“My work is an urgent response to what it feels like to live digitally—the endless bombardment of addictive information and all the ways digital life shapes us. By returning images, videos, and memes to physical space through screenprinting and aggregation, I seek to reclaim the depth and mystery of the human experience from the flattening forces of the screen and its power and control in digital life. By uncovering what subtly guides us—and why—I hope to rediscover connection and meaning, and to mark where digital life ends and real life begins.”
—Cassandra Zampini
BIO
Cassandra Zampini is a New York–based artist whose work explores how digital life shapes human experience and identity. Following in the tradition of artists who have interrogated and recontextualized mass media, she turns her lens toward internet culture, where algorithms, memes, and viral images shape what we see, feel, and believe.
Through screenprinting, image aggregation from internet content, Zampini creates spaces for connection and contemplation, where wonder, meaning, and the beauty of real human experience can resurface.
Her work has been exhibited nationally at institutions including the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona; the Arnot Art Museum; the Griffin Museum of Photography; and, most recently, the National Liberty Museum in Philadelphia. Her work has been featured in The Atlantic, The Art Newspaper, and The Collector Daily, and will appear in the upcoming 20th edition of Friend of the Artist. Her work has been included in the traveling exhibition A Yellow Rose Project since 2020, with a book forthcoming in Summer 2025. Her pieces are held in private, public, and corporate permanent collections, including Armoni Investments in Boston and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
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COLLECTIONS
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Armani Investments, Boston, MA (corporate collection)
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2025
Word Powered: Exploring Free Speech Through Art, The National Liberty Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Forthcoming Fall 2025, The Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA
A Yellow Rose Project, Texas Woman's University in Denton, Texas
2024
A Yellow Rose Project: Dallas Center for Photography, Dallas, TX
Minimal|Maximal, Lichtundfire Gallery, New York, NY
Works on Paper, BWAC, Brooklyn, NY
A Yellow Rose Project, Rebecca Randall Bryan Art Gallery, Coastal Carolina University, SC
2023
Machine, The National Arts Club, New York, NY (fellowship solo exhibition)
Visual Implications, ChaShaMa, New York, NY
A Yellow Rose Project: Homer + Dolly Hand Art Center, Stetson University, FL
Affiliation, The National Arts Club, New York, NY
2022
CADAF NYC, New York, NY
Adjusted for Inflation, Kunstraum Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Wide Open 12, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Brooklyn, NY
105th Exhibition, Greenwich Art Society, Greenwich, CT
A Yellow Rose Project, Levitt Gallery, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
2021
Untitled Art Fair, Miami Beach, FL
Live Hang, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Digital Windows, Fall Affordable Art Fair, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
CADAF Paris, Digital Art Fair
A Yellow Rose Project: Boston University, James Stone Gallery; The Front; Central Washington
University, Sarah Spungen Gallery; Washington and Lee University, Staniar Gallery
2020
A History of Photography: Selections from the Museum's Collections, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
(permanent collection)
The Qualities of Light: A View from the Archive at the Center for Creative Photography, The Center for
Creative Photography, University of Arizona, AZ
A Yellow Rose Project, Spectra Gallery, University of New Mexico, Colorado; Photographic Arts Center,
Indiana University; Old Dominion University, Eleanor Wilson Museum; Truman State University;
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Texas Woman's University; Texas Christian University; sUgAR Gallery
