Carla Badiali was an Italian painter active during the 20th century. She was born in Novedrate, in the province of Como, on November 9, 1907, to Rosa Molteni and Ettore Badiali. She spent her childhood in France, where the family had moved for work reasons. In France, she devoted herself to music, studying piano for eight years, and to painting, oil painting with her father.
Returning to Como at the age of sixteen, Carla Badiali began attending the Technical Industrial Institute for Silk Processing. Here she met Professor Manlio Rho, her drawing teacher and a Como painter among the leading Italian representatives of abstract art, who influenced her artistic formation. It was indeed Manlio Rho who introduced her to the group of Como abstract artists, an experience that definitively oriented her towards abstract art. Throughout her life, Carla Badiali worked both in fabric and textile design, mainly for the major Como silk mills, and in painting.