Nini YūRei Ferrara

I was born in Sicily. The south and the Mediterranean are the roots of my soul and my feelings. I come from classical studies. I could have been a doctor if I had not met the Theater. And in the theater my infinite journey into Art begins. I am an actor and a director, a playwright and a writer. And I love using the verb to be, because I have never done in my life what I am not. I love playing with lights, a game that I have fed by landing on photography until being an honorable mention at the IPA in Los Angeles in 2017. And in the game of lights, I found painting, a language that allows me countless escapes, each of which brings me back to myself.

"I am what I don't know." So says a character in one of my stories. And it's a phrase that comes from the most intimate part of myself, because my whole life, up to this point, has been a continuous search, a continuous pushing beyond my own limits. Art has certainly been the means, and I'm not referring to the technique of expression; on the contrary, it has always been secondary to exploring the deepest folds of my soul. Painting is for me like a catharsis that comes to life in the shapes and colors spread on the canvas; of shadow and light. Shadows that I try to illuminate and lights...

National Institute of Ancient Drama 1990-1992.
Then a lot of curiosity and no fear of making mistakes.

- Wonder Korner, Palazzo D’Amico, Milazzo 2024
- Session 6, Galeria Azur Berlin, Berlin 2024
- Il Sogno di Demetra, Galleria San Babila, Milan, 2024
- Viaggio verso l’introspezione, MO.C.A. Gallery, Rome, 2024
- Corrispondenze Immateriali, Palazzo Moncada. Caltanissetta, 2023
- Piedi nudi e capelli al vento, Spazio Sintesi, Palermo, 2023
- Inside, Morando-Bolognini Castle, Sant’Angelo Lodigiano, 2023
- Milano Art&Fashion Week, Milan, 2022
- International Contemporary Art Fair, ART3F, Luxemburg, 2022
- Estatarte, Galleria ArteContesa, Rome, 2022
- International Contemporary Art Fair, ART3F, Montecarlo, 2022
- Milano Art&Design Week, Milan, 2022
- Couleurs sans Frontières, Web Event, 2022
- Mediterraneo, Palazzo Duchi di Santo Stefano, TAORMINA, 2022


I was awarded a special mention at the end of the exhibition “Corrispondenze Immateriali”, Caltanissetta, 2024.
My work “I balconi di Palazzolo” was the winner of the “Piermaria Rosso di San Secondo e Leonardo Sciascia” culture award, Caltanissetta, 2024.