Vittorio Bonapace is an Italian digital artist, scenographer and art director based in London who combines 3D art and digital painting to tell stories.,He trained in stage and production design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome and worked for several years as a scenic artist and painter with Maurizio Varamo at Rome's Teatro dell'Opera, painting large backdrop canvases for its productions.,
He later specialised as a 3D artist in architectural visualisation, working as an art director for several London-based visualisation firms before founding his own studio, Bonapace Studio, in Hackney.Since being featured on the platform SuperRare in June 2021, his blockchain-based digital works have consistently sold out there.,For each artwork he composes original music, blending digital and classical sounds developed over several weeks alongside the visual work.
In 2021 he made A.D. 2000, a set of works including A.D. 2000: Crucifixion, that reinterpret gospel scenes through a science-fiction visual language. He has described his religious imagery as a sociological study rather than an expression of personal faith. He also created the triptych La Divina Commedia, reinterpreting Dante's Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso as a journey in which masked figures gradually shed their masks, moving from concealment toward self-discovery.
His work has been shown at Art Basel in Miami, Sotheby's in Paris and Frieze in Seoul. In 2023 he took part in “Physical/Digital” at the Dynamic Art Museum in Milan, one of Italy's early explorations of phygital art, and in an exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery in London devoted to digital art.In 2024 his work was shown at the entrance to “Dal Cuore alle Mani”, Dolce & Gabbana's traveling exhibition at the Palazzo Reale in Milan, alongside pieces by Quayola, Alberto Maria Colombo, Obvious and Felice Limosani.,The exhibition continued to the Grand Palais in Paris and the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome in 2025, then to the Institute of Contemporary Art in Miami in 2026.
