medina zabo (arezzo *79, lives and works between etruria and london) is a cross-disciplinary artist whose investigation finds expression and spans methods from pop art, land art and renaissance painting. central to their practice are issues and dynamics of colonisation/domestication and metamorphosis mutually in human communities and natural environments, as a sociological metaphor. much of zabo’s work stems from a pivotal experience of a six months cohabitation with a honeybee colony in the house (link). after an early career as a journalist and video reporter focused in environmental and social topics, in 2012 medina quit to pursue exclusively their path to becoming an artist.
2005_ MA in communication, università degli studi di perugia, degree dissertation in semiotics
2010_ PGCert in new media, IED istituto europeo di design, rome campus
2015-2019_ BFA painting program, alumna of accademia di belle arti pietro vannucci, perugia (awarded chen ming fellowship); alumna of accademia di belle arti di roma
residenze sense, artist in residence mabos museo d’arte del bosco della sila, catanzaro 09*21
artist in residence pilotenkueche international program leipzig quarter II *21
award-winning o.r.a prize 2018 for artistic research selected by curva pura+roots
finalist at 13th international arte laguna prize, land art section
artrepreneur_org NY curators’ selection: phantasmagoria, award winner 2020; shortlisted people’s choice award 2021 (printmaking section)
orange book 2022 top artrepreneur’s 100 artists NY
member of ACAVA community (association for cultural advancement through visual art) *22
playing performer for __andreco _”the end of anthropocene era”, contemporary art center luigi pecci, prato, february *17 __ eliza soroga _re-enactment of “women in agony”, arsenale of venice, march *17 __ aram bartholl _weeping angels, 57th venice biennale, hyper pavilion, may-september *17
artist residencies at beverly pepper’s studio sponsored by fondazione progetti beverly pepper _ (january 2017) (november 2018); opera pr1ma off/beverly featuring accademia di belle arti pietro vannucci; set up of the exhibition “beverly pepper tra todi e il mondo” curated by massimo mattioli, sponsored by bp foundation
hdemia de rooms, delollis underground art collective, rome, october *18; sciame-project artist collective
creative writing&drawing lecturer, jobel group, rome, autumn *18
workshop lemniscate – the art of infinity curated by petia knebel– from augsburg university, sponsored by fine arts academy pietro vannucci, perugia, april *16
private collector, maastricht, netherlands
private collector, florence, italy
private collector, rome, italy
urphänomen, procura della repubblica, palazzo martorelli orsini, spoleto, perugia, italy curated accademia di belle arti di perugia *17
con_tratto di simultaneità, mabos museo d’arte del bosco della sila, catanzaro, italy *21