Anna Zinato is a multidisciplinary artist based in Toronto and Venice.
Anna started painting at the age of seventeen and she never stopped, even when she became the mother of two daughters. Born and raised in Venice, which has influenced her pleasure for the art that surrounded her. The house where she was born was full of frescoes and her mother was an art collector, both of famous artists, but was also a patron for new, emerging artists.
Anna always loves to create and experiment with new techniques.
Education
2012 Graduate at The Art Centre, CTS, Visual Art Program, Toronto
2007-2008 Antique gilding technique and restoration, Venice
2006 Silk screen workshop with Open studio instructor Daryl Vocat
2006 Encaustic workshop with Natalie Majaba Waldburger
2002- 2005 Painting, drawing and encaustic with instructor Alvin McIntyre
Fine Art Education at the Art Gallery of Toronto, AGO
Art works Art School, Toronto
University of Padua, Italy
Recognition
2011 Student Recognition "Medallic Art Society"
Interview and Presentations
2012 Panorama magazine, June, July 2012
2012 “The Korean time” newspaper March 10, March 16, March 26, 2012
2009 OMNI television interview
Artist Statement
Painting allows me to free what I have inside through a creative mean giving me a sense of freedom and liberation.
Creating art liberates my mind to express all the thoughts and feeling held captive within the confines of my imagination.
Painting also allows me to capture an image and transform it into what I see through the lens of my heart and seize it forever on canvas.
This brings me joy because it is the only way I can truly share the same emotions with others.
My work has always been influenced by my life in Venice, where I was born and lived for the majority of my life.
Venice for me is a very beautiful place, that gives a feeling of serenity, beauty and emotion, which has inspired generation and generations of artists and poets from all around the world. Anna was honored to have her paintings selected in 2014 at the Carrousel du Louvre, Salon International Art Exhibition in Paris, France.
Her works are held in private collections in Italy, Canada, Switzerland, Germany, Turkey, China, Japan and USA .
Fundraising Events
Art Sale Markhaven Foundation,Markham, On 2017
Third Charitable Marathon, Toronto, June 2017 (For Orphaned Children in Ukraine)
Art Sale Markhaven Foundation, Markham, On 2016
A day of art and soul, Venice for Orphaned children 2012
Art Sale For Sick Kids Hospital Foundation, Toronto, January 2002 Art Sale Markhaven Foundation
Membership
Canadian Society for Art of Imagination
Women’s Art Association of Canada
Teaching experience
AZ Studio-Gallery,Toronto and Venice, 2006 to present
Private collections
Bilkent Art Center, Ankara
Hittite Gallery, Toronto
Law offices, Venice
Commissioned artwork
Murals paintings for Build Max Limited