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?”.
Solo Exhibits
2025 "Queridos" Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.
2020 ”Tres Patrias” Temple Gallery, Temple University Rome, Rome, Italy
2016 “Mi Cuba, La Mia Italia: reliving the past, living the present” Critical text by Manuela De Leonardis Exhibit for Italian Cultural Week, November 20-27,2016.Casa de la Obra Pía, Habana Vieja, Havana, Cuba
2016 “Volver a Cuba” St. Stephen’s Cultural Center, Rome, Italy “Ascent”, St. Stephen’s Cultural Center, Rome, Italy
2010 "Building Bridges of Hope: Success Stories and Strategies for Interfaith Action” painting chosen as logo and for exhibit during conference at the Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome , sponsored by the Embassy of the United States of America to the Holy See, Rome, Italy
2006 Zen Sushi, Rome, Italy
2000 “Natura e Geometria” Piccolomini Castle, National Museum of Sacred Art, Celano/ Aquila, Italy
2000 “Mobilnovo Features Anita Guerra”, Fiera di Roma, Rome, Italy
2000 Sala Gasparri, Populonia,Livorno, Italy
1999 Bijan, Rome, Italy
1997 “L’Albero”, St. Stephen’s School Rome, Italy
1993 The University of Dallas Rome Program, Manziana, Italy
1990 “Form and Figure”The Aart Vark Gallery, Philadelphia, Pa, USA
1989 Centre d’Etudes Saint-Louis–de-France, Largo Toniolo, Rome, Italy
1986 “Un’isola per l’estate” Isola Tiberina, Rome, Italy
RAW Rome Art Week Open Studios Participated yearly, from 2018 to present
Selected Group Exhibits
2025 “Dieci Amori" Casetta Macchia Sacra, Torre in Pietra, Italy
2025 "Glass Ceiling" La Vaccheria, Rome, Italy
2024 "Fuoco" Centro Breccia, Maccarese, Italy
2024 "Ti´Segno" ME.SIA S.PACE, Rome, Italy
2024 "The Marriage of Eros and Psyche" & "Pluto in Acquario" Studio Poerio, Rome, Italy
2023"Donna Vita Libertà" Casa Internazionale delle Donne, Rome, Italy
2023 “La Gabbia e Il Volo” Aula Consiliare, I Municipio, Rome, Italy
2025 "Queridos" Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.
2020 ”Tres Patrias” Temple Gallery, Temple University Rome, Rome, Italy
2016 “Mi Cuba, La Mia Italia: reliving the past, living the present” Critical text by Manuela De Leonardis Exhibit for Italian Cultural Week, November 20-27,2016.Casa de la Obra Pía, Habana Vieja, Havana, Cuba
2016 “Volver a Cuba” St. Stephen’s Cultural Center, Rome, Italy “Ascent”, St. Stephen’s Cultural Center, Rome, Italy
2010 "Building Bridges of Hope: Success Stories and Strategies for Interfaith Action” painting chosen as logo and for exhibit during conference at the Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome , sponsored by the Embassy of the United States of America to the Holy See, Rome, Italy
2006 Zen Sushi, Rome, Italy
2000 “Natura e Geometria” Piccolomini Castle, National Museum of Sacred Art, Celano/ Aquila, Italy
2000 “Mobilnovo Features Anita Guerra”, Fiera di Roma, Rome, Italy
2000 Sala Gasparri, Populonia,Livorno, Italy
1999 Bijan, Rome, Italy
1997 “L’Albero”, St. Stephen’s School Rome, Italy
1993 The University of Dallas Rome Program, Manziana, Italy
1990 “Form and Figure”The Aart Vark Gallery, Philadelphia, Pa, USA
1989 Centre d’Etudes Saint-Louis–de-France, Largo Toniolo, Rome, Italy
1986 “Un’isola per l’estate” Isola Tiberina, Rome, Italy
RAW Rome Art Week Open Studios Participated yearly, from 2018 to present
Selected Group Exhibits
2025 “Dieci Amori" Casetta Macchia Sacra, Torre in Pietra, Italy
2025 "Glass Ceiling" La Vaccheria, Rome, Italy
2024 "Fuoco" Centro Breccia, Maccarese, Italy
2024 "Ti´Segno" ME.SIA S.PACE, Rome, Italy
