Simonetta Moro is an artist and educator based in New York City. She has exhibited in the US and Europe, including: BRIC Art and Media House, New York; Center for Architecture, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the American Academy in Rome, Italy; the Harris Museum, Preston, UK; Galleria del Carbone, Italy; Temple Gallery Rome, Italy. Her cartographic-based and site-specific paintings are part of a major investment company collection worldwide. Her work has been published in two books by Katherine Harmon, The Map As Art: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography (Princeton Architectural Press, 2009), and You Are Here NYC: Mapping the Soul of the City (Princeton Architectural Press, 2016). Moro completed her art studies in Italy and the UK (PhD Fine Art, 2003), and is currently the Director of The Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts (IDSVA). Her book Mapping Paradigms in Modern and Contemporary Art is published by Routledge (2021).