Annina Nosei

<p>Art historian by training, gallerist and art dealer by profession, Annina Nosei is an essential art-world figure. While still a student of the celebrated Giulio Carlo Argan at Rome''s Sapienza University, she took part in the first Happenings to export the cutting edge of 1960s US art to Europe.</p><p>Completing her studies in the early sixties with a thesis on Marcel Duchamp, she promptly began her professional career at Ileana Sonnabend''s renowned Parisian gallery. Relocating to the United States soon after, she moonlighted as a freelance curator while lecturing at various universities, ultimately leading to the launch of her gallery in 1980: the enterprise that would cement her place among the international art world''s outstanding figures.</p>