About the Artist
Morgan Pietrorazio (b. 2003) is a surrealist painter from Middlebury, CT, currently based in New England.
She received her BFA in Painting from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2025, graduating with departmental honors while serving as President of the Student Government Association.
Morgan’s curatorial and studio work have been featured in exhibitions throughout the Boston area. She has curated and installed different shows such as The Art of SGA, Pet Portraits!, and the 2023, 2024, and 2025 All School Shows at MassArt. In 2024, she presented her debut solo exhibition Dissociation Station.
Pietrorazio has been a recipient of the Kofi Kayiga Auction Award, The Foundation Award, and MassArt’s Community Involvement award.
Whether through still life, figurative compositions, or a dense combination of the two, Morgan is interested in capturing her sense of self through paint.
Her work often features emotionally resonant objects, gathered through thrifting, antiquing, and gifting. These objects are arranged into layered, congested scenes that mirror her inner world. By giving these items new purpose through paint, she invites viewers to view the life she feels in these objects. Impasto painting encourages an expressive and dynamic approach, and combining these techniques with smoother, refined painting highlights light and reflection, emphasizing the emotions infused into each object. Over time, these objects have taken on a life of their own, their meaning evolving as she paints them again and again in her work.
In contrast, Morgan creates less congested works that operate as places of respite, serving as an escape from her reality. Incorporating her ‘playful’ side, these paintings use found objects that are whimsical in nature arranged in more ‘adult’ compositions, blending this whimsy with sophistication into a statement around finding balance amidst struggle.
Recently, Morgan has begun to combine these two sections of her work into one, working to discover just how close she can get to an accurate reflection of her mind through paint.
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