Julia Csekö

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."
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. and at Emerson College, in Boston MA.
Early life and education
Born in Colorado to Brazilian parents on self-exile during the Brazilian military dictatorship, Csekö grew up in Rio Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She received a Master of Fine Arts (MFA), from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University in 2013.
Awards
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.
Walter Feldman Fellowship for Emerging Artists, 2015–2016. The fellowship culminated in her first American, solo exhibition Straight from the Heart—The Rant Series.
References
External links
Official Website.
Dig Boston Interview
New TV Innovation Showcase Interview
Somerville Arts Council Home Alone Interview
Jamaica Plain News A Message to The Future Mural
Cambridge Day Sanctuary City Exhibition
Boston Art Review Sanctuary City
Artscope Magazine Sanctuary City Cover
Somerville Times Julia Cseko a Weaver of Art and Words
Emerson Today Emerson College Piano Row Campus Mural
Berkley Beacon Emerson College Piano Row Campus Mural
Jewish Boston, Emerson College Piano Row Campus Mural
American women artists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts alumni
21st-century American women
Montserrat College of Art faculty