Profile of Letizia Caiazzo, a renowned multimedia visual artist of Italy
By Angela Kosta
Letizia Caiazzo, a multimedia visual artist, after high school studies at the “Santa Dorotea” Institute in Naples, obtained the Academic Diploma of Social Worker at the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy of the “Federico II” University in Naples. She has always cultivated a passion for art that she has transmitted, as a teacher and for decades, to generations of young people. Very attentive to the various artistic expressions, she has experimented with the most varied techniques. This path, undertaken with strength and determination, has allowed her and still allows her to be present at prestigious exhibitions and, moreover, to be herself the organizer of exhibitions and events for the promotion of art and literature.
She has exhibited and continues to exhibit her works in solo and group exhibitions both in Italy and abroad, all in high-profile public spaces, including the Sale del Bramante in Rome, the Museo Stadio Domiziano in Rome, the Castello del Valentino in Turin, the Castello di Agropoli, the Carcere Borbonico in Avellino, Castel dell’Ovo and the PAN in Naples, Santa Sofia in Salerno. She has also exhibited in Sorrento, Ascoli Piceno, Assisi, Agrigento, Taormina, Spoleto Festival, Capri, as well as at the Palazzo Ximenes-Panciatichi in Florence, at the Casa Museo Spazio Alda Merini in Milan, at Parma Fiera, at the international contemporary art fair in Bari, at the Centro Cultural Christiane Peugeot and at the Galerie Ars and Miss in Paris, in Croatia (Pazin Museum), in Belgium (Namur-Chateau de Franc-Waret), at the Dalì Museum in Berlin, at the Pintér Gallery in Budapest, at the City Hall in Stuttgart; and has established herself, in Italy and in the world, as a valid poet and writer.
Various critics and historians of art and literature have dealt with hers, including Rosario Pinto, Carlo Roberto Sciascia, Vinicio Coppola, Nuccio Mula, Paolo Levi, Giovanni Cardone, Giovanna Arancio, Maria Teresa Prestigiacomo, Leo Strozzieri, Vania De Luca, Arpine Sevagian. She was named an “honorary” Academician of the International University of Empedoclei, Higher Institute of Philosophical Studies of Agrigento, and was awarded, again for clear “honorary” fame, the Degree of the International Academy of Dioscuri of Taranto.
Among the most prestigious awards, she also received the International Award “Alexsander” 2017 awarded by the Swiss “International University of Peace”, with the patronage of the “Universum Academy Switzerland”, of which she was also named Honorary Academician and the ACAMANTE E FILLIDE Award 2021 of the Academy of Fine Arts “Michelangelo” of Agrigento and the Grand Prize “Excellence of Italian Art 2022” of the International Academy of Dioscuri. On September 17, 2022, she was named honorary member of the AZZURRO ITALIA Movement for Territory and Life, by the Founder and President Journalist Attilio Miani. On June 10, 2023, she was named an honorary member of the Accademia dei Dogliosi of Avellino 2024 “Inspiring Muse of the Dioscuri” by the Accademia dei Dioscuri of Taranto.
She was 2024 Delegate for Italy and guest of honor at the Panorama International Literature Festival 2024 Writers Capital Foundation. In 2024, she received the Certificate of Excellence for her exquisite participation in the Biennale di Agiografia e Innografia 2023 of the Writers Capital Foundation, Italy.
This year, she became Executive Member of Writers’ Capital Foundation, and also won the prestigious Panorama Golden Book Award 2024 for the book “Sul Filo di un Feeling”! This award is given by President Preeth Padmanabhan Nambiar and Secretary General Irene Doura-Kavadia. Further, she received the Lifetime Achievement Award “Universum Academy Switzerland” by Founder and current President Dr. Valerlo Giovanni Ruberto. Her works are present in museums, galleries, private and public collections in Italy and abroad. Lives and works in Piano di Sorrento (Napoli – Italy).
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Angela Kosta is Executive Director of MIRIADE Magazine, Academic, journalist, writer, poet, essayist, literary critic, editor, translator, and promoter
