ARUAL JAY was born just some few years ago, in 2012, by the fervid imagination of her "real" counterpart that it happens to be me. But I will remain hidden behind her, as she has been obliged for a longtime to lay, concealed, in the "dream section" of my spirit and my soul, while I hardly tried to be the girl, then the woman, my parents would like me to be.

She, nonetheless, has been inside me from the very beginning, that first exposition when I was just 2 years old and she painted my granny's curtains (great success with the public, my brother, quite cold the reaction of the critic, my granny, and parents). Not a big surprise, then, that she has to be a self-taught artist, whose interests now range from painting to drawing, by using various media and supports.

It's been a (little) while that she (ARUAL) decide to try and go public, revealing her presence inside of me, by participating to the following exposition: EXPO 2015 - SATURA GALLERY - May 2015 (Italy); BIENNALE of GENOVA 2015 (Winner of Painting Prize) - July 2015 (Italy);
Itinerant SOLO Exhibition - (South France) - MERCANTOUR - 31/07-20/08/2015 (France); PARATISSIMA #11 - Torino - 04/11-08/11/2015 - (Italy); MAUTO Museum- Torino - HITPARADE (03/12/2015 to 13/03/2016) - (Italy) PARATISSIMA SKOPJE – Skopje – 10-12/06/2016 - (Macedonia); PARATISSIMA LISBOA – Lisbon – 20-24/07/2016 – (Portugal)  SaturARTE 2016 – Genova september 2016 (Italy)  College Sévigné – Paris V arr. july 2017 (France)  PARATISSIMA BOLOGNA ART Fair – Bologna – 01-02/02/2019 (Italy)  ITALIAN ART in PARIS – collective exhibition 15-27/06/2019 LeLocal 14 Paris (France)  ARTIT – collective exhibition – 28/06-07/07/2019 – Paris (France)

ARUAL JAY won the following award: BEST PAINTING PRIZE – BIENNALE OF GENOA 2015 one of the BEST 15 ARTISTS out of 500 artists participating at PARATISSIMA#11 3Rd place AWARD SATURARTE 2016 – BEST PAINTING Prize AROUND – PARATISSIMA 2016

ARUAL JAY has been spotlighted in a dedicated magazine article: On FRATTURA SCOMPOSTA (http://www.fratturascomposta.it/), online art magazine (Mars/April 2016 issue); On PLEIZER (http://plezirmagazin.net/plezir-julavgust-2016/), art magazine (July/August 2016 issue).

The artistic search of ARUAL JAY is based on the study of human beings - women, particularly, considered to be the core of her works, in a sort of revised and re-actualized edition of the principles of the Renaissance Humanism. ARUAL strongly believes in the reaffirmation of the figurative way of painting and drawing, which can be a subtler and finer manner to represent multifaceted meanings - compared to the more abstract and openly intellectualistic ones. Besides, she polemically asserts the possibility to be creative despite the deployment of technical skills, against the apparently worldwide spread axiom according to which the more you did just some doodling, the more you are a genius of modern art and creativity.

She currently lives and works in Paris - at her own artworks and on commissions.