When my physical world demands stillness, the natural world morphs into the imaginary. My art is a tangible map of my internal ecosystem— a space woven from sensory overlap where pain dissolves into vibrant landscapes and binary borders fade.
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Biography
Mila Fejzo is a multidisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles whose practice centers on navigating selfhood and the process of self-acceptance. Their work draws on their synesthesia, a condition which seamlessly weaves together various sensory inputs, to make artistic choices like color, pattern, and composition. Working across oil painting, drawing, and ceramics, they depict imaginary environments filled with figurative and organic forms.
Fejzo’s practice develops alongside their lived experience as a disabled, non-binary artist navigating multiple chronic illnesses, constant physical pain, and gender dysphoria. During periods of intense discomfort, often leading to necessary immobility and rest, Fejzo drops into their imagination to connect with the natural and celestial. Fejzo’s work makes their internal universe tangible through their depictions of genderless figures inhabiting natural spaces.
In addition to their studio practice, Fejzo is deeply committed to supporting young artists and fostering creative communities. While they are currently on disability, Fejzo has worked extensively as an arts educator, leading youth programming, workshops, museum tours, as well as studio and classroom instruction. Fejzo sees themselves as an educator at heart. Their high school art teacher, Claire Farin, completely changed the trajectory of their life, as Fejzo was not interested in art until taking Farin’s class in middle school. They hope to return to teaching in a capacity that aligns with their body’s needs, driven by a desire to offer young artists even a fraction of the transformative mentorship Claire Farin provided them.
Curriculum Vitae
Education:
- Bachelor’s of Fine Arts from Carnegie Mellon University
Features:
- Unpack Your Mind at dnj Gallery, Los Angeles (Spring-Summer 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, Online (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 Spectrum Gestalt Show, Los Angeles (Summer 2021)
- Folklab’s MadMay online gallery (Spring 2021)
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)
Work Experience:
- Arts Educator II, The Andy Warhol Museum (July 2024-September 2025)
- 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)
