Enzo Prina 'Eurus' Print Available

Artist: Enzo Prina
Title: Eurus
Medium: Giclee Print
Size: 31.5 x 42 Inches
Edition: 35
Price: $1,550

 

Enzo Prina is an artist from the United States, specifically based in Salt Lake City, Utah. His creative journey began in early childhood, eventually leading him to explore a wide variety of mediums including oil painting, ceramics, and filmmaking. During his high school years, he developed a deep fascination with moiré patterns, which are optical illusions created when multiple sets of lines or grids overlap to form shifting, wave-like designs. This interest grew into a signature style that focuses on the interplay of movement and perception, often using acrylic and resin on wood or panel to create pieces that appear to vibrate or pulse as a viewer moves around them.

Before fully committing to his artistic practice in late 2024, he spent several years as an entrepreneur and digital creator, building brands that reached millions of followers. The passing of his grandfather served as a pivotal moment that reignited his passion for fine art, leading him to dedicate his time to creating complex kinetic works. His process often involves a rigorous approach to layering, sometimes incorporating hand-drawn geometric patterns or digital line arrays that are meticulously hand-embellished. By utilizing these techniques, he transforms static surfaces into living experiences that explore the unstable nature of human consciousness and visual awareness. His work has gained significant attention through solo exhibitions and social media, where the hypnotic nature of his shifting patterns resonates with a global audience.

Enzo Prina 'Aurora' Print Available

Artist: Enzo Prina
Title: Aurora
Medium: Giclee Print
Size: 18 x 22.5 Inches
Edition: 50
Price: $575

 

Enzo Prina 'Photon' Print Available

Artist: Enzo Prina
Title: Photon
Medium: Giclee Print
Size: 22.5 x 30 Inches
Edition: 50
Price: $850

 

Enzo Prina is an American artist recognized for his rigorous conceptual approach to photography and the structural frameworks of art history. His practice often involves an analytical examination of how images are produced, classified, and perceived within the institutional gallery space. By focusing on the mechanics behind the creation of an image, Prina challenges the viewer to look beyond the surface of a photograph and consider the socio-political and historical context that informs its existence.

A recurring theme in his work is the investigation of color and its standardized reproduction. Prina frequently utilizes monochromatic scales or industrial color systems to highlight the tension between artistic intuition and the rigid objectivity of technical processes. His projects often take the form of serialized installations where the repetition of form serves to strip away traditional notions of authorship, instead emphasizing the archival nature of the medium.

Prina’s influence extends into his role as an educator, where he has shaped the discourse around modern visual culture for decades. His exhibitions typically function as a dialogue with the past, referencing specific historical movements while deconstructing their aesthetic tropes. Through a precise and often minimalist vocabulary, he strips the photographic object of its purely decorative qualities, transforming the act of seeing into an intellectual exercise. This commitment to intellectual clarity ensures that his contributions remain central to the ongoing evolution of conceptual art in the United States.

Enzo Prina 'That's A Moire' HPM #28 Available

Artist: Enzo Prina
Title: That's A Moire #28
Medium: Hand Embellished Giclee on Canvas
Size: 24 x 30 Inches
Edition: UNIQUE
Price: $1,000

 

Enzo Prina is an Italian contemporary artist whose kinetic moiré works transform static walls into pulsing fields of visual vibration. Born in Italy and now based in Salt Lake City, Utah, he discovered early that overlapping precise lines could create the illusion of motion, a fascination that grew into his signature technique . Working with acrylic, epoxy resin and sometimes aluminum panel, he builds multiple transparent layers, each carrying hair thin grids or concentric arcs. When these layers shift against one another, either by viewer movement or subtle rotation of the surface, waves, spirals and glitches ripple across the picture plane, an effect he likens to digital code made physical.

Process is both scientific and intuitive. Prina begins with vector diagrams plotted on screen, yet final decisions happen in the studio as he sands, pours and polishes resin to achieve glass like depth. Colour palettes range from volcanic reds and charred oranges in the large scale VESUVIUS to cool cobalt and silver in his recent Digital Love series, each hue chosen to amplify the moiré flutter without overwhelming it . The works behave like living organisms, changing under different light conditions and never revealing the same image twice.

Exhibitions at Zach Frank Gallery and Art Miami have sold out rapidly, while short form videos of his canvases spinning on turntables circulate widely online, turning optical illusion into social media spectacle . Through meticulous craft and playful engineering, Prina offers viewers a rare experience: the chance to watch paint stand still while the picture dances.

Enzo Prina 'That's A Moire' HPM #44 Available

Artist: Enzo Prina
Title: That's A Moire #44
Medium: Hand Embellished Giclee on Canvas
Size: 24 x 32 Inches
Edition: UNIQUE
Price: $1,000

Enzo Prina is an American contemporary artist born in 1997 and based in Salt Lake City, Utah, whose hypnotic paintings turn simple lines into shimmering fields of motion. He began drawing the moment he could grip a crayon, won a Game Boy in a Walgreens coloring contest at age five, and later taught himself oil painting with a Bob Ross set, experiences that instilled early respect for patience and pigment . While studying filmmaking in high school he discovered moiré patterns and became obsessed with their optical pulse, first replicating them by hand with rulers, then refining the process into a signature style that merges kinetic art with meditative repetition.

Prina now builds each work in layers: he designs digital line arrays, prints them onto fine weave canvas, then hand embellishes every sheet with acrylic and alcohol inks so that no two pieces are identical. The finished surfaces appear to vibrate, glitch and slide as viewers shift position, transforming static walls into living screens. Limited editions such as the That is a Moiré series sell out in weekly drops, and his large scale installations have been featured by Oliver Cole Gallery and across social media, where millions watch him peel masking tape to reveal undulating waves of colour.

Despite rapid success, Prina keeps production intimate, working out of a small studio and shipping worldwide himself. By blending analog precision with digital clarity, he offers a contemporary form of Op Art that feels both scientific and playful, reminding onlookers that vision itself is a moving target and that even the simplest line can contain infinite motion.

Enzo Prina 'Digital Sunset' Print Available

Artist: Enzo Prina
Title: Digital Sunset
Medium: Resin Coated Hand Embellished Giclee Print
Size: 24 x 36 Inches
Edition: 100
Prices: $350