Michelle Belgiorno is a Sydney based artist who works across various media including oil painting, sculpture and collaborative fabric-based installations. Michelle has been a practicing artist for 25 years. 

Michelle Belgiorno has exhibited in several solo and group exhibitions and been a finalist in many art competitions including the King’s Art Prize, Paddington Art Prize, Mosman Art Prize and the Portia Geach Portrait Prize. She has undertaken five overseas residencies, four in Japan, including at Arts Chiyoda 3331. 

With a long-term interest in the culture of Japan, drawing on a fifty-year engagement with the language, people and aesthetics, her art practice moves between locally inspired landscape painting and Japanese-inspired exhibitions. A reoccurring theme of Belgiorno’s work is the exploration of cross-cultural exchange through art. The current body of work melds the Japanese notion of transience Mujō 無常 with the resilience of the Australian natural environment. 

Belgiorno believes art is a gentle but powerful way to build human connections and to open our minds to new perspectives. 

Belgiorno holds a BA Fine Arts in Painting from the National Art School and a BA Honours in Japanese and a Master of Commerce and is Chair of the Dobell Art Foundation.