Born in New Haven, CT, Mary Zompetti is a photographic artist living and working in Roanoke, VA. She holds an MFA in Visual Arts from the Lesley University College of Art and Design and a BFA in Visual Arts from Northern Vermont University.
Her work has been exhibited for over 20 years both nationally and internationally, including at the Photographic Resource Center in Boston, MA; the Eleanor D. Wilson Museum in Roanoke, VA; the Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, MA; the Mjólkurbúðin Gallery in Akureyri, Iceland; and the A.I.R. Gallery in Brooklyn, NY. She is currently working on a new series for a 2025 solo exhibition at the Iridian Gallery in Richmond, VA, the only gallery in the American South dedicated to featuring LGBTQ+ artists.
She has attended artist residencies at the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, Vermont, and the Gil Residency in Akureyri, Iceland. Her photographs have been published in several books and magazines, including The Sun Magazine and in a recent volume from Another Earth Press, What Makes a Lake – Tracing Movement, featuring 80 artists creating a collaborative portrait the Earth’s rivers, lakes and oceans. Her work is held in several collections, including the artist book libraries at Yale University and the Banff Center for Arts and Creativity.
In 2020, she was a recipient of the Vermont Arts Council Creation Grant in support of new and experimental cameraless photographic work, funded by the National Endowment for the Arts. She was also granted a Provost Award for Summer Research from Hollins University in 2022.
From 2004-2020, she ran a public-access community darkroom and digital lab in Burlington, VT, and she is currently an Assistant Professor of Photography at Hollins University, a historically women's college in Southwest VA, where she teaches traditional and experimental photographic methods.
Email: maryzompetti AT gmail DOT com
Instagram: @maryzompetti