Sara
Zunino

Sara Zunino was born in 1987 in Isernia and grew up in Cavi di Lavagna (GE), Liguria. She currently lives and works in Florence.

She graduated in sculpture from the Academy of Fine Arts in Carrara, MS (2006-2012).

Using various media, she explores the close relationship between humans and places, both inhabited and denied. In particular, she addresses the complex issue of identity, shaped by belonging or not belonging to a territory.

In 2021, she won the Artkeys Artist Residency (SA) and the Mediterranean Contemporary Art Prize (PZ). In 2022, she was a finalist for the WAO Prize (VE). In 2024, she won the Talent Fair-Nice&Fair and the Nice&Fair-Best Nice Artist award at Paratissima Venti (TO).

Since 2016, she has taught Sculpture and Art History in middle and high schools.

She has also taught Italian as a second language to foreign students, working on migrant literacy projects, primarily aimed at unaccompanied foreign minors.