Laura Valle, artist and writer, graduated from the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts in Turin. A student of Giacomo Soffiantino and Giulio Paolini, she taught Painting and Methods and Techniques of Contemporary Sacred Painting at the same institution, after teaching at the Academies of Carrara, Sassari, and Venice.
She studied mosaic art in Ravenna, fresco techniques in Tuscany, and creative writing at the Holden School in Turin. She also taught Analysis of Graphic Language at the teacher-training specialization school (Cobaslid) in Venice, and Painting Disciplines in the SSIS program in Turin.
Until 2025 she served as Deputy Vice Director of the Albertina Academy, and since 2022 she has been a member of the CNAM (National Council for Higher Artistic and Musical Education) by ministerial appointment.
She has served on the Academic Council of the Albertina Academy for several terms and has held the position of Head of Coordination for Activities and Events.
Author of the book In Cavour’s House (2010), as well as critical texts for exhibition catalogues and artistic events, she has participated with visual works in exhibitions in Italy and abroad. These include solo shows such as Through the Blue (2017), curated by Silvana Nota in collaboration with Maria Vittoria Hospital and the Turin Health Authority; Subsurface (2019) at the Galata Museum in Genoa, curated by Lorella Giudici; The Great Blue (2020) at the Filippo Scroppo Gallery in Torre Pellice, curated by Andrea Balzola; and group exhibitions such as Art Site Fest (2019) at Castello Cavour in Santena, curated by Domenico M. Papa, and Polychrome Blue | Narratives and Interpretations in Dialogue (2023) at A Pick Gallery in Turin, curated by Sara Liuzzi and Emanuela Romano.
Some of her works are reproduced in major publications and are held in public and private collections.
She is also a curator of artistic and educational projects with Italian and international public and private institutions, including RAI (The Tree of Ideas at Prix Italia 2013) and the Regional Council of Piedmont (Art’Ecò, 2014). She has curated exhibitions such as Suspended Spaces (Architecture in the City Festival, 2013), Creativity, a Common Good with Building (27th Turin International Book Fair, 2014), Young Artists and the Sense of the Sacred on the occasion of the 2015 Ostension of the Shroud, Art Fragments (Spokojna Gallery, Warsaw, Poland, 2016), and Small Portable Autobiographies with Eleonora Sottili (as part of the national literary competition Lingua Madre, 2018).
She is co-author, together with Gerardo De Pasquale, of Drawing the City, a multimedia and pictorial installation dedicated to Giulio Casanova, created in collaboration with a group of students from the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts of Turin and presented at the Italian Cultural Institute in New York (2024). The work will be presented at the Italian Pavilion of Expo Osaka 2025.
Her artistic practice brings together different media—photography, painting, video, and installation—and focuses in particular on the relationship between writing and painting, expressive means that she considers inseparable in her work.