Magda Petmeza is an interdisciplinary artist working at the intersection of sculpture, performance, video and poetry. Born and raised in Thessaloniki, Greece, and the only member of her family to move to the US, her recent body of work responds to the immigrant experience. Magda’s work begins as an autobiography and expands to themes of labor, personal heritage, transformation, and impermanence. Formally trained in ceramics, she considers clay and other earth materials active agents, participating in her artistic process; they decay and are reborn, transformed.
She has received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University with a Minor in Visual and Material Studies.
Magda is currently pursuing a Masters in Arts Teaching from the same institution.
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EDUCATION
2018-2022 School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, Boston, MA
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Minor in Visual and Material studies
AWARDS AND PUBLICATIONS
2022 Winner of the Stella and Sumner Cooper Award for Outstanding Works in Metal, Glass or Ceramics
2021 Recipient of Dean’s Research award for Extraordinary Artistic Endeavours
2021 Asterisk Journal issue no. 4, Yale's Journal of Art and Art History
2021 Hamburger Eyes: the continuing story of life on earth, issue no. 50
2020 Winner of Yousuf Karsh annual photography award
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2022 If you draw a line it could be the ground, Senior Thesis Exhibition, School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA
2022 Annual Awards Show, School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA
2022 Mother, School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA
2022 Annual Photo and Film Area Show, School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA
2021 Let there be light, Video-installation group show, Mission Hill Graduate Building, Boston, MA
2020 Annual Awards Show, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2020 Into the Mystic, Porter Square Gallery, Boston, MA
2020 A Light in the Dark, House of Praxis exhibition curated by Magda Petmeza, Boston, MA
2020 Spring into 2020, RSM Art Gallery, Boston, MA
2019 Spookulation, student curated exhibition funded by the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Roxbury, MA
2019 The Horror is Surreal, House of Praxis exhibition curated by Magda Petmeza, Boston, MA
2019 Fresh Start, House of Praxis exhibition curated by Magda Petmeza, Boston, MA
2019 DEAUTO, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2019 Arrested Image, Annual Photography Exhibition, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2019 Connectivity, RSM Art Gallery, Boston, MA