Isabel Mattia

Isabel Mattia is an artist, fabricator, teacher, doula, and parent living on a small sheep farm in rural Rhode Island. She makes interdisciplinary work from home and from her space within Smokestack Studios in Fall River, MA. Mattia teaches in the Sculpture department at RISD, at the UMass Dartmouth College of Visual and Performing Arts, and at the Steel Yard in Providence, RI. She has previously taught at Brown University. 

Mattia earned her MFA in sculpture from Rhode Island School of Design in 2019, and her Bachelor’s degree from Brown University with a double concentration in visual art and Africana studies in 2011. Her work has been featured in publications including Artforum and has been exhibited at venues including Heaven Gallery Chicago, the Dedee Shattuck Gallery, New Bedford Art Museum, Grimshaw-Gudewicz Gallery, The Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Arts at Brown University, and the David Winton Bell Gallery. She was a 2024 New Jewish Culture Fellow and an artist in residence at the New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park, and the Wedding Cake House in Providence, RI.