Contemporary Photography Exhibition IX, Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, PA
2018-2019
DataMine, Rick Wester Fine Art in Chelsea, New York, NY 2018 (solo exhibition)
PULSE Art Fair, Miami, FL, 2019
Figure X 4, RSM Gallery, Boston, MA, 2019
Circles & Squares, Rick Wester Fine Art in Chelsea, New York, NY, 2019
76th Annual Exhibition, Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY, 2019
Vernacular Photography and the Road to Selfie Culture, Artyard, Frenchtown, NJ, 2019
Saatchi The Other Art Fair, New York, NY, 2018
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 2018
2015-2017
Stare, Museum of Fine Arts Boston at Boston City Hall, curated by Karen Haas, Boston, MA
Natural Selection, Galerie Protégé, New York, NY
Pairings, 555 Gallery, Boston, MA
Saatchi The Other Art Fair, New York, NY
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
The Drawing Project, Carroll & Sons Art Gallery, Boston, MA
Future Visions, Gallery 263, Boston, MA
Projections, JP Arts Council, Boston, MA
Trans, Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA
Umbra, Cambridge Innovation Center, Cambridge, MA
Winter Works, Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA
Winter Solstice, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA
Illusion of Place, Fidelity Investments World Trade Center, Boston, MA (solo exhibition)
Winter Show, Pearl Street Gallery, Boston, MA
FELLOWSHIPS & RESIDENCIES
The National Arts Club Fellowship, New York, NY, 2022-23
Kunstraum Artist-in-Residence, Brooklyn, NY, 2022
EDUCATION
BA Philosophy and BA English, Boston University, Boston, MA
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
A Yellow Rose Project, book publication (forthcoming 2025)
Volume 20, Friend of the Artist book publication, (forthcoming 2025)
"Who Controls the Narrative: Art, Storytelling and Conspiracy Culture,
" The Art of Distraction Podcast,
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November 2, 2024
"Emojis, Memes, and Popular Lexicons,
" Cultbytes, February 11, 2023
"Visually Sated,
" Arcade Projects, February 12, 2023
"Adjusted for Inflation,
" Art Spiel, August 2022
"12 Artists Awarded Fellowships by National Arts Club,
" Hyperallergic, January 18, 2022
"Six Discoveries to Make at Miami's Untitled Art Fair 2021,
" Cultured, December 3, 2021
"A Guide to Miami Art Week,
" Social Studies, November 29, 2021
"Women working in the Arts: Ellie Hayworth,
" Create Magazine, November 28, 2021
"Truth and Belief,
" HAS Magazine, a project by UNESCO and the International Council for Philosophy
and Human Sciences, June 10, 2021
"As Trump baselessly cries voter fraud, one artist surveys the rise of conspiracy theories in US
politics,
" The Art Newspaper, November 13, 2020
"Symbols of a movement,
" Albuquerque Journal, September 27, 2020
"UNM celebrate women's suffrage centennial with art exhibit,
" Daily Lobo, September 21, 2020
"The Qualities of LIGHT: The Story of a Pioneering New York City Photography Gallery,
" L'Oeil de la
Photographie, January 27, 2020
"CCP Exhibition Salutes New York's Legendary LIGHT Gallery,
" Fine Books and Collections Magazine,
January 26, 2020
"Cassandra Zampini: Data Mine @Rick Wester,
" Loring Knoblauch, The Collector Daily, September 24,
2018
"Cassandra Zampini – Data Mine,
" The Eye of Photography, September 21, 2018
"Data Mine,
" Wall Street International, September 18, 2018
"Cassandra Zampini: Data Mine at Rick Wester Fine Art,
" Art Scene, Duggal Visual Solutions, October
13, 2018
"Meet Cassandra Zampini,
" Boston Voyager, April 10, 2018
"TOAF: Stylistic Developments,
" Aesthetica Magazine, May 2, 2018
"Only the Naturally Selected Survive,
" Arte Fuse, September 14, 2017
"32 Reasons to Stare,
" What You Will Remember, June 13, 2017
"Landscapes of American Work: The Commute,
" The Atlantic, December 24, 2016
"Wonder-full,
" F-Stop Magazine, February 2016
Cassandra@cassandrazampini.com | www.cassandrazampini.com | @cassandrazampini
For exhibition inquiries, press, studio visits, or general questions, please get in touch:
CONTACT
Email: cassandra@cassandrazampini.com
Studio: SoHo New York
Instagram: @cassandrazampini
BlueSky: @cassandrazampini
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