Angela Maria Piga

Angela Maria Piga is an Italo-Swiss sculptress. Born in Rome in 1968, she still lives and works here. She completed her studies by earning a degree in French Literature at Sapienza University, Rome.

She has written fiction (“Salomon’s Syndrome”, “Wild Kings”, the short story “Hot Air Salesman”, the French play “Motherless Wave”), poetry and many articles on art for Italian and international editors.

She worked for 15 years in an art gallery specialised in art from Eastern Europe.

From 2015 to 2017 she lived in Düsseldorf (Germany). Here she began her work as a sculptress using ceramics and terracotta; she then continued this work in Rome in the renowned kiln “Laboratorio Paolelli”.

In 2018 and 2021 Maja Arte Contemporanea hosted two Piga’s solo exhibitions, while in 2019 she was part of the collective show “Pezzi unici” at Galleria Gallerati (Rome). In 2021, the double-solo exhibition “Scarlet Letter”, with Giuseppe Chiari, at the Collage Gallery (Todi), curated by Matteo Boetti