Cecilia Liveriero Lavelli holds a Ph.D. in History of Contemporary Arts from University of Bologna, where she also taught. She was maître assistant and teacher at the Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio, where she worked together with Harald Szeemann, Pier Giovanni Castagnoli, Marco Müller, Bice Curiger, Yehuda Safran, Jacqueline Burckhardt. 2008-2012 she has been the head of the BA in Visual communication at SUPSI University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland in Lugano. In 1999 and 2001 she co-curated the 48th and 49th editions of the International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia with Harald Szeemann. Since 2012 she’s been working as educational manager and teacher at CISA Lugano.