Mirta Tocci

I am a visual artist, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. I moved to Barcelona, Spain, in 1977,

and since 1998 I’ve also lived and worked in Boston, Massachusetts. My work has been shown in many galleries and museums in individual and group exhibitions in South America, Europe, and the United States.  The forms I work with have evolved from drawing and sculpture in the 1970s-80s to installation art and multimedia design for the theatre in the 1990s-present.

My work is interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary. I use many different media -- images, objects, sculpture, photographs, drawings, video and text -- to create a personal language that can express the complexity of my investigation. I work with emotions, identity, memory, and personal experience. Just as I am interested in working with many different media, I am interested in voices beyond my own, in the  “sound” of multiple voices, in art as social expression, as a social activity that has the power to initiate social change. I am interested in crossing borders, in shortening the distances between cultures. To this end, I have created and coordinated many projects with diverse communities.

Since 2002 I have taught at Emerson College in Boston, MA, where I am currently Assistant Professor in the Institute for the Liberal Arts & Interdisciplinary Studies. I am also an independent curator, working principally as Curator of the Joan Resnikoff Gallery at Roxbury Community College.

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