Fernand D’onofrio

D’Onofrio’s evolution has been stimulated and shaped by a variety of events and choices along the path of life. Honors and prizes like the first prize at the international center for Arts and Letters in 1987, the silver medal in Bézier in 1988, the Bronze medal of the Paris Academy of Arts and Letters in 1990 are bestowed on him.
FR3 television channel has shown him in his own studio. Various radio stations invite him, including France-Culture where he participates in the "Night butterfly" show. Group shows and his commitment to his art have taken him far and wide. The independents’ Salon and the Fall Salon in Paris welcome him. So do Picardie, Orléans, Béziers, Basel, Milan, Rome, Chicago.

In 1996, he was asked to create a label for a special Grand Cru wine celebrating the 100th Birthday of the newspaper l’Alsace. A sample was sent into space to join the Franco-Russian mission Cassiopeia. He feels that in order to perfect his artistic education, traveling for the purpose of questioning himself and his art is absolutely crucial. D’Onofrio decides to explore the United States of America. Confronting this new world is not without difficulties and set-backs. No previous knowledge is there to guide him and he sails toward uncertain horizons.
A first meeting at a gallery in Philadelphia leads to a show.

Bolstered by this adventure, he returns to Europe in 1999.
In march 2000, the New-York Riverrun film festival commisions him to create the festival’s official poster.
His first book entitled Périoste is published in Novembre 2000. Through paintings and stories it invites the reader to the discovery of a rather unusual itinerary. Through his largely abstract canvases, enlivened by vivid reds and juxtaposing shapes, he plumbs the depths of those “natural elements which constitute our world and supernatural manifestations.“  Interestingly, D'onofrio's painting even went beyond the reaches of Earth when a reproduction of one was blasted into space, bound for the space station Mir during the Franco-Russian mission, “Cassiopeia.”  He has been the recipient of numerous honors and prizes including First Prize at the International Center for Arts and Letters, Silver Medal in Bézier, and The Bronze Medal of the Paris Academy of Arts and Letters.