2024 "The Marriage of Eros and Psyche" & "Pluto in Acquario" Studio Poerio, Rome, Italy
2023"Donna Vita Libertà" Casa Internazionale delle Donne, Rome, Italy
2023 “La Gabbia e Il Volo” Aula Consiliare, I Municipio, Rome, Italy
2023-24 “&” Faculty & Guests, Temple Gallery, Temple University Rome, Rome, Italy
2022 “Remanso” Ex-Cartiera Latina, Parco di Via Appia, Rome, Italy
2022 “Controvento. Artisti per Pasolini” Villa Guglielmi, Fiumicino, Italy
2022 “Remanso” Ex-Cartiera Latina, Parco di Via Appia, Rome, Italy
2022 “Controvento. Artisti per Pasolini” Villa Guglielmi, Fiumicino, Italy
2021 “Arteporto Fuori Confine”, Ancient Port of Trajan and Claudius, Fiumicino, Italy
2021 “Io e Me: Self Portraits During Lockdown” Sala 1, Permanent collection, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma, Rome, Italy
2021 “50+PontidiConoscenza” https://50piupontidiconoscenze.wordpress.com
2020 “Cross-Connect: One-to-One interviews with Creatives Around the Globe” Anita Guerra meets Gail Shaw-Clemons, Virtual encounter. IA&A at Hillyer, Washington DC, USA
2020 “RAW Faculty Exhibit” Rome Art Week, Temple Gallery, Temple University Rome, Rome, Italy
2019 “Looking at the Trees, Gazing at the Sky” with critical text by Roberta Melasecca, St. Stephen’s Cultural Center, Rome, Italy
2019 “RAW Faculty Exhibit” Rome Art Week, Temple Gallery, Temple University Rome Rome, Italy
2018 “Under Another Roof” with Marina Buening, Maria Korporal, Kristien de Neve. IA&A at Hillyer, Washington DC, USA
2018 “Under the Same Roof” with Marina Buening, Maria Korporal, Kristien de Neve. Sala 1, Rome, Italy
2017 “50x50x50” 50th Anniversary Exhibit, Temple Gallery, Temple University Rome, Rome, Italy
2016 ”Temple University Rome 50 Year Celebration.” Past and Present Faculty,Philadelphia, PA, USA Monoprint “At the Top” selected to hang in Office of President of Temple University, Richard M. Englert.
2015 ”Oltre I Libri: l’arte del presente incontra I libri del passato.” Winner in Sculpture category, Biblioteca Angelica, Rome, Italy
2012 “Un Cortadito en Calle 8” Cremata Gallery, Miami, Florida, USA
2011 “Woman.Embodied: Cuban Women’s Art from the Diaspora” In memory of Ana Mendieta. Sangre de Cristo Art Center, Pueblo, Colorado, USA
2011 “Café XII: The Journeys of Writers and Artists of the Cuban Diaspora” In memory of Antonio Benítez-Rojo. Sangre de Cristo Art Center, Pueblo, Colorado, USA
2010 “Café X :The Journeys of Cuban Artists” A multi-medium symposium the Caribbbean Diaspora, Errol Barrow Center for Creative Imagination, Barbados
2015-98 “Faculty Exhibit”, Temple Gallery, Temple University Rome, Italy
2008 “Café VIII: The Journeys of Cuban Artists” co- curated by Leandro Soto and Anita Guerra. Temple Gallery, Temple University Rome, Rome, Italy
2008 “Storie Personali e di Memorie” International Art Exhibition at the Palazzo Rospigliosi, Zagarolo, Italy
2007 “Café VII: The Journeys of Cuban Artists” Interdisciplinary Art and Performance Gallery, Arizona State University, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
2007 “Art in the Tropics” sponsored by the Cuban American Bar Association, Miami, Florida
2004 “Basel Art”/Miami Design District at “The Gallery”. Seven paintings in a group show of Cuban artists, Miami, Florida, USA
2004 “Mimosa” Sala 1, for International Women’s Day, Rome, Italy
2003 “Studioaperti” artists in Rome open up their studios to the public. Sponsored by the City of Rome, Italy
2002 “L’Arte Libera” benefit show to support children’s art program at Laje’e Center at the Aida Refugee Camp in Bethlehem. Curated by Anita Guerra; held at Daniel Gregory di Domenico, Rome, Italy
