Francesca Vivenza lives and works in Toronto, Canada while maintaining an active role in Italy. She was born in Rome, Italy in 1941 and graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts (Brera) in Milan, in 1966. Vivenza is the recipient of Grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Toronto Arts Council.
Vivenza has participated in both national and international exhibitions and curatorial projects. Among them: the International Touring Prints Shows with Open Studio (Toronto) and the Artist’s Books and projects with Il Gabbiano-Arte Contemporanea (La Spezia, Italy).
Vivenza was the Canadian editor for NEXT-Arte e Cultura, an international art magazine published in Rome, from 1992 to 1998. She has initiated language-based projects and touring exhibitions with W.M. Sutherland [THE ORDER OF THING (An International Fax Project), 1993; METALOGOS, 2005-2008]. Vivenza was the co-founder of the artists’ collectives BVW (The Broadview Collective, 1993-2008) and the intersperse curatorial collective (HOME INVASION – Videos by Artists, 2004; THE FOREST FOR THE TREES, 2006). Vivenza’s practice documentation is stored at the Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections, York University, Toronto.