Born in Milan in 1976,lives and works in Milan. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Brera and Carrara and began working in Milan taking part in group and solo exhibitions. After a long period dedicated exclusively to painting, she approached photography and video exploring relationships in their many and disturbing declensions, under the banner of instability and the uncertainty of contemporary living. In 2008 she started producing the first cycle of 5 video installations entitled Forward / Rewind, each based on the natural elements The Fire, The Water, The Air, The Earth and the fifth The Zoo dedicated to the V Element.
In the meantime she produces the videos Hope is the last to die and Penelope. In 2010 the new cycle still underway, entitled “Forgiveness: private experiences, public statements” of which she made the first two videos A human heart looks like a fist wrapped in blood and Numb: confession 2, both realized in South Africa. She made her first documentary “On the Threshold” realized on a project of the Lombardy Region, Municipality of Milan Health sector, Fatebenefratelli Hospital and Cariplo Bank on the issue of recovery of psychiatric patients in prison. She has made the institutional video for the Anna Biagi Rubini Foundation in Milan, a no-profit organization that has been spending many years against school drop-out. She produced and directed the Videoclip Before the dawn by Luminanceratio, a group from the underground scene.
In recent years she has exhibited in Italy and abroad (Europe, USA and Africa). Among the latest years, she has been the protagonist of a series of exhibitions in Italy and abroad that include: participation in Scope Miami and Art Paris; two solo exhibitions at the Joao Ferreira Gallery in Cape Town, with the Louise Alexander Gallery she exhibit in Porto Cervo and Paris, Palazzo Ducale in Massa; the collective “Appetite for Destruction” at the National Museum of Villa Guinigi in Lucca; the presentation of two video installations at the Suoni & Visioni Festival, a large-scale painting work at SuperStudio Più in the context of the XXL exhibition in Milan and participate in the video festival “8 minutes from the sun, 1 minute from the moon. The latest generation of Italian video artists “at L.u.C.C.A Museum Center for Contemporary Art. In 2011 she participated in the Romaeuropa Webfactory, MUV Festival in Florence, in Disorders and Disorders _Biennale di Alessandria of Contemporary Videophotography and in the artist video review “home_nature” – Front Of Art: experiences of public art – Landscape and community curated by Katia Baraldi and Laure Keyrouz with the participation of ART HUB and with the patronage of Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa. Today she is working on a new project that sees video, drawing and painting closely connected and collaborates with the Kyro Art Gallery of Pietrasanta (Lucca).
Selection solo exhibition
2018
- L’esercizio del ritorno, a cura di Chiara Gatti – Kyro Art Gallery, Pietrasanta (LU)
2011
- I’m sorry – a cura di Louisa Adam, Galleria 38, Lucca ( LU)
- Tenderness. Resistance – Palazzo Ducale – Massa ( MS)
- Contemporary Concept Art Gallery – a cura di Francesca Baboni e Stefano Taddei – Bologna
2008
- Morning walking: New Dawn – Joao Ferreira Art Gallery – Cape Town (South Africa)
- Roads, a cura di Stefano Taddei – Louise Alexander Gallery – Porto Cervo ( SS)
- The martyrdom of identity, a cura di Francesca Baboni e Stefano Taddei – Artsinergy Gallery, Bologna
- The morning After, Galleria Obraz – Milano
2007
- Oblio, con il supporto di Movin’Up Prize 2007 per gli artisti italiani all’estero-Joao Ferreira Gallery – Cape Town ( South Africa)
- Drift Special Projects – Galleria Artra – Milano
2005
- 3 x 3 a cura di Stefano Crespi – Patrizio Patelli Foundation – Locarno ( CH)
Selected group exhibition
2020
- “Praise to lightness”, curator Antimo Pascale e Luigi Ciurlìa, Kyro Art Gallery – Pietrasanta
- “Paper”, Group Show – Kyro Art Gallery – Pietrasanta
2012
- Moments of Reprieve, a cura di Louisa Adam e David Birkin – Paradise Row Gallery – Londra
2011
- Moments of Reprieve, a cura di Louisa Adam e David Birkin – Tallinn Art Hall – Tallin ( Estonia)
- Terra Time in Jazz XXIV edizione, a cura di Giannella Demuro e Antonello Fresu, Sardegna – Italia
- Rassegna video d’artista “Home_nature” – Front Of Art: esperienze di arte pubblica. Il paesaggio e la comunità a cura di Katia Baraldi e Laure Keyrouz – Nervesa della Battaglia (TV), con la partecipazione di: ART HUB e con il patrocinio di: Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, RetEventi
- Ordini e disordini _ Biennale di Alessandria, Videofotografia contemporanea – Alessandria
- Romaeuropa Webfactory – Roma
- Roma MUV festival – Firenze
- Fresh Group Exhibition, Everard Read – Cape Town ( South Africa)
2010
- Workshop Summer school, il cinema tra realtà e fiction – Festival del cinema di Locarno e Università della Svizzera Italiana ( CH)
- Workshop Summer Academy Il cinema tra realtà e fiction – Festival del cinema di Locarno ( CH)
- Who frame Roger Rabbit , a cura di Alessandro Romanini- Villa Guinigi e Galleria 38 – Lucca
- 8 minuti dal sole e 5 dalla luna, Videoartisti italiani dell’ultima generazione, Festival Video Italiano, a cura di Alessandro Romanini – L.u.C.C.A Museum – Lucca
- XXL , a cura di Alberto Zanchetta – Super Studio, Milano
2009
- Phoyoshow – Galleria 38 – Lucca
- Keep Living, Memory and Fear, a cura di Alessandro Romanin – Sotterraneo San Paolino – Lucca
- Artspotting – Galleria 38 – Lucca
- Reflecting Painting – Galleria Nicola Ricci -Carrara ( MS)
2008
- Scope Art Fair – Louise Alexander Gallery – Miami ( USA)
- Art Shanghai 2008 – Louise Alexander Gallery – Shanghai ( China)
- Contemporary Art, a cura di Frederic Arnal – Porto Cervo (SS)
- 3 x 6, bGallery – Roma
2007
- Allarmi 3 – a cura di Ivan Quaroni – Caserma de Cristoforis – Como
- Art4Aid Contemporary Art Auction for UNICEF – Sotheby’s – Amsterdam ( Netherland)
- Sarajevo Winter Festival 2007 – Sarajevo
2006
- Mantero Prize for Contemporary Art 2006, a cura di Roberto Borghi e Paloma Martìn Llposis – Como
- Premio celeste a cura di Ivan Quaroni – San Gimignano (SI)
2005
- Flash Art Show – Artra Gallery – Milano
- Italy Kamikaze – Artra Gallery – Genova