Her professional experience includes roles in arts administration, communications, marketing, and curatorial projects at Artisan’s Asylum and Villa Victoria Center for the Arts (Inquilinos Boricuas en Acción – IBA Boston), where she developed an exhibition program at La Galleria highlighting contemporary Latinx artists. Csekö also serves on the Tufts University Art Galleries (TUAG) Acquisitions Committee.
Her artistic practice has been recognized with numerous awards and residencies, including the Our Energy Future Grant, SMFA @ Tufts Traveling Fellow Grant, Salem Public Artist in Residence, Tufts University & Andy Warhol Foundation Collective Futures Grant, and multiple Local Cultural Council (LCC) Grants. She is a MASS MoCA Alumni Artist-in-Residence (2025) and a Boston Center for the Arts (BCA) Artist-in-Residence (2022–2025).
About
Csekö is a visual artist whose interdisciplinary practice investigates the intersections of art, activism, and community engagement. Her work explores themes of diversity, inclusion, social justice, and collective memory, often through participatory and site-responsive projects. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, in both traditional and unconventional spaces, including a ferryboat, and her work is held in the permanent collections of Tufts University, Emerson College, the University of British Columbia, the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro, Centro Cultural São Paulo, and private collections worldwide.
Csekö’s creative and curatorial work began during her BFA at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, where she founded the artist collective Group Py (2005–2008) and worked as First Assistant to sculptor Ernesto Neto. Her early involvement in arts advocacy helped secure increased national funding for the arts in Brazil, leading to the creation of a cultural committee that facilitated dialogue between artists, local representatives, and the Brazilian Ministry of Culture.
Dedicated to expanding access to the arts, Csekö has served as Community Curator for the Somerville Museum, organizing the Sanctuary City exhibition, and as a MassCreative CTV Fellow, shaping cultural policy for Massachusetts gubernatorial candidates. She also contributed to the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston (ICA) and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) as an educational activity facilitator, designing and leading family-friendly, hands-on art experiences.
Csekö’s work gravitates around conversations and eXxperiments grounded on a paradigm shift from competitive to collaborative practices in social actions and interactions.
Artist Statement
As a Brazilian-American visual artist, organizer, and educator, my practice serves as a bridge between cultures, histories, and communities. Born in the United States to Brazilian parents, I returned to Rio de Janeiro as a newborn and spent my formative years in that breathtaking city, later returning to the U.S. to pursue my MFA at SMFA @ Tufts. This lifelong experience of navigating different languages and cultural shifts, paired with my love for literature and language as a form of art, has made community building a central pillar of my work. It has led me to investigate how we might inhabit the world together through a harmonious and creative lens.
My work is deeply inspired by the vibrant landscapes of Brazil, filtered through a necessary lens of critical inquiry on the country’s convoluted history. Influenced by Paulo Freire’s Critical Pedagogy, I view art not as a finished, static object, but as an open dialogue and a dynamic process. I believe that genuine education and creation happen only when we listen and learn alongside one another. By inviting the public into the creative process, I aim to foster a sense of agency and collective imagination.
I am driven by a radical yet realistic optimism: the belief that by focusing on creative problem-solving, we can avoid fatalism, discovering that alternatives have and always will be plentiful. My practice is an intentional departure from rigid, hierarchical structures in favor of collaborative, inclusive spaces. I envision a future where we move beyond "it has always been this way" to build a world where the unthinkable is no longer justified, and where every voice has the power to shape our shared horizon.