YEAR ONE: AROUND THE SUN
Madeline Gallucci
Quarry
Sparkling Rosé Blend
Middlebrow | 2025, michigan
Madeline Gallucci (b. 1990, Greensboro, NC) is an artist and arts administrator living in Chicago, IL. Her work explores the psychological relationship we have with mirrors and the questions they pose about image-making, illusion and our construction of self. She received her BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute in 2012 and her MFA at the University of Chicago in 2020.
Madeline is a recipient of the Charlotte Street Foundation Visual Artist Award, Chicago DCASE Individual Artist Grant, and has held residencies at LATITUDE (Chicago, IL), ACRE (Steuben, WI), Minnesota Street Project (San Francisco, CA), Grin City Collective (Grinnell, IA) and Charlotte Street Foundation (Kansas City, MO). She has exhibited with Goldfinch, Produce Model, Patient Info, Weatherproof and LVL3 (Chicago, IL); Below Grand (New York, NY); Rebekah Templeton (Philadelphia, PA); Skylab (Columbus, OH); Terrault Contemporary (Baltimore, MD); Pelican Bomb Gallery X (New Orleans, LA); Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Plug Projects, and 21c Museum Hotel (Kansas City, MO). Collections include the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art (Overland Park, KS).
From 2014–2018, Madeline was Co-Director of Front/Space, a storefront apartment located in Kansas City, MO repurposed for non-commercial exhibitions, readings, workshops, research and publishing projects. Her current project, RADAR, is a curatorial platform designed to support artists through emerging and collaborative initiatives, with a specific focus on projects based in the Midwest. Under RADAR, Madeline created Roommate, a temporary exhibition series featuring two artists in her two-bedroom apartment in Chicago’s Humboldt Park neighborhood.
In addition to these projects, Madeline works as the Director of Marketing for EXPO CHICAGO Contemporary Art Fair, which occurs annually at Chicago’s Navy Pier each April.