DotPigeon

DotPigeon (Stefano Fraone, b. 1987) was born in Milan, where he lives and works. Self taught, he spent more than ten years as an advertising art director before starting to make his own work in 2017. His paintings are made digitally and printed on canvas, and they follow one recurring character: a burglar in a balaclava moving through opulent mansions hung with blue chip works by Hirst, KAWS, Nara and Basquiat. The scenes are cinematic and darkly funny, and the intruder functions as a kind of self portrait, the rioter behind the face everyone keeps up in public.

His work has been shown in Italy, Germany, the UK, China and the United States, including at Galerie Nagel Draxler in Cologne, and has passed through auctions at Christie's and Sotheby's, with White Chip Forever selling at Christie's in 2021. That same year his work was included in The Gateway, presented by Christie's and nft now at Art Basel Miami Beach, and NFTNow named him among its hundred most influential creators.

DotPigeon has been represented by Plan X since 2018, when the gallery presented Twisted in Milan. Six exhibitions have followed, among them Cut, Copy, Paste (2020), Lost in Crypto (2021), FOMO (2022) and Triumph Over Self (2024), alongside the gallery's presentation of his work at Art Dubai in 2023.