After dropping out of both law and film school and collaborating with well-known Italian directors, Manfredi Beninati began working as an artist.

He spent some time in Spain and England and, in 2002, when he came back to Italy, he began to make sculptures and figurative paintings that drew directly on real or imaginary childhood memories.

In 2005 he was selected as one of four artists to represent his country at the 51 Venice Biennale[1] where he received the audience award for the Italian pavilion.

He is represented by James Cohan Gallery in New York, Tomio Koyama in Tokyo and Galleria Lorcan O'Neill in Rome.

[5] Recent projects he has curated include a series of talks on Italian design and a workshop on architecture icon Aldo Rossi held by American architect Thomas Tsang[6][7] in Hong Kong and Palermo.