2001 “A Day of Remembrance and Resistance” Art Show and poetry reading in commemoration of September 11th. Temple University Rome, Italy
1999 “Clink, Guerra, Hershey, McNeill” Locke Whitney, New York, NY, USA
1998 “Vola Napoli” Palazzo Reale, Naples, Italy
1997 “Past and Present Faculty: Temple University 30th Anniversary Exhibit Temple University, Rome, Italy
1995 “Genesis” Benefit Auction for AIDS patients. The Intercontinental Hotel. Miami, FL, USA
1994 “Umbria Art Affair”(with Il Polittico Gallery, Rome) Trevi Flash Art Museum,Trevi, Italy
1992 “Portraits and Landscapes”, St. Stephen’s School, Rome, Italy
1991 “Presenze: Artisti Stranieri Oggi in Italia”, Perugia, Italy
1985 “Women about Woman” The Nöel Butcher Gallery, Philadelphia, Pa, USA
Curatorial Practices
2015 “An Eternal Love: The Art Student and the Non-Catholic Cemetery in Rome”Organization, selection and installation of exhibit opening June-August 2015, Non-Catholic Cemetery in Rome, Rome, Italy
2013 “The Nest” exhibition of works by young sculptors at the hardware store, “Abbruzzetti”. Voting on best piece open to public, including customers and pedestrians. Prize ceremony attended by the community on Viale Aventino (members of F.A.O of the United Nations, St. Stephen’s School)
2008 Curated and participated in the Rome edition of “Café VIII: The Journeys of Cuban Artists” with Leandro Soto. Temple Gallery, Temple University Rome, Rome, Italy
2008-06 Curated the Bi-Annual Masqueraded Carnival Ball for the French Embassy at the Palazzo Farnese with the Temple University Painting on Paper students, entitled, “Traveling and Travelers” and “Fables and Fairy Tales”, Rome, Italy
2002 “L’Arte Libera” benefit show to support the children’s art program at the Laje’e Center at the Aida Refugee Camp in Bethlehem. Curated by Anita Guerra; held at Daniel Gregory di Domenico, Rome, Italy
2023-1982 Curated hundreds of student shows, at least six a year at both university and high school level. In addition, curated the Rome International Schools Association Annual Art Show at St. Stephen’s School with over 200 artworks, from 1990 to 2012.
T.V. and Radio
2019 “Live Social-By Night” Radio Roma Capitale, Anita Guerra , live radio interview. Rome,Italy
2016 “Vitrales” Cultural Program created by Katia Cárdenas Radio Emisora Cuba. Anita Guerra , live radio interview about “Mi Cuba, La Mia Italia” exhibit for the XIX Week of Italian Culture, Havana, Cuba
2016 “I Giochi dell’Armonia” Cultural Program created by Alessandra Petitta of Vatican Radio. Anita Guerra , live radio interview about exhibit “Volver a Cuba” Rome,Italy
http://it.radiovaticana.va/news/2016/05/27/pagine,_fogli,_parole_sognare/1231447
Publications
2016 “On Cuba” Claudia García Pérez interviews Anita Guerra about her exhibition, “Mi Cuba, La Mia Italia” at the Museum Casa de la Obra Pía, Havana Cuba
2012 “Building Bridges of Opportunity: Migration and Diversity” Painting,“Tras-tevere used as logo for conference organized by the US Embassy to the Holy See, Rome, Italy
2011 Herrera O’Reilly, Andrea, “CAFE--Cuban Artists Across the Diaspora: Setting the Tent Against the House” The University of Texas Press, Austin, TX USA
Interior and Theater Design
2007 Designed and created set designs, props and costumes for the play,“Fish” at the art colony, "Arteaparte", run by Antonella Neri in Todi, Italy
Conferences
2019 “Autoritratto-Anita Guerra” MACRO ASILO, Museo di Arte Contemporaneo, Rome, Italy
