Julia Csekö

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Julia Csekö, "A Coney Island of the Mind-Marshal McLuhan," 2006, acrylic on canvas, 130.0 x 130.0 cm. Collection of the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, The University of British Columbia. Photo: Howard Ursuliak

Julia Csekö is an Artist, Educator and Independent Curator having worked at multiple learning, non-profits, and cultural organizations, including Montserrat College of Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Most recently Csekö is a Boston Center for the Arts AiR, a Collective Futures Tufts Art Galleries Warhol Foundation Grantee, JArts Be The Change Awardee, Randolph, and Newton LCC Grantee, and a Somerville LCC Ambassador. In 22’ Cseko was a Somerville LCC grantee, a CTV MassCreative Fellow, and a Somerville Museum Community Curator, at the Somerville Museum 2021, an Artcubator Artist Residency at the Umbrella Center for the Arts 2020–21. In the summer of 2020, she was invited as a Visiting Artist by Emerson College to create a site-specific mural for the Piano Row Campus, featuring the words of late Congressman John Lewis. In addition, she has a public mural on view at Winter Place, downtown Boston, commissioned by the Boston Downtown BID, and created in partnership with the Boston Literary District.[1] In 2018 Csekö was invited to the Assets for Artists MassMoCA residency program where she further investigated her multi-disciplinary practice as a sculptor, painter, and performer.

Csekö cites Educator and thinker Paulo Freire, and his critical Pedagogy and dialectical approach to education as a reference for her art practice, and the concept of the Greek agora as inspiration for her time-based work. She seeks to create experiences where "performer and viewer, creation and consumption occupy the same space."[1][2]

Csekö's work is in the permanent collection of the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery and the Gilberto Chateaubriand Collection at the Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro.[3][4] and at Emerson College, in Boston MA.

Early life and education[edit]

Born in Colorado to Brazilian parents on self-exile during the Brazilian military dictatorship, Csekö grew up in Rio Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.[5] She received a Master of Fine Arts (MFA), from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University in 2013.[6]

Awards[edit]

  • Boston Center for the Arts AiR 2023
  • Collective Futures Tufts Art Galleries Warhol Foundation Grant 2022-23
  • Be The Change JArts Awardee 2023
  • Somerville LCC Cultural Ambassador 2023
  • Newton and Randolph LCC Grantee 2023
  • MassCreative CTV Fellow 2022
  • Somerville Museum Community Curator Grantee 2022
  • Sculpture Space Air 2022
  • Somerville Arts Council Fellowship 2021
  • Community Curator award at the Somerville Museum 2021Somerville Arts Council Fellowship 2021
  • Community Curator award at the Somerville Museum 2021
  • Artcubator Artist in Residence at the Umbrella Center for the Arts
  • Artist in Residence MAssMoCA, 2018.[7][8]
  • Walter Feldman Fellowship for Emerging Artists, 2015–2016.[9][10] The fellowship culminated in her first American, solo exhibition Straight from the Heart—The Rant Series.[11]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Julia Cseko | The Umbrella Arts Center". theumbrellaarts.org. Retrieved 2022-04-20.
  2. ^ "Meet Julia Csekö". bostonvoyager.com. 2018-04-30. Retrieved 2019-03-29.
  3. ^ "Object record in the Belkin Art Gallery collection catalogue". Retrieved May 11, 2020.
  4. ^ "Canal Contemporneo | Agenda de eventos | Colecao Gilberto Chateaubriand: Um Seculo de Arte Brasileira". www.canalcontemporaneo.art.br. Retrieved 2020-05-14.
  5. ^ "Julia Csekö: Straight from the Heart – the Rant Series – Arts & Business Council of Boston". artsandbusinesscouncil.org. Retrieved 2017-03-24.
  6. ^ "Julia Cseko (MFA '13)". www.smfa.edu. Retrieved 2017-03-24.
  7. ^ "The Studios Archive". Assets for Artists. Retrieved 2020-05-14.
  8. ^ "General 5". Julia Csekö. Retrieved 2020-05-14.
  9. ^ "Meet the Walter Feldman Fellows – Arts & Business Council of Boston". Retrieved 2020-05-14.
  10. ^ "Julia Csekö: Straight from the Heart – the Rant Series – Arts & Business Council of Boston". artsandbusinesscouncil.org. Retrieved 2017-03-24.
  11. ^ "Art That Can Talk: Julia Csekö at Piano Craft Gallery". Retrieved 2017-03-24.
Julia Csekö, "A Coney Island of the Mind series - text of Henri Lefbvre," 2012, acrylic on wall, 12x20". Site specific mural for a solo show at Oscar Cruz Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil. Photo: Joana Traub Csekö

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