About

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Ava Fedorov is a transdisciplinary artist, writer, and educator who is originally from a remote, wooded region of Upstate New York. With a background that also includes design and film, Ava pulls from all realms of her creative knowledge to create immersive art experiences that blur the lines of genre. She is passionately engaged in climate justice and environmental activism, which creates a thematic backdrop for her abstract paintings, installations, performance, writing, and conceptual work. 

She is currently exploring disappearing wilderness, haunted geographies, and the implicit nexus that connects internal and external landscapes. Using art as a means of bearing witness to these places, her work creates an abstract, emotional record of their landscapes while embracing the paradoxical experience of nature and climate cataclysm. Ava’s art practice attempts to offer pathways of understanding, conceptual adaptation, and collective mourning.

Ava’s work has been exhibited, collected, and published internationally and she has been honored to collaborate with artists and art institutions across the world. Her short fiction has been a finalist for a Pushcart Prize and a PEN America award and she is a two-time John Young Scholar in the Arts awardee. Ava is an assistant professor of studio foundation at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design and is the founder and president of CICADA (CICADA) an organization committed to amplifying the creative response to environmental justice and the climate crisis. She received a BA in film and creative writing from Bard College, an MA in illustration from FIT in New York City, and an MFA in painting from The University of Hawai’i at Mānoa.