Cazzato
Work
About
Photo by Wanjie Li
Maria Cazzato is an artist from Tucson, Arizona, currently pursuing a BFA at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and a BA in Political Science and Philosophy from Tufts University. Her work examines contemporary body politics through depictions of the fat female form.
CVEducation
Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts
Expected Graduation: May 2026
Combined Degree BA +BFA Philosophy, Political Science, and Studio Art
Exhibitions
2025End of Year Award Show, School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, Boston, USA
Whitney Biennial, Jameson and Thompson Framers, Boston, USA
Eggs and Legs, Copenger, Boston, USA
Spaces to be Human, Goddard Chapel, Medford, USA
Body Politics, Gallery 263, Cambridge, MA
2024 Fragments of Self, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA
Feast, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, USA
Losing My Religion, Bromfield Gallery, Boston, USA
Boston Printmakers Student Exhibition, Boston, USA
Twenty-Five Cents for Eight Minutes, Mission Hill Gallery, Boston, MA
End of Year Print & Paper Exhibition, School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, Boston, USA
Drawing and Painting Biennial, School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, Boston, USA
20th Annual College Show, ArtsWorcester, Worcester, USA
2023Out to Dry, Solo Exhibition at Edwin Gallery at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, Boston, USA
End of Year Show, School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, Boston, USA
End of Year Print & Paper Exhibition, School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, Boston, USA
Gender and Culture Symposium, Tufts University Women’s Center, Boston, USA
Awards
2025 Will and Elena Barnet Painting Prize
2024 Print and Paper Department End of Year Prize, School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University
2024 Jurors Prize, 20th Annual College Show, ArtsWorcester, Worcester, USA
2023 Women Art United Art Prize, Shortlisted Artist
2023 Finalist, 8th Edition Boynes International Artist Award, Young Artist Category
2022 Gold Key, Silver Key, 8 Honorable Mentions, Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, New York, NY
2021 Silver Key & 2 Honorable Mentions, Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, New York, NY
2021 Outstanding Emerging Artist Award, University of Arizona Museum of Art
2020 National Gold Medals & Gold Key, Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, New York, NY
Publications
2025 Multiplicity as Resistance: “Body Politics” at Gallery 263, Boston Art Review
https://www.bostonartreview.com/read/body-politics-gallery-263-zaryah-qareeb
2025 Eggs and Legs, Copenger
https://copenger.com/eggs-and-legs
2025 Emerging Artists Share Pieces of Themselves, TuftsNow
https://now.tufts.edu/2025/02/14/emerging-artists-share-pieces-themselves
2023 Women United Art Magazine, Interviewed for the ‘Spotlight Section’ in Issue IV
2023 SuboArt Magazine, July Print Issue VI
2021 All She Makes International Women’s Art Magazine, Issue III