Gianni Monteleone is a native New Yorker. He has studied classical painting since he was sixteen years old. He earned a BFA from the School of Visual Arts (SVA) in Manhattan under the guidance of Steven Assael. SVA later recruited Gianni to teach painting classes.

Gianni's paintings hang in corporate collections throughout the world; including, Time Warner Inc. and New York Times Publishing; private collections from Tel Aviv to Los Angeles; galleries in Santa Fe and New York.

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