Guy Maestri

{{short description|Australian contemporary artist}}

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| field = Painting

| training = National Art School in Darlinghurst

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Guido Maestri (born in Mudgee, New South Wales in 1974) is an Australian contemporary artist. He won the 2009 Archibald Prize for a portrait of Australian singer and musician Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu{{cite web |url=http://archive.thearchibaldprize.com.au/09/winners/archibald.html |title=Archibald Prize 2009: Archibald Prize Winner |publisher= thearchibaldprize.com |accessdate=25 April 2011}} which he later donated to the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra.{{Cite web |title=Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu, 2009 |url=http://www.portrait.gov.au/portraits/2011.50/geoffrey-gurrumul-yunupingu/ |access-date=2024-06-08 |website=National Portrait Gallery collection}}

Maestri completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the National Art School in Darlinghurst in 2003. He was a finalist in the 2007 and 2008 Dobell Drawing Prize.{{cite web |url=http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2009/03/29/2528956.htm |title=Brunch - Guy Maestri - ABC Sydney |date= 2009-03-29 |publisher= Australian Broadcasting Corporation |accessdate=25 April 2011}} He was also an Archibald Prize finalist in 2016,{{Cite web |title=Archibald Prize Archibald 2016 work: Shattered (Griggs) by Guido (Guy) Maestri |url=https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/prizes/archibald/2016/29736/ |access-date=2024-06-08 |website=Art Gallery of New South Wales |language=en}} 2020{{Cite web |title=Archibald Prize Archibald 2020 work: JB reading by Guido (Guy) Maestri |url=https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/prizes/archibald/2020/30231/ |access-date=2024-06-08 |website=Art Gallery of New South Wales |language=en}} and 2024{{Cite web |title=Archibald Prize Archibald 2024 work: Obscured self-portrait by Guido (Guy) Maestri |url=https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/prizes/archibald/2024/30658/ |access-date=2024-06-08 |website=Art Gallery of New South Wales |language=en}} and a Wynne Prize finalist in 2012,{{Cite web |title=Archibald Prize Wynne 2012 work: No man’s land no. 7 by Guido (Guy) Maestri |url=https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/prizes/wynne/2012/29200/ |access-date=2024-06-08 |website=www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au |language=en}} 2013,{{Cite web |title=Archibald Prize Wynne 2013 work: Last light over Ball’s Pyramid by Guido (Guy) Maestri |url=https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/prizes/wynne/2013/29411/ |access-date=2024-06-08 |website=Art Gallery of New South Wales |language=en}} 2014,{{Cite web |title=Archibald Prize Wynne 2014 work: East west cutting by Guido (Guy) Maestri |url=https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/prizes/wynne/2014/29538/ |access-date=2024-06-08 |website=Art Gallery of New South Wales |language=en}} 2016,{{Cite web |title=Archibald Prize Wynne 2016 work: Grange Burn Bridge by Guido (Guy) Maestri |url=https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/prizes/wynne/2016/29805/ |access-date=2024-06-08 |website=Art Gallery of New South Wales |language=en}} 2017,{{Cite web |title=Archibald Prize Wynne 2017 work: Self-portrait (for posterity) by Guido (Guy) Maestri |url=https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/prizes/wynne/2017/29877/ |access-date=2024-06-08 |website=Art Gallery of New South Wales |language=en}} 2018,{{Cite web |title=Archibald Prize finalists 2018 {{!}} Art Gallery of NSW |url=https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/prizes/archibald/2018/ |access-date=2024-06-08 |website=Art Gallery of New South Wales}} 2021{{Cite web |title=Archibald Prize Wynne 2021 work: The flood by Guido (Guy) Maestri |url=https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/prizes/wynne/2021/30352/ |access-date=2024-06-08 |website=Art Gallery of New South Wales |language=en}} and 2023.{{Cite web |title=Archibald Prize Wynne 2023 work: Wombarra by Guido (Guy) Maestri |url=https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/prizes/wynne/2023/30512/ |access-date=2024-06-08 |website=Art Gallery of New South Wales |language=en}} His 2020 Wynne Prize entry, The rain song, was acquired by the Art Gallery of New South Wales.{{Cite web |title=Acquisitions from the Archibald and Wynne Prizes 2020 |url=https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/artsets/d4sqk9 |access-date=2024-06-08 |website=Art Gallery of New South Wales |language=en}}

He is represented by Jan Murphy Gallery (Brisbane) and Yavuz Gallery (Sydney and Singapore).