Education

 

Born in 1974, from an early age she is in close contact with the world of Art.

Grown in an artistic family, in the studio of her father, Alberto Ceppi, painter, sculptor and professor at Brera, she experimented with colors, shapes, clay and plasticine. She attended the studios and visited the exhibitions of the most important artists in Milan, professors and colleagues of her father, from Francesco Messina to Cristoforo De Amicis, from Enrico Manfrini to Mauro Reggiani, Luciano Minguzzi and Dino Lanaro.

She graduated with full marks from the Liceo Artistico Boccioni in Milan, directed by Italo Antico, in 1992, in a cultured, lively and stimulating environment.

In 1999 she obtained her Master's Degree with full marks in Architecture at the Politecnico di Milano with the Thesis: Pythagorean Harmonic Proportions in Greek and Renaissance Architecture; attending courses in History of Art with Flavio Caroli, Exhibition Design and Museography with Alfredo Drugman, Scenography with Marisa Galbiati, History of Western Architecture with Aldo Castellano, History of Architecture with Graziella Zanella Colmuto, Architectural Restoration with Andrea Bruno, Interior Design and Architecture with Giandomenico Salotti, Architectural Composition with Gianni Braghieri.

After her degree, she furthered her studies at Harvard University Extension School.

She earned music degrees from the Conservatories of Milan, Como and Bergamo, including the Licentiate of: History of Music, Complementary Harmony, Theory and Solfeggio and 5th Year Piano.

She studied Opera Singing with sopranos Barbara Frittoli, Lucia Belluso Noseda and Patrizia Zanardi and attended teacher training courses at the New England Conservatory in Boston. She specializes in Jazz Vocal Improvisation at the New England Conservatory.

She is selected in the Rotary Youth Leadership Awards of Rotary International District 2040.

 

Activities

 

In 1999, after graduation, she moves to the United States where she is appreciated for her great imagination and ability in freehand drawing: she is Designer in the Interior Architecture and Space Planning Department of Studio Icon Architecture in Boston, collaborating on projects such as the extension of Berklee College of Music in Boston, the renovation of Boston's South Station, the Gloucester Maritime Heritage Center, and the Auburn Festival Plaza in Maine.

She was called by the American company Gardener's Gallery in Lawrence, Massachusetts, as Art Creator and Project Manager and designed the 2000 and 2001 collections of artistic vases and garden furniture distributed in North America in major shopping malls and hotels.

She returnes to Italy in 2001 and teaches Art Education, Technical Education and Music Education in secondary schools for several years. She teaches Piano and Introduction to Music courses at the European Musical Academy and the Amadeus Music School in Meda.

From 2001 until her father's passing in 2018, she collaborates with him in the Studio d’Arte e Architettura Alberto Ceppi in Meda, working on numerous sculptures, stained-glass windows and mosaics placed in public and private buildings, churches in Italy and abroad.

She is coauthor of Allegro Pentagramma, an educational musical game patented and created by Ars Notae for learning musical notation in Italian primary and preschools.

During her research at the Biblioteca Trivulziana in Milan, she discovers a score of Halleluja Francigena, composed before the 10th century, which testifies to the French origin of the founding nuns of the Monastery of S. Vittore in Meda.

From 2010 to 2014 she becomes socially involved in the fight against Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis by serving on the organizing committee of the Rotary Club Sesto Milium Centenario's ALS Degree Awards.

In 2015 and 2016 she is on the organizing committee of the PRISLA Prize, ALS Degree and Research Awards.

In 2016 she produced for the event in Bocconi University: Research and Models of Care in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Chronic Degenerative Diseases the art print Germoglio.

At the Advances in Decision Analysis 2019 International Scientific Conference, held at Bocconi University, she designs the Remember MiIan art print.

In 2019 and 2020, she is a member of the Executive Committee of the Ettore Pozzoli International Piano Competition.

She won the Second Prize in the York Contract Art and Architecture Competition: Unmasking Year 2000 with the work Violet Mask held at the Regal Bostonian Hotel in Boston, USA.

