Elena Salza is a PhD candidate in History of the Arts at Ca’ Foscari University in Venice. Her dissertation focuses on the development of Italian art from the sixties to the eighties examined through the lens of the activity of the poet and art critic Mario Diacono within the scope of the cultural exchanges between Italy and the United States. She has been 2017–2018 fellow at the Center for Italian Modern Art. In 2016 she was a recipient of the Branca Research Scholarship at Fondazione Giorgio Cini in Venice. She has worked at the Fondazione Alighiero e Boetti in Rome, and she has been a member of the research team for the National Research Project The Multiplication of Art/Visual Culture in Italy, and a member of the Special Collection cataloguing team of the Harald Szeemann Archive at the Getty Research Institute. She holds a MA degree in Art History and BA in Humanities from the Università degli Studi Roma Tre, and a postgraduate qualification in Library Science from the Vatican Library School. Her articles have appeared in L’Uomo Nero (2011); Arte moltiplicata. L’immagine del Novecento italiano nello specchio dei rotocalchi (2013), Studi di Memofonte (2013); Arte a Firenze 1970–2015 (2016), and Archival Notes. Sources and Research from the Institute of Music (2018).
