I am an interdisciplinary artist. Mixed media portraits, sculptures and installations are composed of building materials and domestic items. Multilayered concepts relating to identity and social constructs are presented through a variety of artistic mediums and processes.
Consumed with hidden and exposed structure, my investigation of physical construction, cultural paradigms and their relationship originates from the framework most familiar to me, the house in which I grew up. Contradictions within this space spark my desire to highlight the fluidity of perceived binaries, particularly those relating to feminine and masculine, public and private and modern and traditional.
Ascribing to the visual context of home as well as the ethos of homemade, I paint, adhere, carve and chip away at plywood, drywall and paper. I vacillate between tearing apart and tenderly memorializing my personal family experience while raising questions related to immigrant status, feminism, and queerness.
Mia Fabrizio was born in Conshohocken, PA. She received her B.F.A from Tyler School of Art in 2002 and her M.Ed. from Arcadia University in 2006. She taught art in K-12 classrooms for a dozen years before graduating with her M.F.A. from The School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University in 2020. An interdisciplinary artist, Fabrizio explores identity and social constructs through her mixed media paintings, sculptures and installations.
Fabrizio received Montague Travel Research Grant Awards in 2018 and 2019 and the Museum Council Sculpture Prize in 2020. After her 2021 Post-Graduate Teaching Fellowship at SMFA at Tufts University, she was a resident at The Studios at MASS MoCA, in North Adams, MA. She served as Sculpture faculty at Maine College of Art & Design in Portland. She now teaches Three-Dimensional Design at Delaware County Community College, in Media, PA.
In 2023, she was one of three artists in The Philadelphia Residency sponsored by Twelve Gates Arts. Her recent solo exhibition, “A Seat At The Table” on view in Reading, PA at Goggleworks Center for the Arts, closed at the end of May 2024. Fabrizio works in her Chester county home-studio, in Downingtown, Pennsylvania.
2020
School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, Boston, MA
Master of Fine Arts, Visual Art
2006
Arcadia University, Glenside, PA
Master of Education, Art K-12
2002
Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Elkins Park, PA
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Painting and Sculpture
2000
Temple University Rome, Rome, Italy
2024
Board Member, The Art Trust at Meridian Bank, West Chester, PA
Part-Time Lecturer, 3D Design, Delaware County Community College, Media, PA
2022
Instructor, Mold Making and Casting and Mixed Media, Chester County Art Association, West Chester, PA
2021
Part-Time Lecturer, Foundation Sculpture/Materiality, Maine College of Art & Design, Portland, ME
2021
Instructor, Visual Art, Danforth Art School, Framingham, MA
2020-2021
Part-Time Lecturer, Introduction to 3D Strategies, SMFA at Tufts University, Boston MA
2018-2020
Teaching Assistant, Intermediate Painting & Intro to Drawing, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2007-2018
Art Teacher, K-12, PA
2023
Philadelphia Residency, Twelve Gates Arts, 106 N 2nd St, Philadelphia, PA
2021
Residency at The Studios at MASS MOCA, Assets for Artists, 1320 Mass Moca Way, North Adams, MA, 01247
2020
Post Graduate Teaching Fellowship, SMFA at Tufts University, Boston MA
2024
"Contemporary Nostalgia", Gwynedd Mercy Academy High School, Lower Gwynedd, PA
“A Seat at The Table”, Goggleworks Center for the Arts, Reading, PA
“The House That Build Me”, Winter Solo Series, Abington Art Center, Abington, PA
2023
“A Terrible Beauty”, The Art Trust, West Chester, PA
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
FM Global, Malvern, PA
2024
Philadelphia Sculptors, Member
InLiquid, Member
2024
A Seat at the Table, Schmidt Gallery, Goggleworks Center for the Arts, Reading, PA
The House That Built Me, Winter Solo Series, Abington Art Center, Abington, PA
2021
In The Walls, Gallery 1832, Lab Central, Cambridge, MA
2024
Converge, Juried by Dr. Brittany Webb, Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Brick by Brick 2, Juried, Off the Wall at Dirty Frank’s, Philadelphia, PA
2023
In Medias Res(idency), Atelier Gallery, Philadelphia PA
Three-person show, Curated by Alpesh Kantilal Patel & 12 Gates Arts
215|610 Contemporary, Delaware County Community College, Media, PA
Juried by Mark Gibson
The Illuminating Sap, Atelier Gallery, Philadelphia,PA
Curated by Zachary Rawe
The Hook Experiment, Oxford, PA
Curated by Vicki Vinton
A Terrible Beauty, The Art Trust, West Chester, PA
Three-person show
2021
Whistling In The Dark, Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA
Juried exhibition
some assembly required, Distillery Gallery, Boston, MA
Juried exhibition
Flora, Gallery 263, Cambridge, MA
Juried by Mark Dion
As Above, So Below, Tufts University Art Galleries, Medford, MA
MFA Thesis Exhibition
2020
Chemical Exchange, Brookline Arts Center, MA
Juried Exhibition
Created Equal, Arlington Center for the Arts, MA
Juried Exhibition
AREACODE|ARTFAIR, Boston, MA
Juried Exhibition
Emerge 2020, Gallery 263, Cambridge, MA
Virtual Juried Exhibition
As Above, So Below, School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, Boston, MA
MFA Virtual Thesis Exhibition
2019
Crossing the Line: In Search of Sanctuary, Nave Gallery, Somerville, MA
Juried Exhibition
Broken Patterns, Dana Hall Art Gallery, Wellesley, MA
2-person show
And Now This, Artists for Humanity, Boston, MA
2023
First Place Prize, “215|610 Contemporary” Delaware County Community College, Media, PA
Juried by Mark Gibson
Third Place Prize, “Members Show” Chester County Art Association, West Chester PA
2020
Graduate Student Research Competition, Tufts University, Boston, MA
Museum Council Sculpture Prize, School of the Museum of Fine Arts,Boston, MA
Anderson Ranch Workshop Scholarship, Aspen, CO, “Portrait and Figuration”
Seminar, instructors: Nicole Eisenman, Catherine Opie and Helen Molesworth
University Grant: a2ru Emerging Creatives Student Summit, “Rise Up and Risk
Something Real”, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
2019
Montague Travel Grant, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Tufts University Scholarship, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Dean’s Research Grant, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Tufts University, Boston, MA
2018
Montague Travel Grant, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Tufts University Scholarship, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
