Valeria Raho is a PhD student in Gender Studies at the University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, conducting a research entitled Artistic Labour and Gender Politics in the Contemporary Art System, in co-tutelle with Instituto de Patrimonio y Humanidades at University of Zaragoza. In these years her work has focused on the trajectories of women artists and feminist collectives active in the Apulia region from the late 1970s to the present, with particular attention to historically marginalized artistic and curatorial practices. Exhibition analysis as a critical research tool, is central to her methodology, as demonstrated by her contributions to Woman Art Society. Feminist Aesthetic Practices from the Mid-Nineteenth Century to the Present and in the recent international conferences Women Critics and Art Historians in Rome and Las artistas en la escena cultural europa, 1803–1945 in Zaragoza. Alongside her academic research, she has and active curatorial practice. Since 2017, she as the co-director of PIA, an independent school for artists and curators, that has hosted international artists and curators (piastudio.org). As part of this initiative, she curates the editorial series Amalgama, which explores themes such as materiality, the Global South, the South feminism, and public space. The first volume, dedicated to papier-mâché, was produced with the support of the Italian Ministry of Culture (MIC). As cultural journalist, she also contributes to Il Giornale dell’Arte.