medina zabo (arezzo, it*79) is a post-disciplinary artist whose investigation finds expression and spans methods from pop art, land art and renaissance painting. central to her practice are issues and dynamics of colonisation/domestication and metamorphosis mutually in human communities and natural environments, as a sociological metaphor. much of medina’s work stems from a pivotal experience of a six months cohabitation with a honeybee colony in the house (link)
after a career as a journalist and video reporter, interested mostly in environmental and social topics, in 2012 she stepped down to pursue exclusively her path to becoming an artist. after years of self-education, she studied painting at accademia di belle arti pietro vannucci in perugia and at accademia di belle arti di roma.
lives and works between etruria (it) and east london.
2005_ MA in communication studies, università degli studi di perugia, degree dissertation in semiotics;
2015-2019_ BA painting program _ alumna of accademia di belle arti pietro vannucci, perugia (awarded scholarship chen ming a.y *15/16); alumna of accademia di belle arti di roma;
2010_ IED istituto europeo di design rome campus, specialisation course, new media
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)
exhibitions archive
permanent installations_ urphänomen, procura della repubblica, palazzo martorelli orsini, spoleto, *17 perugia, curated by accademia di belle arti di perugia; con_tratto di simultaneità, mabos, catanzaro *21
workshops/ contributions
ambassador for emerging artists at IAF international authors forum 2018;
playing performer for andreco _”the end of anthropocene era”, contemporary art center luigi pecci, prato, february 2017 __ eliza soroga _re-enactment of “women in agony”, arsenale of venice, march 2017 __ aram bartholl _weeping angels, 57th venice biennale, hyper pavilion, may-september 2017
artists 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 collective, rome, october *18; sciame-project international collective
creative writing&drawing teacher at jobel group, rome, autumn 2018
workshop lemniscate – the art of infinity curated by petia knebel– from augsburg university, sponsored by fine arts academy pietro vannucci, perugia, april 2016
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