Longobardi, Pam

Pam Longobardi has had over 40 solo exhibitions and 65 group exhibitions in galleries and museums in the US, China, Italy, Spain, Finland, Poland, Japan, Greece and Monaco. Her artworks are in numerous public and private collections. Longobardi is a Professor of Art at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia and created the Drifters Project in 2006, an ongoing environmental intervention involving photography and installations focusing on global ocean plastics pollution. She exhibited this work Beijing at NY ARTS/Beijing during the 2008 Olympics and at ARTLIFEfortheworld in Venice for the 2009 Venice Biennale ARTE VISIVI collateral exhibitions. Edizione Charta (Milan, NY) published a book on the project in 2010 titled Drifters: Plastics, Pollution and Personhood. Recent exhibitions include Voyages on an Uncanny Sea at Gallery Diet in Miami, and a commission of new work for Oceanomania at the Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, curated by Mark Dion, Sarina Basta and Cristiano Raimondi, and upcoming at Savvy Contemporary in Berlin in May 2012. More information about Pam can be found at: www.pamlongobardi.com.

Pam is participating in this year’s Boston Sea Rovers Marine Environmental Art Exhibit. The exhibit will be open Saturday and Sunday during the show and is sponsored by Grand Circle Travel.  Pam will also have copies of her book and will be available for book signings in the exhibit area.