madeline lives and works in Brooklyn, ny.
they work with image and text, conceptual and tactile processes and like thinking about the broader role of photography in understanding reality, how fragments come together into a whole, etc, etc etc
if you are interested in purchasing work: enjoy
mazappala@gmail.com
Education
School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University, MFA
Vassar College, American Culture, ba
Selected Exhibitions, Publications, fairs, press, etc
2023 print screen, ice box project space, curated by roopa vasudevan and walker tufts
2023 a labor party, trestle art space, curated by flora wilds and ellen carpenter
2023 “aura of an era” by Larissa pham for rhizome
2023 “Some Tumblrs”, rhizome Art base
2021 the medium is the message, vsop projects
2020 as far as the eye can see, VSOP projects
2020 issue 27, breakwater review
2019 Urgency Reader. Published by Paul Soulellis
2019 Certifying Reality, Flux Factory, Long Island City, NY. Curated by Rory Fitzgerald Bledsoe.
2018 Queer.Archive.Work v1.2, Urgency Lab, School for Poetic Computation, New York, NY. Led by Paul Soulellis.
2018 Create Magazine, Issue 12 feature. Curated by Kaly Scheller-Barrett.
2018 11.11 “messaging” at ELEVEN Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY.
2018 "Moving Beyond the Frame." Exposure Journal, Society of Photographic Education.
2017 "Reflecting on the Burden We Share." Review by Casey Curry for Big Red and Shiny.
2017 From URL to IRL. Performance. SPACE ONE TWO ONE Gallery, Boston, MA.
2017 Objectified, Czong Institute for Contemporary Art, Gyeonggi-do, Korea.
2017 Inter-Dimensional Ports of Whatsoever. Juried by Anabel Vázquez Rodríguez. Fort Point Arts .Community Atlantic Wharf Gallery, Boston, MA.
2016 THIS IS REVOLTING. Publication and Online Exhibition. Published by Allison Cekala.
2016 Cell Phone Photography IV, Juried by Meri Aaron Walker, Texas Society.
2016 “Madeline Zappala,” Aint-Bad Magazine blog feature.
2015 John Baldessari Medal Award Gala, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA.
2015 TELE/VISION, National Boston, Brookline, MA.
2015 The Cyclorama Show: Masters of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition, SMFA, Boston, MA.
2015 Spectrum. Curatorial Project. School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA.
2014 What Kind of Trouble, Vol 2. Published by Sara Sutterlin.
2014 South Asia Exchange. Curatorial Project. Harvard Friends of Japan Concourse, Cambridge, MA.
2014 Refraction, Mission Hill Gallery, Boston, MA.
2011 Through the Student Lens (juried), Palmer Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY.
Awards
2015- 2016 Post-Graduate Teaching Fellowship, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA.
2015 Medal Award Gala, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA.
2014-2015 Graduate Teaching Fellowship, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA.
2013- 2014 Merit Scholarships, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA.