Artist Bio

Zoë DiNardo is a Northern California-based artist whose work encompasses several different mediums, including painting, illustration, printmaking, and cut paper. She received her Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts at the University of California Santa Barbara in June of 2024 and plans on continuing her education by obtaining a Master’s Degree in the future. Her fascination with cartoons and comic art, which began in childhood, drives her research and artistic practice. She currently based in Santa Rosa California, her hometown, and is a lead artist with the award-winning nonprofit ArtStart.

My artistic practice centers around surrealist drawings and paintings that represent complex human emotions and constructs. Because these can often be hard to understand, my work attempts to visualize these concepts by exaggerating them in dark surreal ways as my mind interprets them. My research centers around the history of cartoons and abstract representation of life, how they have evolved into their darker contemporary forms, and how it can be used to further express my own artistic concept. Through further research, I aim to find new innovative ways to represent emotions, historical events, and abstract concepts that we as a human race experience throughout our lives.