Orazio Barbagallo is born in Monza (Italy) on February the 17th 1961, to a family where the profession of chiseler had been passed from a father to a son.
In 1980, he takes part in a group exhibition in the castle of Merate (province of Como, Italy.) In 1988, he starts an intensive period of exhibitions that takes him to Rome, Modena, Carpi, Bergamo, Taormina and Zurich. In 1992, he has a solo exhibition in Palace of Studies in Monza and the following year another solo exhibition in the gallery Zeusi in Monza. In November of the same year, he is selected and invited to exhibit in the Palazzo della Permanente in Milan to compete for the San Carlo Award. In August of 1993, he takes part in the second symposium of sculpture in Spinetoli (Ascoli Piceno, Italy) for which he creates a piece entitled “Prisma” which is on permanent display at the local Museum of Sculpture. In 1997, he completes two mosaics under the theme of the Annunciation for the façade of the Santa Margherita Church in Vimercate (Milan, Italy.)
In 2000, two bronze panels, created for the altar of the Santa Margherita church under the theme of the New and Old Testament, are unveiled. In April 2001, one of his personal exhibitions is hosted by Torre Medioevale in Colnago (Milan, Italy.) In June of the same year, he is invited to participate in the EuropeanMeeting of Sculpture in Montauban, France, with six other sculptors. In 2002, he donates one of his “Nike” sculptures to a newly established modern art museum called Vito Mele Basilica-Santuario “Santa Maria de Finibus Terrae” in Santa Maria di Leuca. He is later invited to the symposium Scultura Viva in San Benedetto del Tronto (Ascoli Piceno,Italy) and in October to the symposium La Mulera in Vigano’ (Lucca, Italy) where he creates a sculpture in sandstone.
In 2005 he is again invited to Montauban (France) for The Third European Meeting of Sculpture and to the exhibition at the Belleperche Abbey. In July he opens a solo exhibition in the Portec Hall of the Clock Palace of Clusone (Bergamo, Italy). That same year he donates the piece “La Famiglia” (the family) to the Museum of Italian Contemporary Art of Durazzo (Albania) and he is invited to the first Biennale Internazionale d’Arte (Grameen) Microcredito Ankara (Turkey).
In July and August he participates in two symposia in Calabria (Italy): in Stefanaconi with the creation of the sculpture “Coppia” (couple) in stone of Comiso, and at Girifalco with “Figura” (figure) in Carrara’s marble.
In 2006 “Nel Vento” (in the wind) is the title and the theme of his personal show at Macherio (Milano, Italy) in the Curt Del Cagnat exhibition hall, and “Ventipiu’cento” (twentyplusonehundred) is the title of the member’s show at the Palace of the Permanent for the one hundred twentieth of its foundation.
In 2007 he is invited at the National Museum Antiquarium Turritano in Porto Torres (Sassari, Italy) for the exhibition “Muse Mediterranee” (mediterranean’s muses) and in Germany at Arte-Blitz 2007 a show of International Contemporary Art at the Museum Haus Martfeld of Schwelm.