AWARDS

JOHN LANZENDORF-NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC PALEOART PRIZE 2-D ART 2025 | Winner | November 2025, United Kingdom

place every year at the Museum of Paleontology of Montevarchi, Italy. I participated to the 2nd Edition in 2022 with “Infernum”, a painting about the Pliocene fossil site of Bolt’s Farm, in South Africa. The painting has been awarded with a Honorable mention.

MONTEVARCHI ITALIAN PALEOART PRIZE | 1° PRIZE | October 2024, Italy

 

LE MERAVIGLIE DELLA PALEONTOLOGIA – 2° EDIZIONE | SELECTED ARTIST | June 2024, Italy

 

MONTEVARCHI ITALIAN PALEOART PRIZE | AWARDED WITH HONORABLE MENTION | October 2022, Italy
The Italian Paleoart Prize, arrived at its 3rd edition, takes place every year at the Museum of Paleontology of Montevarchi, Italy. I participated to the 2nd Edition in 2022 with “Infernum”, a painting about the Pliocene fossil site of Bolt’s Farm, in South Africa. The painting has been awarded with a Honorable mention.

 

LOURINHÃ PALEOART CONTEST 2022 – X EDITION | AWARDED WITH HONORABLE MENTION | August 2022, Portugal
The Lourinha paleoart prize is one of the most important and long-lived paleoart competitions, being at its 10th edition. I participated to the 2022 Edition with “I Left my Heart in Pikermi”, a mural painting in which I reconstructed a scene of the European Late Miocene. The painting has been awarded with a Honorable mention.

 

CONCURSO ILLUSTRASCIENCIA 2022 – IX EDITION | SELECTED ARTIST | April 2022 / October 2022, Spain
The “Illustraciencia scientific illustration” award, is a scientific illustration competition that takes place every year, promoted by the Illustraciencia association and the Natural History Museum of Madrid. I partecipate in 2022 with a zoological tabke of Great Indian Hornbill. The painting was among selected to be part of an exhibition in the Natural History Museum of Madrid in summer 2022.

CASTILLA Y LEON PALEOART PRIZE – XIII EDITION | SELECTED ARTIST | January 2022 / April 2022, Spain
The Castilla y León paleoart Prize is one of the most long-lived paleoart contest being founded in 2008. In 2021 I’ve participated with two paintings “The Journey of the Survivor” and “Huella inmortal” (Immortal footprint). Both paintings have been selected by the jury and included in the correlated paleoart exhibition at the museum of Sala de los Infantes (Burgos, Spain).

 

MICROCEANO – AREA MARINA PROTETTA MIRAMARE | SELECTED ARTIST | June 2021, Italy

 

PALEOART EXHIBITION – ITALIAN PALEONTOLOGY SOCIETY (SPI) | SELECTED ARTIST | June 2021, Italy
I participated to this exhibition organized and promoted by Italian Paleontology Society with two paintings: “Magnolia-paulia – The herd” and “Mongolian Tyrants”. Both have been included in the exhibition catalogue, “Magnolia-paulia – The Herd” was selected to be included in the exhibition.

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