Elisabetta Barisoni graduated from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Bologna University and spent an academic year at the University of Edinburgh. After graduation, she began her career in London, working at Sotheby's and Christie's, in the field of private collections, and later as assistant curator at the Castelvecchio Museum in Verona. From 2003 to 2015, she was curator of temporary exhibitions at the Mart Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto and organized many exhibitions, in Italy and abroad. In 2006, she attained a Master Degree in Contemporary Art at Bologna University. From 2006 to 2013, she was also professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna. She has published many researches and exhibition catalogues, focused on the 20th Century Art, especially of the first half, on various authors such as Giorgio Morandi, Cagnaccio di San Pietro, Antonio Donghi, Henri Rousseau, American Art at the first Biennale in Venice, Italian avant-gardes of 1910’s and 1920’s, and New Objectivity in Germany during 1920’s. She was invited as a speaker to numerous conferences and talks on single authors and on interdisciplinary subjects of art criticism. In 2015, she attained a PhD at the University of Verona, presenting the thesis, Margherita Sarfatti art critic 1919-1939, published in 2018. From 2015, she is Head of Ca 'Pesaro-International Gallery of Modern Art in Venice, part of the 12 Museums of the City of Venice (MUVE-Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia).