Julia Cseko

Born in Colorado to Brazilian parents on self-exile during the Brazilian military dictatorship, Csekö grew up in Rio, Brazil. She received an MFA from the SMFA at Tufts in 2013. Csekö has received the SMFA Travelling Fellowship, the Collective Futures Grant, a Be The Change Award, local cultural council grants from the towns of Randolph and Newton, and is the current Artist-in-Residence at the Boston Center for the Arts and the City of Salem Public Artist in Residence. As well as public commissions, her work is held in collections such as Tufts Permanent Collection, Emerson College, MAM Rio, Morris and Belkin Gallery, CC São Paulo, and private collections. In 2018 Csekö was invited as an AiR at the A4A MassMoCA.