BIOGRAPHY

Paolo Troilo Taranto 1972.

Paolo manifests very soon a significant talent for drawing that his mother cultivates with great delicacy, His father, nesthetist, soon begins to commission illustrations for medical congresses.

Paolo then starts to draw pathological anatomy at the age of 8.

In 1997 he moves to Milan to start working in ADV.

Saatchi&Saatchi and Arnold Worldwide leads him to be named best Italian creative in 2007.

Jaques Seguela said of him in those years: “I know Paolo, he knows that money has no ideas, it is ideas that make money”

On April 2005 when, while still working in advertising, he decides to move from drawing to the nobility of painting,

but he forgets to buy the brushes. An error which brought us a uniqueness. Hyperrealism painted with fingers

In 2009 he quits with  advertising to follow his passion for painting.

In 2011 he is selected for the 54th Venice Biennale.

In 2013, he became an independent artist, continuing his journey thanks above all to the support of patronage. He has held solo exhibitions in Singapore, San Francisco, Istanbul, Tel Aviv, Los Angeles, New York, Milan, Rome, Palermo, Florence, and Paris.

In 2016, he was chosen by Nespresso, and between 2022 and 2024 by Lamborghini and Ducati, as a symbol of Italian excellence worldwide. In 2024, Lefranc & Bourgeois, the oldest and most renowned fine art paint manufacturer in the world, presented in Paris the “Troilo Grey”, an acrylic color dedicated to the artist.

Troilo lives and works in Milan.