Bea Scaccia (b. 1978) earned her BA and MA at the Academia di Belle Arti in Rome with Gino Marotta. In 2011, she moved to New York City, where she currently lives and works. In her paintings and animations, Scaccia reworks the elements that collectively give rise to illusions of beauty and constructions of appearance and compresses them into unstable and uncanny compositions. She investigates the cultural links between feminine splendour and monstrosity, emphasising the absurdity of our social norms.

Solo exhibitions include Maruani Mercier, Brussels (2025); Richard Saltoun, Rome (2025); JDJ Tribeca, New York (2022); the Katonah Museum of Art, New York (2021); Cuchifritos Gallery, New York (2014): Galleria Ugo Ferranti, Rome (2010). Group exhibitions include JDJ Tribeca (2025); Harper's Singapore (2024); Harper's, New York (2023); 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); American University's Katzen Arts Center, Washington, D.C. (2016).

In 2025, she exhibited at the 18th Quadriennale, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, curated by Francesco Bonami. Her work is found in many public and private collections, including the William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation and the Portland Museum of Art.