Denis Santachiara

Denis Santachiara is an Italian artist and designer.

Biography

Santichiara was born 4 May1950 in Campagnola Emilia.
His work has been exhibited at the Centre Pompidou, Triennale di Milano, Denver Art Museum, Indianapolis Museum of Art, and is held in collections including the Museum or Modern Art and Vitra Design Museum.
He has taught at the Istituto Superiore per le Industrie Artistiche in Florence, Scuola Politecnica di Design, Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, and the Accademia di Brera in Milan.
He won a Good Design Award from the Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design in 1999, and in 2010, the Pyramid of Excellence, an award from the Italian Academy of Art, Fashion Design. He was also part of Ezio Manzini's team that won the 1987 Compasso d’Oro award for La materia dell’invenzione, a book the ADI jury described as "a valuable operational document capable of offering designers advances in technical-scientific processes bringing about the conjunction of technical science and art." In 2020, he was the chairman of the jury for the XXVI Compasso d’Oro award.