2018 Six Artist’s Talks at Temple University Rome. Coordinated and hosted evening lectures.
2015 Artists Talk with Laura Grosso, Serafino Amato, Silvia Stucky and Marcello Sambati at Art Studio, John Cabot University, Rome, Italy
1998 Participated in the debate entitled “The Philosophy of Art: Past and Present” by Prof. George Dickie at the Centro Studi Americani, Rome, Italy
1997 Panelist “A Symposium on Meanings, Values and the Arts.The Concept of Development in the History of Art. Philosophical Perspectives on Painting, Music and Literature”, based on lecture by Jos de Mul and sponsored by the Department of Philosophy, Loyola University, Chicago, Rome Center of Liberal Arts, Rome, Italy
Commissions
2020 Watercolors for graduating senior class and departing faculty at St. Stephen’s School, Rome.
Two editions of 80 and 50 signed giclée prints with originals.
2014 Four oil paintings: Angela Wende, John Jett, Max Patton and Debbie Packer
2013 Tryptich watercolor commission for Molly and Jiri Stejskal of Cetra Language Solutions of Elkins Park of their Wyncote residence.
2011 Paintings for the Contessa Maria Fede Caproni, Anne Tasca,
1991 Sandra and Grenville Craig, Patricia Harrison, Alessandra Pisanelli, Giuliana Di Marco, Petra and Christian Mcaika, Domenico and Mariolina Carbone, Piera and Claudio Chiapperi, The Feuchtman family, and Angelo Filippini.
1996 “Experts and Expats” Poster for a public debate on the U.S. Political Elections held at Loyola University, Rome, Italy
1996 “Women in Ancient Thought and Society” Poster for lectures sponsored by the Department of Philosophy of Loyola University of Chicago, Rome, Italy
1990 Pastel for “Le Querce” Golf Course, Sutri, Viterbo for the designer Jim Fazio
1988 Painting on the Vision of St. Ignatius of Loyola for the Church of St. Ignatius of Loyola, West Palm Springs, FL, USA
1986 Double-faced mural painting for interior designer, Carla Piccardi, Rome, Italy
Grants
2025-2016-2015 Professional Development Fund of Temple University. Travel and supply expenses for the Emily Harvey Foundation Artists Residency in Venice, ItalyResearch trip to Cuba to work on illustrated memoir;
2018 Temple University Presidential Humanities and Arts Award. Research trip to Miami and Havana to work on illustrated memoir. (May 2018-May 2020)
2015 The Edward C. Carter Award for Innovation at St. Stephen’s School: Funds for autobiography, including research trip to Cuba
2012 Semester Sabbatical St. Stephen’s School. Illustrated autobiography project
2011,2009,2001 Professional Development Fund of Temple University Rome, Italy
2010,1994 Faculty Fund, St. Stephen’s School, Rome, Italy
Teaching Experience
2025-98 Professor of Drawing and Painting, Temple University Rome, Italy
2023-89 Sculpture and I.B. Visual Arts Teacher,St. Stephen’s School, Rome, Italy
