Rita Casdia, was born in Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto (ME) in 1977. She graduated in Painting from the Palermo Academy of Fine Arts in 2000. Later she moved to Milan, where she continued her studies at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts. she and she obtained a specialization in Art and New Technologies (2006) and a second-level academic degree in teaching painting (2009).

Festival and video review: 17.KURZFILMFESTIVAL, endorsement selection by Felipe César, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, 39˚Festival du Nouveau Cinéma di Montreal, Il MOUSE E LA PENCIL, curated by Bruno Di Marino, Pescara Film Festival, LOOP – Festival de Video Arte & Fair, Barcelona, ​​Filmmaker Festival 35, Spazio Oberdan, Milan. XIII International Festival of the Image, Manizales, Colombia (special mention), VIDEOFORMES.2019, curated by VisualContainer, Clermont-Ferrand, France, Crosstalk ed7 Video Art Festival Budapest, IV Festival of Digital Arts of Athens, VideoYearArtBook XIV Edition, Bologna.

Individual exhibitions: Wounds like cracks, Showcase, Pino Pascali Museum Foundation, Polignano a Mare, Be Loved, Nuvole Incontri d’Arte, Palermo; Life Instinct, Muratcentoventidue, Bari.

Group exhibitions: Ariane de Rothschild Prize, Palazzo Reale, Milan, XIV Cairo Prize, Museo della Permanente, Milan, Video.it, Fondazione Merz, Turin, Suspended Territories and other Italian stories, MUU Gallery, Helsinki, Under the stars, Museum Unicaja de Artes y Customs, Malaga, Only the restless know how difficult it is to survive the storm and not be able to live without it, Academy of Fine Arts – Palazzo Ziino, Palermo.