About

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Ava Fedorov is a postdisciplinary artist, writer, and activist who is originally from a remote, wooded region of Upstate New York. Using art as a practice of bearing witness, creating a record, and standing vigil, she pulls from all realms of her creative knowledge to express ecological transformation and the implicit nexus between internal and external landscapes. She creates large, abstract paintings; interactive installations; experimental documents; and multimedia performance pieces.

Ava’s work has been exhibited, collected, and published internationally and her short fiction has been a finalist for the Pushcart Prize and a PEN America award. Ava holds an MFA from the University of Hawaii and is an associate professor of visual art at Cape Cod Community College in Massachusetts. She is also the co-founder of CICADA (cicadaartists.org), amplifying the collective artistic response to climate justice and the ecological crisis. Her recent solo exhibitions include, Let Me Hold You As You Disappear, at the Laconia Gallery in Boston and Sandbags Body Bags at Performance Arcade in Wellington, New Zealand. Ava is the co-director and creator of Winds of Change, an annual, multimedia social justice arts festival on Cape Cod.