Mattaya Fitts is a visual artist born and raised in Boston, whose practice encompasses painting, drawing, and photography within a studio and mural discipline using form and color, she creates a visual vocabulary that addresses the complexities of living in a world of dualities. Her works appear as dreamlike images in which fiction and reality meet, tropes merge, meanings shift, past memories and the present fuse.

Mattaya grew up visiting her family in Lowell, and celebrates her Cambodian heritage with vibrant imagery of Khmer Apsara dancing tradition, continuing a prominent cultural legacy of a city that is home to the country’s second largest population of Cambodian-Americans.

Beyond Walls