[t.a.]Riccardo Licata was born in Turin on 20 December 1929. After a brief period in Paris, his family moved to Rome, where he remained until 1945. Since 1946, Licata lives in Venice. He studied at the Art School and the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice in the years between 1947 and 1955. In 1957 he obtained a scholarship from the French government to test the engraving color and new techniques, in Paris in collaboration with Friedlaender, Hayter and Goetz. In the same year he was named as assistant Gino Severini at l'Italienne d'Art de Paris. It is appointed, in 1961, professor of the Ecole Nationale mosaico de Paris where he taught until 1995. The prestigious assignments follow each other, so in 1969, is professor of plastic arts at the EBU the Sorbonne, then professor of engraving all'Academie Goetz in Paris, and since 1972 has the same title at the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica in Venice and allEcole Americaine d'Architecture de Fontainebleau. With extensive experience of art that sees him from time to time painter, engraver, mosaicist, sculptor, set designer, began to exhibit in Venice and Florence in 1949 with the group of Young Painters Abstract. His first personal exhibition held in Venice in 1951, following more than 300 personal in 35 different nations. Since 1952 he exhibited at the Venice Biennale, the Sao Paulo Biennale in Brazil, of Tokjo, Parga, Ljubljana, to Alexandria in Egypt and four in Rome, the Milan Triennale, as well as in major Parisian Salons.
His works are in museums of modern art in Belluno, Chicago, Florence, Milan, Mulhouse, New York, Paris, Reggio Emilia, Stuttgart, Warsaw, Venice, Vienna.
Riccardo Licata lives and works in Paris and Venice.