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Artist StatementMartha Chason-Sokol is an interdisciplinary artist working between studio and public life. She builds gestural figural sculptures from discarded domestic and industrial objects and places them in site specific installations in order to create accessible and participatory art in community spaces. Chason-Sokol binds the past into new, speculative futures using tape, thread, and video. Past, present and futures merge both through the embodied hybrid creatures and the captured human presence in person and later on video.
BioChason-Sokol has exhibited nationally. An associate member of Kingston Gallery and Chair of the Everett Cultural Council, she has shown at the Boston Sculptors Gallery, the Hudson Valley Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Fitchburg Art Museum, among others. Chason-Sokol holds a Bachelor’s degree from Brandeis University and a Master of Fine Arts from Lesley University College of Art and Design.
In the process of moving to Everett, MA. in June 2020, Chason-Sokol became aware that there was no designated art space in the city and wanted to provide the community with the joy and healing of creative arts experiences. Having taught for over 30 years in non-traditional settings Chason-Sokol envisioned a community artspace. Since August 2021, as the Founder/Director of Art Lab Everett, she has offered arts opportunities to Everett residents and neighboring towns regardless of ability to pay. |
MARTHA LYNN CHASON-SOKOL
617-921-0542
www.mchasonsokol.com - www.instagram.com/chasonsokol - [email protected]
SOLO and TWO PERSON* EXHIBITIONS
2026
*Gallery RAG, Woven World, Residency and Installation with Nova Darkstar, (Upcoming Sept 20 - 26), Gloucester, MA
MAPSpace, Speculative Futures: A Woven World, Participatory Residency and Exhibition, Port Chester, NY
2024
Gallery Rag, Sharing Space, Gloucester, MA
Lunder Atrium, Lesley University, Cyborgs, Cambridge, MA
2022
*Storefront Art Projects, Found Meaning with Joe Caruso, Watertown, MA
Beacon Gallery, The Dinner Party, Boston, MA
Gallery 263, Listening Works, Cambridge, MA
2021
Bell Library Gallery at The Ethel Walker School, When Pigs Fly and Other Fairy Tales, Simsbury, CT
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026
Kingston Gallery, HEAVY / LIGHT, (Upcoming, August 6th - 30th), Boston, MA
ART06870, Where the Wild Things Are, (Current June 20th - Aug 1st), Greenwich, CT
2025
Fitchburg Art Museum, The 89th Regional Exhibition of Art and Craft, Fitchburg, MA
Kingston Gallery, Picnic With Ghosts, Boston, MA
Gallery RAG, All We Hold, Gloucester, MA
CAA @ Canal Gallery, Fiber & Textile, Cambridge, MA
Art + Everywhere x MASS MoCA, Roots/Wings, North Adams, MA
Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Aura, Cambridge, MA
2024
HV MOCA, Crit Ecologies: Artists, Community, Criticality, Peekskill, NY
Boston Sculptors Gallery, Confluence, Boston, MA
MassArt x SoWa, Bold: Challenging Norms, Igniting Dialogue, Boston, MA
2023
VanDernoot Gallery, Lesley MFA 20th Anniversary Alumni Exhibition, Cambridge, MA
Boston Sculptors Gallery, Stirring + Layering, Boston, MA
Cambridge Commons Gallery, Talking Points, Charlestown, MA
2022
Fitchburg Art Museum, The 86th Regional Exhibition of Art and Craft, Fitchburg, MA
Collar Works, Painting at Night, Troy, NY
Kathryn Shultz Gallery, CAA National Prize Show, Cambridge, MA
Fountain Street Gallery, Beyond Words, Boston, MA
Roberts Gallery, Grad Thesis Show, Cambridge, MA
2021
Broad Institute, MIT, Remembering Together: Marking Lives Covid-19 at the Broad, Cambridge, MA
Gallery 263, Chasing the Light, Online, Cambridge, MA
Fitchburg Art Museum, The 85th Regional Exhibition of Art and Craft, Fitchburg, MA
Kathryn Shultz Gallery, Emerging Artists Show, Cambridge, MA
Bromfield Gallery, Double Vision, Online, Boston, MA
2020
Lesley MFA Exhibition, Unlocked, Art as Antidote, Online, Cambridge, MA
Area Code Art Fair, Online, Boston, MA
Bromfield Gallery, Sizzle, Online, Boston, MA
Kathryn Shultz Gallery, Cambridge, MA
ArtSpace Maynard, Energy, Maynard, MA
2019