She was awarded the Gold Medal for participation in the Rotary Youth Leadership Awards of Rotary International District 2040.

She is the Winner of the 40th Anniversary Competition for the Lambro Valley Park The Park: Nature and Territory, Environment and Community, Stories and Culture with the work Sogno, awarded in the Hall of Mirrors in Villa Reale in Monza in 2023. Sogno is published in the 2024 Calendar of the Lambro Valley Regional Park, Bellavite Editions.

With Sangue sui campi di grano, she received the Award of Merit at the Mestre Painting Prize 2023, “distinguished for the quality of the nominated work.”

She received the Certificate of Artistic Excellence, on the basis of Creativity and Excellent Contribution to Art at the Contemporary Art Exposition Arte Bratislava, held in Bratislava Castle in Slovakia in 2023.

She is Finalist in Art with the work Primavera Spezzata at the International Academic Prize of Signification Poetry and Contemporary Art Apollo Dionysiac Rome 2024, in agreement with the University of Roma Tre, accredited by the Lazio Region, registered by Roma Capitale and promoted by the Italian Cultural Institute of New York, with 1012 participants from all over the world.

Several local and national journals have written about her, and her works are part of private collections in Italy and Europe, the United States, China and the United Arab Emirates.

She has exhibited in Palazzo del Bargello in Gubbio; in the Castle of Bratislava; in Art Nou 277 Gallery in Barcelona; in the Hall of Mirrors in Villa Reale in Monza; in the Museum of Art and Science in Milan; in John Paul II Hall in Sovico; in Civic Radio Hall in Meda; in Civic Gallery Mariani in Seregno; in Villa Borromeo in Cesano Maderno; in the Galleria Centrale of Lario Fiere in Erba; in the Antica Chiesetta del Bruno in Arcore; in the Museo Diocesano in Gubbio; in Galleria La Pigna; in Palazzo Pontificio Maffei Marescotti in Rome; in the Chiesa Santa Maria Nuova in Gubbio.

Her works are included in the virtual exhibitions: Rassegna degli Amici of the Premio Mestre di Pittura; at Palazzo Contemporary Art Price 2024 in Vigevano; Galleria di Opere in Poesia e Arte Contemporanea; Accademia Internazionale di Significazione Poesia e Arte Contemporanea of Roma; Mostra Virtuale XLI Premio Firenze.

She was selected in 2023 by the Enciclopedia d'Arte Italiana for participation in the exhibition Otto Sguardi d'Autore, held at the Museum of Art and Science in Milan.

She created in 2024 the scenographies for the performance Dynamic Equilibria, held in the Aula Magna of Bocconi University; performers were the dancers of the Teatro alla Scala ballet corps: Frank Aduca, Marta Gerani, Eugenio Lepera, Benedetta Montefiore and Gioacchino Starace. She collaborated on the event with international choreographer Gianluca Schiavoni. For the posters of the show her work E subito ne uscì sangue e acqua was published. For the same event she created the art print Blowing Wind.

In 2024 she created the painting Eucaristia, my Highway to Heaven, dedicated to Carlo Acutis. The work, oil on canvas, wood and pure gold is placed in the Vescovado of Assisi, in the Bishop's Sala di Ricevimento.

Her name and works are included in the Enciclopedia d’Arte Italiana in volumes XI and XII.

Since 2018 she has managed the Alberto Ceppi Studio Museo in Meda, where there are sculptures, paintings, stained glass, mosaics and a gipsoteca, as well as workshops. The purpose of the Studio Museo is to keep her father's memory alive, creating meeting places and exhibition spaces for artists of new generations as well.

In 2020 she opened the Anna Ceppi Art Atelier in Meda where she creates her works.

She is married to Emanuele Borgonovo, a full professor at Bocconi University, with whom she collaborates in interdisciplinary research projects aimed at exploring the intersections between Mathematics, Music and Art; she has two daughters Emma and Valeria.