Mia Fabrizio

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 2021Post-Graduate Teaching Fellowship at SMFA at Tufts University, she was an artist in residency 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 Two & Three-Dimensional Design at Delaware County Community College, in Media, PA. In 2023, she was an artist in The Philadelphia Residency sponsored byTwelve Gates Arts. Her most recent solo exhibition, “Blindsided” on view at Chester County Art Association in West Chester, PA closes at the end of January 2025. Fabrizio works in her home-studio, in Downingtown, Pennsylvania.

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.I am an interdisciplinary artist. Multilayered concepts relating to identity and social constructs are presented through a variety of artistic mediums and processes. Mixed media portraits, sculptures and installations are composed of building materials and domestic items. Ascribing to the visual context of home as well as the ethos of homemade, I paint, adhere, carve and chip away at materials that include 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.

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