Pippi Zornoza is an interdisciplinary artist working in installation, sound, performance, printmaking, communing, collecting, and archiving. Much of her work deals with emotional residue as material. The form that the work takes is ever shifting. However, certain through-lines persist – a preoccupation with space (specifically the day to day spaces we inhabit, as well as creating otherworldly spaces), as well as a fixation on the complexity of time. She is a co-founder of the Dirt Palace feminist artist run space in Providence Rhode Island. Formed in an abandoned library in 2000, the Dirt Palace has since embodied the oxymoron of “Underground Institution.”
Zornoza’s work has been featured internationally and her work is housed in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Rhode Island School of Design Museum and has been published in the Bell Gallery’s Building Expectation: Past and Present Visions of the Architectural Future, Anthony Alvarado’s DIY Magic, Mathew Barney and Brandon Stousy’s Tubal Cain, and in the art-poster anthology, the Art of Modern Rock.
Under the moniker RECTRIX she performs and creates her realms. Zornoza has also performed in the musical projects Harpy, Bonedust, VVLTVRE, Worms in Women and Cattle, Sawzall, Nine Orifices and Wold and has released material on Thousands of Dead Gods, Ratskin, Annihilvs, Internal Masonry Publications, & Corleone Records.
Zornoza’s work has been featured internationally at such venues as: Grace Exhibition Space; Carpenter Center, Harvard University; P.S. 1; Boston Center for the Arts; SOHO20 CHELSEA; Santa Monica Museum of Art; Queens Museum; David Winton Bell Gallery; Centro Polivalente di Villa Pacchiani, Italy; REMAINS; Art Aqua, 5 Traverse Gallery, Miami; ADHOC gallery, NYC; Space 1026, Philadelphia; Sala el Circulo and Epif Arte Bar, Valparaiso, Chile; Casa 13, Cordoba, Argentina; Appetite, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Rhode Island School of Design Museum; Contemporary Artists Center, North Adams; Museum of Natural History, Providence; Gallery Rocket, Tokyo.
Out of Both Mouths, Songbook 2021
hand screen printed and digitally printed, 36 page zine with screen printed dust jacked and hand cut peep window
Part of Growing the NetWorks
This artist was selected by a past NetWorks Rhode Island participant as part of Growing the NetWorks — a 2025 exhibition presented by WaterFire Providence, at the WaterFire Arts Center, celebrating peer-nominated artists from across Rhode Island. Learn more at waterfire.org/growingthenetworks
Highlighting the work of selected artists who have played vital roles in shaping the contemporary visual arts community in Rhode Island. This collection of brief video portraits provides a window into the lives, practices, and cultural contributions of professional artists.
