Raffaele Bedarida (b. 1979) is a New York based art historian and freelance curator specializing in 20^th century and contemporary European and American Art. Adjunct professor at Parsons and Mannes College (The New School), he is a lecturer at MoMA and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Raffaele has co-founded and curated HSF, a residency program for young artists in Harlem, NY (http://www.harlemstudiony.org). He is author of a monograph, Bepi Romagnoni: Il Nuovo Racconto (Cinisello Balsamo: Silvana, 2005) and is co-editor of the volume, Dennis Oppenheim: Short-circuit (Silvana, 2007).

Other publications include: Afro Basaldella. The American Period (Milan: Mondadori / Electa, 2012); Prima che il Gallo Canti (Turin: Allemandi, 2011); Susanna Pozzoli: On the Block (Allemandi, 2010); Reuven Israel: Range of Sorrow (Milan: Montrasio Arte, 2008), "Bourgeois? Never!" Fontana Contended in the Late 1930s (New York: Andrea Rosen, 2008), Christo & Jeanne Claude: Veri Cento Metri, Veri Duecento Metri (Montrasioarte, 2007), Lucio Fontana: Attraversando la Materia (Silvana, 2006), Pizzi Cannella: Canto (Milan: Studio Guastalla, 2005).