Aldo Castillo Gallery

Now representing Tony Chimento

The hyper realist painter, thirty years in Miami and a Pollock Krasner award behind him, joined the gallery.

Acclaimed painter Tony Chimento, one of the most closely watched realist painters, is now represented by the Aldo Castillo Gallery, which has locations in downtown Naples and at the Miromar Design Center in Estero, Southwest Florida.

Chimento has a diverse portfolio and is widely known for his contemporary hyper-realist style. His work includes extremely detailed and complex interior and still life scenes of amazing detail, clarity, composition and color.

Born and raised in New Jersey, he graduated from Rutgers University and then moved to Woodstock, NY where he began his career as an artist. Chimento has built his career and raised to fame as a realist painter after moving to the Miami area 30 years ago.

He was a resident artist of ArtCenterSouthFlorida for many years. From 1994-2000 he served on ArtCenter's Board of Directors and was Vice Chair of the Board from 2000-2005. He is a member of the International Guild of Realism. He has also been a member of: The Wynwood Art Association, Provincetown Art Association & Museum, and The Woodstock Artist Association.

Chimento has shown in numerous one man shows, and been chosen for many regional and national juried shows and competitions including being the recipient of the 2008 Pollack-Krasner Award. Most recently, he was chosen 2nd Place overall winner of 2021 IGOR Spring Salon Show. He has been chosen twice as a winner in the “New American Paintings” competition for the Southern Region. The Winsor & Newton Company chose his work as the winning entry in their 3rd Annual Competition. He has been written about in a large variety of publications including American Artist Magazine and the New York Times. His awards include The New York Graphic Society Award at the National Academy of Design Show in NYC, and the Grand Prize for painting in the prestigious Silver mine Guild Center for the Arts Competition. He has been chosen for awards by jurors like Ted Stebbins, Curator of Paintings, Boston Museum, Vivian Raynor, Art Critic, New York Times, and John I.H. Baur, Director Emeritus, Whitney Museum of Art, NYC.

Art Critic Hilton Kramer, in reviewing a show for the New York Times, containing Tony Chimento’s work commented in a review, “...still there are paintings of some interest here by artists who were new to this writer.... Tony Chimento’s “Sunday Afternoon” is a solid realist work”

In one of the first reviews of his work, Sylvia Day writes in Lifestyle Magazine: “My first introduction to Chimento’s work was at a show at the Woodstock Artist’s Association. There.... was a large painting which made an immediate impression of elegance and uncommon technique... Chimento paints large canvases, their dramatic subject matter and impeccable draughtsmanship a feast for the eye... He owns an original and unmistakably unique style.”