Paola Pivi is an Italian multimedia artist, a world traveller, based in Anchorage, Alaska. From 2013 until 2016 she was based in India – together with her husband, the composer Karma Culture Brothers – because the adoption of their adoptive son from the Tibetan Children's Village was obtained through a long viciously fought legal battle, which ended with the landmark judgment by the Delhi High Court CM 579/2015 which ratified the possibility for Tibetan children in India to be adopted as any other Indian child. In her work, she uses a wide range of artistic techniques, including photography, sculpture, installation, drawing, video and performance. Some of her works contain performance elements, at times involving live animals and people. In 1999, she received the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Biennale. Her art is featured in prominent public collections such as the one of the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Maxxi museum in Rome or the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne. Until today 6 monographic catalogues were published about her art.