academic education
Post Graduate Diploma in Archives and Records Management, University of Dundee, Scotland, UK. 2023.
MA in Visual Arts (Painting), Albertina Academy of Fine Arts , Turin, Italy. 2012.
BA in Visual Arts (Painting), Albertina Academy of Fine Arts , Turin, Italy. 2009.
Born in 1986, Turin, Italy.
Collaboration with the art group Gruppo Radici from 2010 to 2013.
Gruppo Radici was an open group based in Turin, but active on multiple levels with exhibitions and projects held both in Italy and abroad. The aim of the group was to investigate the relationship between art, society and institutions, also through running workshops such as Castula Ludica, educational art project with children at Museum of Reggia di Venaria, Turin, 2011 and A scatola Chiusa, relational art project in the juvenile prison Ferrante Aporti, Turin, from 2010 to 2013.
Attended residencies with Italian and international artists including:
Liliana Moro and Mario Airo, Spinola Banna Art Foundation, Turin, April 2014.
Rirkrit Tiravanija, Spinola Banna Art Foundation, Turin, October 2013.
Kara Walker and Rebecca Walker, Albertina Academy of Fine Arts/Merz Foundation, Turin, March 2011.
Marzia Migliora, Turin, November 2010.
Moved to London at the end of 2013 and started developing a new poetic and visual language inspired by and strongly related to the change of context experienced.
Held her first solo show PROGETTO/PROJECT in 2015 and participated in several group exhibitions both in U.K. and abroad.
Self-curated her second solo show at the end of 2019, IN-Habit, where a new body of work was fully displayed in the intimate context of her own apartment, symbolizing the importance of the relationship between her studio space and her practice as well as the domesticity of the place where the last eight years of her production took shape.
Shortlisted for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize in 2021 with the piece Japanese store-front #1 that marks a transition in her practice and the first step for a stylistic and poetic evolution.
Selected for the art residence ‘Silk Road Artists Rendezvous’ in 2023, to represent Italy alongside other eight European artists during a cultural exchange organised by the Chinese Ministry of Culture that took place between Beijing and Chongqing, China.
Shortlisted for the first edition of the Guildford House Open Prize at the end of 2023 with one of her shopfronts, a fine line pen drawing and long-listed for the Aesthetica Art Prize 2024.
Lives and works in London.
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