Maree Azzopardi’s work is included in private and public collections in Australia, Italy, Malta, Sweden and the U.S., including in Artbank Australia, St Vincent’s Public Hospital in Sydney, Collezione Farhad in Rome, Collezione De Cecco in Pescara (Italy), The French Embassy and MUZA in Valletta (Malta) and Marisa Del Re Gallery in New York. She has exhibited alongside such prominent artists as Cindy Sherman and Annie Leibovitz (USA), Tracey Moffatt (Aus), Vanessa Beecroft (Italy), Inez van Lamsweerde (Netherlands), Myriam Laplante (Canada) and Marina Abramovic (Serbia).
In 1995, Azzopardi was artist-in-residence at St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney, where she produced her award-winning Chrysalis
In 2004 she was awarded artist-in-residence at Bundanon on the south coast of NSW. Azzopardi was one of five international artists representing Galleria II Ponte Contemporanea, Rome at the Melbourne International Art Fair in 2004. In 2005, Azzopardi exhibited Spiritlandat St James Cavalier in Valletta, Malta, as part of the Australia Day celebrations, supported by Emirates and the Australian Chamber of Commerce in Malta. Her Italian survey exhibition The Poet Assassinated was exhibited at Galleria Zerotre in Orvieto in 2005 and The All Australian Show was exhibited in Galleria Il Ponte Contemporeanea in Rome and Lipanjepuntin Arte Contemporanea in Trieste. Azzopardi was awarded the 2006 Hills Grammar Art Prize for a work from her Vox HUMANA series. Azzopardi simultaneously exhibited The HUMANA Series – Shadow, Relic & Flesh (2007) curated by Jonathan Turner (Italy’s curator of the year) at Libby Edwards Galleries in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, and then later in Malta, Italy and Sweden. In 2007 Azzopardi was also a finalist in The Blake Prize and the Willoughby Art Prize.
In 2008 she was invited to create new work for the show Chaos and Revelry at Counihan Gallery in Melbourne, curated by Edwina Bartlem, which then traveled to Galleria II Ponte Contemporanea in Rome, Italy and Galleri Tapper- Popermajer in Malmo, Sweden. In the same year her work was included in the Dubai Art Fair.
In 2009 she presented her first painting exhibition I Walk The Line at Smith & Hall Gallery in Sydney and was included in Matt Dive Gold at Lipanjepuntin Contemporary Art Gallery in Rome, Italy. She was also a finalist in The Paddington Art Prize.
In 2011 Azzopardi was included in Women & Co. curated by Francesca Pietracci, with Marina Abramovic, Vanessa Beecroft, Nan Goldin, Andy Warhol and others at Studio 88 in Roma, Italy. The same year her solo show Land Lines and Love Songs took place at David Rex-Livingston Gallery in Sydney. In 2012, she exhibited at Ausin Tung Gallery (Australian China Art Foundation) in Melbourne. Azzopardi was a finalist in the 24th Muswellbrook Photographic Award and in the Black Prize Director’s Cut Exhibition on-line in 2013. She exhibited in the group show Water Art Women Life (Aqua Arte Mujeres Vida) in Santiago, Chile and Argentina (2014) and in Texas, USA and Berlin (2015). This exhibition was part of the Direzione Alterita Festival in Puglia Cisternino, Italy, in 2017.
In 2015 Azzopardi was invited to be part of The Beyond Malta exhibition and three of her works now form part of the MUZA Collection in Valletta. Azzopardi was also included in the exhibition for GHOGM Malta 2015, Departure, Memory, Nostalgia, Identity and Return at the House Of Representatives of Malta in Valletta. Her solo exhibition entitled INVICTUS was held at David Rex-Livingston Art & Objects in Katoomba in December 2017. In 2018 she was a finalist in the Blake Prize, the Pro Hart Outback Prize and the JADA Prize. In 2019, her Exquisite Corpse exhibition was staged at St James Cavalier in Valletta, Malta, as part of the Spazu Kreativ programme then at Il Ponte Contemporeanea in Rome, Italy and Galleri Tapper- Popermajer in Malmo, Sweden.
In 2021, Azzopardi’s work has been selected as a finalist in The Adelaide Perry Drawing Prize, The Dobell Drawing Prize, the Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize, The Gosford Art Prize and The Blacktown City Art Prize. #ROADTRIP is Azzopardi’s third solo exhibition with Rex-Livingston Art.
Maree Azzopardi is represented by Galleria Il Ponte Contemporeanea in Rome, Rex-Livingston Art & Objects in Katoomba, Galleri Tapper- Popermajer in Malmo, Sweden.
Jonathan Turner has curated more than 16 exhibitions on three continents with Maree Azzopardi, since they first started working together in 1996.