Grazia Varisco was born in Milan on October 5, 1937.
From 1956 to 1960 she attended the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera, student of Achille Funi.
In 1960 she joined the Group T with Giovanni Anceschi, Davide Boriani, Gianni Colombo and Gabriele Devecchi, taking part in all the group's demonstrations, at the art exhibitions of Arte Programmata and Nouvelle Tendance.
Since the mid-1960s, Grazia Varisco has continued experimenting independently, creating the "Schemi luminosi variabili" (1964) and the "Reticoli Frangibili" (1968-71).
From 1969 to 1973, she travels frequently to the United States, where she has many opportunities to meet with artists and scholars.
In the 1970s, she dedicated herself to graphic design, design and relationship between programming and casuality.
From 1981 to 2007 she teaches at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan.
She participates in important national and international exhibitions including: Biennale di Venezia - Italy, 1964 and 1986; Quadriennale of Rome - Italy, 1965, 1973 and 1999; Trigon of Graz - Austria, 1977; Electra at the Museum of Modern Art de la Ville de Paris - France, 1983; Triennale Toyama Now at the Museum of Modern Art in Toyama - Japan, 1990.
In 2007, at the San Luca Academy's announcement, she received from President Giorgio Napolitano the National Award "Presidente della Repubblica per la Scultura".
Her works appear in museums and in public and private collections in Italy and abroad, including: GNAM - National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome - Italy; MAMbo of Bologna - Italy; Gallery of Modern Art in Gallarate (VA) - Italy; Museum of Villa Croce of Genoa - Italy; Museum of '900 in Milan - Italy; Museum of Ciudad Bolivar - Colombia; Würzburg Museum - Germany; MoMA - Museum of Modern Art in New York - USA.

1960

Miriorama 1, Galleria Pater, Milan – Italy; Miriorama 2, Galleria Pater, Milan – Italy; Miriorama 3, Galleria Pater, Milan – Italy; Miriorama 4, Galleria Pater, Milan – Italy; Miriorama 5, Galleria Pater, Milan – Italy; Miriorama 6, Galleria San Matteo, Genoa – Italy; Miriorama 7,

Galleria San Matteo, Genoa – Italy; Miriorama 8, Showroom Danese, Milan - Italy

1961

Miriorama 9, Minami Gallery, Tokyo – Japan; Miriorama 10, Galleria La salita, Rome – Italy;

1962

Gruppo T, Galleria del Naviglio, Milan – Italy; Miriorama 11, Studio Enne, Padua – Italy;

Miriorama 12, Galleria il Cavallino, Venice – Italy;

1963

Showroom Danese, Milan – Italy; Miriorama 13, Galleria del Naviglio, Milan – Italy;

1964

Miriorama 14, Studio F, Ulm – Germany

1966

Galleria Vismara, Milan - Italy

1969

Galleria Schwarz, Milan - Italy

1972

Galleria del Naviglio, Milan - Italy

1974

Galleria del Naviglio, Milan - Italy

1976

State University Gallery of Fine Arts, Columbus - USA; Studio Casati, Merate (LC) - Italy

1977

Galleria Milan, Milan – Italy; Trigon ‘77, sala personale, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz - Austria

1979

Galleria Uxa, Novara - Italy

1980

Galleria ArteStruktura, Milan – Italy

1983

Galleria Spazia, Bozen – Italy

1984

Studio Marconi, Milan – Italy; Gianfranco Pardi, Grazia Varisco, Studio Tre architettura, Milan - Italy

1986

Studio Carlo Grossetti, Milan – Italy; Galleria Tommaso, Trieste – Italy

1987

Galleria Sagittaria, Pordenone - Italy

1990

Tridente 5 – l’artista e lo spazio. Lorenzetti, Strazza e Varisco, Galleria Giulia, Rome - Italy; Colombo, Dadamaino, Varisco, Galerie Schoeller, Dusseldorf - Germany

