Maria Grazia Carriero was born in Gioia del Colle (BA) in 1980. Artist and teacher of drawing, painting and scenography; she graduated in Visual and Performing Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. The common denominator in her research is virtuality , a philosophical and anthropological concept investigated through the analysis of popular culture, ascetic beliefs and practices. Protagonist of numerous solo and group exhibitions, she boasts important participations in artist video reviews at the Fabbrica del Vapore (DOCVA) in Milan and Merz Foundation in Turin. On the 150th anniversary of the Unification of Italy, she exhibited at the Rathaus in Stuttgart. In 2015 , she took part in “Mediterranea 17 - Young Artist Biennale. No Food No Land” curated by Bjcem and Andrea Bruciati, at the Fabbrica del Vapore in Milan again. Finalist in the Zingarelli Rocca delle Macìe Award in 2012, she is awarded with an artist residency within the “Open doors to art project. Contemporary art in the places of daily life,” curated by Lorenzo Madaro, Maria Rosaria Goffredo and Manuela Goffredo (Palagiano, TA). In 2018, she published her first book with: “Art and ethnographic research Il laùru: places, meetings, testimonies” with the Progedit Editore as part of the series “Anthropology and Mediterranean”, directed by Eugenio Imbriani.
In the same year, she presented her solo exhibition Waiting curated by Nicola Zito, sponsored by Matera Capital of Culture 2019.
