Education

 

Born in 1974, from a very early age she has been in close contact with the world of Art.

Daughter of an artist, in the studio of her father Alberto Ceppi, painter, sculptor and professor at Brera, she experiments with colors, shapes, clay, plasticine. She attends studios and visits exhibitions of the most important artists in Milan, professors and colleagues of her father, from Francesco Messina to Cristoforo De Amicis, Enrico Manfrini, Mauro Reggiani, Luciano Minguzzi and Dino Lanaro.

She graduates with top marks from the Liceo Artistico Umberto Boccioni in Milan, directed by Italo Antico, in 1992, in a cultured, lively and stimulating environment.

In 1999 she obtains a Master’s Degree with top marks in Architecture at the Politecnico di Milano with the Thesis: The Pythagorean Harmonic Proportions in Greek and Renaissance Architecture. She attends courses in Art History with Flavio Caroli, Exhibition Design and Museography with Alfredo Drugman, Scenography with Marisa Galbiati, History of Western Architecture with Aldo Castellano, History of Architecture with Graziella Zanella Colmuto, Architectural Restoration with Andrea Bruno, Furniture and Interior Architecture with Giandomenico Salotti, Architectural Composition with Gianni Braghieri.

After graduating, she further perfects her studies at the Harvard University Extension School, in the USA.

She obtains musical diplomas at the Conservatories of Milan, Como and Bergamo, including the Licenses in: History of Music, Complementary Harmony, Theory and Solfeggio and 5th Year of Piano.

She studies Opera Singing with sopranos Barbara Frittoli, Lucia Belluso Noseda and Patrizia Zanardi and attends teacher training courses at the New England Conservatory of Boston. She specializes in Jazz Vocal Improvisation at the New England Conservatory.

She is selected for the Rotary Youth Leadership Awards of Rotary International District 2040.

 

Activities

 

In 1999, after graduating, she moves to the United States where she is appreciated for her great imagination and skill in freehand drawing: she is a Designer in the Interior Architecture and Space Planning Department of Icon Architecture Studio in Boston, collaborating on projects such as the expansion of the Berklee College of Music in Boston, the renovation of South Station in Boston, the Gloucester Maritime Heritage Center, the Auburn Festival Plaza in Maine.

She is called by the American company Gardener’s Gallery in Lawrence, Massachusetts, as Art Creator and Project Manager and designs the 2000 and 2001 collections of artistic vases and garden furnishings distributed in North America, in major shopping centers and hotels.

Returning to Italy from 2001 until the passing of her father in 2018, she collaborates with him in the Alberto Ceppi Art and Architecture Studio in Meda, working on the realization of numerous sculptures, stained glass windows and mosaics placed in public, private and religious buildings in Italy and abroad.

She is co-author of Allegro Pentagramma, a patented educational musical game produced by Ars Notae for learning musical notation in Italian primary and preschool schools.

During her research at the Biblioteca Trivulziana in Milan she discovers a musical score of Halleluja Francigena, composed before the 10th century, which testifies to the French origin of the nuns who founded the Monastery of S. Vittore in Meda.

From 2010 to 2014 she is socially engaged in the fight against Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis as a member of the organizing committee of the ALS Degree Awards of the Rotary Club Sesto Milium Centenario.

In 2015 and 2016 she is in the organizing committee of the PRISLA Award, Degree and Research Awards on ALS.

In 2016 she creates for the event at Bocconi University: Research and Models of Care in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Chronic Degenerative Diseases the artistic print Germoglio.

On the occasion of the International Scientific Conference Advances in Decision Analysis 2019, held at Bocconi University, she designs the artistic print Remember Milan.

In 2019 and 2020 she is a member of the Executive Committee of the Ettore Pozzoli International Piano Competition.

Since 2018 she manages the Alberto Ceppi Studio Museum in Meda, where sculptures, paintings, stained glass, mosaics and a plaster cast gallery are present, in addition to workshops. The aim of the Studio Museum is to keep alive the memory of her father, creating meeting places and exhibition spaces also for artists of new generations.

In 2020 she inaugurates the Atelier d’Arte Anna Ceppi in Meda.

Her works have received national and international recognition.

