CAT MAZZA | CV

 

SOLO PROJECTS

2024-25   network, Gallery 360, Nov 14 - April 13, 2025, Boston, MA
2023   Knitoscope videos, Jones Video Screening Room, Mar 30 - Apr 12, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY
2018-20   Taking the Cure, deCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, July 28, 2018 - July 15, 2020, Lincoln, MA
2019   Electroknit Dymaxion, July 9 - Aug 1, Boston HarborWalk, Boston, MA
2017   Crafting the Grid, Salisbury University Art Galleries, Sept 15 - Nov 3, Salisbury, MD
2010   Night Moves: The Mill Series, San Jose Institute for Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
2007   Knit for Defense, Jan - Feb, Three Walls Gallery, Chicago, IL

MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS with catalog

2020   Fast Fashion / Slow Art (traveling), Bowdoin Museum College of Art Curated by Bibi Obler & Phyllis Rosenzweig, Jan 15 - Aug 2020, Brunswick, ME
2018   Making Change: The Art and Craft of Activism, Museum of Design Atlanta, Curated by Betsy Greer, June 1 - Sep 9, 2018, Atlanta, GA
2016   xposition Rebelles, Musée Bargoin Curated by Christine Bouilloc, Jun 21 - Dec 31, 2016, Clermont-Ferrand, France
2015 - 16   Disobedient Objects (traveling), Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia
Curated by Catherine Flood and Gavin Grindon, Oct 31, 2015 - Feb 14, 2016 2014 - 15   Disobedient Objects, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom Curated by Catherine Flood and Gavin Grindon, July 26, 2014 - Feb 1, 2015
2012   40 Under 40: Craft Futures, Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum Curated by Nicholas Bell, Jul 20, 2012 - Feb 13, 2013, Washington DC
2011   New Materiality: Digital Dialogues at the Boundaries of Contemporary Craft, Milwaukee Art Museum, WI Curated by Fo Wilson, Mar 10 - Jun 10
New Materiality: Digital Dialogues at the Boundaries of Contemporary Craft, Asheville Art Museum, NC Curated by Fo Wilson, Nov 18, 2011 - Mar 18, 2012
2010   New Material World: Rethreading Technology, The Sheldon Art Museum, Lincoln, NE Curated by Sharon Kennedy, Oct 8, 2010 - Jan 2, 2011 Gestures of Resistance, Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, OR
Curated by Shannon Stratton and Judith Leeman, Jan 26 - Jun 26, 2010 New Materiality: Digital Dialogues at the Boundaries of Contemporary Craft, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA, Curated by Fo Wilson, May 29 - Feb 6, 2009 (traveling)
2009   Craftwerk 2.0, Jönköpings läns Museum, Jönköpings, Sweden Curated by Otto von Busch and Clara Åhlvik, Sep 9, 2009 - Jan 1, 2010
2009   Dritto-rovescio, Triennale Design Museum, Milan, Italy Curated by Henrik den Ouden Runshaug, Feb 24 - Mar 29
2009   She Will Always Be Younger Than Us, Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto, Canada Curated by Allyson Mitchell, Feb 11 - Sept 7
2008   Radical Lace and Subversive Knitting (traveling), Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, AZ Curated by David McFadden, Sep 20 2008 - Feb 1, 2009
2008   Take Action! Världskulturmuseet, Göteborg, Sweden Curated by Clara Åhlvik: Jan 17, 2008 - Jan 1, 2009
2007   Radical Lace and Subversive Knitting, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY Curated by David McFadden, Jan 25 - Jun 1

GROUP GALLERY SHOWS

2023    Positive/Negative 39, Slocumb Gallery, Feb 12 - Mar 8, E Tennessee
2019    Fast Fashion / Slow Art (traveling), Brady Art Gallery, The Corcoran College of Art and Design, Curated by Bibi Obler & Phyllis Rosenzweig, Aug 8 - Dec 15, Washington DC
2019    Hand & I, Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, NY Curated by Yulia Tikhonova: May 5 – July 14
2017   Weaving Europe, Πολυχώρος Πολιτισμού Αττικόν Páfos, Cyprus Curated by Efi Kyprianidou, Dec 1 - 31
2017   Hacking / Modding / Remixing As Feminist Protest, Carnegie Mellon Miller Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA Curated by Angela Washko, Jan 28 - Feb 26
2017   Boston, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast, Ireland Curated by Zach Horn, Feb 2 - Mar 11
2015   Initial Conditions: Artists Make Spaces, Franklin Street Works, Stamford, CT Curated by Terri C Smith, Sep - Jan 3 (2016)
2015   Material Fix, John Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI Curated by Alison Ferris: Mar 11 - Oct 11
2014   It Narratives, Franklin Street Works, Stamford, CT Curated by : Zanna Gilbert and Brian Droitcour, Oct 6 - Nov 9
2014   III International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Mérida, Venezuela Curated by Julio Cesar Lubo Corona, Jul 07 - Jul 11
2009   She Will Always Be Younger Than Us (traveling), Art Gallery of Calgary, Alberta, Canada Curated by Allyson Mitchell, Sep 25 - Jan (2010)
2009   Dissolving Views, Cheongju Arts Center, Cheongju, South Korea Curated by Kim Ju-won, Sep 23 - Nov 21
2008   Gestures of Resistance, Grey Matters, Dallas, TX
Curated by Shannon Stratton and Judith Leeman, Feb 20 - Mar 22
2007   Hackers and Haute Couture Heretics, Garanti Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey Curated by Otto von Busch, Sep - Oct
2006   Miniartextil, Arte & Arte, Como, Italy Curated by Domenica Quaranta, Oct 7 - Nov 12

