Mario Schifano (20 September 1934, Khoms, Libya – 26 January 1998, Rome, Italy) was an Italian painter and collagist of the Postmodern tradition.
He also achieved some renown as a film-maker and rock musician.
He is considered to be one of the most significant and pre-eminent artists of Italian postmodernism.
He became part of the core group of artists comprising the "Scuola romana" alongside Franco Angeli and Tano Festa.
Reputed as a prolific and exuberant artist, he nonetheless struggled with a lifelong drug habit that earned him the label maledetto, or "cursed".Schifano had a relationship with Marianne Faithfull in 1969.