Simonetta Moro

Simonetta Moro is an Italian and American visual artist, scholar, and academic administrator. She is the current President and a Professor of Art, Philosophy, and Visual Studies at the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts (IDSVA). Her work focuses on cartographic aesthetics, painting, and the philosophical intersections of memory and place.

Early life and education Moro was born in Italy and received her initial artistic training at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna, where she graduated magna cum laude with a thesis on “Mark Rothko and the experience of the sacred in painting.”

Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at White Box (New York), the American Academy in Rome, and various venues across Europe. She was a Fulbright Fellow at the American Academy in Rome from 1999 to 2000.

As a scholar, she has published extensively on the relationship between art and cartography. Her notable publications include:

Mapping Paradigms in Modern and Contemporary Art: Poetic Cartography (Routledge, 2021) The Vattimo Dictionary (Edinburgh University Press, 2023)