Fabrizio Plessi was born in Reggio Emilia in 1940 and lives and works in Venice. Considered a pioneer of video art in Italy, he was the first artist to use the television monitor as an artistic medium, as early as the 1970s. He has participated in numerous important national and international exhibitions, including the Venice Biennale and Documenta in Kassel, and has exhibited in prestigious international museums.
Among the most renowned are the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Guggenheim in New York and Bilbao, the Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome, the Martin Gropius Bau in Berlin, the MoCA in San Diego, the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna and the Foundation Mirò. In 2011, he curated the reopening of the Venice Pavilion at the Biennale with the impressive installation "Mari Vertical. His most recent works include the installation "I mari del mondo - Omaggio a Zaha Hadid" (The Seas of the World - Homage to Zaha Hadid) in 2022 at the Torri Generali in Milan, the exhibition of electronic scenography "Pagine di Luce" (Pages of Light) at Palazzo Collicola in Spoleto, and "Secret Water" in Todi.
In 2023, the exhibitions "Plessi sposa Brixia" (Plessi Marries Brixia) were held in Brescia, the installation "Mariverticali" (Mariverticali) in the Sala delle Cariatidi of the Palazzo Reale in Milan, and "Pensiero Video. Disegno e arti elettronica" (Video Thought. Drawing and Electronic Arts) at the Fondazione Ragghianti in Lucca. Plessi lives and works in Venice.