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Diana Zipeto
Diana Zipeto is a Massachusetts-based painter whose work explores themes of identity, memory, and the fragility of the human experience. She earned her BFA in Illustration from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design and has exhibited her work nationally, including at Ceres Gallery in New York and Jonathan Ferrara Gallery in New Orleans.
Zipeto’s practice bridges painting, photography, and sculpture, often transforming two-dimensional images into layered, deconstructed forms. Her Liberty series reimagines symbols of freedom, questioning evolving notions of equality. More recently, her Resonance project explores Alzheimer’s disease through large-scale paintings based on her father’s MRI scans. By suspending and deconstructing these paintings, she highlights the physical and emotional toll of illness, creating immersive, reflective spaces for viewers.
An active member of Western Avenue Studios in Lowell, Zipeto continues to push the boundaries of painting, using materiality and form to explore personal and collective histories.
Solo Exhibitions
2024 Beyond Repair, Galatea Fine Art, Boston, MA
2024 Inner Workings, Western Avenue Studios, Lowell, MA
2022 Resonance, Galatea Fine Art, Boston, MA
2021 The Liberty Series, The Flower Mill, Lowell, MA
2021 Virtue Signaling, Galatea Fine Art, Boston, MA
2020 Tectonics, Galatea Fine Art, Boston, MA
2018 In The Folds, Firehouse Gallery, Newburyport, MA
Two-Person Exhibitions
2019 Complex Systems, Conant Gallery, Groton, MA
2018 Color Play/Paper Folds, Uncharted Gallery, Lowell, MA
Select Group Exhibitions
2025 Staccato, Galatea Fine Art, Boston, MA
Goddesses Pop Up, Galatea Fine Art, Boston, MA
Artists at Work, McCoy Gallery, North Andover, MA
2021 85th Regional Exhibition, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA
Women in Abstraction, virtual gallery, New Art Center @ Trio, Newton, MA
2020 ART4EQUALITY X Life, Liberty and The Pursuit of Happiness,
The Untitled Space, NY, NY
2019 Freedom: Art as the Messenger, Cato Institute, Washington, D.C.
2018 83rd Regional Exhibition, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA
Juror: Francine Weiss, Senior Curator at the Newport Art Museum
Women Looking at Women II, Artspace Gallery, Maynard, MA
2017 No Dead Artists, Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans, LA
New England Collective VIII, Galatea Gallery, Boston, MA
Juror: Charles Giuliano, Publisher/Editor, Berkshire Fine Arts
Mon•o•chrome, Las Laguna Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
Habitat/ion, Bakalar Gallery, Massachuestts College of Art, Boston, MA
Women Looking at Women, ALL Greenwald Gallery, Lowell, MA
WAGE ON! Women, Art, and Money, Ceres Gallery, New York City, NY
Juror: Helga Christoffersen, Assistant Curator, New Museum, NY
2016 100 Years of Women in Government, Dole Gallery, Crystal Lake, IL
Sponsored by Illinois State Representative Barbara Wheeler
2011 Les Femmes, Arts League of Lowell, Lowell, MA
2010 Off the Wall, Danforth Art Museum, Framingham, MA
Juror: Jen Mergel, Sr. Curator, MFA; Helen Molesworth, Chief Curator, ICA
2008 Juried show, Essex Art Center, Lawrence, MA
Juror: Carole Anne Meehan, Curator, ICA, Boston, MA
2006 Juried show, Essex Art Center, Lawrence, MA
Juror: Brian Allen, Director, Addison Gallery, Andover, MA
Seekers and Visions, Gallery 181, Lawrence, MA
Bibliography/Video
2024 McQuaid, Cate. "Render, rend, surrender.” Ocean in a Drop, Substack, 4 June. 2024. Web.
2022 Carrigan, Hannah. “Rendering Disorder: Diana Zipeto’s Resonance Grapples with Loss.” Artscope Magazine. November/December 2022.
2021 Morris, E. “6 Art Galleries to Safely Visit in Person this Winter.” ArtsBoston. 16 Feb. 2021. Web.
2020 Shurtleff, S. “Fall for ArtoberFest.” Lowell Sun. 1 Oct. 2020. Web.
2020 “May/June 2020 Centerfold.” Artscope Magazine, Boston Publishing House LLC, 18 May 2020. Web.
2020 “Western Avenue Artist Talk: Diana Zipeto.” YouTube, uploaded by Marte Media, 12 June 2020, Web.
2020 Bennett, S. “Artist Profile: Diana Zipeto.” Blog. Galatea Fine Art. 16 Jan. 2020. Web.
2018 So To Speak. Online Journal. Summer 2018. Web.
2017 ‘Women Looking at Women’ Kicks Off Women’s Week.” Blog. Nancye’s World. 8 Feb. 2017. Web.
2006 "Seekers and Visions Exhibit Blends Spirituality, Art." Lawrence Eagle Tribune 2006: n. pag. Print.
Exhibits Organized/Curated
2018 Women Looking at Women II, Maynard Artspace Gallery, Maynard, MA
2017 Women Looking at Women, ALL Greenwald Gallery, Lowell, MA
Grants/Residencies
2024 Mosaic Lowell Artist Grant
2022 Finalist, Dementia Spring Grant Award
2021 Lowell Cultural Council/Massachusetts Cultural Council grant
2020 Florence Residency, Feminist Art Collective (postponed)
2017 Lowell Cultural Council/Massachusetts Cultural Council grant
Affiliations
Galatea Gallery, Boston
Western Avenue Studio Artist Association
Education
2006 BFA, Massachusetts College Of Art and Design
1991 Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
Training
2020 Assets for Artists, North Adams, MA
2017 Assets for Artists, North Adams, MA
2009 Essex Art Center, Lawrence, MA
2000 Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA