Fontaine Scarelli is a Chicago-based contemporary abstract expressionist painter known for large-scale works that exist between psychological landscape, cinematic atmosphere, and emotional architecture. Working primarily in oil, Scarelli creates paintings that feel less like static objects and more like transmissions pulled from memory, time distortion, and human tension.

Drawing from the language of post-war abstraction, science fiction anthologies, music, film, and the emotional weight of solitude, Scarelli's practice balances chaos with restraint. His surfaces are layered, physical, and deeply intuitive, often carrying the sensation of erosion, collision, or fragmented thought. Rather than approaching painting as decoration, Scarelli treats the canvas as a place where emotion, instinct, and atmosphere can fully collide.

His work has been featured internationally through solo exhibitions, hospitality collaborations, film licensing, architectural acquisitions, and large-scale residential commissions. In 2025, Scarelli presented the solo exhibition 11:11 On Another Planet in Hong Kong and completed a two-month solo exhibition, residency, and live painting installation at Fairmont Chicago, Millennium Park. His recent solo exhibitions also include Fractured Continuum at 737 N. Michigan Ave. in Chicago and Temporal Nexus at Poliform during the River North Design District Fall Gallery Walk.

Scarelli's work has been licensed by Netflix for the feature film 72 Hours and acquired by Perkins&Will, one of the world's leading architecture firms. His paintings have also been exhibited through Luminaire during Art Basel Miami Beach, inside The Merchandise Mart in Chicago, and at the International Museum of Surgical Science for the IMSS Art Fair. His work has been featured by WGN-TV, L'Officiel St. Barth, Milk X Hong Kong, and Visual Art Journal.

He currently lives and works in Chicago.