Fabio Modica was born in Catania in 1978. Being an apprentice to such well-established Italian painters as Alberto Abbate and Antonio Sciacca, he was initially inspired by the classical Renaissance, drawing occasionally on the Greek and Latin mythology. In his early years as a painter, he chose human figures wrapped in a Caravaggesque light as his major subject-matter and oils as his favourite medium. He also tried his hands at several techniques, including watercolours, acrylics and chalks.

His acquaintance with a famous expressionist Italian painter, Antonio Santacroce, who taught him painting at the Nike Academy in Catania, marked a radical change in his work. Under his influence, Modica has gradually departed from the representational style towards a semi-abstracted perspective, in which painting about painting and a love for sheer lines and colours have begun to struggle with his long-lasting feel for figurative art, seeking in vain a balance.

His trip to Mexico marked a further development in this direction, as it triggered a variety of sketches of Mexican villagers’ everyday life which he executed with acrylics on jute in a slightly abstracted manner.

Over time he has grown a passion for the nude art which inspired a series of paintings where representation blends with abstraction, using a vivid and dramatic colour palette.

His most recent pieces are close portraits shaping a particular mood or a piece of memory. They have been accomplished using multiple layers of acrylic paint and a combination of block-style patterns and harsh, thick spatula strokes.

Fabio Modica is currently teaching painting and drawing classes at the Nike Academy, Catania. His work has been included in many shows and group exhibitions in his home town, in Italy and abroad.

He has recently started a fruitful collaboration with two noteworthy Modern and Contemporary Art Galleries in London: "The Brick Lane Gallery" in London's East End and central "Opus Gallery" in Covent Garden. In Italy, he is currently working with Gallery "Il Borgo" in Milan and "Spazio d’Arte l’Altrove" in Ferrara. The latter is going to promote his work in several galleries in Milan, Siena and Bologna over 2010. In Nice, France, his works are permanently displayed at the magnificent Villa Magdalena, alongside Salvatore Fiume’s works. He is about to start a collaboration with Contemporary Art Gallery “Agora” in  Manhattan, NY.