Rosso Emerald Crimson
It's all the women I've painted, and if I ever paint men, I'll be them too.
Between dream and reality
Mixed technique on boardBiography
Born and raised in Sicily, Rosso moved permanently to London in the early 2000s. She holds a Masters in International Communications and Human Rights and worked in advertising before moving into the visual arts. In his short but intense artistic career, he has won several art awards, starting from the 2016 “Emerald Winter Pride Award”, organized by Pride UK, where he won the First Prize with his self-portrait “Madame Mustache”, a work that challenges traditional binary notions of gender. This was shortly followed by another first prize for the Holly Bush “Emerging Woman Painter Prize”, which led to Rosso's first solo exhibition at the CASSart headquarters gallery in Islington (London). In 2019 Rosso was awarded the first prize in the portrait/figurative category at the “Jackson Open Painting Prize”. She was selected to participate in “Sky Portrait Artist Of The Year” in 2019 and again in 2021 with her two self-portraits “Lost Identity” (2019) and “Fragile” (2020). In 2021, his painting “La Roja, La Morena” was a finalist of the renowned “Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize”, which has opened the door to international collaborations and exhibitions with galleries in the United States (Sugarlift, Principle Gallery), Canada (James Baerd Gallery), Norway (Romfjord Gallery), Germany (Stoerpunkt).
Since spring 2022, Rosso has been active in web3, offering her artworks as NFTs. His art has been exhibited at NFTLiverpool, featured on Times Square billboards during NFT_NYC, and selected to be on tickets to NFTLondon.
Rosso has appeared in Colossal, Create Mag, Evolved Mag, MyModernMet, Artists&Illustrator; The Artist's Magazine, etc. and his painting “Climate Rebel” (2019) was on the cover of Arena Magazine (Australia); his work has been sold to renowned art collectors around the world.
Competitions and Awards
2021 — Finalist in the “Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize” 2021 (traditional art)
2021 — Honorable mention “Blue Review Art Prize” 2021 (New York)
2021 — Shortlisted for “The Viking Cruise Art Prize 2021” (A&I magazine)
2020 — Contestant in “Sky Portrait Artist of The Year SERIES 7”, Sky Arts
2019 — WINNER of the Portrait/Figure Prize of the “Jackson Open Painting Prize 2019” (JOPP2019)
2019 — “The Artist's Exhibition Award”, TALP OPEN 2019
2019 — “The Harbor Gallery Award”, TALP OPEN 2019
2019 — Contestant in “Sky Portrait Artist of The Year 2019”, Sky Arts
2018 — Shortlisted for “Artist of The Year 2018”, Mall Galleries (Artists and Illustrator)
2017 — WINNER of the “Holly Bush Emerging Woman Painter Prize 2017”
2016 — WINNER of the “Emerald Winter Pride Art Awards 2016”
2015 — Finalist at “ArtsDepot Open 2015”
PRESS & publications
Create Magazine
John Dalton Podcasts (“Red Emerald Crimson Uncut”, an interview with John Dalton Dec.2021)
Artsummit
Artists&Illustrators
“Arena magazine”, cover for issue 161, Aug. 2019
The Artist's Magazine
“Portraits for NHS Heroes”, Nov. 2020
“The Artist Magazine”, October issue, 2019
“Quotes – Inspirational quotations / Creative Responses”, Strawlitter Production, 2019
Yearbook “Arte y Libertad XIII”, Artelibre, 2018
The Guide Artists, Interview of the month, Issue 11, Jan. 2018
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
New artists exhibition, Principle Gallery (US) – November 2022
WAGMI, CAP Gallery, Kuwait City (Kuwait) – November 2022
NFT London (displayed on the entry ticket)
Woman, James Baird Gallery, Canada – October 2022
Uncurated, Stoerpunkt, Munich, July/Aug 2022
NFTNYC 2022 – June 21 – 24th
Many Moons, Robert Lange Studio Gallery, US – May/June 2022
Sky Art Self-portrait Exhibition, Compton Verney Hall, UK – Feb-June 2022
the Blue Review Art Prize exhibition, Sugarlift gallery, (New York/ online on Etsy), Nov. 2021
Major Figures, Saatchiart, Oct/Dec. 2021
Summer exhibition, GALLERI RAMFJORD, Oslo (July 2021)
“The Viking Cruise Art Exhibition” (shortlist group exhibition), London
“The Artists' Exhibition”, with “The Artists Magazine”, Patching Art Centre, Nottingham
“Women in Art”, Zebra One Gallery, London (March 2021)
“Group Show”, Zebra One Gallery, London (Feb. 2021)
2019-2020
Summer Exhibition, Green & Stone Gallery, Fulham, London (Aug. 2020)
The Artist Collection, Patchings Art Centre, Nottinghamshire, October – November 2020
THE OTHER ART FAIR, CALM art collective x Connor Brothers, London, March 2020
Elevate 02, The Shard, London, December 2019
Art Fair East, Underdog Gallery, Norwich, November 2019
Utopia, BSMT relaunch, BSMT, London, October 2019
Summer Exhibition, Underdog Gallery, London, August 2019
The Artist Open Art Competition (TALP OPEN 2019), Patching Art Centre, Nottinghamshire, 2019
AFFORDABLE ART FAIR, Jackson Painting Prize Finalists, Hampstead Heath, May 2019
The Occult and Symbolism, Underdog Gallery, London, April 2019
Selected past exhibitions
Art Fair East, Underdog Gallery, Norwich (Dec 2018)
Rosso going Solo, The Art Space, Cass Art, Islington, London, (June 2018 – part of the Holly Bush Painter Prize 2017)
Artist of The Year 2018, Mall Galleries, London (Feb 2018)
AWE, Art Women and Evolution, The Bloomsbury, London (Feb 2018)
WIA women in art, Peggy Jay Gallery, Burgh House, Hampstead, London (2017)
Summer Show, Creative Debut, London (2017)
“The Londoner Compass”, The Strand Gallery, London (2017)
“WITP”, The Strand Gallery, London (2016)
“Tribe16”, Chrom Art, The Ugly Duck, London (2016)
“It's Art Exhibition”, D-Contemporary, Mayfair, London (2016)
“Debased”, Cultivate collective, BSMT space, London (2016)
“The Human Figure: Myth and Storytelling”, The Gallery, Stoke Newington, London (2016)
Summer Salon, Islington Art Factory, London (2016)
“Emerald Life Winter Pride Art Awards”, Islington Art Factory, London (2016)
“Hand Maid”, S'A collective, Hoxton Arches Gallery, London(2016)
“Urban Art Experience”, Nude Tin Can Gallery, St Albans (2016)
“Homunculus”, Asylum, London (2016)
“ICADF 2015”, Islington Contemporary Art & Design Fair, London (2015)
“Painting & Sculpture”, Candid Art Gallery, London (2015)
“Portraits”, Espacio gallery, London (2015)
Outsider Art Exhibition, Candid Art Gallery, London (2015)
“FLUX”, Gray's Art Gallery, London (2015)
“Seams”, Sweat'Art Collective, Hoxton Arches Gallery, London (2015)
“Royal Art in the World – Italian and Foreign Contemporary Art”, ROA Royal Opera Arcade, London (2015)
“NOT the Royal Academy”, Llewellyn Alexander Gallery, London (2014)
“Artsdepot Open 2014”, Artsdepot, London (2014)