Chiara Lecca was born in 1977 in Modigliana, in the province of Forlì and Cesena, where she still lives and works today.
Her works involves the use of several artistic idioms, such as installations, works for the wall and videos. Animals are the focus of her artistic world, acting as accomplices in the operation of overturning reality as it is managed, ordered and controlled by mankind. The result is installations whose purpose is to bring out the irrational side in all of us, where the dichotomies of artificial-real and organic-inorganic cohabit in a miniature tragicomic theatre. A grotesque joy surfaces in the pagan dimension of nature in which her characters find themselves.

Chiara Lecca’s most important exhibitions include the personal show Cut-out, held in 2003 in the Artists’ Club in Faenza. In 2005, she took part in the XII Biennale of Young European and Mediterranean Artists, curated by Achille Bonito Oliva, at the Castel Sant’Elmo in Naples, while 2006 brought her an invitation to take part in the 49th Campigna Award at Santa Sofia (Forlì) and in the Gender Bender Festival in Bologna. In 2007, she took part in Aequa Nox, a workshop curated by Rosalba Paiano in Modigliana, Forlì. In 2008, she took part in the postgraduate training programme in contemporary art at the Spinola Banna Foundation for Art in Poirino, Turin, and has been invited to show in the joint exhibition Fenstersprung at the PROGR Centre for Cultural Production in Bern, Switzerland.