In the Maldives : Cosmopolitan Ocean Residency + Commission

A wonderful thing bubbled up from the deep blue sea this summer: an invitation for an ocean residency and artwork commission at Patina Maldives, an eco-resort with primary mission of functional sustainability and an art collection that includes a commissioned Skyscape architecture by renowned artist James Turrell. The Maldives is a place that has long been on my mind ever since I learned it was the lowest lying country on earth and would be ‘ground zero’ for sea level rise from climate change. The Maldives is an island nation of…

Beautiful article in SparkNews France / Fabrique des Recits

I am so honored by this powerfully-written photo essay covering my work. Thank you @fabriquedesrecits for the article responding to my @earthsky interview, @sparknews for the repost, and @naturefinder Wayne Sentman for his great portrait photo of me after my scuba dive in Indonesia aboard the Sea Safari II. Translation in English follows French text below: https://fabriquedesrecits.com/inspire/pamela-longobardi-les-dechet-plastiques-dans-nos-oceans-de-linspiration-a-la-denonciation/ ARTICLE TEXT IN FRENCH AccueilS’inspirer Pamela Longobardi & les déchet plastiques dans nos océans, de l’inspiration à la dénonciation 1Production & Consommation 7Rapport à la Nature @ Publié le 21 avril 2023 Et si les artistes étaient des interprètes, des traducteurs, des ambassadeurs du…

New Article Published on The Conversation + EarthSky !!

My art uses plastic recovered from beaches around the world to understand how our consumer society is transforming the ocean Pam Longobardi, Georgia State University I am obsessed with plastic objects. I harvest them from the ocean for the stories they hold and to mitigate their ability to harm. Each object has the potential to be a message from the sea – a poem, a cipher, a metaphor, a warning. My work collecting and photographing ocean plastic and turning it into art began with an epiphany in 2005, on a far-flung…

Show in Prague and New York: Anthropocene – (In)visible Changes

The exhibition in Prague is an exchange show with Czech and American artists. I am exhibiting a series of large-scale photographic cartouches with a sculptural installation, and was followed by a 2nd show at Front Room Gallery in NY in Feb 2023. Galerie kritiků, Palác Adria, Jungmannova 31/36, Prague 1, Czech Republic . Curators: Vlasta Čiháková-Noshiro, Petra Valentová and Kathleen Vance Artists : Sasha Bezzubov, Pamela Longobardi, Stephen Mallon, Lucie Svoboda Mičíková, Jan Pfeiffer, Adam Vačkář, Petra Gupta Valentová, Kathleen Vance  The Anthropocene is a relatively new term in the field…

Shortlisted for 2022 COAL Art + Environment Prize  / Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature Paris

It’s an immense honor to be chosen among 10 finalists for the 2022 COAL Art and Environment Prize in Paris! The winner of the COAL Prize benefits from an endowment of 10,000 euros allocated by the François Sommer Foundation and COAL, divided into an endowment and a production aid as part of a residency ran by the Museum of Hunting and Nature at the Domaine de Belval. JURY 2022 Bruno David, President of the National Museum of Natural HistoryMark Dion, ArtistCatherine Dobler, Founder of the LAccolade FoundationMarc Feldman, General Administrator of the Orchester National de…

OCEAN GLEANING: New book published by Fall Line Press arriving in DECEMBER 2022!

ORDER AT FALL LINE PRESS OR ORDER HERE FOR SIGNED COPIES The books are being printed and bound and will soon be en route to Fall Line in Atlanta, due to arrive in early December! You may order the book from either link above. Ocean Gleaning tracks the 17+ years of my art and research around the world through the Drifters Project.  Traveling on major expeditions or just walking on the beach, I hunt for and remove plastics that have been tossed about on a long journey through ocean ecosystems.…

Major solo exhibition ‘Ocean Gleaning’ opens at Baker Museum in Naples, FL

December 18 – July 24 | Located on the first floor of The Baker Museum Conceptual artist and activist Pam Longobardi has channeled her lifelong love of the ocean into an artistic practice that transforms the mountains of plastic debris that wash up on beaches around the world. For more than 15 years, Longobardi has utilized found ocean plastics as her primary source material, arranging hundreds of plastic pieces into meticulous wall-mounted artworks or turning them into monumental floor-based sculptures. She refers to this body of work as the Drifters…

Winner of Margie E. West Prize

Longobardi is the recipient of the Margie E. West Prize, an annual prize given to an esteemed alumni from the Lamar Dodd School of Art, and was invited to create a new exhibition for the Marjorie E. West Gallery. The Flat Earth Society: a Visitation October 14 – November 18, 2021Marjorie E West Gallery, University of GeorgiaClimate change and mass extinction are undeniably real and visible to all yet so many heads are still in the sand while the world burns, melts, weeps and dries up. In this way, I am…

‘Rainbow’s End, v. 2’ selected for Boston Consulting Group collection~

My 2017 work has been acquired for Boston Consulting Group’s significant art collection. It’s an honor to be part of this meaningful collection of artwork. The selection criteria for this acquisition was that the work be of activist artists. This work is constructed of cigarette lighters that were collected from Laysan albatross nests on Midway Atoll by Oceanic Society volunteers. It highlights the end point and destructive futility of ‘disposable’ plastic.

Large-Scale Commission at 8 West!~

I was commissioned to create a very large scale permanent wall installation for the new 8 West complex in Atlanta. The work measured 12 feet in height and 8 feet wide and was installed in a wall niche in the entrance atrium. The piece is visible from the 3rd Street entrance. ARCHAEOLOGY OF DESIRE, 2020 This artwork contains 627 pieces of derelict ocean plastic retrieved from remote beaches, sea caves and coastal zones around the world, including Hawaii, Alaska, Costa Rica, California, Greece, Indonesia, Belize, Panama, Alabama and Georgia.  Plastic…