Eolo Paul Bottaro (b. 1974) is an artist working across painting, sculpture, drawing and printmaking. He has been exhibiting regularly since the late 1990's in Melbourne, Sydney, Palermo, and Syracuse. His works have been included in important curated exhibitions of contemporary art and printmaking, including at the Geelong Gallery, Art Gallery of Ballarat, Mildura Arts Centre, Benalla Regional Gallery, Latrobe University, Galleria Regionale Palazzo Bellomo di Siracusa, and the National Arts Club in New York.
Bottaro was the winner of Geelong Acquisitive Print Award (1997, 2011), City of Darebin Art Award (2008), Hutching Acquisitive Art Prize (2011); National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula Regional Art Gallery (2012), and the Nillumbik Art Prize (2012); and his works had been included as finalists in the Archibald Prize, Fleurieu Art Prize, Conrad Jupiters Art Prize, Darebin Latrobe Art Prize, Burnie Print Prize, Rick Amor Drawing Prize, Deakin University Sculpture Award, Kilgour Prize, A.M.E. Bale Travelling Scholarship, and numerous others.
Subject of numerous art reviews and exhibition essays, Bottaro’s works have been acquired by the State Library of Victoria, Geelong Gallery, Monash University, Geelong Gallery, City of Darebin Art Collection, Essendon Airport, Museo Civico Archeologico di Polizzi Generosa, Sicily, as well as notable corporate and private collections in Australia and abroad.