*1933, Syracusa, IT. Lives in Rome

Lucia di Luciano has pursued an extraordinary and multifaceted artistic journey since her first abstract works in the late 1950s. Not only was she a key figure in the early Italian geometric abstraction movement, but she continues today to explore the boundless possibilities of painting with enduring freedom and bold creativity. Her recent works feel like a condensation of the entire history of abstract painting—at once liberated, essential, and deeply resonant.

Lucia di Luciano is a pivotal figure in the Italian artistic movement Arte Programmata. Alongside her late husband Giovanni Pizzo, she initiated several artistic ventures in Rome during the early 1960s, most notably Gruppo 63 and Operativo R. As a post-war, innovative, and utopian movement, Arte Programmata aimed to redefine the relationship between individuality and collectivity through the use of emerging technologies.

After this formative period, di Luciano continued her artistic journey, gradually delving into theories of color composition from the 1970s through the 1990s, before fully reintegrating color into her practice in the early 2000s. Since the mid-2000s, at around the age of 85, she has departed from her earlier formal rigor, embracing a freer, more intuitive approach. Her recent paintings are as liberated and deconstructed as they are deeply connected to the broader history of abstraction.