Maria Grazia Bornigia was born on 22 September 1923 in Rome where she lived until her death on 9 February 2001.
She studied art in different forms: painting, sculpture, writing. After Classical High School, she studied Architecture, developing her own peculiar pictorial language quickly and completely independently, where she preferred the technique of oil on canvas. She then learned to work bronze from the Italian sculptor Francesco Nagni, and marble by the sculptor Giovanni Ardini, that of chisel on metal from the sculptor Lorenzo Guerrini. In the early 1950s she began to create original works that made her known in the artistic world around Rome.
After a short and painful marriage, she separated and faced the difficult task of raising her two daughters alone but she did so with great determination.
Throughout her life Maria Grazia continued to create the art that is admired by many today.