Cristina wine.

In 2019 he was commissioned to curate the art exhibition "Art and culture in health" at the Gipsoteca di Arte Antica in Pisa from 23 to 30 November 2019 on the occasion of the international event #Fairsaturday.

Since 2017 he has been a member of the Pisan Company of Arno Artists.