Mimmo Paladino was born in 1948 in Paduli ( Bn) Italy. 

The works of Mimmo Paladino are included in the collections of the most important international museums, including Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna in Rome, Galleria d’Arte Moderna in Bologna, Lenbachhaus in Munich, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA and the Guggenheim Museum in New York, Nationalgalerie Berlin, Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and the Tate in London, Museo di Capodimonte and the MADRE in Naples. 

He has held exhibitions in important museums and institutions like MADRE Naples, Centro per l’arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci in Prato, Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, MoMA New York, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna in Rome, MACRO and MAXXI in Rome, the Tate Modern in London, the Kunstmuseum of Basel, MOCA Shanghai, MUMOK Vienna.