Bio

Isabel Mattia is an artist, fabricator, teacher, doula, and parent living on a small sheep farm in rural Rhode Island. She makes interdisciplinary work from home and from her space within Smokestack Studios in Fall River, Massachusetts. Mattia teaches as a Critic in the Sculpture Department at RISD, as an Adjunct lecturer at UMass Dartmouth College of Visual and Performing Arts, and as an Instructor at the Steel Yard in Providence, RI. She has previously taught at Brown University.

Mattia achieved her MFA in Sculpture from Rhode Island School of Design in 2019, and her Bachelor’s Degree from Brown University with a double concentration in Visual Art and Africana Studies in 2011, where she won the Marlene Malik Grant for Sculpture, and the Roberta Joslin Award for Excellence in Art. Her work has been featured by publications including Artforum, and has been exhibited at venues including Heaven Gallery Chicago, the Dedee Shattuck Gallery, New Bedford Art Museum, Grimshaw-Gudewicz Gallery, The Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Arts at Brown University, and the David Winton Bell Gallery. She was a 2024 New Jewish Culture Fellow, and an Artist in Residence at the New Bedford Whaling City National Park, and the Wedding Cake House in Providence, RI.

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