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Bea SCACCIA (Veroli 1978 –) received both her BA and MFA at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome, where she studied with Gino Marotta. In 2011 she moved to New York, where she currently lives and works. In her paintings, Scaccia reworks the elements that feed illusions of beauty and constructions of appearance, compressing them onto the canvas as surreal and unsettling marks. By investigating the cultural links between feminine splendor and monstrosity, she creates pictorial compositions that can be read as parodies of etiquette and bon ton.
Her upcoming and past solo exhibitions include: 18th Quadriennale d’Arte, Rome (October 2025); JDJ Tribeca, New York (2022); Katonah Museum of Art, New York (2021); Cuchifritos Gallery, New York (2014);. Group exhibitions include: Pm/Am, London (2023); Analog Diary, New York (2023); Sargent’s Daughters West, Los Angeles (2023); Galleria Nazionale, Rome (2022); Magazzino Italian Art, New York (2020); The Centre for the Less Good Idea, Johannesburg (2020); and the Katzen Arts Center, American University, Washington, D.C. (2016). Her works is held in important public and private collections internationally, including the William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation and the Portland Museum of Art.