Nicola Verlato is a painter, sculptor, architect and musician born in Verona on 19-02-1965.He studied painting in the studio of an elderly friar in a monastery from the age of 9 to 14.He studied lute and composition at the conservatories of Verona and Padua.He studied architecture at the University of Venice.Among the numerous exhibition occasions, the Italian Pavillion at the 53rd Venice Biennale in 2009, the Prague and Tirana Biennials in 2001, 2003 and 2004, the Rome Quadrennial in 1996 and 2008, the exhibitions at the Royal Palace in Milan, the PAC and the MART, the National Museum of Stockholm, and National Fine Arts Museum of Helsinki, the Nuit Blanche of Toronto, the Akron Museum , the White Columns of New York, National Museum in Rome at Terme di Diocleziano, National Museum in Matera-Palazzo Lanfranchi.His works are present in the collections of the MART Museum in Rovereto, the George Lucas Museum in Los Angeles, and Musac in Salamanca.After 14 years in Venice, 7 in Milan, 7 in New York, and 7 in Los Angeles he now resides in Rome.