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2025 Portfolio
Madison Katrina Flood is a poet, artist, and curator based in Barcelona. Their work uses sculpture, performance, and installation to investigate how poetry can exist off the page and in space.
Their work has been shown, seen, and published at Ag Gallery in Riga, La Galería by Lastcrit in Barcelona, 27th Letter Books in Detroit, Riverwise Magazine in Detroit, and Avīzes Nosaukums in Riga, among others.
From 2020-2023, they were Curatorial Assistant to Amanda Krugliak at the Institute for the Humanities Gallery, most notably curating shows of Ibrahim Mahama, Tatyana Fazlalizadeh, and Tracey Snelling. They are currently an independent art curator in Barcelona and co-founder of The Gray Wall, a pop-up art gallery and event series in Eixample.
Flood received a BA in Art History with High Honors from the University of Michigan. They are currently an artist-in-residence in the Metáfora Studio Arts in Barcelona, Catalonia.
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- University of Michigan, Bachelor of Arts in Art History (High Honors) (2019-2023)
Exhibitions
- Oh, Glory, 200CENT, Barcelona, Spain (2025)
- Gusanos, Vinilos Viajeros, Barcelona, Spain (2025)
- Misfit Manifesto, La Galería by Lastcrit, Barcelona, Spain (2024)
- (im)migration, Ag Galley, Riga, Latvia (2022)
- Helicon Student Exhibition, Ann Arbor, USA (2022)
Publications
- Naked Like Water, Riverwise Magazine, Detroit, USA (2025)
- Skylight, Avīzes Nosaukums, Riga, Latvia (2022)
- 16th of July: I Lost My Silver Snake, Avīzes Nosaukums, Riga, Latvia (2022)
- Sophie Calle: how-to overcome male-induced hysteria, Avīzes Nosaukums, Riga, Latvia (2022)
- (im)migration, self-published, Riga, Latvia (2022)
Performances
- Being asked to apply ambition to my art is like pulling teeth, Barcelona, Spain (2025)
- Artist showed up late, no time to curate, Barcelona, Spain (2025)
- Featured Poet, Colors Open Mic, Detroit, USA (2024)
- Glass Act, 27th Letter Books, Detroit, USA (2024)
- The Performance Squad, Ann Arbor, USA (2023)
- (im)migration series, Rucka Artist Residency, Cēsis, Latvia (2022)
- Letters for Ciocia Czesia, ISSP Summer School, Cēsis, Latvia (2022)
- (im)migration series, Bolderaja, Riga, Latvia (2022)
- The Things That We Do Alone In Our Room When No One Is Watching, Institute for the Humanities Gallery, Ann Arbor, USA (2022)
Residencies
- Metáfora Studio Arts, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain (2024-2025)
- ISSP Summer School for Socially Engaged Arts, Cēsis, Latvia (2022)
Awards
- Henry P. Tappan Award for Excellence in Interdisciplinary Studies (2023)
- Marilyn Blatnikoff Global Experiences Scholarship Fund (2023)
- U-M History of Art Travel and Research Grant (2022)
- U-M Honors Travel and Research Grant (2022)
Curation
- Artifacts that shape the shapeless, Barcelona, Spain (2025)
- Ladies in Control Film Festival, Barcelona, Spain (2025)
- Kin’calisthenics, Barcelona, Spain (2025)
- Big spin, Barcelona, Spain (2025)
- Clarity exists for but a single moment, Barcelona, Spain (2024)
- Animated Shorts Film Festival, Barcelona, Spain (2024)
- Ricky Weaver: a way outta no way, Ann Arbor, USA (2023)
- Nicole Marroquin: With Care, Ann Arbor, USA (2023)
- Camila Magrane: Traces, Ann Arbor, USA (2023)
- Salvador Diaz: La Pelea/The Fight, Ann Arbor, USA (2022)
- Tatyana Fazlalizadeh: To Be Heard, Ann Arbor, USA (2022)
- Tracey Snelling: How to Build a Disaster Proof House, Ann Arbor, USA (2022)
- James Hosking: Beautiful By Night, Ann Arbor, USA (2022)
- Daisy Chain (& zine), Ann Arbor, USA (2021)
- Yasmine Nasser Diaz: For Your Eyes Only, Ann Arbor, USA (2021)
- Sydney James: Watch Me Work — Portraits of Self, Ann Arbor, USA (2020)
- Ibrahim Mahama: In-Between the World and Dreams, Ann Arbor, USA (2020)