Carla Accardi was born in Trapani in 1924, but she lives and works in Rome.
On March 15, 1947, together with Ugo Attardi, Pietro Consagra, Piero Dorazio, Mino Guerrini, Achille Perilli, Antonio Sanfilippo and Giulio Turcato, she signed the manifest of the Forma group, published in the unique issue of Forma 1 magazine the following month. She's developed a personal poetic based on the sign-color relationship, frequently highlighting the value of the bichrome process. Accardi's research took place in the ’70s, when she used transparent sicofoil surfaces as the support for her signs and, sometimes, as the material of her works themselves. Her creations are still based on picture/sign interventions, in close relationship with the first ones but, at the same time, with a new shape that highlights signs, on the classic textured or raw canvas and also on ceramic objects.

Other than her numerous presentations in national and international exhibitions with Forma group, it's worth mentioning, in 1983, the retrospectives presented at the Pinacoteca Comunale Loggetta Lombardesca in Ravenna, at the PAC (Pavilion of Contemporary Art) in Milan and at the former Convento di San Carlo in Erice. In 1988, Accardi had a solo room at the Venice Biennial; in 1994, a solo exhibition at the Castello di Rivoli (TO); in 2001, at the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in New York and in 2002 at the Musèe de la Ville in Paris. In 2004, the MACRO (Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome), on the occasion of its 80th anniversary, presented an solo exhibition.

Accardi's relationship with Galleria Fumagalli began in 1993, when her solo exhibition was presented, cured by Giovanni Maria Accame, who also signed the text in the catalogue. This relationship continued in 1995, with the production of a volume published on the occasion of the exhibitions at Kunstverein Ludwigshafen am Rhein eV., at Stadtische Galerie Wolfsburg and at the Italian Cultural Institute in Wolfsburg. In 1999, the first reasoned monograph on Carla Accardi's work which contains her artistic production from her beginnings to 1997 was published by Edizioni Charta, cured by Germano Celant, in cooperation with Galleria Fumagalli and, in 2000, also its English edition was published.