Of Italian father and Argentinian mother, Valeria Fano was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina and resides in Burgundy, France, since 2017. She started her career as an artist at the University of Cambridge (1980 to 1981) and studied Art History in 1985 at the School of Architecture of the University of Florence, Italy (Gothic to Baroque periods). Returning to her native city, she pursued her art studies with Kenneth Kemble and thereafter with Maggie Atienza.
In 1997 she presented her first individual art exhibition at the Pan-American Hotel of Buenos Aires. That same year, sponsored by the Argentine Consulate in New York, she presented her works at the Angel Orensanz Foundation in New York. In the year 2000 she adopts a unique abstract style which has personalized and characterized her work from thereon.
In 2005, she was selected as solo by the Department of Culture of the Argentine Senate to present her works at the golden hall of the National Congress. She thereafter donated an artwork which is now at the Parliamentary Museum of Buenos Aires.
In 2007 she took part in Venice at the Pardes Institute (Rosetto Dialetico). This work was presented under the name of “Cosmo Pasionale”.
In 2008 she donates several art works to the Point Coeur Foundation which were sold at the New York’s auction house of Sotheby’s.
In 2016 The World Bank acquires four art pieces for the Washington DC headquarters.
As from 2017 she continued working, in Buenos Aires she showed in Bada, as a collective exhibition.
In 2018, already living in France she worked to prepare the following exhibitions, in April she started by New York showing her work in “Art Expo".
She followed her work showing for the Venice Bienal in the "It’s Liquid" Gallery in a show named “Anima Mundi”.
Next she finishes 2019 exhibits in Lisbon, Portugal, at “Colorida Art Gallery".
In 2020 she began showing in Punta del Este for Norma Duek.
And in February 2020 she showed her work in Grand Palais, Paris. Selected by a Jury.
Nowadays she is preparing a solo show to be for next October in Chapel Saint Etienne in Beaune, France.
Valeria Fano exhibited her works in Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Spain, Italy and the United States. She is presently living and working in Burgundy, France.