FIELD NOTES
I return to organisms that quietly reorganize the worlds around them.
I am interested in what becomes visible when attention is sustained.
My work begins in accumulation.
Small gestures repeated over time.
Lines.
Wraps.
Cuts.
Fragments.
Lists.
Materials are gathered until they exceed their individual meaning.
And begin to behave like environments.
I stay with processes long enough that transformation becomes visible.
Building conditions for engagement.
Spaces where meaning does not arrive immediately, but accrues over time.
July 2026
Hotel Courtyard, Madison, WI, 2025
BIO
Molly Gambardella is an interdisciplinary artist based in Connecticut whose sculptural and installation-based practice investigates relationships between ecological systems, material culture, and public space.
Working across sculpture, installation, and site-responsive public art, she transforms repurposed and mass-produced materials into immersive works shaped by natural forces including light, wind, water, and time. Her installations are developed for botanical gardens, public spaces, museums, and cultural institutions.
Her work has been exhibited and commissioned nationally and internationally, including at VOLTA Basel with CAMP Gallery, Future Fair in New York, Olbrich Botanical Gardens in Wisconsin, New England Botanic Garden in Massachusetts, Boulder Public Library in Colorado, and through The ARK Project Artist Residency at Yellowstone National Park.
Her work is included in permanent collections at Yale University and Maison Courvoisier in France, as well as public and private collections internationally.
Gambardella has been featured in Sculpture Magazine, Forbes, WBUR, Suboart Magazine, Create Magazine, NPR, Architectural Digest and other publications.
She is currently an adjunct faculty member teaching studio art and digital fabrication in Connecticut.
SELECTED CV
MOLLY GAMBARDELLA
info@mollygambardella.com
www.mollygambardella.com
EDUCATION
2023 MFA, Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, VT
2017 BFA, Summa Cum Laude, Paier College of Art, Hamden, CT
2012 Diploma, Educational Center for the Arts, New Haven, CT
PUBLIC & SITE-RESPONSIVE INSTALLATIONS
2025 GLEAM, Olbrich Botanical Gardens, Madison, WI
2025 Narrative Nectar, Boulder Public Library, Boulder, CO
2025 Blooming Together, Flatiron NoMad, New York, NY
2025 Asphalt Asters, NYC DOT Car Free Earth Day, New York, NY
2024 Patterns in Bloom, New England Botanic Garden, Boylston, MA
2021 Wild Hideaways, New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill, Boylston, MA
2019 Mail Art Exhibition: Before After, Lotta Studio, New Haven, CT
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2026 Stay Frosty, CAMP Gallery, Kingston, NY
2026 VOLTA, CAMP Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
2026 Intervals, Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT
2026 Mixmaster, Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT
2025 Future Fair, CAMP Gallery, New York, NY
2024 We Got the Power, CAMP Gallery, Miami, FL
2024 This is the Future of Non-Objective Art, Atlantic Gallery, New York, NY
2023 Looking Through Cycles, CAMP Gallery, Westport, CT
2023 Intersect Palm Springs, bG Gallery, Palm Springs, CA
2022 Women Pulling at the Threads of Social Discourse, MoCA Westport, CT
2022 SPRING/BREAK Art Show, New York, NY
2021 CONTEXT Art Miami, Miami, FL
2020 Witchy, Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT
PUBLIC & PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
Yale University Art Collection, New Haven, CT
Maison Courvoisier, Jarnac, France
Boulder Public Library, Boulder, CO
Olbrich Botanical Gardens, Madison, WI
Convene, Chicago, IL
Cambria Hotel, New Haven, CT
Tremont Flats, Meriden, CT
RESIDENCIES
2023 ARK Project Residency, Yellowstone National Park, WY
2019 The Wild Residency, Theano Point, Ontario, Canada
AWARDS & HONORS
2026 Visitor’s Choice Award, Mixmaster, Mattatuck Museum
2024 Emerging Creative Award, Connecticut Office of the Arts
2019 Creative Quarterly 100 Best Annual
2018 Silver Medal, 3x3 International Magazine
2017 People’s Choice Award, The Brain Project (Baycrest Foundation)
2016 Society of Illustrators Student Scholarship Award
PUBLICATIONS & PRESS
Sculpture Magazine (2022)
WBUR (2024)
Architectural Digest (2024)
Suboart Magazine (2023)
Create Magazine (Issues 21, 25)
The Jealous Curator (2019)
TEACHING
2023–Present Adjunct Professor, Capital Community College
2023–2024 Adjunct Professor, University of New Haven
2019–2024 Adjunct Professor, Paier College of Art
PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
2026 Artist Mentor, New Haven, CT
2025 Visiting Artist, Experiments in Public Art Series, Boulder, CO
2024 Visiting Artist & Critic, Vermont College of Fine Arts
SELECTED PRIVATE & PUBLIC COMMISSIONS
2026
Lichen, 48 × 48 × 12 in, silk, cotton, wood, steel, New York, NY
Meriden Memories, 40 × 60 in, collage, Meriden, CT
2023
Lichen 51.5, 36 × 36 × 8 in, silk, cotton, wood, steel, Jarnac, France
Lichen 23, 72 × 72 × 12 in, silk, cotton, wood, steel, Boston, MA
2021
Color Blind (5/5), 12 × 15 × 5 in, colored pencil, wood, Barcelona, Spain
2020
Lichen Red 1, 60 × 60 × 8 in, silk, cotton, wood, epoxy, San Francisco, CA
Color Blind (4/5), 12 × 15 × 5 in, colored pencil, wood, New Jersey, USA
2019
Lichen, 60 × 60 × 8 in, silk, cotton, wood, epoxy, New Haven, CT (edition / variation)
Color Blind (3/5), 12 × 15 × 5 in, colored pencil, wood, Mexico City, Mexico
2018
Lichens (Green, Pink, Purple), installation set (x3), 72 × 72 × 8 in each, Convene, Chicago, IL
Acri, 17 × 22 × 3 in, colored pencil, fiberglass, silicone, Toronto, Canada
2017–2016
Vitale, 14 × 13 × 19 in, colored pencil, fiberglass, silicone, Toronto, Canada
Color Blind (1–2/5), 12 × 15 × 5 in, wood, Florida / Brussels