2021-03 Professor of Drawing , St. John’s University, Rome Program Rome, Italy
2016 Instructor of Drawing, Trinity College, Rome, Italy
2016 Instructor of Drawing,Arcadia University at Università degli Studi at Roma Tre, Rome, Italy
2016,1998, 1989 Visiting Art Critic Rhode Island School of Design, Rome Program, Rome, Italy
2014-08 Instructor of Painting and Drawing, The American University of Rome, Rome, Italy
2011 Instructor of Drawing,Hobart and William Smith Colleges Rome Program, Scuola Leonardo da Vinci, Rome, Italy
2007Instructor of Drawing, University of Champlain, Illinois, La Scuola Leonardo da Vinci, Rome, Italy (Summer Program)
2001 Instructor of Drawing,Cornell University Rome Program, Rome, Italy
1999-93 Instructor of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture,The University of Loyola, Rome Program, Rome, Italy
1998-91 Instructor of Drawing, The Human Figure-drawing from life, artistic anatomy, University of Dallas Rome Program, Due Santi, Rome, Italy
1989-88 Instructor of Fine Arts for the Deaf at the Istituto Gualandi per I Sordomuti, Rome, Italy
1986 Watercolor Instructor,Temple University Rome, Rome, Italy
1986-84 Instructor of Painting, Saint Mary’s College, Rome Program, Rome, Italy
1984-82 Assistant Instructor of Fine Arts, The American College of Rome, Rome, Italy
Education
1984-81 M.F.A. Painting Temple University, Philadelphia, Pa, USA Tyler School of Art, Rome, Italy
1978-74 B.F.A. Painting Temple University, Philadelphia, Pa, USA Tyler School of Art, Rome, Italy. Cum laude.
1974-73 Academia de Bellas Artes de Santa Isabel de Hungría, Seville, Spain
Additional Information
2021 “Io e Me: Self Portraits During Lockdown” Sala 1, Permanent collection, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma, Rome, Italy
2021 “50+PontidiConoscenza” https://50piupontidiconoscenze.wordpress.com
2020 “Cross-Connect: One-to-One interviews with Creatives Around the Globe” Anita Guerra meets Gail Shaw-Clemons, Virtual encounter. IA&A at Hillyer, Washington DC, USA
2020 “RAW Faculty Exhibit” Rome Art Week, Temple Gallery, Temple University Rome, Rome, Italy
2019 “Looking at the Trees, Gazing at the Sky” with critical text by Roberta Melasecca, St. Stephen’s Cultural Center, Rome, Italy
2019 “RAW Faculty Exhibit” Rome Art Week, Temple Gallery, Temple University Rome Rome, Italy
2018 “Under Another Roof” with Marina Buening, Maria Korporal, Kristien de Neve. IA&A at Hillyer, Washington DC, USA
2018 “Under the Same Roof” with Marina Buening, Maria Korporal, Kristien de Neve. Sala 1, Rome, Italy
2017 “50x50x50” 50th Anniversary Exhibit, Temple Gallery, Temple University Rome, Rome, Italy
2016 ”Temple University Rome 50 Year Celebration.” Past and Present Faculty,Philadelphia, PA, USA Monoprint “At the Top” selected to hang in Office of President of Temple University, Richard M. Englert.
