Silver Plaque of the Italian President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, for the promotion of Italian Contemporary Art abroad. She was born in 1968. She began exhibiting her works in 2002.

In order to realise her works she relies upon the collaboration of Italian and foreign important universities and scientific institutions, where she has been invited to deliver lectures and teach.

She constantly exhibits her works in museums, foundations and Contemporary Art Institutions (in Vienna, Cyprus, Paris, New York, St Paulo in Brazil, Rome etc... and within the next year also in museums in Moscow, Athens and Havana) and, for the year 2007, in the Thetis space in the Venice biennial, in the New Your Armory Show, in the Preview Berlin Art Fair and in the International Art Show in Miami. Some of her works are featured in artistic, scientific and academic international publications.

Talks about her from: Elza Ajzenberg, Achille Bonito Oliva, Marco Bussagli, Carolyn Carlson, Laura Cherubini, Maurizio di Puolo, Jacopo Etro, Giovanni Faccenda, Flavia Matitti, Marcelle Padovani, Baltasar Porcel, Cesare Biasini Selvaggi, Giorgio Soavi.

".after years of research and studies (ranging from philosophy, ancient history and language philosophy to paleethnology and ethology) thanks to the President of the Italian Microbiology Society, she gets into contact with the School of Human Anthropology within the Biology Faculty in Florence and collaborates with some of the American teachers. In 1991 she leaves University dedicating herself to music, dance and mime and founds a theatre company, also beginning drawing, painting and sculpting.
In 1995, by chance, she comes across the article "To see in the dark", written in Germany in 1934.
In light of a Kantian reading of reality of Laurentian features, from 1995 to 1997 she creates approximately fifty sculptures illustrating the theme of shadows. Persuaded by the need to go beyond, "I do not know how to study, describe, nor draw this magnificent obsession that is reality...", Benedetta Bonichi seeks a new type of language. After years of research going beyond aesthetics and ignoring light, in 1999 she creates the first X-ray images...".

".Radiography is more than a technique. It is rather a teknè; that is the only possible "means" to read reality, through matter rather than light. Radiography, together with photography, digitalisation and fresco powders..."

Solo Exhibitions
AREZZO - Galleria Comunale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Italia (2002)
ROMA - Palazzo Firenze, Italia (2003)
SAN PAOLO DEL BRASILE - MAC, Museo di Arte Contemporanea, Brasile (2003)
NICOSIA - Pharos Trust Foundation, Castelliotissa, Cipro (2003)
VIENNA - Austria Center, Austria (2004)
SAN PAOLO DEL BRASILE - USP, Università di San Paolo, Brasile (2004)
VIENNA - ZDU, Austria (2004)
LUBJANA - Castel Kodeljevo, Slovenia (2005)
NEW YORK - Italian Cultural Institute, USA (2006)
ROMA - Galleria Tondinelli, Italia (2006)
NEW YORK - Keith De Lellis Gallery, USA (2006)
ROMA - Accademia delle Belle Arti, Italia (2006)
BRUXELLES - Musèe de Radiologie, L'art et les Rayon-X, Belgio (2006)
HAVANA - Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Wilfredo Lam, Cuba (2008)
FIRENZE - Tossi Arte Contemporanea, Italia (da definire)

Group Exhibitions
LUCCA - Palazzo Ducale, Italia (2004)
ROMA - Tempio di Adriano, Italia (2004)
ROMA - Galleria Tondinelli, Italia (2004)
MODENA - Galleria d'Arte Contemporanea di Palazzo Ducale di Pavullo nel Frignano, Italia (2004)
ROMA - Complesso del Vittoriano, Italia (2005)
ROMA - STUDIO S - Arte Contemporanea, Italia (2005)
PARIGI - Musèe de Quai de Branly, Qu'est-ce qu'un corps?, Francia (2006)
ROMA - Il Segno Contemporaneo, Italia (2006)
ROMA - Museo Crocetti, Italia (2006)
FIRENZE - Anima digitale, Fortezza da Basso, Italia (2006)
BIELLA - Galleria Zaion, Italia (2007)
ATENE - Museo Cristiano e Bizantino, Grecia (2007)
TIRANA - Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Albania (2007)
FERRARA - Museo di Cento e Ferrara, Italia (2007)
ROMA - Museo di Villa Doria Pamphilj, Italia (2007)
MONTECARLO - Atrium Casinò, Montecarlo (2007)
LIMASSOL - Evagoras & K. Lunitis Foundation, Cipro (2007)
BOLOGNA - Castello Sforzesco, Dozza, Italia (2007)
SIRACUSA - Museo Bellomo, Italia (2007)
NEW YORK - Keith De Lellis Gallery, USA (2007)
FERRARA - Museo Etnografico, Italia (2007)
LUCCA - Fondazione Raggianti, Italia (2007)
MONTEPULCIANO - Palazzo Bellarmino (2008)
BARCELLONA - Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Sitges, Spagna (2008)
SAN PIETROBURGO - RME Museum, Russia (2008)
ROMA - Museo Crocetti (2008)
MADRID - 8888 Universidad de Madrid, Jardin Botánico, Spagna (2008)
SEVILLA - Spagna (2008)
BERLINO - ArtMbassy Gallery, Germania (2008)
MILANO - Centre Culturel Français, Italia (2008)

Reviews
CAIRO - 9th Cairo International Biennale, Special Guest, Egitto (2004)
ROMA - Riparte, Italia (2004)
BOLOGNA - Arte Fiera, Italia (2005)
NAPOLI - Riparte, Italia (2005)
MILANO - Flash Art, Italia (2005)
BOLOGNA - Arte Fiera, Italia (2006)
NEW YORK - Photography Armory Show, USA (2007)
VENEZIA - Arsenale, Spazio Thetis, Italia (2007)
BERLINO - Preview Berlin, Germania (2007)
MIAMI - International Art Show, Miami beach, Florida (2007)
ALESSANDRIA - Biennale di Alessandria - Videofotografia Contemporanea, Italia (2008)