Rita Casdia, was born in Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto (ME) in 1977. She graduated Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts, Palermo in the 2000. Afterwards she moved to Milan, where she continued her study at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera and achieved a specialization in Art and New Technologies (2006) and Academic second level degree in the teaching of Painting (2009).

Festival and video reviews: 17.KURZFILMFESTIVAL, backup selection by Felipe César, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, 39˚Festival du Nouveau Cinéma di Montreal, Il MOUSE E LA MATITA, curated by Bruno Di Marino, Pesaro Film Festival, 7° Proyector International Videoart Festival, curated by Visualcontainer, Madrid, Filmmaker Festival 35, Spazio Oberdan, Milano. XIII International Image Festival, Manizales, Colombia (special mention), VIDEOFORMES.2019, curated by VisualContainer, Clermont-Ferrand, France, FUORIFORMATO, curated by Francesca Fini and Bruno Di Marino, Museo Macro, Roma, VideoYearArtBook XIV Edition, Bologna, Cà Foscari Short Film Festival 10, The suspended glance, curated by Elisabetta Di Sopra, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venezia, Videograma Festival 2021, Galerìa Santa Fe, Bogotà, Colombia, Animaphix, new contemporary language film festival, Villa Cattolica, Bagheria, Les Instants vidéo 36° édition, Friche la Belle de Mai, Marseille, Festival Animest.19, Institutul Cervantes, Bucharest, Romania, CosmiX IV Festival International de Cinéma Expérimental, Cinéma Saint André des Arts, Paris, Lives on fire, curated by Katie Rehbeck, Millennium Film Workshop, New York, Attaque[e]r le visible – VIDEOAKTION 6#, curated by Lawinia Rate, Raum für drastische Maßnahmen, Berlin, Germany, 22nd Athens Digital Arts Festival, Meta-Morphosis, Tecnopolys City of Athens.

Solo shows: Eden, Museo Riso, Palermo, Ferite come fessure, Show Case, Fondazione Museo Pino Pascali, Polignano a Mare, Be Loved, Nuvole Incontri d’Arte, Palermo; Life Instinct, Muratcentoventidue, Bari.

Group shows: Premio Ariane de Rothschild, Palazzo Reale, Milano, 14° Premio Cairo, Museo della Permanente, Milano, Video.it, Fondazione Merz, Torino, Suspended territories and other italian stories, MUU Gallery, Helsinki, Under the Stars, Museo Unicaja de Artes y Costumbres, Malaga, Solo gli inquieti sanno come è difficile sopravvivere alla tempesta e non poter vivere senza, Accademia di Belle Arti – Palazzo Ziino, Palermo, FUORINORMA EXTRA, curated by Francesca Fini, Macro Asilo, Roma, Mind The Gup, curated by Giada Centazzo, Spazio Marioni, Udine, INVENTARIUM, a cura di Eliana Urbani Raimondi e Ivan Cenzi, Reial Cercle Artistic, Barcelona, Anatomie Digitali, curated by Francesca Leoni and Davide Mastrangelo, Fondazione Dino Zoli, Forlì.
Awards: Nutrimenti celesti, nutrimenti terrestri, Filmmaker – Fondazione Cariplo, Milano, XIII International Image Festival, Manizales, Colombia ( special mention for the video Stangliro), Movin’Up, GAI, Torino.

Residencies: PRIM Centre, Montréal, Québec, Canada, Pépinières européennes pour jeunes artistes, Okuparte arte_ y _ ciudad, Huesca, Spain, “Sarajevo Some Other City” International Sarajevo Winter Festival, AQB, Budapest, Hungary.