2015 ”Oltre I Libri: l’arte del presente incontra I libri del passato.” Winner in Sculpture category, Biblioteca Angelica, Rome, Italy
2012 “Un Cortadito en Calle 8” Cremata Gallery, Miami, Florida, USA
2011 “Woman.Embodied: Cuban Women’s Art from the Diaspora” In memory of Ana Mendieta. Sangre de Cristo Art Center, Pueblo, Colorado, USA
2011 “Café XII: The Journeys of Writers and Artists of the Cuban Diaspora” In memory of Antonio Benítez-Rojo. Sangre de Cristo Art Center, Pueblo, Colorado, USA
2010 “Café X :The Journeys of Cuban Artists” A multi-medium symposium the Caribbbean Diaspora, Errol Barrow Center for Creative Imagination, Barbados
2015-98 “Faculty Exhibit”, Temple Gallery, Temple University Rome, Italy
2008 “Café VIII: The Journeys of Cuban Artists” co- curated by Leandro Soto and Anita Guerra. Temple Gallery, Temple University Rome, Rome, Italy
2008 “Storie Personali e di Memorie” International Art Exhibition at the Palazzo Rospigliosi, Zagarolo, Italy
2007 “Café VII: The Journeys of Cuban Artists” Interdisciplinary Art and Performance Gallery, Arizona State University, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
2007 “Art in the Tropics” sponsored by the Cuban American Bar Association, Miami, Florida
2004 “Basel Art”/Miami Design District at “The Gallery”. Seven paintings in a group show of Cuban artists, Miami, Florida, USA
2004 “Mimosa” Sala 1, for International Women’s Day, Rome, Italy
2003 “Studioaperti” artists in Rome open up their studios to the public. Sponsored by the City of Rome, Italy
2002 “L’Arte Libera” benefit show to support children’s art program at Laje’e Center at the Aida Refugee Camp in Bethlehem. Curated by Anita Guerra; held at Daniel Gregory di Domenico, Rome, Italy
2001 “A Day of Remembrance and Resistance” Art Show and poetry reading in commemoration of September 11th. Temple University Rome, Italy
1999 “Clink, Guerra, Hershey, McNeill” Locke Whitney, New York, NY, USA
1998 “Vola Napoli” Palazzo Reale, Naples, Italy
1997 “Past and Present Faculty: Temple University 30th Anniversary Exhibit Temple University, Rome, Italy
1995 “Genesis” Benefit Auction for AIDS patients. The Intercontinental Hotel. Miami, FL, USA
1994 “Umbria Art Affair”(with Il Polittico Gallery, Rome) Trevi Flash Art Museum,Trevi, Italy
1992 “Portraits and Landscapes”, St. Stephen’s School, Rome, Italy
1991 “Presenze: Artisti Stranieri Oggi in Italia”, Perugia, Italy
1985 “Women about Woman” The Nöel Butcher Gallery, Philadelphia, Pa, USA
Curatorial Practices
2015 “An Eternal Love: The Art Student and the Non-Catholic Cemetery in Rome”Organization, selection and installation of exhibit opening June-August 2015, Non-Catholic Cemetery in Rome, Rome, Italy
2013 “The Nest” exhibition of works by young sculptors at the hardware store, “Abbruzzetti”. Voting on best piece open to public, including customers and pedestrians. Prize ceremony attended by the community on Viale Aventino (members of F.A.O of the United Nations, St. Stephen’s School)
2008 Curated and participated in the Rome edition of “Café VIII: The Journeys of Cuban Artists” with Leandro Soto. Temple Gallery, Temple University Rome, Rome, Italy
2008-06 Curated the Bi-Annual Masqueraded Carnival Ball for the French Embassy at the Palazzo Farnese with the Temple University Painting on Paper students, entitled, “Traveling and Travelers” and “Fables and Fairy Tales”, Rome, Italy
2002 “L’Arte Libera” benefit show to support the children’s art program at the Laje’e Center at the Aida Refugee Camp in Bethlehem. Curated by Anita Guerra; held at Daniel Gregory di Domenico, Rome, Italy
2023-1982 Curated hundreds of student shows, at least six a year at both university and high school level. In addition, curated the Rome International Schools Association Annual Art Show at St. Stephen’s School with over 200 artworks, from 1990 to 2012.
