Since the early 1960s, Fausta Squatriti’s research has been divided between the visual arts and writing.

She has exhibited her work in Italy and more frequently abroad, where she was also intensively engaged as a publisher of graphic art and multiplesbetween 1964 and 1986.

She has taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in Carrara, Venice and Milan, and was a visiting professor at the universities of Manoa (Hawaii) and Mons. She has lectured on her work and other subjects in Italy, Tel Aviv, Haifa and Paris. In 1986 she was the curator of Art and Science: Colour at the Venice Biennale, with essays published in the catalogue.

Most recent solo exhibitions

2001   I percorsi della ragione – Fino all’ultimo sangue [The Paths of Reason: To the Last                   Blood], Fondazione Mudima, Milan

2009   Ecce homo, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow

2011   Ascolta il tuo cuore, città [Listen to Your Heart, City], Fondazione Calderara,                              Vacciago, Novara

2012   Conosci te stesso [Know Yourself], Galleria d’Arte Moderna ‘Paolo e Adele Giannoni’,                   Novara

2013   Biblioteca visiva [Visual Library],Villa Cernigliaro, Sordevolo, Biella

2014   Dal segno al progetto: Opere su carta [From Sign to Design: Works on Paper]                           (1957-2013), Library of the Accademia di Brera

2014   Ricordare per essere liberi [Remember In Order To Be Free], ex-prison Le Nuove,                    Turin

2014   Libro aperto – I libri d’artista di Fausta Squatriti, 1964-2014 [Open Book: Fausta                       Squatriti’s Artist Books 1964-2014], Como Public Library

2014-15 Memento mori, Weber&Weber gallery, Turin

2015   Fesel Modern Art, Cologne

2017 If the world were square, I'd know my way... Triennale di Milano; Gallerie d'Italia; Nuova Galleria Morone, Milano

Some Group exhibitions

2009-2014: Participation in numerous exhibitions devoted to artists’ books: Museum Necropolis, Tula, Russia; Rostov-on-Don Biennale; South Russian Biennale of Contemporary Art; Moscow Book Fair; Guerra e Pace [War and Peace] CDCH (Central House of Artists), Moscow; Zverev Museum; Krapivna Museum (part of the Yasnaya Polyana museum-estate of Leo Tolstoy.

2010   Alla gloria militar! [For Military Glory!], Bratislava

2010   Venezia salva [Venice Saved], Magazzini del Sale, Venice Biennale

2011   Elles@centrepompidou, Centre Pompidou, Paris

2012   Libriste, Biblioteca Classense, Rimini

2012   Il dolore degli altri animali [The Pain of Other Animals], Fondazione Maimeri, Milan

2015   Cantieri del '900- 2. Opere dalle collezioni Intesa Sanpaolo[Works from the                              Collection of the Intesa Sanpaolo Bank], Gallerie d’Italia, Milan

2015   Holy MisterY – Il sacro e il mistero nell’arte contemporanea, [Holy MisterY: The                       Sacred and the Mystery in Contemporary Art], Chiesa del Santo Volto, Turin

2015   7+7 Peinture scrittura sculpture, Ziano (Piacenza)

Monographs

1980  Fausta Squatriti + - x: Fausta Squatriti, Centro Iniziative Culturali, Pordenone, text by                   Umbro Apollonio

2001  Fausta Squatriti. I percorsi della ragione: Fino all’ultimo sangue [The Paths of                           Reason: To the Last Blood], edited by Claudio Cerritelli and Roberto Borghi;                                    introduction by Ingo Bartsh; critical anthology from the 1960s to 2001, Mazzotta,                          Milan

2009  Ecce homo, edited by Evelina Schatz; texts by Elisabetta Longari, Angela Madesani                          and Michail Pogarsky, Charta, Milan

2012  Conosci te stesso [Know Yourself], edited by Stefania Nano; texts by Jacqueline                           Ceresoli, Elisabetta Longari and Fausta Squatriti, Ottava Arte, Novara

Among the many critics who have discussed her work are Giulio Carlo Argan, Umbro Apollonio, Adriano Antolini, Ingo Bartsch, Carlo Belloli, Roberto Borghi, Giancarlo Buzzi, Rossana Bossaglia, Flavio Caroli, Marosia Castaldi, Pietro Cataldi, Jacqueline Ceresoli, Claudio Cerritelli, Mario Cresci, Enrico Crispolti, Gillo Dorfles, Valerio Dehò, Andrea Del Guercio, Gaetano Delli Santi, Roberto Di Marco, Caterina Davinio, Giò Ferri, Gilberto Finzi, Eleonora Fiorani, Dario Giugliano, Rubina Giorgi,  Milli Graffi, Sebastiano Grasso, Kai-Uwe Hemken, Emilio Isgrò, Janus, Giorgio Kaisserlian, Théodore Köenig, Francesco Leonetti, Pierluigi Lia, Elisabetta Longari, Angela Madesani, Nanni Menetti, Marco Meneguzzo, Shelah Moody, Stefania Nano, Luciano Padovese, Marilena Pasquali, Giancarlo Pauletto, Antonio Porta, Michail Pogarskij, Duane e Sarah Preable, Gianni Pozzi, Arturo Carlo Quintavalle, Man Ray, Michel Ragon, Maria Grazia Recanati, Dieter Ronte, Roberto Sanesi, Evelina Schatz, Giandomenico Semeraro, Giuliano Serafini, Carmelo Strano, Arturo Schwarz, Jeffrey Steele, Silvia Sperandio, Vanni Scheiwiller, Tommaso Trini, Riccarda Turrina, Lea Vergine, Marisa Vescovo, Lucila Velasquez, Simona Weller, Klaus Wolbert.

Since 1977 Squatriti's poetry collections have been published by Il Laboratorio delle Arti, Vanni Scheiwiller, Manni, Book, Testuale, Tracce, Il Laboratorio di Nola. Furthermore, and also in several journals. In 1992, together with Gaetano Delli Santi, she founded the magazine Kiliagono (All’Insegna del Pesce d’Oro), published until 1995. Her most recent poetry collection is Vietato entrare [Forbidden to Enter], La Vita Felice, 2013. Her poems have been translated into Hebrew and published in Israel. In 2012, an anthology of poetry in English, with an essay by Matteo Brera, was published in the international magazine Incontri.

In 1988 she was awarded the Premio Eugenio Montale for unpublished work, and in 2009 the poetry prize Scrivere donna.

Squatriti also published the novels La villeggiatura, ovvero breviario sentimentale (Terre del fuoco, 1994), Crampi (Edizioni Abramo, 2006), and La Cana (Puntoacapo editrice, 2015). In 2015 Pollice verso. Storia di un arazzo [Thumbs Down: History of a Tapestry], edited by Fausta Squatriti (contributions from various authors), has also been published by Nardini.

At the beginning of 2017 she published a new poetry collection Olio Santo (2010-2016) by New Press Edizioni.

In 1997 she founded Il Teatro dell’autore in scena with Francesco Leonetti, making her debut appearance at the Fondazione Mudima, Milan. Further appearances were at Ricercare, Reggio Emilia; at the Festival della parola (Venice), and as part of the theatre season Teatri ’90 (Rotonda della Besana, Milan). In 2002 she designed the stage image for The stillest, with choreography by Eric Senen, performed at the Mains d'oeuvre Theatre in Paris. In 2011, at the Fondazione Calderara, Vacciago, Alberto Lombardo performed her monologue Istruzioni per l’uso, and in 2012 Squatriti edited the texts and created the props for Ora d'aria, a performance presented by the company Teatro delle Selve on Orta lake.