Molly Gambardella

Molly Gambardella is a multidisciplinary artist based in Connecticut whose practice explores the relationships between social, political, and biological systems. Working across sculpture, installation, and public art, she creates immersive and often interactive works that invite collective experience. Her visual language is deeply influenced by natural organisms — including lichens, flowers, and horseshoe crabs — which become metaphors for interdependence, adaptation, protection, and growth.

Gambardella frequently repurposes discarded, mass-produced, or overlooked materials, transforming them into complex sculptural forms that challenge ideas of value, beauty, and function. By incorporating elements such as light, wind, water, time, and sound, she creates works that exist between the natural and the artificial, the delicate and the defensive, the individual and the communal.

Her work has been exhibited and commissioned internationally and has appeared in publications including Sculpture, Forbes, and Suboart Magazine. Her works are held in permanent collections including Maison Courvoisier in France and Yale University’s Science Building in Connecticut, as well as private collections across six countries. Recent projects include large-scale installations for the New England Botanic Garden, Flatiron Manhattan, Boulder Public Library, Olbrich Botanical Garden, and Yellowstone National Park’s Ark Project. In 2025, she received the Emerging Creative Award from the State of Connecticut Office of the Arts.