Cecilia Granara (born 1991, Jeddah) is Italian and lives and works between Paris and Mexico City. She studied at Central Saint Martins, ENSBA Paris, Hunter College (MFA exchange), and received her MFA from Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2020. Granara’s paintings draw on mysticism, poetry, and personal history to explore longing, transformation, and spiritual renewal. She has presented solo and duo exhibitions at Cassina Projects in Milan, CAC Passerelle in Brittany, Exo Exo in Paris, and Sapling in London. Granara participated in institutional group shows at Museu Nacional da Republica (Brazil), Musée D'Orsay (FR), Ford Foundation Gallery (U.S.A.) , FRAC Corsica (FR), Fondation Pernod Ricard (FR), Triennale Milano (IT), Château La Coste (FR), LAAC Musée de Dunkerque (FR), Centre D'Art Contemporain Passerelle (FR), Centre d'Art Parc Saint Léger (FR), Musée Cérès Franco (FR), Contemporary Art Center of Armenia, Zeyrek Cynili Hammam Museum (Turkey), MAXXI, Rome (IT) and ps120 Berlin (Germany). Granara was a finalist of the Antoine Marin Prize in 2019, the Cairo Prize (Italy) in 2021, the Club GAMEC Prize (Italy) in 2024, and recipient of the MAC Lissone Prize (Italy) in 2025.
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