Marilena Nardi was born in 1966 in Chiampo, near Vicenza, Italy. After getting the degree in Art in 1986 and in Sculpture in 1990, she started teaching at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice – Artistic Anatomy since 1992 and also Illustration since 2003. Since 1984 she has participated in hundreds of exhibitions of humour graphic and illustration in Italy and in the world. Among the many prestigious awards and honors, we can mention at least the Grand Prize at the 11th World Press Freedom International Editorial Cartoon Competition, Canada and the Premio Forte dei Marmi per la Satira politica for the satirical cartoon, in 2013. Marilena Nardi collaborated with many Italian newspapers and magazines, such as Il Corriere della Sera (ViviMilano, CorriereEconomia, CorriereSoldi, CorriereLavoro, CorriereScuola), but also Diario, Gente Money, Borsa & Finanza, Avvenimenti, Salute Naturale, Il nostro budget, Monthly, etc. She created the illustrations of the animated fairy tale “How deserts were born” for the TV program “The moon upside down”. Recently, she has collaborated with the Italian satirical newspapers Il Misfatto, L’Antitempo, Il ruvido and the international Fire. Some drawings she created for MicroMega online, Il Nuovo Male and for Il fiore del partigiano (ANPI). She also has collaborations with many blogs and online journals, including l’Asino, Aspirina, the magazine, Buduar and ANPI.it. Currently, she mainly draws for the daily Il Fatto Quotidiano and for the bimonthly magazine Barricate! Some artworks by Marilena Nardi are presented in the following museums of humour art: Bajardo, Bronzolo, Tolentino, Istanbul, Tehran, Zemun and in the Museum of Science and Technology in Milan. Marilena Nardi is living in Maserada sul Piave, Italy.
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