1991

Centro Cultural da P.U.C. Solar Grandien de Montigny, Rio de Janeiro - Brasil

1992

Galleria Milan, Milan - Italy

1993

Studio Tommaseo, Trieste - Italy

1994

Galleria Melesi, Lecco - Italy

1995

Fernando De Filippi, Fausta Squatriti, Grazia Varisco, fabbrica Wella, Castiglione delle Stiviere (MN) - Italy; Galleria Vismara, Milan – Italy

1999

Studio Tommaseo, Trieste - Italy

2000

Grazia Varisco e terrecotte africane, Galleria Melesi, Lecco - Italy

2001

Spazio temporaneo, Milan - Italy; Galleria Plurima, Udine – Italy

2002

Mostra antologica, Fioretto Arte, Padua - Italy

2003

Spazio Olim, Bergamo - Italy

2005

Galleria Peccolo, Livorno - Italy

2006

Gianni Colombo – Grazia Varisco, Rotonda di via Besana, Milan - Italy; Galerie Hoffmann, Friedberg - Germany

2007

Spazio di via Museo Giovio, Como – Italy; Galleria Dina Caròla, Naples - Italy

2008

Studio Fontaine, Viterbo – Italy; Galleria Il Bulino, Rome - Italy

2009

Fioretto arte, Padua – Italy; Varisco-Pardi, Galleria Annotazioni d’arte, Milan - Italy

2012

Museo della Permanente, Milan – Italy; Fabbri Contemporary Art, Milan - Italy

2013

Museum Ritter, Waldenbuch - Germany

1961

Bewogen-Beweging, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam – Holland

1962

Arte programmata, show room Olivetti, Milan - Italy

1963

Oltre l’informale - IV Biennale Internazionale di San Marino, San Marino – Repubblica di San Marino; Nove Tendencjie 2, galleria Suvremene Umjetnosti, Zagreb - Croatia; Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice – Italy; Oltre la pittura, oltre la scultura, Galleria Cadario, Milan - Italy; Galleria La Bussola, Turin - Italy

1964

Arte Programmata 1, Royal College of Arts, London – England; Arte Programmata 2, Kinetic Art, Loeb Student Center, New York – USA; Nouvelle Tendance, Pavillon de Marsan, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris – France; Strutture di Visione, Avezzano (AQ) – Italy; XXXII Biennale di Venezia - Sala del Gruppo T, Venice – Italy; MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York - USA

1965

Nove Tendencjie 3, galleria Suvremene Umjetnosti, Zagreb – Croatia; Nul 65, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam – Holland; Licht und Bewegung, Kunsthalle, Berna – Switzerland; Perpetuum mobile, Galleria Obelisco, Rome – Italy; Arte cinetica, Palazzo Costanzi, Trieste – Italy; IX Quadriennale, Rome – Italy

1966

KunstLichtKunst, van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven – Holland; Tendenze a confronto, Galleria il Centro, Naples – Italy; Art of the space age, Art Centre, Johannesburg – South Africa

1967

VI Biennale di San Marino, Repubblica San Marino; XXI Premio Nazionale di Pittura – F.P. Michetti, Francavilla al Mare (CH) - Italy

1969

Campo urbano, Como - Italy

1973

X Quadriennale di Roma, Rome – Italy - Italy

1977

Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna, Turin - Italy

1981

Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome - Italy

1982

Hayward Gallery, London - England

1983

Arte Programmata e Cinetica, Palazzo Reale, Milan - Italy

1986

XI Quadriennale di Roma, Rome -Italy; XXXXII Biennale di Venezia, Venice - Italy

1987

Centro Culturale Italyno, Zagreb - Croatia

1989

Studio Marconi, Milan - Italy

1990

Triennale of Toyama, Museum of Modern Art, Toyama - Japan

1991

Museo di Villa Croce, Genoa - Italy

1992

Rotonda di via Besana, Milan - Italy

1993

Galleria Vinciana, Milan - Italy

1995

Galleria San Fedele, Milan – Italy; Il mito del moto, Stazioni Termini, Rome - Italy

1996

Enne & Zero, motus etc., Museion, Bozen – Italy

1999

XIII Quadriennale, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome – Italy; Spazio Krizia, Milan – Italy; Gianni Colombo (con una sezione dedicata al Gruppo T), Museum Sogetsu, Tokyo - Japan

