Caterina was born in Parma in 1991 and grew up in Collecchio.

After attending the Liceo Artistico in her town, she moved to Siena to study Cultural Heritage, a three-year degree enriched by a year spent in Tarragona.

Since then she has been “in-china” her time to drawing, directing her studies and passion toward this creative form: she graduated, in fact, with a thesis on tactile illustration and earned her Master’s Degree in Illustration for Publishing at the Academy of Macerata with a short story by Lev Tolstoy, soon to be published in the writer’s homeland. After a semester-long experience in Aguascalientes (Mexico), she decided to conclude her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Carrara, where she is currently enrolled in the Art Graphics course.

Caterina has an artistic background related to the publishing world (The Mushroom Girl Lev Tolstoy 2020, Bice and the Games of Light 2019, On Trees and Ludoteca since 2010, LOGOS Edizioni, Aracne Editrice), digital graphics (she collaborates permanently with Biblioteca Civica di Parma, La iMAGInada, Tarragona, Contile adDOSSO, Istituto Cervi, Archivio Emilio Sereni, Brodo di Becchi, CollArte) and to graphic art (ABA Carrara, Repin Academy of fine Arts Saint Peterburg, workshop intaglio techniques and movable type at Atelier Alma Charta – Toccalmatto PR; Graphic Art Workshop – MO; silkscreen printing at Centro Reffo and printmaking at Museo Posada Aguascalientes MEX) as well as disciplines related to artistic crafts (bookbinding, weaving, ceramics, carpentry, goldsmithing, recycled paper, drywalling). He has been conducting Expressive Art Workshops since 2018 in collaboration with AUSL, School and numerous associations and cooperatives) with inmates, psychiatric users, disabled, minors. He has participated in several events concerning books and illustration (BILBOLBUL, O.P.L.A., Bologna Children’s Book Fair, Barcelona Artist’s Book Festival, Liber Milano, A spasso con le dita etc.). He curated the Contile adDOSSO art exhibition for two years. He has participated in several group exhibitions in Parma and province, Siena, Tarragona, Aguascalientes, Carrara, St. Petersburg. She has received national (I Prize I Edition Tarantasio Illustration Competition, Paullo MI, 2018) and international awards (selected for ILUSTRARTE, Portugal, Innopraktika and Russian Season School, Russia).

In 2012 she founded Ludoteca: playful self-published books and in 2019 APS CollArte.