Bettina Werner (born in 1965, in Milan, Italy) is an Italian artist based in New York City.
Werner was born in Milan where studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera.
[3] Her salt paintings, sculptures, art installations and functional pieces of artwork, such as her salt sculpture-table, salt sculpture-bed and salt sculpture-backgammon boards are exhibited in museums and galleries extensively throughout Europe, Russia and the United States, including the Whitney Museum, the Pushkin Museum in Moscow, the Detroit Institute of Art, Las Vegas Art Museum, Chase Manhattan Bank, the collection of Herbert and Dorothy Vogel, and the collection of Martin Margulies in Miami.
[3] The institution is dedicated to the support, conservation, and protection of works of art created with Werner's unique textured and colorized salt technique invented in the 1980s.
[5] Reviews and features on her work have appeared in The New York Times,[6][7] and The Wall Street Journal,[8]