Bea Scaccia

Twirling, 2026
Ink, watercolor and flash paint on paper
12 inches (30.48 cm) diameter

Courtesy of Bea Scaccia Studio

Bea Scaccia was born in Veroli, Italy, in 1978; she earned her BA and MFA at the Accademia 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 splendor and monstrosity, emphasizing the absurdity of our social norms.

Solo exhibitions include Gagosian Park & 75, New York (2026); Maruani Mercier, Brussels (2025); Richard Saltoun, Rome (2025); Art Brussels, Maruani Mercier, Brussels (2024); 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).

She was invited to the 18th Quadriennale, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome—in the session curated by Francesco Bonami (October 2025). Her work is present in important public and private collections, including the William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation and the Portland Museum of Art.