Biography
Benedetta Manfriani studied art and humanities at the University of Florence and the Sorbonne in Paris. She studied painting in Siena and pursued studies in the techniques of traditional and oriental ceramics. She subsequently undertook a period of intense work in photography, producing videos and mobile and interactive installations. She has a large number of exhibitions to her name, and her work has been shown in galleries and museums in Florence, Siena, Bern, Milan, Paris and Padua, as well as being held in private collections in Italy, France, the UK, Switzerland and the Usa. Alongside her work as a painter and photographer, she has trained in music, studying singing in Florence and at the Royal Academy of Music in London. She has sung with international musicians as Mauro Grossi and I. Polesiztky and she performs programmes of both Jewish music and jazz across Italy. She has been a teacher over the years, and is currently working with Florence’s ‘Istituto degli Innocenti’and with Tempo Reale.
