Renata Boero

Renata Boero (b. 1936, Genoa, Italy)  lives and works in Milan, Italy. She completed humanistic studies in Switzerland; back in Italy, in Genoa, she was a pupil of the painter Emilio Scanavino. In 1959, she participated in the Quadriennale in Rome, where she exhibited again in 1986 and 1999.

Since 1965, she has carried out anthropological research based on the use of natural substances, giving rise to the Cromogrammi series, exhibited for the first time in 1970 in Toulouse at the invitation of the poet and art critic Jacques Lepage, then in 1972 at the Martano Gallery in Turin and in 1976 at the I.C.C. (Internationaal Cultureel Centrum) in Antwerp, curated by Flor Bex.

In 1977 she took part in Volto sinistro dell’arte, curated by Romana Loda. In the 1980s, she produced the Specchi series, presented at the Venice Biennale in 1982. In 1986, she obtained the chair of Painting at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts. In 2005, she was invited as a Visiting Professor at the University of San Diego in California.

Her solo exhibitions include Musei Civici di Monza (1988), Casa del Mantegna in Mantova (1992), University of San Diego, California (2005), Mestna Galerija in Nova Gorica and Umetnostna Galerija in Maribor, Slovenia (2007), National Museum of History and Culture of Belarus in Minsk (2008), National University of Còrdoba in Argentina (2010), Kromo-Kronos, Museo del Novecento in Milan (2019).