Lucia Simone was born in 1986 in Perugia. She lives and works in Rome. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, attending the four-year course in Painting and then the two-year course in Performing Arts and Disciplines. She worked as a painting assistant at the chair of Gianfranco Notargiacomo. She is present in the VI Repertoire of Italian Engravers, published by Faenza.
She has received several awards including an artist residency on the occasion of the FIG Bilbao International Prize, she has exhibited in several museums including Macro La Pelanda (RM), Austrian Museum of Folk Life and Folk Art and in prestigious places such as Palazzo Montecitorio and Palazzo Vecchio on the occasion of the Florence Prize. Of particular note was Uncanny at Interzone Galleria (RM) where the relevance to themes with a strong emotional impact prevailed. This research is repeated in Realtà Consumata at Fondamenta Gallery with an in-depth analysis in the Inside Art magazine of December 2018. In December 2019 she carried out an artist residency in one of the ateliers of the MACRO ASILO (Museo Arte Contemporanea Roma). At the end of 2021 she exhibited her works at Iaga Contemporary Art (Romania) with the solo show Signal Lost curated by Chiara Canali. In 2023 she presents two solo exhibitions curated by Saveria Colosimo: Mad World, at the Gallerati Gallery in Rome and Last Flowers at the former Santa Maria della Misericordia hospital in Perugia. She was recently selected as a finalist for the Luigi Candiani Prize organized by the SAC (Spazio Arte Contemporanea), and for the Arte Laguna Prize whose collective exhibition was held in 2023 at the Arsenale of Venice. In the same year, the work Decadent Beauty was selected for an advertising campaign and exhibited throughout the month of July on the big screen in the cities of Eindhoven, Rotterdam, New York and Los Angeles. During the first week of January 2024 Exibart Prize chose his work to broadcast it on the screens of Grandi Stazioni Italiane.
