JULIA CSEKO

2024

SMFA at Tufts Travelling Fellow, Boston, MA

Public Artist in Residency, Salem, MA 

2023

Tufts University Art Galleries Andy Warhol Foundation Collective Futures Fund Grant 

JArts Be the Change Award, Boston, MA, Interactive Public Art Commission 

Newton LCC, FURTHUR Flags at the Newton City Hall, Newton, MA. 

Randolph LCC, exhibition at the Randolph Intergenerational Community Center. 

Cultural Ambassador 

Somerville Arts Council - Somerville, MA 

2022 

BCA AiR - Boston , MA 2022 to 2025

CTV Fellwoship  MASSCreative - Boston , MA 

Sculpture Space AiR- Utica, NY 

Somerville Arts Council Fellowship - Somerville , MA 

Community Curator Grant Somerville Museum - Somerville , MA

2021

Umbrella Art Center Artcubator AiR Concord, MA 2020 to 2021

2020 

Emerson College,Visiting Artist,, Boston, MA. Mural Commission for the Piano Row Campus 

2018

Mass MoCA AiR - North Adams , MA 

2016 

Walter Feldman Fellowship for Emerging Artists, administered by the Arts and Business Council of Greater Boston, Boston, MA.

2010 

President’s Award, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA 

2009 

MFA Merit Grant, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA 

2024 Salem Public Artist in Residence

2023 Be the Change Award, JArts Public Art Piece Fenway, Boston, MA. Newton City Hall - FURHTUR Flags - funded by the Newton LCC project grant.

2022 Boston City Hall Atrium, FURTHUR Flags, Boston, MA. Fort Point Open Studios, FURTHUR Flags, Seaport, Boston MA.Stonybrook Neighborhood Association, Jamaica Plain, MA, Public Mural Commission.

2022 Stonybrook Neighborhood Association , Jamaica Plain. Public Mural commission.

2021 Somerville Arts Council and the Somerville Homeless Coalition, public mural commission.

2019 Downtown BID, Winter Pl, Boston MA in partnership with the Boston Literary District. Public Mural commission.
2014 Emerson College, mural at the entrance of Walker Building, 120 Boylston Place, Boston, MA.
2012 Emerson College, mural commission at Huret & Spector Gallery, Boston, MA.

2025 upcoming, Old Town Hall Salem, MA, culmination of the Salem PAiR

2023 Beacon Gallery This is Where my Heart Is, Boston, MA,
Raldolph Intergenerational Community Center, Speaking Truth to Power, Raldolph, MA 2022 Mayor's Gallery, Boston City Hall, Speaking Truth to Power, Boston, MA
2022 Montserrat college of Art Speaking Truth to Power, Beverly, MA
2019 A R E A Gallery, Embracers pop up show Boston, MA
2016 Piano Craft Gallery, Boston, MA
2015 MUV Gallery, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 

2012 Galeria Oscar Cruz, São Paulo, Brazil. A Coney Island of the Mind (Um Parque de Diversões para a Cabeça).
2010 Galeria TAC, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Velvet Screw (Parafuso de Veludo). 

Tufts Art Galleries Permanent Collection. Arts and Business Council of Greater Boston. Emerson College. Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Gilberto Chateaubriand Collection, Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Centro Cultural São Paulo. Private Collections in the United States and abroad. 

2024

Fire in the Basement, Piano Craft Gallery, Boston, MA

2023

Tufts Art Galleries Portrait as Place, Medford, MA

Heroes Among Us PEG Center, Newburyport, MA

Midway Studios, State of the Earth, Boston, MA.

Through These Eyes, PEG Center Newburyport, MA.2023
Sensory Play, Worcester Art Hub |
This Is America Nearby Gallery | Newton, MA 

2021

Dazzleship Umbrella Art Center | Concord, MA
Next Now, Faculty Biennial Montserrat College Of Art | Beverly, MA 

2018
Memorial To Joseph Ketner II Emerson Urban Arts | Boston, MA 

2014
One Language Is Never Enough Fitchburg Art Museum | Fitchburg, MA 

2011
Nova Escultura Brasileira, Caixa Cultural | Rio De Janeiro, Brazil