Guido Vedovato (Vicenza, Italy, 30 June 1961— ) Italian naïve painter and sculpture.
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Guido Vedovato is one of the best-known Naïve artist. He was born in Vicensa, northern part of Italy. He lives and works in Quinto Vicentino. He graduated as an economist and ha no artist scholar background. Yugoslavian Naïve art had a big effect on his works. It made him to start painting at the end of the 1970s. At the beginning it was one his hobbies, though later it became his profession.
He wants to depict short stories in his paintings. We may have a look at the life of the modern villages in the Italian chains of the Alps. Some of his well-known paints depicts animals in the night, but—as he said, he preferred to paint humans.
His first exhibition was opened in 1986. There are more galleries, which show his works: Museom of Naïve Arts Jagodina (Serbia), Museo Nazionale della Arti Naives „Cesare Zavattini” – Luzzara (Italy), Musée International d’Art Naive – Bages (France), Slovenian National Museum of Naïve Arts - Trebnje (Slovenia), Museo Internacional de Arte Naif Manuel Moral – Jaén (Spain), MAN – Musée d’Art Naif - Béraut (France), Vihorlatské Osvetové Stredisko - Homonna (Slovakia), Musée d’Art Naive International Yvon M. Daigle, Quebec (Canada), MIDAN – Musée International d’Art Naive- Vicq (France), Museo Civico „Umberto Nobile” e d’Arte Naive – Lauro (Italy), Musée d'Art Spontané, Bruxelles (Belgium), National Museum of Naïve Arts – Moscow (Russia).