Visual Artist
Serena Scapagnini’s current research focuses on neurons, with a project dedicated to the mind, developed in collaboration with the Higley Lab and the Program in Cellular Neuroscience of the Yale School of Medicine.
She was born in 1983 in Rome, Italy. She graduated in Semiotics and History of Religion at La Sapienza Univesity, Rome and she received a Master degree in Middle Age Art History, Iconography and Iconology at the University of Siena.
Her art education began in Paris (Paris VIII) and proceeded in New York, where she accomplished a Master Program in Painting and Mixed Media at the School of Visual Arts. Her work has been shown and collected in the United States, China, India, Sweden, Hungary, Spain, Italy. She lives and works in Rome.