T.V. and Radio
2019 “Live Social-By Night” Radio Roma Capitale, Anita Guerra , live radio interview. Rome,Italy
2016 “Vitrales” Cultural Program created by Katia Cárdenas Radio Emisora Cuba. Anita Guerra , live radio interview about “Mi Cuba, La Mia Italia” exhibit for the XIX Week of Italian Culture, Havana, Cuba
2016 “I Giochi dell’Armonia” Cultural Program created by Alessandra Petitta of Vatican Radio. Anita Guerra , live radio interview about exhibit “Volver a Cuba” Rome,Italy
http://it.radiovaticana.va/news/2016/05/27/pagine,_fogli,_parole_sognare/1231447
Publications
2016 “On Cuba” Claudia García Pérez interviews Anita Guerra about her exhibition, “Mi Cuba, La Mia Italia” at the Museum Casa de la Obra Pía, Havana Cuba
2012 “Building Bridges of Opportunity: Migration and Diversity” Painting,“Tras-tevere used as logo for conference organized by the US Embassy to the Holy See, Rome, Italy
2011 Herrera O’Reilly, Andrea, “CAFE--Cuban Artists Across the Diaspora: Setting the Tent Against the House” The University of Texas Press, Austin, TX USA
Interior and Theater Design
2007 Designed and created set designs, props and costumes for the play,“Fish” at the art colony, "Arteaparte", run by Antonella Neri in Todi, Italy
Conferences
2019 “Autoritratto-Anita Guerra” MACRO ASILO, Museo di Arte Contemporaneo, Rome, Italy
2018 Six Artist’s Talks at Temple University Rome. Coordinated and hosted evening lectures.
2015 Artists Talk with Laura Grosso, Serafino Amato, Silvia Stucky and Marcello Sambati at Art Studio, John Cabot University, Rome, Italy
1998 Participated in the debate entitled “The Philosophy of Art: Past and Present” by Prof. George Dickie at the Centro Studi Americani, Rome, Italy
1997 Panelist “A Symposium on Meanings, Values and the Arts.The Concept of Development in the History of Art. Philosophical Perspectives on Painting, Music and Literature”, based on lecture by Jos de Mul and sponsored by the Department of Philosophy, Loyola University, Chicago, Rome Center of Liberal Arts, Rome, Italy
Commissions
2020 Watercolors for graduating senior class and departing faculty at St. Stephen’s School, Rome.
Two editions of 80 and 50 signed giclée prints with originals.
2014 Four oil paintings: Angela Wende, John Jett, Max Patton and Debbie Packer
2013 Tryptich watercolor commission for Molly and Jiri Stejskal of Cetra Language Solutions of Elkins Park of their Wyncote residence.
2011 Paintings for the Contessa Maria Fede Caproni, Anne Tasca,
1991 Sandra and Grenville Craig, Patricia Harrison, Alessandra Pisanelli, Giuliana Di Marco, Petra and Christian Mcaika, Domenico and Mariolina Carbone, Piera and Claudio Chiapperi, The Feuchtman family, and Angelo Filippini.
1996 “Experts and Expats” Poster for a public debate on the U.S. Political Elections held at Loyola University, Rome, Italy
1996 “Women in Ancient Thought and Society” Poster for lectures sponsored by the Department of Philosophy of Loyola University of Chicago, Rome, Italy
1990 Pastel for “Le Querce” Golf Course, Sutri, Viterbo for the designer Jim Fazio
1988 Painting on the Vision of St. Ignatius of Loyola for the Church of St. Ignatius of Loyola, West Palm Springs, FL, USA
1986 Double-faced mural painting for interior designer, Carla Piccardi, Rome, Italy
Grants
2025-2016-2015 Professional Development Fund of Temple University. Travel and supply expenses for the Emily Harvey Foundation Artists Residency in Venice, ItalyResearch trip to Cuba to work on illustrated memoir;
2018 Temple University Presidential Humanities and Arts Award. Research trip to Miami and Havana to work on illustrated memoir. (May 2018-May 2020)
2015 The Edward C. Carter Award for Innovation at St. Stephen’s School: Funds for autobiography, including research trip to Cuba
2012 Semester Sabbatical St. Stephen’s School. Illustrated autobiography project
2011,2009,2001 Professional Development Fund of Temple University Rome, Italy
