Francesca Zappia is a curator and researcher based in Glasgow. She is currently undertaking a practice-led PhD at the Glasgow School of Art (GSA), where she also contributes to the MLitt Curatorial Practice (Contemporary Art), a joint programme with the University of Glasgow.

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Her curatorial work explores transmission of cultural memory in artistic and curatorial research, with a particular focus on artwork reproductions and heritage reimagination. Grounded in 'the curatorial', her practice encompasses educational, discursive, polyvocal, editorial, and digital formats to shape research-driven projects, museum interventions, and public and social engagement.

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Her doctoral research investigates pedagogical relevance for plaster cast collections in higher art education settings by engaging students in dialogical and creative.

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Recent curatorial projects include Monuments for the Present (Glasgow International 2024), a year-long community engagement and exhibition project co-produced with Maryhill Integration Network’s art group and co-led with artist Paria Goodarzi and heritage curator Mia Gubbay; Tomorrow Never Dies. Laocoön’s Hyperrealities (2024), part of the research project The Grey Zone of the Original (from Bifaces to NFT), led by Haute Ecole d’Art et Design (HEAD) Geneva and presented in the plaster cast collection of the University of Geneva; and Flâneurs. Copies, appropriations, citations from the collection of the Centre national des arts plastiques (CNAP & Shelter Press, Fr/En 2021/2023, 572pp.)