AraDona began his venture into the art world at the impressive age of fifteen, being immediately apparent to art scholars and critics that he was an “Art Prodigy.” During his senior year at Glendale High School, his exceptional talent allowed AraDona to procure seventy-five thousand dollars in academic scholarships towards his art education. By great demand from faculty and students, he began selling his artwork as well as establishing a name for himself.

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AraDona graduated at the age of seventeen, receiving immense recognition and over sixteen scholarships from across the United States. Before heading to Italy in order to train under a traditional curriculum, the young artist exhibited his first one-man show at the Pasadena Art Club held in CalTech’s Dabney Hall. More than twenty mid to life-sized paintings were showcased.

After earning his degree from the Florence Academy of Art, AraDona returned to the States with a passion to pursue his career as a portrait and figurative artist.

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At the age of twenty-one the artist already began working with celebrities and socialites in Dallas and Beverly Hills. AraDona has met and painted celebrities such as John Schneider, Dom DeLuise, Burt Reynolds, Ruth Buzzi, Ruta Lee, Barry Corbin and many more.

 AraDona proudly displayed his work in the Museum of Biblical Art in Dallas, Communities Foundation of Texas, Fort Worth Contemporary Arts, Julien's Auction House in Beverly Hills, Heroes for Freedon and Liberty, USS Alabama, philanthropist estates and several public as well as private locations. Some of AraDona’s noted collectors include the Wyly family of Dallas, the Hunts including late Caroline Rose Hunt. 

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The artist continues to work exclusively for Museums and privates collectors both in US and Internationally. 

AraDona currently resides in Cabo san Lucas/Guadalajara with his fiance Sofie Jimenez (founder of Keffek) probiotic water kefir beverages and wellness, where the couple work on projects for both enterprises and integrating knowledge to create new body of works. 

 

Agent

Heather Bednarczyk 

Las Vegas Arts commission

Patron of the Arts