Chiara was born in Padua in 1976. In 2000 she graduated in History and Criticism of Cinema with Giorgio Tinazzi with a thesis on color in the cinema of Eric Rohmer, later she taught Italian in the United States (Ann Arbor, Michigan) and in Czech Republic.
In 2007 she attended figure courses at the Academy of Arts Architecture and Design in Prague.
Since school she has been interested in children's illustration, from 2003 to 2015 she attended illustration courses at the International Illustration School in Sarmede (TV) and at Ars in Fabula in Macerata, with Arcadio Lobato, Svetlan Junaković, Maurizio Quarello, Carll Cneut.
From 2015 to 2018 she collaborated with the agent Astound in New York for editorial illustration work.
She published illustrated books with Italian and foreign publishing houses (Boxer Books, Giunti, Kar-Ben Publishing, Learning AZ, MineditionFrance, Oxford University Press, Paraclete, Terranuova, Tyndale).
She taught drawing workshops for children in bookshops, libraries, schools and festivals, and intensive summer courses at the International School of Comics in Padua.
Since 2016 she has been passionate about printmaking: she attended the intaglio classes of Maria Pina Bentivenga and Elisabetta Diamanti at the School of Ornamental Arts in Rome and later enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome (Graphic art: Illustration and printmaking).
At the Academy she attended workshops on the production of color, monotype, screen printing/editorial illustration (Else editions), and typography (Betterpress and Alessandro Corubolo), and obtained two collaboration scholarships in the intaglio and woodcut workshops.
She collaborated with the Busato Art Printing House in Vicenza.
In August 2019 she attended the burin on copper symposium held by Koichi Yamamoto in Montefiore Conca (RI) at the Opificio della Rosa, where she had the opportunity to get an artist residency in September.
Since 2019 she has been collaborating with Atelier InSigna, in particular as an assistant in the intaglio printing phase.
In July 2021 she graduated in Printmaking from the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, with Gaetanina Campisi and Maria Pina Bentivenga, with an immersive installation of etching prints.
Since 2022 she has been a member of the National Association of Contemporary Engravers.
In 2023-24 and 2024-25 she taught Engraving at the School of Ornamental Arts in Rome.
She currently works as a laboratory technician in the Graphic Art courses of the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome.
She has took part in exhibitions of painting, illustration, engraving and artist's books, and drawing and printmaking festivals, in Italy (Florence, Rome, Trieste, Ravenna, Modena, Cosenza, Mazzara del Vallo, Milan, Vicenza, Padua) and abroad (France, Germany, Belgium, Kuwait)