Francesca Bifulco (Paestum, 1986) is a native southern Italian sculptural painter holding a BFA in Visual and Performing Arts from the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. She studied and worked in set design and special effects makeup for television and cinema. After working at Carboni Studio in Rome, she moved to Los Angeles in 2012. The practice of these different disciplines eventually led her to painting, going from large-scale canvases to sculptural textured wooden panels and, most recently, incorporating immersive landscapes which surround the painted works. In 2016 Bifulco was awarded at the Los Angeles Municipal Gallery in the occasion of their annual juried group exhibition. Her works have been collected and exhibited from California to Texas, and from her homeland of Italy to Japan.