Nanda Vigo was born in Milan in 1936. She lives and works in Milan and East Africa.

Vigo graduated from the Institute Polytechnique, Lausanne, and studied further in San Francisco and with Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin East. Throughout her career Vigo has maintained an interdisciplinary practice that frequently blurs the confines of architecture, design and art.

Starting in 1959, Vigo engaged in frequent collaboration with Lucio Fontana, and in the following years her circle of friends expanded to include founders of the Azimut gallery Piero Manzoni and Enrico Castellani. Vigo became closely affiliated with the ZERO network, and from 1964–1966 took part in at least 13 ZERO exhibitions, significantly NUL 65...