Magda Petmeza is an interdisciplinary artist working at the intersection of sculpture, performance, video and painting. Born in Thessaloniki, she is the only member of her family to have emigrated to the United States. Her work engages with the experience of living in the Greek diaspora, exploring themes such as the erosion of memory over time, personal heritage, and the concept of a "home".
Magda has received the Stella and Sumner Cooper Award for Outstanding Works in Ceramics (2022), the Yousuf Karsh Photography Award (2020), and the Tufts Dean’s Research Award for Extraordinary Artistic Endeavors (2021). Her work has been published in Asterisk: Yale’s Journal for Art and Art History (2021), Hamburger Eyes Magazine (2021), and Parallaxi Magazine (2020). Her photo book, Octopus Nipples, is part of the special collection of the W. Van Alan Clark Library at Tufts University.
Since 2023, she has been working as the Head of Arts at the “Ioannis M. Carras” Kindergarten of Athens College. As part of the school’s 10th anniversary celebration, she curated the art exhibition “10 Years – 10 Milestones.” The exhibition showcased over one thousand student artworks alongside works by renowned Greek artists such as Alekos Fassianos, Aphrodite Liti, Alexandra Athanasiadi, and Giorgos Hadoulis.
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 and a Master's of Arts in Art Education 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
2022-2023 Tufts University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Boston, MA
Masters of Arts in Art Education
AWARDS AND PUBLICATIONS
2023 Art Education Fellowship Award, Tufts University Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
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
2025 ArtGate Project, Labattoir, Thessaloniki, Greece
2024 Domatio Art Space, Athens, Greece
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