2000

Campos de Fuerzas – Fases del Cinético, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Barcelona – Spain; Force-fields, phases of the kinetic, Hayward Gallery, London – England; Arte programmata e cinetica in Italy 1958-1968, Galleria Niccoli, Parma - Italy

2001

Villa Reale, Monza – Italy; Galleria Plurima, Udine - Italy

2003

Palazzo della Permanente, Milan – Italy; Fondazione Calderara, Vacciago (NO) – Italy; Palazzo della Ragione, Padua - Italy

2004

Galleria Plurima, Udine – Italy; Galleria di Palazzo Accursio, Bologna – Italy; Palazzo della Permanente, Milan – Italy; L'oeil moteur. Art optique e cinétique. 1950-1975, Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg – France; Beyond Geometry, Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles - USA; Miami Art Museum (ora Pérez Art Museum Miami), Miami - USA

2005

Gli ambienti del Gruppo T, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome – Italy; Palazzo Reale, Milan – Italy; Un secolo d’arte Italyna, MART Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto (TN) – Italy; Palazzo Pirocchi, Castelbasso (TM) - Italy

2006

Testimonianze del cinetismo e dell’arte programmata in Italy e in Russia, Museo dell’Hermitage, San Pietroburgo - Russia; Bewegung im quadrat, Museum Ritter, Waldenbuch - Germany; Museo della Permanente, Milan – Italy; Cavenaghi Arte, Milan - Italy

2007

Op Art, Schirn Kunstalle, Frankfurt – Germany; Palazzo Reale, Milan – Italy; Museo CID, Torviscosa (UD) – Italy;Quinto cortile, Milan – Italy; Galerie Hoffmann, Friedberg - Germany; Triennale di Milan, Milan – Italy; Extra Moenia - ass. culturale, Todi (PG) - Italy

2008

Il mito della velocità, Palazzo delle esposizioni, Rome – Italy; Viaggio in Italy. Italienische Kunst 1960/1990, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz – Austria; L’arte costruisce l’Europa, Galleria Civica, Desenzano (BS) - Italy

2009

Kanalidarte, Brescia – Italy; Studio 2B, Bergamo – Italy; Accademia di San Luca, Rome – Italy; Palazzo della Permanente, Milan – Italy; Studio Fontaine, Palazzo Gatti, Viterbo – Italy; Palazzo della Triennale, Milan – Italy; Gruppo T – Grande oggetto pneumatico del 1960, Museo d’arte contemporanea, Castello di Rivoli (TO) – Italy; Materialbild 1950 / 1965, ZKM, Karlsruhe – Germany

2010

Il grande gioco. Forme d’arte in Italy 1947-1989, Rotonda della Besana, Milan – Italy; L’Avanguardia Gestaltica degli anni sessanta, Galleria del Tasso, Bergamo – Italy; Fondazione Stelline, Milan – Italy; Gruppo T, Galleria P420, Bologna - Italy + Galleria Ravizza, Milan – Italy; Collection Jean et Colette Cherqui, Paris – France; Museum Munich, Monaco – Germany; La collezione, Museo del 900, Milan - Italy

2011

Anni sessanta e settanta. Arte Cinetica e Poesia Visiva, Collezione Anna Canali, Brescia – Italy; Gli irripetibili anni sessanta, Fondazione Rome Museo, Rome – Italy; Percorsi riscoperti dell’arte Italyna, VAF Stifftung1947-2010, Museo MART, Rovereto (TN) – Italy; Avanguardia Gestaltica. Sixties years later, Galleria Kanalidarte, Brescia – Italy; Fabbri Contemporary Art, Milan – Italy; Heart-Spazio vivo, Vimercate (MI) – Italy; Le donne che hanno fatto l’Italy, Museo del Vittoriano, Rome - Italy

2012

Fabbri Contemporary Art, Milan – Italy; Arte cinetica e programmata, Galleria Nazionale d’ Arte Moderna, Rome – Italy; Immagini della luce, Villa Clerici, galleria d’arte sacra dei contemporanei, Milan - Italy