Gaialight, was born in Rome, Italy, to a mother from New York and a Sicilian father. She has been engaged exclusively in artistic activities since 2004, choosing the adopted name of Gaialight.

Her educational experience is rich and original: on the one hand, classical studies and a degree in Law with a challenging thesis on the conditions of prisons in Italy; on the other, an artistic aptitude that revealed itself precociously.

During university years, she frequented the Italian and American artistic scene collaborating with international photographers and artists.

Her trips to India, throughout Europe and the United States, and to Israel oriented her towards the experimentation of different techniques: collages, installations, performances, photography, objets d'art. The result was the maturation of an expressive language marked by contamination and the overcoming of types and movements which combines post-pop and conceptual, media icons and current events.

Her current work, presented mainly through photography-based series, focuses on contemporary society, questioning its relationship with technology, media, beauty-related and body-image obsessions, and sexuality. A conceptually and critically based approach to the image as cultural artifact, this work utilizes photography, video, installation, and performance to suggest that within the plethora of imagery circulating within contemporary culture a more serious issue regarding its dynamic function within both collective and personal experience remains unanswered, if not unanswerable, except by way of the critical image proper. This suggests, in turn, that all art comments upon art before commenting on anything else.

Gaialight moved to New York, New York, permanently in 2007, where she currently lives and works. She maintains dual citizenship (US and Italy) and visits Italy often.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS / EVENTS / SERIES 2004-2011

"Mass Surveillance", LACDA, Los Angeles Center For Digital Art, November - December 2011, Los Angeles, Usa.
"Cam Girls Met Ladies", The Others Show, November 2011, Site Specific Installation, Ex Carcere Le Nuove, Turin, Italy.
"Brooklyn Buzz - The Multimedia", Foiano Photography Festival 2011, November 2011, Foiano, Italy.
"Cam Girls Met Ladies", Fotoleggendo Photography Festival 2011, October 2011, Rome, Italy.
"Brooklyn Buzz", May 2011, NEW YORK PHOTOFESTIVAL 2011, The Multimedia Room, curated by Elisabeth Biondi and Enrico Bossan, Dumbo Arts Center, Brooklyn, New York.
"Darklight Christmas 2010", Solo Show, Don Chishiotte Gallery, December 2010 - January 2011, Rome, Italy
"Ilex Photo", Group Show, Photographia Gallery, December 2010, Milan, Italy
"DarkLight", 2010 (ongoing). Photographic performance (series). New York, New York; Bethany, Connecticut, USA; and Rome, Italy.
"Light War", February-March 2010. Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Bethany, Connecticut, USA.
Artist Residency, February-March 2010, Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Bethany, Connecticut, USA.
"Cruzamentos", March-June 2010. Traveling group show, curated by Ilex Photography: Territorio da Foto Gallery, Sao Paulo, Brazil, March 2010; Galeria de Gavea, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 2010; and Arte Plural Galeria, Recife, PE, Brazil, June 2010.
"Holy Light", January 2010. Photographic performance (series), "The Holy Land Experience", Orlando, Florida, USA.
"Yale", November 2009. Photographic performance (series), New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
Group show, October 2009. Galleria Fontanella Borghese, Rome, Italy.
"Light Wax", August-September 2009. Photographic performance (series), New York, New York, and Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
"Light Queens", Summer 2009. Photographic performance (series), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
"Light America", May-June 2009. Solo show, Galleria Fontanella Borghese, Rome, Italy.
"Bare Smile 2/13", April 2009. Performance with Lidia Ravera, Villa Torlonia, Rome, Italy.
"Bare Smile 2/13", April 2009. Site-specific installation, Teatro Valle, Rome, Italy.
"Bare War 1/13", January-February 2009. Site-specific installation and performance, with Francesco Zizola, 10b Photography Gallery, Rome, Italy.
"Light America", July 2008-March 2009. Temporary site-specific installations photographed across America (series): California, July 2008; Arizona, Texas, Nevada, New Mexico, August-September 2008; Brooklyn, New York, October 2008; Detroit, Michigan, November 2008; Miami, Florida, December 2008; Washington, DC, January 20, 2009, presidential inaugural ceremony; and New York, New York, February-March 2009.
"Light Treatment /2", April and July 2008. KunstArt International Art Fair, Bolzano, Italy, and solo show, Drissien Galerie, Munich, Germany.
"Light Treatment /1", June 2008. Solo show, KunstPraxis der Siemens AG, Munich, Germany.
"Starlight in New York: Homage to Tribeca Film Festival", April-May 2008. Solo show, Nancy Koltes Gallery, New York, New York, USA. Supported by the Italian Cultural Institute, New York.
"Starlight", December 2007. Solo show, Café Panique, Paris, France.
"Starlight", November 2007. Solo show, Paris, France. Homage to the Rome Film Festival promoted by the Italian Institute of Culture, Paris, in collaboration with the cultural association La Coda dell'Occhio, Rome, and La Libreria, Paris.
"Burma on my Mind", October 2007. Site-specific installation and performance dedicated to the Burmese cause within the context of the fifth edition of "Roma Design+", International Exhibition of Industrial Design, Spazio Etoile, Rome, Italy.
"Light Treatment", October 2007. Solo show, within the context of the fifth edition of "Roma Design+", International Exhibition of Industrial Design sponsored by La Sapienza University of Rome, Art, Design and New Technologies Section, Spazio Etoile, Rome, Italy.
"Underground 02: Examples of Urban Art, Homage to Master Mario Schifano", April-May 2007. Studio Giga, Rome, Italy.
"35mm", December 2006-January 2007. Yuko & Biba Fashion Showroom, Rome, Italy.
"Light TV", July-September, 2006. Santa Cecilia Gallery, International Photography Festival, Rome, Italy.
"Made in USA", December 2005. Solo show, AbitArt Hotel, Rome, Italy.
"Can", July-September, 2005. Solo show, Santa Cecilia Gallery, Rome, Italy.
"Light", July-September 2004. Solo show, Santa Cecilia Gallery, Rome, Italy.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS / REVIEWS

The work of Gaialight has been published widely, but nowhere more provocatively than on the covers of the magazines Disegno Industriale/Industrial Design and Io Donna (the women's weekly of Il Corriere della Sera). Reviews have appeared in innumerable Italian and foreign newspapers and magazines. Her work was also included in Arte Contemporanea: Contaminazioni, volume 9 of the 11-volume survey of contemporary art published by Electa in 2008.

Reviews, commentaries, and articles on the work of Gaialight have appeared in publications as diverse as: L'Espresso, La Repubblica; D, La Repubblica delle Donne; Il Venerdi'di Repubblica; Il Corriere della Sera; Io Donna, Il Corriere della Sera; La Stampa; Il Tempo; Il Messaggero; Milano Finanza; Il Sole Ventiquattro Ore; L'Unità; Marie Claire; Vogue; Glamour; Galatea and The Art of Leadership Series:The Magazine.