Pier Maurizio Greco was born in Modena, lives and works in Rome. He graduated in History of Contemporary Art at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, with a thesis on Mario Schifano, the result of personal meetings with the artist in his Roman studio, and obtained a teaching qualification (class 61A – History of Art) in the 1999/2000 teaching competition.
Since the end of the 1980s he has used photography as a tool for investigation and research, starting from material textures and details of random objects. A few years later he began to paint, took painting courses, and investigated the expressive possibilities of acrylic painting, a technique that still constitutes his pictorial practice of choice. The first works on canvas are characterized by a strong abstract matrix, attributable to an informal tone and sign, in which ethnic suggestions and references to symbolic images sometimes emerge. Gradually, a synthetic process takes shape over time, a condition in which the pictorial surface constitutes the territory of contiguity between objective reality and abstraction.
He has exhibited in numerous exhibitions in Italy and abroad.