I paint artifices—constructions of beauty and masks of desire—where surfaces struggle to contain what lies beneath.Beatrice Scaccia
Bea Scaccia (b. 1978, Veroli, Italy) is a New York–based painter whose practice interrogates the cultural and psychological architectures of feminine beauty and its proximity to monstrosity. Merging precise realist training with a surreal, narrative approach, she builds ornate pictorial compositions where wigs, fabrics, jewels, and props seem to animate into creatures of disguise.
Scaccia’s works have been exhibited internationally, with recent and upcoming solo presentations at Maruani Mercier (Art Brussels, 2024; Brussels, 2025), Richard Saltoun (Rome, 2025), and JDJ Tribeca (New York, 2022), as well as major institutional projects at the Katonah Museum of Art (New York, 2021). She has participated in significant group exhibitions at Galleria Nazionale (Rome, 2022), Magazzino Italian Art (New York, 2020), The Centre for the Less Good Idea (Johannesburg, 2020), Harper’s (New York and Singapore, 2023–24), and PM/AM (London, 2023). Her work is held in prominent public and private collections, including the William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation and the Portland Museum of Art.