Vittoria Chierici was born in Bologna, Italy, April 7, 1955.

She is a mixed media artist and writer. Her work is based on discovering the relationship between history and the contemporary world. She exhibited her paintings and videos in galleries and museums, in Italy and abroad. She is temporarily working at Eastport, Maine, US.

After graduating with a Master at the University of Bologna with the most famous Italian Modern Art historian, Paolo Fossati, she left Italy to continue her studies in the art history of the post war period, in the United State where she has been living in the United States since she was 23 years old as a student at Berkeley University, Oakland, San Francisco and at Columbia university in New York. She has been a student at the School of Visual arts and at the New York Film Academy. She has always been connected with the art world both in the United States and in Europe , in particular in Italy where she has been lecturing and presenting her art works since 1984. She belonged to two of the most important young artists groups of the eighties in Italy, based in Milan, and Corrado Levi, acclaimed  patron and collector in Europe for modern and contemporary art, for the second.

Vittoria Chierici works like an architect, on many projects at the same time. Some projects can last years.  She basically works on two different subjects: history and nature.

Having a master in art history she interpreted some of the most well known masterpieces of the Italian Renaissance, like the Battle of Anghiari after the missing mural by Leonardo Da Vinci  and the School of Athens after Rapahel Fresco in the Vatican Palace.

The hypothetical reconstruction of the Battle of Anghiari, a project which lasted about ten years, from 1996 to 2003, gave Chierici the opportunity to meet and to collaborate with major art historians like Leonardo Da Vinci scholars’ Carlo Pedretti (Chair in Leonardo Studies at theUniversity of California of Los Angeles; ); Martin Kemp ( the most important living scholar of Leonardo Da Vinci, former Honorary Professor at the Trinity College at the Oxford University, UK; Salvatore Settis (former director of the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities in Los Angeles and from 1999 to 2010 of the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa.).

Vittoria Chierici and assistants are working on an anthology book of her career where both Martin Kemp and Salvatore Settis will write an essay about her works of art.

In 2011, after a trip across the Atlantic Ocean from Amsterdam to Cleveland Ohio on a cargo ship, Chierici started working on the colors and the history of the Atlantic Ocean, trying to merge beauty in nature and human activity.  This project, with the title of Sailing Away to paint the Sea, continued in Northern Iceland, by the Greenland Sea; in Stonington and in Eastport Maine, US, where she currently has her studio.

In Eastport Maine, Vittoria Chierici invited two american artists from New York, very well known: choreographer Liz Gerrinag and composer Eve Beglarian with whom she has been working in New York Years ago, to join her in a long term project ( 2022- 2026) based on the history and nature -  the spectacular colors and tides movements of  South of the Bay of Fundy where Eastport Maine is located. The project is produced by the Tide Institute & Museum of Art, in Eastport Maine (Video of the workshop in summer 2022) and by the Liz Gerring dance Company.

In 2009. Chierici painted the scenes for  Montauk, at the Baryshnikov Art center in New York. Montauk was a contemporary dance piece performed by the Liz gerring dance company.

In 2017, Chierici wrote a book about her collaboration with Liz Gerring. The book’s title is :

Montauk and it is in the collection of the New York Public Library for the PerformingArts at 40 Lincoln Center Plaza in New York.

Chierici also did a video, Wolf Chaser, about the subject of energy, for composer Eve Beglarian. The video was part of a live performance in many venues, like the New York Times theater in New York and the Warhol Foundation in Pittsburgh.

Vittoria Chierici made other short films, like Luci in The Sky with music by Ana Milosavljevic and One’s Case. She also drew covers of rock bands records in the eighties and illustrations for the magazine Progetto Cultura published by the Italian state chemical company, Montedison.

Vittoria Chierici has been teaching from 2004 to 2008,  as assistant professor in Modern Art History at the faculty of Design Fashion Installation, Department of Architecture of the Polytechnic in Milano, Italy.

She had reviews on acclaimed contemporary art magazines, like Flash Art International and Art Forum.

In 2001, she received the premium DAMS from the University of Bologna.

In 2021, Vittoria Chierici represented the art gallery Rossi&Rossi ( London/Hong Kong) ; she was chosen to participate in the important group show of Italian galleries at Art Basel in Hong Kong with the title, Italians.

In 2023 she was the only judge of  the Luminism Prize at the professional artists show at the Eastport Art Center in 2023.

Vittoria Chierici would like to work in the United States where she met very important collaborators to her projects and in particular in Eastport Maine where she can continue her studies on the Atlantic Ocean.

 Works by Vittoria Chierici are in private and public collections:

Contemporary Art Pavillion (PAC), Milano, Italy; Palazzo Marzocco Museum,Anghiari, Arezzo, Italy; Modern and Contemporary Art Museum of the City of Arezzo, Italy; Genus Bononiae, Collection of  Cassa di Risparmio di Bologna ( Saving Bank of Bologna ) Bologna, Italy; San Marino Republic Contemporary Art Collection, San Marino Republic: Modern Art National Gallery (GNAM) Rome, Italy; Humanities Initiative, New York University, New York; Brusarosco Palace, Vicenza, Italy; Museo della Guerra ( World War 1 Museum ) Rovereto, Trento, Italy; CGIL, National Union Art Collection, Rome, Italy; Contemporary Art Museum, (MART), Rovereto, Trento, Italy. FondationRilke, Sierre, Switzerland.

Vittoria Chierici works have been bid at auctions in Italy and in Hong Kong.