Omar Hassan was born in 1987 in Italy, from an Italian mother and an Egyptian father. Growing up in the interweaving between two different cultures he developed a strong curiosity and an open look towards the outside world, the new and the different. Graduated from the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan, where he studied painting with Alberto Garutti, a well-known exponent of contemporary Italian art, Hassan began his career at a very young age.The conceptual influence that struck the artist during his studies at the Brera Academy has shaped his modus operandi in the gestation of each project: the idea, reasoning and concept are the basis of every artistic gesture.

The result of his process is that the works must always be characterized by an aesthetic autonomy and the unconscious of the artist that occurs naturally during performance. Hassan is obsessed and fascinated by the action painting of great masters such as Fontana, Pollock and Manzoni, and uses this technique as a basis for his research, to collect and tell an entire philosophy, an entire culture or a new concept. It is the spray, the first real breath of the can, which embraces the entire street art culture, that gives life to the series entitled Injections (among the most famous works the cover of the 256th issue of La Lettura, the weekly cultural insert of the Italian newspaper Il Corriere della Sera) and the series Luci where the artist paints lights on canvas.

Omar also used this approach in his dialogues between painting and sculptures at the 54th Venice Biennale, in the institutional exihibition at the Chiesetta della Misericordia. The sculptures blended in with the paintings, but also with the space, because the artist loves to work and create site-specific works, mixing them and respecting the original essence of the space. "Breaking Through" is another series of action paintings, which symbolizes in a single gesture the meaning of painting through boxing: "I'm not punching to destroy, I'm creating."In this series, the noble art of boxing is celebrated with 121 large canvases (in black and white background version). They are all unique pieces, representing the 121 rounds fought by the artist during his boxing career. The artist wanted to emphasize the conceptual aspect of this sport: "boxing is the metaphor of life par excellence". All the pictorial gestures are, marked by time, a constant that is very dear ti the artist. He includes in it all his works, predominantly in the "Time Line" series, presented for the first time at the Villa Reale in Monza, where the canvases represent the "working wall" in Hassan's studio, a wall that he has been covering for years with canvases, like a tapestry. He marks them with the date of when they are removed once completed. One of the works is titled "From 5/3/2016 to 5/3/2018, two years of studio work". The objective is to track time to give importance to what underlies everything.