Magda Petmeza is an interdisciplinary artist, exploring identity through the erosion of memory over time, personal heritage, and the concept of a "home".
Magda has received the Stella and Sumner Cooper Award for Outstanding Works in Ceramics, the Yousuf Karsh Photography Award , and the Tufts Dean’s Research Award for Extraordinary Artistic Endeavors.
Her work has been published in Asterisk: Yale’s Journal for Art and Art History, Hamburger Eyes Magazine, and Parallaxi Magazine. Her photo book, "Octopus Nipples", is part of the special collection of the W. Van Alan Clark Library at Tufts University.
Since 2023, she creates and exhibits in Greece, while also working as the Head of Arts at the J.M. Carras Kindergarten of Athens College. She has reprised a curatorial role, organizing exhibitions that showcase student artworks alongside renowned Greek artists such as Alekos Fassianos, Aphrodite Liti, Alexandra Athanasiadi, and more.
She has received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University with a Minor in Visual and Material Studies and a Master's of Arts in Art Education from the same institution.
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Selected Exhibitions
2025 Demonté, Bor de l'eau, Thessaloniki, Greece, curated by Eleni Simoni
ArtGate Project — juried exhibition, Labattoir, Thessaloniki, Greece
2024 Electric, Erotic, Aesthetic, 1982 Art Space, Athens, Greece
Domatio Art Space, Athens, Greece
2022 If you draw a line it could be the ground, Senior Thesis Exhibition, Boston, MA
Annual Awards Show — juried exhibition, School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA
Annual Photo and Film Area Show — juried exhibition, Boston, MA
2021 Let there be light, Mission Hill Gallery, Mission Hill, MA
Homebody, House of Praxis, Jamaica Plain, MA
2020 Annual Awards Show — juried exhibition, Boston, MA
Into the Mystic, Cambridge, MA
A Light in the Dark, House of Praxis, Brookline MA
Spring into 2020, RSM Art Gallery, Boston, MA
Photographic Resource Centre — juried exhibition, Somerville, MA
2019 Spookulation, Roxbury, MA
The Horror is Surreal, House of Praxis, Brookline, MA
Fresh Start, House of Praxis, Brookline, MA
DEAUTO, Boston, MA
Arrested Image, Annual Photography Exhibition — juried exhibition, Boston, MA
Awards & Publications
2023 Recipient of the Art Education Fellowship Award, Tufts University Graduate School
2022 Stella and Sumner Cooper Award for Outstanding Works in Ceramics, first place
2021 Recipient of the Dean’s Research Award for Extraordinary Artistic Endeavours, Tufts University
Asterisk Journal issue no. 4, Yale's Journal of Art and Art History
Hamburger Eyes: the continuing story of life on earth, issue no. 50
2020 Yousuf Karsh Annual Photography Award, first place
Education
2018-22 Bachelor of Fine Arts
Minor in Visual and Material Studies
School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University
2022-23 Master of Arts in Art Education
Tufts University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences