
"It is through the honest attempt to capture the appearance that we manage to convey a sense of the soul." - Troy Argyros
Biography
Troy Argyros (Melbourne, 1990) is a classically trained realist oil painter. He is a 2021 graduate of The Florence Academy of Art, and in 2023 undertook further training at Charles H. Cecil Studios in Florence focusing on portrait painting. Troy holds a Bachelor of Fine Art Painting and a Graduate Diploma of Visual Art Education from Monash University in Melbourne, and has also studied intermittently at The Julian Ashton Art School in Sydney.
Troy has exhibited his work in group shows throughout Australia and Italy, including The AME Bale Travelling Scholarship in Melbourne and "Oceania" at Gruppo Donatello in Florence. He has held six solo exhibitions in Melbourne, and is included in several private collections in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States. Troy teaches workshops in academic drawing and painting, specialising in oil portraiture in sight-size and to the scale of life. Most recently he has taught at Atelier Melbourne Art Academy, and privately from his own studio or in collaboration with other studios. In 2017, Troy was awarded 1st place in The Graeme Hildebrand Prize for Young and Emerging Artists in the oil painting category. In 2019 he undertook an artist residency at Casa Lu in Mexico City, and over two winters in 2021 and 2022 was an artist in residence at The Art Gallery of Ballarat, Victoria, creating a half-scale master copy of Solomon J Solomon's "Ajax and Cassandra". Recently he painted a portrait of the renowned singer-songwriter Tina Arena. Troy is currently working from a studio in Pontedera, a town near Pisa, Italy, and is accepting commissions..
Education
2023 Portrait Painting, Charles H. Cecil Studios, Florence (Three Months)
2021 Drawing and Painting Program, The Florence Academy of Art, Florence (Three Years)
2013 Graduate Diploma of Visual Arts Education, Monash University, Melbourne (One Year)
2012 Bachelor of Fine Art: Painting, Monash University, Melbourne (Three Years)
2009 Certificate IV in Visual Arts and Contemporary Craft, Holmesglen TAFE, Melbourne (One Year)
2016 Figure Drawing Workshop, Julian Ashton Art School, Sydney (One Week)
2015 Figure Painting Workshop, Julian Ashton Art School, Sydney (One Week)
2014 Figure Painting Workshop, The Florence Academy of Art, Florence (One Month)
Solo Exhibitions and Unique Exhibits
2024 'Santa Lucia', Cattedrale di San Pietro Apostolo di Minturno, Lazio
2021 'Awakening', Melbourne Studio of Art, Elsternwick, Victoria
2018 'Cosmos', Melbourne Studio of Art, Elsternwick, Victoria
2017 'Small Pictures', Melbourne Studio of Art, Elsternwick, Victoria
2015 'Fragments of Florence', Sofitel Melbourne on Collins, Melbourne
2014 'Cultural Entomology', Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy, Victoria
2013 'You Have Been Loved', Red Gallery Contemporary Art Space, Fitzroy North, Victoria
Group Exhibitions
2022 Oceania, Gruppo Donatello, Florence
AME Bale Travelling Scholarship Exhibition, Glen Eira Gallery, Caulfield, Victoria
Lefkadian Brotherhood 80th Anniversary Exhibition, Coburg, Victoria
2020 AME Bale Travelling Scholarship Exhibition, Glen Eira Gallery, Caulfield, Victoria
BAM Art Prize, Northern Rivers Community Gallery, Ballina, New South Wales
Tony White Memorial Art Prize, Kangaroo Valley Hall Gallery, Kangaroo Valley, New South Wales
2019 The Kennedy Prize, Royal South Australian Society of Arts Gallery, Adelaide
2018 AME Bale Traveling Scholarship Exhibition, Glen Eira Gallery, Caulfield, Victoria
2017 Manning Art Prize, Manning Regional Gallery, Taree, New South Wales
2016 Art Town, Chapel Off Chapel Gallery, Prahran, Victoria
2015 Re/Collected, Montsalvat, Eltham, Victoria
40 x 40 Art Prize and Exhibition, Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy, Victoria
Small Works, Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy, Victoria
2014 AME Bale Traveling Scholarship Exhibition, Glen Eira Gallery, Caulfield, Victoria
Eutick Memorial Still Life Award, Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery, Coffs Harbour (2nd consecutive year)
Postcard Prize, Linden New Art, St Kilda, Victoria
Lethbridge 10,000, Lethbridge Gallery, Paddington, Queensland
2013 Small Works, Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy, Victoria
Art Town, Chapel Off Chapel Gallery, Prahran, Victoria (3rd consecutive year)
Awards
2017 1st Prize, Graeme Hildebrand Prize for Young and Emerging Artists (oil painting category)
2014 Summer Scholarship recipient; 4 week figure painting workshop, The Florence Academy of Art, Florence
2013 2nd Prize, Small Works, Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy, Victoria
1st Prize, Art Town, Chapel Off Chapel Gallery, Prahran, Victoria
2012 2nd Prize, Art Town, Chapel Off Chapel Gallery, Prahran, Victoria
2011 3rd Prize, Art Town, Chapel Off Chapel Gallery, Prahran, Victoria
2006 Deans Art Scholarship, Ashwood College, Ashwood, Victoria
Teaching
2024 Portrait Painting Workshop, Atelier Melbourne Art Academy, Oakleigh, Victoria
2024 Still Life Painting Workshop, The Florence Academy of Art, Florence
2023-24 Portrait Painting Workshops, Art Studio 10, Florence
2022 Academic Drawing and Painting Tutor, The Florence Art Studio, Florence
2020 - 2022, Academic Drawing and Painting Tutor, Fitzroy Painting, Fitzroy, Victoria
2017 - 2021 Academic Drawing and Painting Tutor, Melbourne Studio of Art, Elsternwick, Victoria
Artist Residencies
2022 Copying a Masterpiece: Ajax and Cassandra by Solomon J Solomon, Art Gallery of Ballarat, Victoria
2019 Casa Lu, Parque Hundido, Mexico City, Mexico
© 2024 Troy Argyros.