PANELS

2025   March 21, Artist+Curator Conversation (Cat Mazza+Amy Halliday), Center for Design, Boston, MA
2019   May 19, What is Craftivism, Dorsky Gallery, New York, NY
2015   Oct 22, Global Variable, Emergent Digital Practices, University of Denver, CO
2015   Sep 20, Fashion=Activism, Brooklyn Accelerator, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn NY
2014   Oct 22, Panel, Make/Speak panel, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA
2011   Apr 13 - Apr 15 The Influencers, Center of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
2011   Apr 2, Panel, Craft Forward, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2008   Dec 12 Craft Hackers, New Museum, New York, NY
2008   Oct 22 Making Craft Matter: Feminism And Politics In Handmade Art, Carpenter Center, Harvard, Cambridge, MA

LECTURES | WORKSHOPS

2025   Jan 3, Visiting Artist, SMFA at Tufts, Boston, MA
2023   Apr 11, Visiting Artist: Film to Fiber, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY
2020   Feb 28, Fast Fashion/Slow Art An Artist Workshop with Cat Mazza, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME
2019   Mar 7, Conversation and Crafts, deCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA
2018   July 28, Craft Workshop and Artist Talk, deCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA
2017   Oct 24, Visiting Artist Lecture, Salisbury University, MD
2015   Nov 12, Visiting Artist Lecture, Integrated Studio II, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
2015   Mar 27, Bickford Visiting Artist Lecture, Cleveland Institute of Art, OH
2013   Sept 25, Visiting Artist Lecture, UMass Dartmouth, MA
2012   Feb 28, Visiting Artist Lecture, Maine College of Art, Portland, OR
2012   Feb 13-14, Visiting Artist Lecture, MICA, Baltimore, MD
2011   Nov 2, Visiting Artist Lecture, Queens College, CUNY, Queens, NY
2011   Mar 3, Visiting Artist Lecture, VES, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
2010   Mar 23 Visiting Artist Lecture, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA
2010   Mar 18 Visiting Artist Lecture, Art Department, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
2009   April 14 Visiting Artist Lecture, Textile Department, RISD, Providence, RI
2009   Mar 5 Visiting Artist Lecture, Fiber Art / Material Studies, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

GRANTS | COMMISSIONS | AWARDS

2025-26   Folger Institute Artistic Research Fellowship
2019   Now + There Public Art Accelerator commission
2018   deCordova Museum and Sculpture Park PLATFORM commission
2016   Artist's For Hillary
2009   Craft Research Fund, Center for Craft Creativity and Design
2008   Creative Capital grantee (Film/Video)
2008   Carnegie Mellon Alumni Award
2007   Rockefeller Media Arts, Re:New Media fellowship (New Media)
2007   Experimental Television Center, Finishing Funds
2006   New York Foundation of the Arts, Strategic Opportunity Stipend
2006   Turbulence Commission, Jerome Foundation
2005   Ars Electronica Digital Communities Honorary Mention Award, microRevolt.org

RESIDENCIES

2026   January & June, Folger Institute, Washington DC
2009   Jun 10 - Jul 10 Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, CA
2008   Mar 3 - 23 MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH
2007   Dec (2006) - Jan Three Walls Gallery, Chicago, IL
2006   May Contemporary Art Center, North Adams, MA
2005   May Eyebeam Teaching Artist Residency, New York, NY

EDUCATION

2005   Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Electronic Arts, MFA. Troy, NY
1999   Carnegie Mellon University, Art major, Gender Studies minor, BFA cum laude. Pittsburgh, PA
1998   Goldsmiths College, London, England, Fine Art Studio Practice