Vincent Fantauzzo (born 1977, Manchester, England), is a Melbourne-based Australian portrait artist known for his award-winning portraits of Heath Ledger, Brandon Walters, Matt Moran, Emma Hack, Baz Luhrmann, Asher Keddie and his son Luca.
[2] In 2008 he was awarded an artist's residency at Chancery Lane Gallery in Hong Kong where he had a solo exhibition.
[3] Fantauzzo is known for his photorealistic style, which, according to the art critic for The Australian, Christopher Allen, is to painting what lip-syncing is to singing.
[7] Allen described the portrait of Keddie in 2013 as "an elaborate oil rendition of a photograph that trivialises the art of painting and that of photography, as well as apparently contravening the rules of the exhibition.
"[a][8] Fantauzzo was chosen to paint the official portrait of former Labor Prime Minister Julia Gillard in 2017.