SILVIA GABARDI (painter, actress and teacher) Born in Busto Arsizio and lives between Gallarate and Cassano Magnago. She attended the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, PAINTING, graduating with the thesis "The Existential Problem of Human Finitude in Contemporary Art" and specialized in GRAPHICS and art engraving at the same Academy, with the thesis "Emotional Cages" Always in love with contemporary-total art, she studies and creates theatrical performances with the TETRALUNA group for exhibitions and events, participates in personal and collective exhibitions in public and private galleries, intervenes in Photographic Safaris and acts in various theater companies. Teacher of Art and Image in the Province schools She has collaborated for 6 years as a tutor-assistant of Graphics and engraving at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts. In 2003 she participated as a finalist in the Galleria d’Arte Ghiggini competition in Varese and was selected at the Saloonprimo2003 of Brera, Museo la Permanente, Milan. In 2004 she participated in the City of Busto Arsizio Painting Prize and in 2006 in the Graphic Prize Paris 2006 in Calenzano (Florence) She participated in the Graphic exhibitions "Corpo Urbano", "Itinerarte" and "Corpo-reo" curated by Alberto Balletti. In 2007 she was selected at the National Arts Prize at the Bologna Academy and then at the Studio S-Arte Contemporanea Gallery in ROME by Carmine Siniscalco. She participated in the Aquiterme Engraving Biennial, in the Graphic Exhibition with Prof. Ssa Panno Laura, in the Watercolor Exhibition with Prof. Remo Salvadori and in the Workshop Exhibition with the artist Umberto Cavenago. In 2008 she is exhibited at the D. Dossi Institute in Florence on the occasion of the conference on new techniques of contemporary printing. In 2010 she exhibits at the Spazio Zero Gallery a personal entitled "GABAERGIA2010" In 2011 she participates in the Venice Biennale "IL VELO DELLA SPOSA" pavilion 35 Forte Marghera in Mestre. In 2012 she is mentioned in the international biennial competition of Graphics On the Road Gallery, in the exhibition "Born for Art" she is mentioned and a collective at the Maccagnani Gallery Lecce. In 2013 she has a personal entitled "Purely Casual Places 2013" in Arona, participates in the collective at the Branda Castle in Castiglione Olona and is mentioned for the City of Fogliazzo Prize, Turin. In 2014 she participates in the exhibition "The 5 Senses" at the Tadini Art Gallery, Milan. In 2015 Selected and invited to participate in the "VII The Art and the Press" at the Civic Museum of "Ala Punzone" in Cremona with graphic works, participates in the collective exhibition "Earth Calls Art" at the Farioli Gallery, Busto Arsizio and Libreria Boragno. In 2016 she creates a personal entitled GABAERGIA 2016 in Busto Arsizio, Galleria Farioli From 2016 to 2020 she presents a personal entitled "Emotional Cages" at the Chiaravalle Inn, Milan and a personal "New Worlds" at the Art Space in Busto In 2025 personal at the Legnano castle. In 2026 participation in the Brera Prize 2026, Bordone gallery (Paris) Palazzo Revedin gallery in Venice Currently she is preparing various projects entitled GABAERGIA "Purely Casual Places" New Worlds in which she develops unreal or utopian places, experimenting with the three-dimensionality of the material.