2010,1994 Faculty Fund, St. Stephen’s School, Rome, Italy
Teaching Experience
2025-98 Professor of Drawing and Painting, Temple University Rome, Italy
2023-89 Sculpture and I.B. Visual Arts Teacher,St. Stephen’s School, Rome, Italy
2021-03 Professor of Drawing , St. John’s University, Rome Program Rome, Italy
2016 Instructor of Drawing, Trinity College, Rome, Italy
2016 Instructor of Drawing,Arcadia University at Università degli Studi at Roma Tre, Rome, Italy
2016,1998, 1989 Visiting Art Critic Rhode Island School of Design, Rome Program, Rome, Italy
2014-08 Instructor of Painting and Drawing, The American University of Rome, Rome, Italy
2011 Instructor of Drawing,Hobart and William Smith Colleges Rome Program, Scuola Leonardo da Vinci, Rome, Italy
2007Instructor of Drawing, University of Champlain, Illinois, La Scuola Leonardo da Vinci, Rome, Italy (Summer Program)
2001 Instructor of Drawing,Cornell University Rome Program, Rome, Italy
1999-93 Instructor of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture,The University of Loyola, Rome Program, Rome, Italy
1998-91 Instructor of Drawing, The Human Figure-drawing from life, artistic anatomy, University of Dallas Rome Program, Due Santi, Rome, Italy
1989-88 Instructor of Fine Arts for the Deaf at the Istituto Gualandi per I Sordomuti, Rome, Italy
1986 Watercolor Instructor,Temple University Rome, Rome, Italy
1986-84 Instructor of Painting, Saint Mary’s College, Rome Program, Rome, Italy
1984-82 Assistant Instructor of Fine Arts, The American College of Rome, Rome, Italy
Education
1984-81 M.F.A. Painting Temple University, Philadelphia, Pa, USA Tyler School of Art, Rome, Italy
1978-74 B.F.A. Painting Temple University, Philadelphia, Pa, USA Tyler School of Art, Rome, Italy. Cum laude.
1974-73 Academia de Bellas Artes de Santa Isabel de Hungría, Seville, Spain
Additional Information
Born in Havana, Anita Guerra has received numerous travel and research grants that have funded trips back to Cuba to paint and work on her illustrated family memoir and exhibit, "Queridos". At the MACRO ASILO, Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome, in 2019, Anita Guerra presented her conference, "Auto Ritratto-Anita Guerra". In 2016, during her solo exhibition for the XIX Week of Italian Culture in Old Havana entitled "Mi Cuba, La Mia Italia" Anita Guerra was interviewed live by Katia Cárdenas for the cultural program "Vitrales" of Radio Emisora Cuba. She is featured in William Navarrete´s book “Como el Ave Fénix”, fifty stories of life inside and outside Cuba, and reviewed by Uva de Aragón in El Nuevo Herald, Miami, March 3, 2025. The following are links to interviews and publications featuring her recent exhibits, documentary films, and her memoir:
Manuela De Leonardis, Roberta Melasecca, Shara Wasserman, Benedetta Dosa, Vittorio Beltrami, Marco Di Capua, and William Navarrete have written about her work.
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- https://www.phillyvoice.com/anita-guerras-queridos-exhibition-view-now-temples-tyler-school-art-05999-506/ June 27, 2025
- https://catholicphilly.com/2025/05/news/local-news/queridos-art-exhibit-pens-cuban-americans-love-letter-to-phila/ May 28, 2025
- Come el Ave Fénix by William Navarretehttps://www.elnuevoherald.com/vivir-mejor/artes-letras/article301321119.html March 3, 2025
- “Los objetos usurpados que se venden en Cuba tienen el olor de la muerte” Interview by journalist and art historian, William Navarrete, CUBANET, https://www.cubanet.org/. October 1, 2023
- Herrera O’Reilly, Andrea, “CAFE--Cuban Artists Across the Diaspora: Setting the Tent Against the House” The University of Texas Press, Austin, TX, USA. 2011
Manuela De Leonardis, Roberta Melasecca, Shara Wasserman, Benedetta Dosa, Vittorio Beltrami, Marco Di Capua, and William Navarrete have written about her work.
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