Hybrid Infestation

In Hybrid Infestation, Mia Capodilupo draws on science fiction, disease, pandemics, and climate change to create an immersive installation using found and fabricated wood, ceramics, plastics, semiprecious stones, fabrics, plaster, and rubber. The installation spreads into every corner and crevice of the space, evoking an invasive and evolving ecosystem.

Her work merges the natural and industrial worlds to reflect the contemporary urban landscape. Through layered materials and textures, Capodilupo explores the tension between the glossy, colorful fantasy shaped by advertising and technology and a dystopian future marked by environmental degradation, disease, displacement, and income inequality.

Opening reception 5-9pm on July 10, 2026 at Art City.

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Mia Capodilupo is a sculptor and installation artist originally from Boston, Massachusetts. She received a BA from the University of Chicago, studied sculpture at the Massachusetts College of Art, and earned an MFA in Sculpture from the San Francisco Art Institute. She has participated in solo and group exhibitions, as well as residencies at museums, galleries, and alternative spaces throughout the United States and Europe. Capodilupo has received grants from the City of Chicago, the City of Urbana, Illinois, and the Illinois Arts Council. In 2014, she completed a large-scale public project for the City of Chicago and was commissioned to create semi-permanent installations for the Indianapolis Art Center and the cities of Atlanta, Georgia, and Bellevue, Washington.

Image courtesy of the artist.

Mia Capodilupo

July 10 - August 8, 2026 at Art City