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"It is through the honest attempt to capture the appearance that we manage to convey a sense of the soul." - Troy Argyros

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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)

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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

2025 'Tra sguardi e silenzi: La pittura nella tradizione', Villa Romana e Antiquarium, Minori, (SA)

'Tra sguardi e silenzi: La pittura nella tradizione', Spazio Espositivo Punto IAT, Formia (LT)

2024 'Santa Lucia' (oil on linen, 2024) exhibited in Cattedrale di San Pietro Apostolo di Minturno (LT)

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 

2025 3 Day Portrait Painting Workshop, Collettivo InMiranda, Rome

5 Week Intensive Workshop, The Florence Academy of Art, Florence

2024 Portrait Painting Workshop, Atelier Melbourne Art Academy, Oakleigh, Victoria

2024 Still Life Painting Workshop, The Florence Academy of Art, Florence

2024 - Present: Private Portrait Drawing and Painting Workshops

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

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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