​MICO ART

Canadian artist, Mico Mancuso was born in Sault Ste Marie, Ontario in 1960. He began drawing at a very early age. His mother would tell him that as a small child he would crawl into large cardboard boxes with his pencil and scribble on the inside walls for hours.

 

In the early 1980s Mico went on to study at the Ontario College of Art in Toronto. After receiving the Elizabeth Greenshields of Canada Award and the Professional Art Dealers of Canada Scholarship in his graduate year, he went to Florence, Italy to study the works of the great Italian masters and travel south to explore his Italian roots.

 

In 1985 Mico moved to the West Coast of Canada and fell in love with the city of Vancouver. He was greatly influenced by the work of the West Coast Native people wich would forever change his artistic style. Mico has called Vancouver his home since but his life growing up in a small town in Northern Ontario still influences his work.