Francesca Magro (Bergamo, 1958) graduated at the Brera Fine Arts Academy of Milan. Her first solo exhibition, presented by Giancarlo Ossola, was held at the Obiettivo Arti Gallery of Verdello (BG) in 1984. She specialized in engraving at the “Raffaello” Academy of Urbino under Renato Buscaglia from 1983 to 1986. She further studied engraving in Sweden at the “Olands Grafiska Skola” in 1987.

Francesca Magro has regularly exhibited both in Italy and abroad since 1984. The detailed list of her personal and collective exhibitions can be found on the Exhibitions page.
Since 2009, she has undertaken many Collaborations to artistic, editorial, and multidisciplinary projects with leading figures in various fields of art, culture, and science, such as: artists, writers, poets, art historians, philosophers, psychoanalists, photographers, choreographers, directors, dancers, printmakers, publishers.

In 2007/08 she was member of the Commissione Artistica Annuale Società per le Belle Arti ed Esposizione Permanente (Annual Art Committee Society for Fine Arts and Permanent Exhibition) of Milan. She has regularly participated to their exhibitions since 1990.
Since 2019, she is the Artistic Director of the Open Air Museum “L‘Invasione degli Asini” (“The Invasion of the Donkeys”), in Dizzasco (Como), in collaboration with Associazione Amici di Dizzasco e Muronico (Society of Friends of Dizzasco and Muronico).

Francesca Magro lives and works in Arese (MI).

Her works are now part of several private and museum collections in Italy and abroad. Among these: Museum and Art Gallery of Macerata, Archive for the 1900s’ Italian Art of the Kunsthistorisches Institut of Florence, “Endas Lombardia” – Lombard Artists of Milan, the Historical Archive of the Art Museum - Palazzo Bandera of Busto Arsizio (VA), Sacred Art Museum of S. Pietro and Paolo of Sacconago (VA), Museum of Castellanza (VA), Pagani Museum of Castellanza (VA), Museum and Art Gallery of Villa Soranzo at Varallo Pombia (NO), Civic Modern Art Gallery of Gallarate (VA), Detroit Museum of New Arts, Vito Mele Museum of Santa Maria di Leuca (LE), “Arca Pacis” Institute of Stresa (NO), De Portesio’s Contemporary Art Graphic Collection at San Felice del Benaco (BS), Museum of the City – Palazzo Bonaventura Odasi of Urbino (PU), Gabinetto Civic Museum of Bagnacavallo (RA), Spazio Tadini House Museum of Milan, Museum of the City and of the Territory of Corato (BA), Civic Museum Floriano Bodini of Gemonio (VA).

They have written about her:
Andrea Angelucci, Annelie Axlesson, Franco Azimonti, Riccardo Barletta, Giuse Betti, Mauro Bianchini, Virgi Bonifazi, Felice Bonalumi, Francesca Buffo, Fabrizia Buzio Negri, Florinda Cambria, Federicapaola Capecchi, Ennio Concarotti, Anna Costantini, Silvia Cuppini, Lucio Del Gobbo, Enzo De Paoli, A. De Santis, Giulio Dotto, Marco Fogliate Sorsoli, Anna Franzetti, Alda Garavaglia, Chiara Gatti, Pier Domenico Giani, Pier Antonio Giudici, Jochnowitz, Lino Lazzari, Attilio Lunardi, Lucy M. Lewis, Lino Lazzari, Emiliana Mongiat, Luisa Marcora, Giovanni Moia, Pietro Mosca, Renata Navalese, Luca Pietro Nicoletti, Giancarlo Ossola, Piergiorgio Panelli, Ines Pessina, Marina Pizziolo, Gianni Pre, Matteo Rancan, Giancarlo Ricci, Ombretta Rinieri, Fabrizio Rovesti, Lamberto Ruffini, Melina Scalise, Luciana Schiroli, Giorgio Seveso, Francesco Tadini, Roberto Travaglini, Alberto Veca.