University Place Gallery, Blue, Cambridge, MA
Chandler Gallery, Fragments: Collaging the Material World, Cambridge, MA
Boston Center for the Arts, Boston Art Book Fair, Boston, MA
Mills Gallery, 26th Annual Boston Drawing Show, Boston, MA
Loading Dock Gallery, Funky Book Show, Lowell, MA
SLAG Gallery, Endangered, St Louis, MO
University Place Gallery, Spectrum, Cambridge, MA
Kobalt Gallery, Inside the Rectangle, Provincetown, MA (co-curated)
BAC Gallery, ART Off the Wall, Brookline MA
Kathryn Shultz Gallery, Visual Feast, Cambridge, MA
Kathryn Shultz Gallery, This is How it Starts, Cambridge, MA
2018
Nave Gallery, Those Who Can, Teach, Somerville, MA
Adam Peck Gallery Invitational, The Blues, Provincetown, MA
Chandler Gallery, Prints as Sculpture, Cambridge, MA
2017
University Place Gallery, Blue Biennial, Cambridge, MA
Brookline Art Center Invitational, Brookline, MA
University Place Gallery, Mary Schein Fall Salon, Cambridge, MA
University Place Gallery, - Scapes, Cambridge, MA
Kobalt Gallery, Alternative Wax: Layers of Facts, Provincetown, MA
Adam Peck Gallery Invitational, Black Tie Optional, Provincetown, MA
MENTOR/CRITIQUE
Listening Works - mentoring Everett youth in the creation of public art - ongoing
MassArt MFA Program Mentor 2024
Final Critiques, Graduate, MFA program, Lesley University College of Art and Design, 2022
AWARDS GRANTS AND RECOGNITION
Grant Writing Workshop at Clark MFA, 6/2026
Art+Everywhere - Presentation on the Innovation Grant during Alumni Celebration at Mass MOCA, 1/2025
NEFA - New England Foundation for the Arts Public Art Learning Fund Grant, 2025
Art+Everywhere Innovation Grant for Listening Works in collaboration with performance artist Mariana Paz, 2024
Everett Citizens Foundation - Arts For Everett 2021/2022/2023
Everett Cultural Council - Drawing IN(ter)VENTIONS, 2022
Massachusetts Cultural Council Festival Grant, 2022, 2023, 2024
Finalist Bromfield Gallery Solo Show, Juried by Meg White, 2021
Strauch-Mosse Merit Scholarship - Lesley University Art + Design, Cambridge, MA, 2020-2022
Finalist - Bromfield Gallery Solo Show - Juried by Howard Yezerski, 2019
Ella Lyman Cabot Fellowship for Creativity
Revere Arts Lottery Grant
PRESS
Beacon Gallery Connections
Boston Art Review
Cambridge Day
Artscope, March/April 2022, Fountain Street, More Than Words, p. 27
RESIDENCY
Gallery RAG - AiR - with Nova Darkstar - (upcoming, September 20-26) - Gloucester, MA
MAPSpace - AiR - Port Chester, NY, 2026
Beacon Gallery - AiR - The Dinner Party - Boston, MA, 2022
Crit Lab at RUC - Rural Residency for Contemporary Artists - Lombardy, Italy, 2019
GALLERY/ASSOCIATIONS
Kingston Gallery - Associate Member
Everett Cultural Council - Chair
Cambridge Art Association - Member
New England Sculptors Association (NESA) - Member
Boston Sculptors Gallery - Past Associate Member
617-921-0542
www.mchasonsokol.com - www.instagram.com/chasonsokol - [email protected]
SOLO and TWO PERSON* EXHIBITIONS
2026
*Gallery RAG, Woven World, Residency and Installation with Nova Darkstar, (Upcoming Sept 20 - 26), Gloucester, MA
MAPSpace, Speculative Futures: A Woven World, Participatory Residency and Exhibition, Port Chester, NY
2024
Gallery Rag, Sharing Space, Gloucester, MA
Lunder Atrium, Lesley University, Cyborgs, Cambridge, MA
2022
*Storefront Art Projects, Found Meaning with Joe Caruso, Watertown, MA
Beacon Gallery, The Dinner Party, Boston, MA
Gallery 263, Listening Works, Cambridge, MA
2021
Bell Library Gallery at The Ethel Walker School, When Pigs Fly and Other Fairy Tales, Simsbury, CT
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026
Kingston Gallery, HEAVY / LIGHT, (Upcoming, August 6th - 30th), Boston, MA
ART06870, Where the Wild Things Are, (Current June 20th - Aug 1st), Greenwich, CT
2025
Fitchburg Art Museum, The 89th Regional Exhibition of Art and Craft, Fitchburg, MA
Kingston Gallery, Picnic With Ghosts, Boston, MA
Gallery RAG, All We Hold, Gloucester, MA
CAA @ Canal Gallery, Fiber & Textile, Cambridge, MA
Art + Everywhere x MASS MoCA, Roots/Wings, North Adams, MA
Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Aura, Cambridge, MA
