Anita Guerra was born in Havana, Cuba, and received her art training in the United States, Spain, and Italy. In 1984, she obtained her B.F.A. & M.F.A. degrees in Painting from the Tyler School of Art & Architecture at Temple University, from its campuses in Rome and Philadelphia. She has been living, teaching, and painting in Rome since 1977, where she resides.
Her works hang in the permanent collections of the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma, Rome, National Museum of Sacred Art, Castello Piccolomini, Celano, Aquila; Centre d'Etudes Saint Louis de France, Rome; Pricewaterhouse Cooper, NYC, The Caproni Museum in Trento, and in many private collections in Europe and in the United States.
Her recent 2025 solo exhibit, “Queridos” at the Tyler School of Art & Architecture in Philadelphia, coincides with the completion of her illustrated memoir of the same title.
This show included paintings, drawings, monotypes printed on Cuban newspapers, vintage photographs, letters, embroideries, and a documentary co-produced and edited by Alberto Nappi about her father, Cuban architect Juan Ignacio Guerra. Also featured was a video interview with the artist’s mother, Josefina Recio.
She has just returned from the Emily Harvey Foundation Artists Residency in Venice, Italy, (July-August, 2025). During her residency, she completed fifty works on paper about mass tourism. These will be shown at her February 2026 solo exhibit at Mesia Space in Rome, under the umbrella project, “Umanità?”.
Her works hang in the permanent collections of the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma, Rome, National Museum of Sacred Art, Castello Piccolomini, Celano, Aquila; Centre d'Etudes Saint Louis de France, Rome; Pricewaterhouse Cooper, NYC, The Caproni Museum in Trento, and in many private collections in Europe and in the United States.
Her recent 2025 solo exhibit, “Queridos” at the Tyler School of Art & Architecture in Philadelphia, coincides with the completion of her illustrated memoir of the same title.
This show included paintings, drawings, monotypes printed on Cuban newspapers, vintage photographs, letters, embroideries, and a documentary co-produced and edited by Alberto Nappi about her father, Cuban architect Juan Ignacio Guerra. Also featured was a video interview with the artist’s mother, Josefina Recio.
She has just returned from the Emily Harvey Foundation Artists Residency in Venice, Italy, (July-August, 2025). During her residency, she completed fifty works on paper about mass tourism. These will be shown at her February 2026 solo exhibit at Mesia Space in Rome, under the umbrella project, “Umanità?”.