She is Finalist in Art in 2024 and 2025 with the works Primavera Spezzata and Soffio d’Inverno at the International Academic Award of Signification Poetry and Contemporary Art Apollo Dionisiaco Rome 2025, in agreement with Roma Tre University and promoted by the Italian Cultural Institute of New York, with more than 1000 participants from all over the world.

Winner of the Competition for the 40th Anniversary of the Lambro Valley Park The Park: Nature and Territory, Environment and Community, Stories and Culture with the work Sogno, awarded in the Hall of Mirrors at the Royal Villa of Monza in 2023. Sogno is published in the 2024 Calendar of the Lambro Valley Regional Park, Edizioni Bellavite.

With the work Sangue sui Campi di Grano she received the Certificate of Merit at the Mestre Painting Prize 2023, “distinguished for the quality of the submitted work”.

She received the Certificate of Artistic Excellence, on the basis of Creativity and Excellent Contribution to Art on the occasion of the Contemporary Art Exposition Arte Bratislava, held in Bratislava Castle in Slovakia in 2023.

She won the second prize at the Art and Architecture competition York Contract: Unmasking Year 2000 with the work Violet Mask held at the Regal Bostonian Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

She was awarded the gold medal for participation in the Rotary Youth Leadership Awards of Rotary International District 2040.

She was selected by the Enciclopedia d’Arte Italiana to participate in the exhibition Otto Sguardi d’Autore, held at the Museum of Art and Science in Milan, in 2023.

She was selected to participate in the International Contemporary Art Exhibition Opera con Vista, held at the Diocesan and Capitular Museum of Terni.

She was selected for the Triennale di Arti Visive 2027 in Rome, Palazzo Borghese, Galleria del Cembalo.

She was selected for the Florence Biennale 2027: “Behind the sense of time”, Fortezza da Basso, Florence.

Her name and her works are included in the Enciclopedia d’Arte Italiana in volumes XI and XII. Various local and national magazines have written about her and her works are part of private collections in Italy, Europe, the United States, China and the United Arab Emirates.

She has exhibited at Bratislava Castle; in the Vatican, in Rome, at Palazzo Pontificio Maffei Marescotti in the Galleria La Pigna; in Barcelona at Art Nou 277 Gallery; at the Royal Villa of Monza, in the Hall of Mirrors; in Naples at Galleria Spazio57; at the Museum of Art and Science in Milan; at the Diocesan Museum of Gubbio; at the Diocesan and Capitular Museum of Terni; in Venice at the San Vidal Exhibition Center, Spazio SV; at Palazzo del Bargello in Gubbio; at Palazzo Borromeo Arese in Cesano Maderno; in Sala Giovanni Paolo II in Sovico; in Sala Civica Radio in Meda; at Lario Fiere in Erba in the Central Gallery; at Galleria Civica Mariani in Seregno; in the Antica Chiesetta del Bruno in Arcore; in the Church of Santa Maria Nuova in Gubbio.

Her works are included in virtual exhibitions: Mostra Virtuale XLI Premio Firenze; Palazzo Contemporary Art Prize 2024 in Vigevano; Gallery of Works in Poetry and Contemporary Art, International Academy of Signification Poetry and Contemporary Art of Rome; Rassegna degli Amici del Premio Mestre di Pittura.

On the occasion of the event DEC Night 2023, organized by the Department of Decision Sciences of Bocconi University, she created the work Colour Outburst.

In 2024 she created the scenography for the performance Dynamic Equilibria, held at the Aula Magna of Bocconi University in Milan; performers were dancers of the Teatro alla Scala ballet company: Frank Aduca, Marta Gerani, Eugenio Lepera, Benedetta Montefiore and Gioacchino Starace. She collaborated on the realization of the event with the international choreographer Gianluca Schiavoni. For the poster of the show her work E subito ne uscì sangue e acqua was published. For the same event she created the artistic print Blowing Wind.

In 2024 she created the work Eucaristia, la mia Autostrada verso il Cielo, dedicated to Saint Carlo Acutis. The work is placed in the Bishopric in Assisi in the Bishop’s Reception Office.

On the occasion of the Eighth Symposium on Games and Decisions in Reliability and Risk, held at Bocconi University in 2025, she created the work Coloured motifs.

From 1999, she is married to Emanuele Borgonovo with whom she collaborates on interdisciplinary research projects aimed at deepening the intersections between Mathematics, Music and Art; she has two daughters Emma and Valeria.