2024
HV MOCA, Crit Ecologies: Artists, Community, Criticality, Peekskill, NY
Boston Sculptors Gallery, Confluence, Boston, MA
MassArt x SoWa, Bold: Challenging Norms, Igniting Dialogue, Boston, MA
2023
VanDernoot Gallery, Lesley MFA 20th Anniversary Alumni Exhibition, Cambridge, MA
Boston Sculptors Gallery, Stirring + Layering, Boston, MA
Cambridge Commons Gallery, Talking Points, Charlestown, MA
2022
Fitchburg Art Museum, The 86th Regional Exhibition of Art and Craft, Fitchburg, MA
Collar Works, Painting at Night, Troy, NY
Kathryn Shultz Gallery, CAA National Prize Show, Cambridge, MA
Fountain Street Gallery, Beyond Words, Boston, MA
Roberts Gallery, Grad Thesis Show, Cambridge, MA
2021
Broad Institute, MIT, Remembering Together: Marking Lives Covid-19 at the Broad, Cambridge, MA
Gallery 263, Chasing the Light, Online, Cambridge, MA
Fitchburg Art Museum, The 85th Regional Exhibition of Art and Craft, Fitchburg, MA
Kathryn Shultz Gallery, Emerging Artists Show, Cambridge, MA
Bromfield Gallery, Double Vision, Online, Boston, MA
2020
Lesley MFA Exhibition, Unlocked, Art as Antidote, Online, Cambridge, MA
Area Code Art Fair, Online, Boston, MA
Bromfield Gallery, Sizzle, Online, Boston, MA
Kathryn Shultz Gallery, Cambridge, MA
ArtSpace Maynard, Energy, Maynard, MA
2019
University Place Gallery, Blue, Cambridge, MA
Chandler Gallery, Fragments: Collaging the Material World, Cambridge, MA
Boston Center for the Arts, Boston Art Book Fair, Boston, MA
Mills Gallery, 26th Annual Boston Drawing Show, Boston, MA
Loading Dock Gallery, Funky Book Show, Lowell, MA
SLAG Gallery, Endangered, St Louis, MO
University Place Gallery, Spectrum, Cambridge, MA
Kobalt Gallery, Inside the Rectangle, Provincetown, MA (co-curated)
BAC Gallery, ART Off the Wall, Brookline MA
Kathryn Shultz Gallery, Visual Feast, Cambridge, MA
Kathryn Shultz Gallery, This is How it Starts, Cambridge, MA
2018
Nave Gallery, Those Who Can, Teach, Somerville, MA
Adam Peck Gallery Invitational, The Blues, Provincetown, MA
Chandler Gallery, Prints as Sculpture, Cambridge, MA
2017
University Place Gallery, Blue Biennial, Cambridge, MA
Brookline Art Center Invitational, Brookline, MA
University Place Gallery, Mary Schein Fall Salon, Cambridge, MA
University Place Gallery, - Scapes, Cambridge, MA
Kobalt Gallery, Alternative Wax: Layers of Facts, Provincetown, MA
Adam Peck Gallery Invitational, Black Tie Optional, Provincetown, MA
MENTOR/CRITIQUE
Listening Works - mentoring Everett youth in the creation of public art - ongoing
MassArt MFA Program Mentor 2024
Final Critiques, Graduate, MFA program, Lesley University College of Art and Design, 2022
AWARDS GRANTS AND RECOGNITION
Grant Writing Workshop at Clark MFA, 6/2026
Art+Everywhere - Presentation on the Innovation Grant during Alumni Celebration at Mass MOCA, 1/2025
NEFA - New England Foundation for the Arts Public Art Learning Fund Grant, 2025
Art+Everywhere Innovation Grant for Listening Works in collaboration with performance artist Mariana Paz, 2024
Everett Citizens Foundation - Arts For Everett 2021/2022/2023
Everett Cultural Council - Drawing IN(ter)VENTIONS, 2022
Massachusetts Cultural Council Festival Grant, 2022, 2023, 2024
Finalist Bromfield Gallery Solo Show, Juried by Meg White, 2021
Strauch-Mosse Merit Scholarship - Lesley University Art + Design, Cambridge, MA, 2020-2022
Finalist - Bromfield Gallery Solo Show - Juried by Howard Yezerski, 2019
Ella Lyman Cabot Fellowship for Creativity
Revere Arts Lottery Grant
PRESS
Beacon Gallery Connections
Boston Art Review
Cambridge Day
Artscope, March/April 2022, Fountain Street, More Than Words, p. 27
RESIDENCY
Gallery RAG - AiR - with Nova Darkstar - (upcoming, September 20-26) - Gloucester, MA
MAPSpace - AiR - Port Chester, NY, 2026
Beacon Gallery - AiR - The Dinner Party - Boston, MA, 2022
Crit Lab at RUC - Rural Residency for Contemporary Artists - Lombardy, Italy, 2019
GALLERY/ASSOCIATIONS
Kingston Gallery - Associate Member
Everett Cultural Council - Chair
Cambridge Art Association - Member
New England Sculptors Association (NESA) - Member
Boston Sculptors Gallery - Past Associate Member