Francesca Zappia is a curator, writer, and researcher based in Glasgow, UK. She is currently undertaking a PhD at the Glasgow School of Art and is a lecturer in the MLitt Curatorial Practice (Contemporary Art) programme (Glasgow School of Art / University of Glasgow).

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Her practice develops curatorial methodologies that investigate how cultural knowledge is produced through systems of image circulation, spatial and social memory, and relational forms of narration. Working across exhibitions, workshops, publications, and digital platforms, she constructs research-led curatorial frameworks that engage artists, researchers, and publics in processes of collective and decolonial meaning-making.

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Her work approaches curatorial practice as a set of epistemic operations: how images generate systems of knowledge, how memory is spatially and socially constructed, and how meaning emerges through temporal and relational encounters.

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These enquiries are explored through projects that examine artwork reproductions and visual systems within institutional and archival contexts, participatory practices that activate memory through situated and co-curated forms of engagement, and experimental approaches to narration and non-linear structures of interpretation.

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Across these contexts, her work connects research, pedagogy, editorial practice, and public engagement, with an emphasis on curatorial formats that operate between institutional structures and situated forms of knowledge production.