ANNALISA SCARPA PERLA
Born on March 9, 1968, in Venice, she showed an aptitude for drawing and painting from a young age.
She attended the Art Institute of Venice and, in 1987, graduated as a Master of Glass Art at the same institute.
In 1988, she enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts of Venice in the Painting course, first studying with Nini Sgambati and Luciano Zarotti, and later with Xante Battaglia and Ennio Finzi. In 1990, she attended a photography course held by Angelo Swarz, and in 1991–92 she followed Carlo Montanaro’s course Theory and Method of Mass Media, for which she created a 12-minute animation titled Il dono del sole, based on an unpublished story by Giovanni Fabbris. The animation was entirely produced using a 386 computer. She graduated from the Academy of Venice in 1993 with a thesis on the relationship between Art and Technology.
In 1994–95, she worked at Gruppo Alcuni in Treviso as a background artist for the animated television series I Tigrotti di Tele +.
In 1996, she co-founded the company Kromeidon, where she began working as a graphic and web designer. In the same year, she took part in the International Bit Movie Competition in Riccione with studies on animation backgrounds, receiving the Jury Prize.
In 1997, she participated in the competition Immaginando 97 – Visioni Digitali dell’Etruria in Grosseto with an image titled Il Dono del sole, representing a hypothetical reconstruction of the tomb of the Etruscan god Typhon located in Sovana, in the Necropolis of Poggio Stanziale. This image later became the cover of the mythological novel Eterna Primavera written by Angelo and Giovanni Fabbris and published by Firenze Libri.
In the same year, she took part in Creativa 97, a computer graphics competition organized by the Associazione Giovanile Faentina, where she ranked 1st with Il dono del sole and 2nd with Atlantide, a study for animation backgrounds.
In 1999, she participated in a theatre workshop with the company Chi è di Scena, collaborating on set design and acting in the performance I giorni perduti, based on an idea by Dino Buzzati and directed by Samuele Reina. She also contributed set designs to the performance Partiamo, based on texts by Cesare Zavattini and directed by Fabrizio Giacomazzi.
In 2003, in collaboration with Usarci Servizi, she organized the course 3D Graphics – Master in Multimedia 3D Developer, funded by the European Social Fund, consisting of 648 hours of classroom training and 352 hours of internship. She taught unemployed young people, working on the 3D reconstruction of a model of the Abbey of Sant’Eustachio in Nervesa della Battaglia (Treviso).
In 2009, she began using a digital camera.
In 2011, she exhibited at the collective painting exhibition Lacrime del Mare (The Journey) at Palazzo Goldoni in Chioggia. In the same year, she began collaborating as a photographer with the Fondazione Francesco Fabbri at Villa Brandolini in Solighetto for an exhibition on Paul Strand and Walter Rosenblum curated by critic Carlo Sala—a collaboration that lasted ten years.
In 2013, she won third prize at the photography competition Medioevo in Valvasone. She also collaborated with Clodia Comix, a comic competition for young artists held at Palazzo Goldoni in Chioggia.
In 2014, she attended a course titled Portraits held by Francesco Fontana.
In 2015, she took part in various photography workshops: with photographer Mark De Tollenaere on the use of flash; at the Bassano Fotografia festival with Joe McNally; and another on portrait photography with Alberto Buzzanca.
In 2016, with the Kromeidon team (Giovanni Fabbris, Joachim Thomas, Marco Musco), she participated in Avanscena with a virtual reality installation presented in Venice and simultaneously in Turin.
In 2017, she attended the photography course Beyond the Rules held by Marco Tortato (Yorik).
In 2018, she participated in a photography workshop at Fabrica (Benetton) with the English artist Daniel Stier.
In 2019, she exhibited Light Painting works at Officina Calligrafica with artists Bruno Gripari and Joachim Thomas in the exhibition Le porte del tempo (Le Porte del tempo – The Doors of Time). In the same year, she worked as a photographer at the 37th edition of the Asolo Art Film Festival titled From the Restlessness of Eleonora Duse to Post-Internet Art.
In 2021, she exhibited Light Painting works in Venice at Galleria Itinerarte (May 22 – June 30) in a group exhibition alongside Lorenzo Capellini, Veronica Gaido, Gaspare Manos, Riccardo Gatti, Lucfrancois Granier, and Maria Novella Papafava dei Carraresi. She also took part in the International Exhibition Bassano Fotografia 21 (September 11 – November 1).
In 2022, she exhibited at Laboratorio Armonie in Verona (June 4–11).
She participated in the 43rd edition of the Grolla d’Oro in the Photography section (October 3–12) at Villa Condulmer and Palazzo dei 300 in Treviso.
In 2023, she created the official image and collaborated as Executive Director of the 40th edition of the Asolo Art Film Festival titled Restare Umani (Remaining Human). She also produced a video for the scenography of the theatrical work Apoteosi, conceived, written, and composed by Marco Giommoni.
In November 2023, she exhibited at Galleria Alzaia in a show titled IM MATERIALE, exploring the boundary between matter and the intangible. In December of the same year, she took part in the International Grolla d’Oro Competition, exhibiting at the Museo di Santa Caterina in Treviso, and simultaneously exhibited in a group show at Galleria Itinerarte in Venice.
On February 16, 2024, she participated in the conference Art, Music and Algorithms with Marco Giommoni and Giovanni Fabbris. From October 3 to 15, she held a solo exhibition at the Micromega Cultural Association.
She took part in the international Grolla d’Oro competition and won second prize in photography with the syntography Labirinto Sonoro – Xenakis Series, exhibited from October 27 to December 2024 at Ca’ Robegan in Treviso.
She exhibited at Galleria Itinerarte in a group show from December 28, 2024, to February 6, 2025.
She exhibited in Oderzo in a group exhibition organized by the Grolla d’Oro competition for the Silver and Bronze Grolle at Ca’ Lozzio in Piavon di Oderzo (February 2–23, 2025).
From June 21 to 29, 2025, under the patronage of the Municipality of Noale, she created an exhibition titled Luoghi Sonori (Sound Places) inside the Torre delle Campane.
On October 11, 2025, she debuted as a digital set designer at the Teatro Politeama in Catanzaro in the opera Cleopatra, composed by the young musician Alessandro Meacci with a libretto by Marco Maria Tosolini. The opera opened the Festival d’Autunno, founded and directed by Antonietta Santacroce, and was also staged at Teatro Palladium in Rome.
On April 29, 2026, she exhibited at the Micromega Cultural Association in Venice with a show titled Ricorrenze dell’anima (Recurrences of the Soul), presented by Enzo Santese and Marco Giommoni.
She currently works as Artistic Director at Kromeidon Sas.