Artist Biography
Mila Fejzo is a Los Angeles based artist and educator who primarily works with oil paint. They draw on their experience living in a disabled body as a trans individual, as well as their fascination with both natural and fantastical worlds in their work. Fejzo received a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University with a double concentration in Drawing, Painting, Print-media, and Photography, as well as Sculpture, Installation, and Site-Work.
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Artist Statement
In my creative practice, I explore my relationship to my body as a disabled trans person experiencing chronic pain and gender dysphoria. I cope with my discomfort by using the imaginary realm. I draw on my vivid imagination and synesthesia - a condition where my senses overlap, allowing me to have a complete sensory experience beyond the natural world. The colors, patterns, and sounds I experience internally shape my art, allowing me to translate abstract sensations into vibrant, otherworldly landscapes. I reimagine nature’s complexities through bold colors and intricate forms, depicting genderless figures that invite anyone to form a deeper connection with my inner universe.
Features:
Unpack Your Mind at dnj Gallery, Los Angeles (Spring 2026)
Synesthetic at Arriviste Coffee Roasters, Pittsburgh (Winter 2024-2025)
Resonance at the Miller Gallery ICA, Pittsburgh (Spring 2024)
Reverie at The Frame Gallery, Pittsburgh (Spring 2024)
Idyll at Redfishbowl Gallery, Pittsburgh (Fall 2023)
Hyperlocal at Assemble, Pittsburgh (Fall 2023)
Fluid Bound at the Ellis Gallery, Pittsburgh (Spring 2023)
Art of Nothing Press: Issue #2 Ego/Death (Spring 2023)
Mindscapes PGH at Imagebox Productions, Pittsburgh (Fall 2022)
Mental Health Gallery (Summer 2022)
Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery’s 12th Annual (Landscapes) (Summer 2022)
Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery’s 12th Annual (Figurative) (Spring 2022)
Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery’s 12th Annual (Open) (Spring 2022)
Cover artist and art contributor for CMU’s Pillbox magazine (Spring 2022)
bg Gallery’s Sepctrum Gesalt Show, Los Angeles (Summer 2021)
Folklab’s MadMay online gallery (Spring 2021)
Work Experience:
Arts Educator II, The Warhol Museum (July 2024-September2025)
Museum Educator, The Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh (February 2025 - June 2025)
TA for Sculpture, CMU Pre-College Summer Program (Summer 2023)
TA for Photography, CMU Pre-College Summer Program (Summer 2023)
TA for Sculpture, CMU Pre-College Summer Program (Summer 2022)
TA for 3D Digital Sculpture, CMU Pre-College Summer Program (Summer 2021)
Curator for the CMU “Unconventional Materials” online show (2020)
Internship at the Gagosian Gallery Beverly Hills (Fall 2019- Spring 2020)
Volunteer for Artribe, Los Angeles (Fall 2016- Spring 2019)
Editor for Stonecutters Arts Collective (2016-2019)
Awards:
Samuel Rosenberg Award (Spring 2023)
New York International Arts Competition Second Prize (Fall 2022)
Regina Gouger Miller Art Scholarship from Carnegie Mellon (Fall 2020-Spring 2022)
Heart of an Artist Award from Harvard Westlake (Spring 2019)
