Alessandra Pagliuca was born in 1988 in Chivasso (Turin, Italy), she then moved to Lucca in 2017 and later to Viareggio where she currently lives and works. 

She graduated from an art high school and decided to devote herself to painting and self-taught artistic experimentation.

Her debut took place in 2012 when she exhibited her first personal collection of artworks based on hyper-realistic research and the study of faces and human expressions.

She has exhibited in various national and international fairs and galleries and participated in different competitions that have seen her as a finalist on several occasions. In 2014 she won the Elio Fiorucci award and in 2019 the Marchionni award. In the same year, she was the finalist in the Michelangelo Buonarroti prize. Her artworks have been exhibited in Florence, Turin, Venice, London, Monte Carlo and Laguna Beach, California. 

Her work is based on solo and collective exhibitions and commissioned works for private clients and public companies. Alessandra started working on commission with the opening of her atelier, "Artemisia Contemporary" in 2015 and she specialises in portraits. 

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She has created a series of wall decorations at the Italian headquarters of Volvo Trucks and Renault Trucks Italia in the province of Bergamo and she has established an ongoing collaboration with the Duessegi publishing house creating portraits on commission.