Zoe Papini

Papini, born in Florence in 1993, moved to New York as a child and grew up in Brooklyn's Crown Heights. She developed a passion for art at Brooklyn College, earning her BFA in studio art. Specializing in portraiture, she uses it to explore the complexities of human experience, particularly the feeling of estrangement while being shaped by one's environment. Her work invites viewers to form their own psychological interpretations of her vibrant, imaginative world. Papini earned her MFA from the New York Academy of Art in 2019, refining her skills in historical painting techniques to express a contemporary language.

BFA in Studio Art from Brooklyn College, 2016
MFA in Studio Art from The New York Academy of Art, 2019

2024 - Deck the Walls, Group Exhibition, New York, NY
2023 - Deck the Walls, Group Exhibition, New York, NY
2023 - SuperFine Artfair, New York, NY
2022 - SuperFine Artfair, New York, NY
2022 - Art3 Pop- Up Salon, New York, NY
2021 - Homegrown, Juried Group Exhibition, New York, NY
2019 - Mandarin Oriental, Miami Group Exhibition, Miami, FL
2016 - Solo Exhibition: Art Around the Park, Brooklyn, NY
2019 - Traveling Group Exhibition: AXA XL Art Prize Juried Exhibition
- San Francisco Art Institute
- Richard Gray Gallery
- New York Academy of Art
2019 - Printfest Printfair, New York, NY
2019 - Mandarin Oriental, Miami Group Exhibition, Miami, FL
2016 - Solo Exhibition: Art Around the Park, Brooklyn, NY