Milena Nicosia

For Milena Nicosia, art is breath, narration, and eternity.
Born in Sicily, she has been painting since the age of four and has never lost the enthusiasm that first guided her hand. Her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence — immersed in Alchemy, Aesthetics, Philosophy, Symbology, and Art History — nurtured in Milena Nicosia an endless desire for experimentation.
The artistic research of Milena Nicosia begins with the idea that every image is an imprint: a mark that holds what remains and what disappears. Her works are “traces of light,” emerging from a “mental journey through the memory of the iris and the emotional memory,” an inner archive preserving everything her eyes have witnessed since childhood.
Milena Nicosia paints with powdered pigments and with light, creating surfaces where memory becomes matter and matter becomes narrative. Imprints — both material and immaterial — are her way of exploring the fragile architecture of human experience: presences that surface, absences that persist, echoes returning from interior landscapes.
The identity of Milena Nicosia is a duality expressed through materials.
Fabrics, lace, and delicate textures embody the feminine side of her history: her grandmother’s crochet work and t...

1992-93 High School Diploma in Applied Arts as an Architectural and Interior Designer obtained at the Art Institute of Comiso.
1997–02 Diploma in Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence with 110 cum laude out of 110. Thesis presented: “Piero Guccione, Beauty as a Meduseo shield”.
At the School of Painting of Prof. Adriano Bimbi the first and second academic year, at the School of Painting of Prof. Riccardo Guarneri the third and fourth year, when she attended the engraving laboratory of Prof. Rodolfo Ceccotti.
2018 Master in Teaching, Psychological, Anthropological Methodologies, Theory and Methods of Design at the University “Dante Alighieri” of Reggio Calabria.

2010
• Exhibition “Contra, the triumph of the Image” Church of the Holy Souls, Enna. Publication in the catalog edited by Giuseppe Di Bella published by Con-Fine editions
• Review in the Con-Fine magazine for the inclusion of the aartist in the private collection of the publishing house.
2009
• Exhibits at the Fiera di Padova
• Personal painting exhibition Palazzo Mormino di Donnalucata (Scicli)
2008
• Exhibition entitled “STOP!” at the “Museo della Polizia” in Rome. His painting to raise public awareness on the issue of road safety.
• Group exhibition “Different looks” in Warsaw at the Pracownia Galeria.
• Review in the magazine "con-fine" December 08 "Footprints of light, stratigraphy of the soul" text by Giuseppe Di Bella
2007
• Review The relict orma delle cose by Francesco Giulio Farachi Published in JULIET, art magazine N° 135 December ’07 – January ’08
• Semifinalist of the Premio Celeste ’07 competition for painting, published in the catalog by the Cultural Association L’Albero Celeste of San Gimignano, Siena.
• Personal exhibition at the Trump Plaza Casino Hotel in Atlantic City, New Jersey on the occasion of the “1st Convention of the CSNA”, Sicilian Confederation of North America
• Group exhibition THE NIGHT of the WH...