born arezzo 19**, italy
education
2024 MFA master of fine arts, royal college of art (RCA career progression bursary)
2020 BA painting accademia di belle arti di perugia (chen ming scholarship), accademia di belle arti di roma (2017-2019)
2010 PGcert new media IED istituto europeo di design, rome
2005 laurea magistrale/ MA hons communication, università degli studi di perugia
2003-2012 investigative journalist, video reporter / registered – ODG ordine dei giornalisti //
2013 start of cohabitation with bees + lepidoptera, ongoing // career shift into visual arts
residencies++ grants++ awards
resident artist proposition (fall 2024) / VO curations (2023) / ACAVA (2022) london //
sense residencies MABOS, museo d’arte del bosco della sila, catanzaro (september 2021) //
pilotenkueche international program, leipzig (april-june 2021) //
combat prize recommended artist / 16th combat prize catalogue (2025)
orange book 2022 / artrepreneur NY, award winner (2020) (2022), finalist printmaking section (2021) //
award winner 7th O.R.A. prize for the artistic research (ecce homo series) selected by curva pura (2018) //
13th arte laguna prize finalist – land art section (2018) //
premio nazionale antonio ranocchia / honourable mention (2017) //
collaborations ++ workshops ++
2025 pierre huyghe, the name announcer, 1+1 the relational years, curated nicolas bourriaud, associate curator eleonora farina, MAXXI museum, rome, october – march 26, performer //
2017 aram bartholl, wannacry (weeping angels), 57th venice biennale, hyper pavilion, curated philippe riss-schmidt, produced by fabulous inc. may-september, performer //
2017 eliza soroga, women in agony, arsenal of venice, march, performer //
2017 andreco, parata della fine – the end of anthropocene era, curated by giada pellicari, centro per l’arte contemporanea luigi pecci, prato, february, performer //
2017-18 fondazione progetti beverly pepper, residency projects: opera pr1ma off/beverly feat. accademia di belle arti pietro vannucci – (january) restoration of ‘ascensione’ (2008) / beverly pepper tra todi e il mondo (novembre) curated massimo mattioli, sponsored by fondazione progetti beverly pepper, production and studio assistant //
2025 fondazione antonio ratti, sustainable architecture, self-construction workshop, led by saviana parodi e stefano mattei, villa sucota, como, september, hands-on volunteer //
2017-18 gruppo jobel, bottega arti creative, rome (FW) creative drawing & writing teacher, lecturer//
2024 our feelings symposium, led by dr. adam kaasa, bridges to be_longing, dyson building & battesea bridge london, art facilitator and creative project co-manager //
2017 IAF international author forum, italian project manager FUIS, palazzo ferrajoli, rome, speaker, testimonial: the costs of living and producing artworks for emerging artists //
public collections
MABOS, museo d’arte del bosco della sila, catanzaro //
procura della repubblica, palazzo martorelli orsini, spoleto //
site specific / *solo
2024 march/ june *in secret dens / riverside walk – us embassy, london + WAF wandsworth fringe art festival // project manager wandsworth council
2023 october prompt for credentials / VO curations, london //
2022 april-may genetica della forma / palazzo collicola arti visive, spoleto // curator davide silvioli
2022 november-january esercizio di decenza VOL 1+2 / chiesa madonna del pozzo / opus&light (november-january 2023) // curators valeria de siero, michela becchis
2021 october *di_stanza / il paesaggio futuro, rappresentazione immaginazione / IX castelnuovo fotografia, rome // curators michela becchis, manuela de leonibus, elisabetta portoghese
2021 september-ongoing oltre cenere/ MABOS museo d’arte del bosco della sila, permanent installation //
2021 june language gaps / galerie kub, leipzig // curator joanna glinkowska
2021 march MOP month of photography, reimagining hope / CPAC colorado photographic arts center, denver // curator samantha johnston
2019 june diversioni _ mariani pallante vicidomini zabo / centro della ricerca contemporanea luigi di sarro, rome // curator davide silvioli
2019 june-july *materia prima, curva pura + boccanera gallery / castello aliprandini laifenthurn, trento // curator michela becchis
2018 september-october F.U.T.U.R.A. 3018 performative arts festival / treviso // supported by rete dei festival di treviso, municipality of treviso, curated subsculture
2018 june-september *in buono stato / curva pura gallery, rome // curated river of trees
selected group shows
2024 may co-creating with nature / sustainLab RCA annual show, upper gulbenkian gallery, london // curators giada holland, zofia kierkus, yenah kim, hoi man lai, hee jo kang
2024 may interstitial collective, rituals of between and betwixt, safehouse, london // curatorship emma black elise oursa
2023 june iron collective, studio campo boario, rome // curators virginia ryan, mara predicatori, manuela de leonardis
2022 october-november contemporary abstract, hilliard gallery, kansas city // curator bob swearingin
2022 june-october i nuovi reperti brooke_laplante_zabo, MuST museo della scienza del comune di spoleto // spolia 5 BESTIARIO POST/ATOMICO
2022 february fuorifuoco: angrisani tancredi tosti zabo, studio attilio quintili // curator davide silvioli
2021 june play deep play, pilotenkueche, leipzig // curator joanna glinkowska
2020 october IV international b-video art festival, khodynka gallery, moscow // curators natalia monakhova and andrey slaschilin
2020 may #tempofermo, 16civico, pescara (2020) // curator christian ciampoli, texts chiara scarlato
2019 august natura naturans / fonti padovani serafini zianni zabo / chiesa di san francesco in cortemilia, cuneo // curator valeria guglielmi supported by municipality of cortemilia
2019 march- april arte laguna prize // arsenale di venezia
2018 february-march brana_altri mondi, fuseum museo brajo fuso // curator andrea baffoni
2017 june-july mimmo paladino and the young artists / museo tattile omero, mole vanvitelliana, ancona // curated TACTUS contemporary / supported by MIBAC ministero beni culturali, MIUR
2016 july-november opera pr1ma / umbria terre musei, pinacoteca civica di spello // various curators, supported by sistema museo, accademia di belle arti di perugia
other projects
2024 october narnimmaginaria – triptych OFF, unEArThing curated by SATOR + FIAP // 2024 june electric theater festival, electric sculptures, anfiteatro beverly pepper in panicale, perugia // 2019 sciame project, presentetion, MACRO museum rome // 2016 may segnali – VI rassegna internazionale arti visive e performance, various curators, centro per l’arte contemporanea trebisonda, perugia //
catalogues
premio combat prize 2025, edited by paolo batoni, edizioni sillabe // il problema ambientale nell’arte contemporanea, silvioli d., in: nuovo lessico critico, ecologia, a cura di prisca amoroso, castelvecchi editore, (2023) // genetica della forma, texts davide silvioli, valeria de siero, marco tonelli, kappabit edizioni, rome (2023) // arte e bosco, il secondo catalogo del MABOS, galileo editore, (2022), curator angelo gallo // orange book volume, artrepreneur NY publishing, new york (2022) // fuori fuoco: angrisani-tancredi-tosti-zabo, texts davide silvioli, freemocco ed. (2022) // iron collective, critical texts manuela de leonardis, mara predicatori, davide silvioli, emma tramontana, antonella cristina manni, freemocco edizioni (2022) // brana, omaggio a brajo fuso, curatorial texts andrea baffoni, fabrizio fabbri editore (2018) // CAM 54, ed. mondadori (2018) //
contact
SPACE, brickfield studios, E33LT london
info@medinazabo.com