Nina Nasilli is the pseudonym adopted by the Italian, Rovigo-born artist.
When just seven, she had started writing her first poems and participating, at a very young age, in a number of poetry competitions and festivals. The publication of some of her works followed.
She obtained an honours degree, in 1992, in Classical Studies, from the University of Padua.
Back then, an inner malaise was the catalyst that had her translate “her poetry into paintings”. Nasilli’s first paintings were premièred in a personal exhibition in Thiene, in 1996.
That same year, Nina met a literary figure, one of the most influential and prominent writers of the 1900s, Ottiero Ottieri. He reviewed two of her poems in a journal called Nuovi Argomenti, in 1997. Since then, and until he passed away in 2002, Nasilli and Ottieri’s relationship connected the pair deeply, at a human and intellectual level, so much so that at the end Nasilli once again recovered the strength and courage, after years of operose silence, to plunge herself in the world of poetry and art. Starting in 2002, literary recognition and several awards have come her way from events the likes of: Augusta (Syracuse), Chieti, Legnano (Milan), Naples, Rome - from the Italian Modern Art Association, and  Ischia, where in 2004, at its fifth edition, she received an academic nomination.
In May 2005, she became a founding member of the association called Ambasciatori del Certamen Ciceronianum.

The painter’s artwork débuted in Padova, Italy, in 2004, with an exhibition entitled SegniUrgenti, (UrgentSigns) but since then her work has been in featured in Chioggia (Venice), Padua, Vicenza, Reggio Emilia, and in Venice - at the Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista which hosted her personal exhibition called Imperfezioni Moleste (Teasing Imperfections) in 2006. The latter exhibition was also on show at Bologna’s art gallery Galleria 18. Always in 2006, her vision and creativity extended as Imperfezioni Moleste, her first poetry book, published by Giraldi, proves. Other cities and towns to have displayed her paintings include Ghent, in Belgium, Madrid, Paris, Grenoble, Utrecht, Sydney and Bowral, in Australia, Innsbruck, Budapest, New York, Salford (UK), Singapore, Shanghai, Miami and Boston.
Venice’s 52nd  edition of the Biennale Internazionale d’Arte, from 30 June to 31 July 2007, starred her work in the contemporary exhibition titled To call to mind, at the Mondadori area.
In spring 2008 her personal exhibition Imperfezioni Moleste. E oltre (Teasing Imperfections. And Beyond) was hosted by Ariosto’s House in Ferrara, where the catalogue of a new cycle of paintings, I know that you are beautiful, soul of mine! and a new edition of poems, Imperfezioni moleste. E oltre (Teasing Imperfections. And Beyond), both published by Il Prato, were presented to the public.
Currently she is collaborating with 100x100 Amarillo Art Gallery.
Nina lives and works in Padova and Chioggia (Venice).