Steven Antonio Manes (1993, BE) Belgium based Italian visual artist

Steven Antonio Manes channels emotion with a raw physicality that leaves nothing concealed. Across both his sculptures and drawings, he crafts a singular, deeply personal visual language. Every line springs from the body, every material bears the imprint of something once felt too deep for words.

His work stands as a physical manifestation of inner conflict, a visual diary where emotion, identity, and memory dissolve into tangible form. Manes strives to give form to the formless: the fleeting, overwhelming intensity of human existence.

In his drawings, he scratches emotions onto paper, capturing a perpetual confrontation with the self, a struggle that feels at once deeply personal and universally shared.

His sculptures are raw and instinctive, and therefore profoundly sincere. They call to mind the rugged landscapes of Southern Italy, the wild seas, the fractured rocks,… not only echoing his roots but also the primal force that runs through his work.

He earned his Master’s degree in Sculpture at Sint-Lucas in Ghent (2017).

STUDIES

• 2017 - 2019 LUCA School of Arts, teacher programme, Ghent

• 2016 - 2018 LUCA School of Arts, Master in Visual Arts - Sculpture, Ghent

• 2014 - 2017 LUCA School of Arts, Bachelor in Visual Arts - Sculpture, Ghent

• 2011 - 2012  PHL Mad Faculty, Bachelor in Sculpture, Hasselt

• 2009 - 2011 PIKOH Kunsthumaniora, Visual Arts, Hasselt

• 2007 - 2009 PIKOH Kunsthumaniora, Artistic Education, Hasselt