Danielle Villicana is an American artist, art dealer, and speaker. Born in San Francisco and raised in Pasadena and Laguna Beach, she earned a B.A. in Art history and the Visual Arts from Occidental College in Los Angeles in 1994 and a Diploma in Painting from the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome in 2006. She studied and worked with many master artists in the US and Italy and opened her first gallery in 2010 in Arezzo, Tuscany. She has her studio, "VI DA Studios," in Arezzo and Florence, Italy.